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THE JETER ALD. PUBLISHED m-ERTTnURSDAY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. OFFXOXli On Main Street, between 4th and 5tb, Second Story. OFFICIAL PAPEK OF CASS COI NTY. Terms, in Advance: One copy, one year $2.00 One copy, six months j (j) Oua cepy, three month 50 NEBEA8KA ERA JD. J. A. MACMTJEPHY, Editor. " PERSEVERAXCE COXQIERS." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME IX. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1874, NUMBER 47. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. "1?: Condensed from Tele;rams of Accompanying Dates. Monday, February 9. The London press unanimously recognizes the complete ness of the defeat of the Government in the Parliamentary elections. A c.Tblc telegram says Gladstone will await the conclusion of the elections before deciding as to w hat course the Government must pursue President Grant has appointed the following-named gentlemen as the Board of Vititors to the Military Academy: General Charles J. Hamilton, Wisconsin; Commodore C. II. II. Kogers, U. 8. X.; ,1. I). Cameron, Pennsylvania; A. li. Kindig, Iowa; Francis AVaylaud, Yale College; A. P. Temple, Tennessee, and Kichard P. Hammond, California Three Boston hotel-keepers, arrested for violation of the Massachusetts Prohibitory law, were before the Police Court on the 7th. The proprietor of the Tremont House pleaded guilty, and escaped w ith fifty dollars tine and costs. The twoothers pleaded not guilty, and were each sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment at hard labor, besides the payment of a fine of seventy-five dollars. They appealed, and will carry the case through the courts The Territorial Legislature of Montana has passed a bill to remove the capi tal from Virginia City to Deer Lodge A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch says the success of the women's temperance movements at other points has caused the disciples of temperance in that city to organ ize, and arrangements are being made for a grand attack at that point. Dio Lewis has been called on, and will be there to start the movement.... Jefferson Davis has sailed from New Orleans to Liverpool, his physician hav ing recommended a sea voyage. Tuesday, February 10. A Berlin dis patch aunounces the death of David Friedrieh ytrauss, the eminent German theologian A London telegram states that the diplomatic representatives of Spaiu at Brussels, Berlin and Lis) ion have resigned A second decree has been issued by the Japanese Government, this time a peremptory one, recalling all the students residing abroad at the expense of the Government, except tnose who have given the very highest proofs of advancement Jovell.ir, Captain-General of Cuba, has declared the entire island in a state of siege, and ordered the mobilization for active eeiviceof four volun teers out of every ten, this mobilization to begin immediately and continue six months. All persons between the ages of twenty and forty five, not volunteers on the 1st of Feb ruary, are to be enrolled in the militia. ... A communication from the members of the Boston Grange was presented on the 9th to a committee of the National Grange appointed to consider the important question whether the membership of the Grange entitled it to recognition. The memorial recites that its members were the only persons in Boston w ho took any intere.-t in the movement or did any thing to assist National Deputy Abbott in his work in Massachusetts. They plead that the Grange was organized by Mr. Abbott, as the representative of the National Grange, and was accepted by the State (J range, and plead that they are "interested" in agriculture in a way to tiring them fully within the scope of the organization. . . .The resolution to remove the headquarters or me National Grange to t. Louis has bceu referred to a special committee of five, to report at the eighth session of the National Grange. The following is the committee: Messrs. Parsons, of Minnesota; Warden, of Flor ida; Hamilton, of Alabama; Colton, of Vermont, and Allen, of Missouri The committee to investigate the condition of the homesteaders in Northwestern Iowa have re cently returned to Des Moines. In the coun ties of Lyon, Sioux, O'Brien and Osceola there is great destitution, and, unless relief be speedily granted, there will lie much suf fering and many must leave their claims. Wednesday, February 11. The Madrid lmpiircinl says the Spanish Government has agreed to an exchange of prisoners with the Carlists There was much rioting at Ches terfield and Barnsley, England, on the 10th, and many policemen were injured. Disraeli, in an address at Buckingham, congratulated his constituents on the result of the elections, which he declared justi fied the policy of the Con servative party in introducing and carrying a Ilcforru law when last it held power.... The Ministry in British Columbia tried to force an alteration in the terms of the Confederation througlCie House on the night of the 9th. The people demanded a submission of the ques tion to them, but the Ministry refused. The people, one thousand strong, proceeded to the Iloies and broke up the sitting. In tense excitement prevailed, and secession was threatened The Boston School Board has, after a long debate, refused to reconsider their unfavorable action relative to the admission of ladies to membership. The vote stood 155 in favor to i'7 against The Kansas House of Keprc.-eutativcs ha passed a resolution 57 to 2ti requesting the County Attorney to take steps for bringing ex-Seuator Pomeroy to trial Master Adams, of the National Grange, has appointed as the Committee on Centcimial Celebration Messrs. Saunders of Washington, Chambers of Alabama, Hudson of Kansas, Wright of California, Chase of New Hampshire, Brown of Michigan, and Davie of Kentucky. Thursday, February 12. A letter from Paris says: "The recent suspension of the greatest of French Catholic papers, ISUnirerx, at the instance of Prince Bismarck, furnishes a strikiug proof of how complete is the sub serviency of the French Government to Ger man orders.". The Board of Navigation Commissioners at Washington have adopted resolutions favoring the opening up and improvement of (he great water lines, and denouncing what they term "the false cry of economy." The Massa chusetts Senate has passed the resolution an nulling and rescinding the resolution of 1872 which censured Charles Sumner for his action relative to battle-thigs At a recent meetiDg in New York city of the Cheap Transportation Association, information was given that a "people's freight road" would soon be built across the continent, which would be managed in the interests of the people. After the work shall be fairly begun it will be completed in three years The recent Connecticut Republican State Convention nominated Henry B. Har rison for Governor; John T. Waite for Lieutenant-Governor; John Q. A. Stone, editor of the Wiiulhatn Cotinty Transcript, for Secre tary of State; Hon. David P. Nichols for Treasurer; Colonel E. P. Packer for Comp troller. Resolutions were adopted declaring that States should be left to regulate their own internal affairs ; indorsing the course of the National Administration in reference to the recent election in Texas; op posing any further increase of paper cur rency; favoring early resumption of specie payments and equal taxation ; denouncing land grants to monopolies ; demanding prompt punishment cf dishonest officials, and strict economy in National and State Governments ; favoring the formation of a bureau for the purpose of obtaining statis tics and information relative to the condition of the laboring el isses, upon which to base proper legislation, and submitting the ques tion of a revision of the State Constitution to the people.... Several self -styled Doctors in Chicago have been arrested and held to bail in the sum of f 5,000 each on the charge of pub- iscene literature.. pnngheld (111.) dispatch says about eleven railway eompauies are running under the schedules of the State Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners. Not all of thet-e have formally notified the Board of their acceptance, but have quietly altered their own rates to suit. The Toledo, Wabash te Western has signified its Intention to reduce its passenger rate to three cents per mile, the Board rate, being nearly two cents less than it wanted to charge. .. .The praying temper ance movement in Ohio is still progressing. Strong demonstrations are being made in Xenia and Columbus. In the latter city the ladies arc preparing for a determined onslaught upon the Legislature. A Cincinnati dispatch says the reports from Southern Ohio and Indiana show no abatement of enthusiasm in this tern perance crusade. Everywhere there is an abundance of faith in its ultimate triumph. In Shelbyville, l"d., a lively antago nism has developed. The saloon-keepers had served a written notice on the ladies that they would hold them responsible for loss of business, and the next day an immense meeting of citizens was held and an incur porated company organized, with $300,000 capital, to fight the legal traffic legally, if other means fail. The ladies then prepared a reply to the paper of the saloon-keepers, charging them with destroying the business of the community, exhausting resources, add ing to taxes and increasing crime, and defend ing their right to pray for the removal of such an evil. Friday, February 13. A London tele gram announces the close of the Ashantee w ar and the intended departure of Sir Garnet Wolseley and his forces from th Gold Coast on the 1st of March According to the January circular of the National Orange of the Patrons of Husbandry there had been an increase, since the middle of December, of 1,506 Granges, and the whole number is now over 11,000. The largest in crease took place in the former slave States, where 505 new Granges were formed, against 459 in the Western States. The national membership of the Granges now numbers 7S0,- 000 In the National Grange, on the 12th, Mrs. Taylor, of South Carolina, was elected as Pomona, in place of Mrs. Kelley, resigned, and Mrs. Moore, of Florida, as Flora, in place of Mrs. Abbot'. A resolution was adopted, "That it is the sense of the National Grange that the expression 'interested in agricultural pursuits,' in article five of the Constitution, means engaged in agricultural pursuits, and having no interest in con- Hict with our purpose." Major-Gen eral James B. Steedmaa has been elected to succeed Chief -Justice Waite as del egate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention. The woman's temperance crusade opened in Jeffersonville, Ind., on the 12tb, with an immense uravcr meeting in one of the churches. About two hundred ladies have banded together and propose to move upon the saloons in that city after the manner of their sisters in Ohio. The ladies in Northern Ohio are preparing for an active campaign in the same direction. The campaign was open ed in Oshkosh, is., on the lath. A praying band visited some of the saloons, andprepara tions are making to besiege them all. Satcrdat February li. A mob cf sev ral hundred men inarched toward the Cap tain-General's palace in Havana on the even ing of the 12th, w ith the intention of demand ing that the Government send into the field the entire battalion of volunteers w ith their own officers, instead of onevtenth of the bat talion, as ordered iu Jovellar's recent decree Mounted police met the rioters and dispersed them. There were no casualties. The city was quiet on the 13th, but further trouble was feared The Massachusetts House of Representatives has concurred, by a vote of 119 to 48, in the resolution of the Senate re scinding the vote of censure on Senator Sum ner passed in 1S72 On the night of the 12th the safe of the First National Bank of Quincy, 111., was blown open, and $150,000 in currency and botds were stolen. A reward of $20,000 has been offered for the capture of the robbers The National Grange has adjourned to meet in Charleston, S. C, on the first Wednesday In February next. Before adjournment action was had on the question as to the standing of the Boston Grange, and the Secretary was Instructed to notify all State Granges "that the Boston Grange is no longer connected with the Patrons of Husbandry, and hence forth no fraternal recognition can be extended to it by any Grange, State or 6Ubordi nate, and the Master of the Massachusetts State Grange is hereby required to make a formal demand for the surrender of the dis pensation and ritual of the Boston Grange, and when received to return to the State Grange the money paid for said dispensation and ritual, and return them without delay to the office of the Secretary of the National Grange at Washington." The report of the Committee on Transpoatation, after being presented and partially discussed, was with drawn on the ground that it was too specific and not general enough in character, and the whole matter was postponed until the next annual meeting.... Several eases of trichina spiralis have appeared in Chicago and vicinity, directly traceable to some ham eaten by the sufferers. Two of the Aurora (Indiana) sufferers have died from the effects of trichin osis, and the bodies have undergone post-mor tem examination. The microscopic view o: portions of the flesh cf the victims after their death developed the startling fact that mill i ns of the triehinie were seen alive, coiling nd uncoiling in the tissues. Tuesday, February 10. Senate. A joint resolution of the Legislature of Missouri in re tard to illegal charges made by the Union Pacific ltailroad Company was presented and referred. Bills were introduced to relieve the political disabilities of Kaphael Semmes. of Alabama; di recting the Secretary of the Interior to appoint Commissioners to locate and open a road for mili tary, postal and commercial purposes across the Indian Territory from the mouth of the main Cafhee River, in Texas, via Fort Cobb. Fort Sill and Wichita, to the mouth of the Wat nnt River, in Kansas: erantinir to the Atlantic A (ireat Western Canal Company currency notes to the extent of -50,j00 per mile for each section of ten miles of canal that shall be constructed, pro vided that the company's first mortgage forty-year oonas to an equal amount snau nave previously been ilepositcd as security for the Government; authorizing the coinage of twenty-cent silver pieces.... The House bill authorizing the President to extend, in the name of the United States, a cor dial invitation to foreign Governments to take part In the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia was reported from committee without amendment. ....I he Chair announced, as a member of the Committee to investigate Into the management of the Government of the District of Columbia, in place of Mr. Morrill, of Maine, excused, Mr. Ala son. of Iowa, so that the Committee now consists of Bontwell. Thurman and Allison The Bank rupt bill was taken un. and amendments were agreed to providing that arrangement for set tlement between creditors and debtors, in or der to be valid, shall receive the signatures of two-thirds of the number of cred itors, representing one-half the value of the debts; th.it a creditor, proving his debt or claim, shall not be held to have waived his rieht of action or suit against a bankrupt when a dis charge has been refused, or proceedings been de termined without a dwehanre; that all notices or sales under this act by any assignee or officer of court snail be published in a newspaper or news papers, to be designated by the Judge, which, in nis opinion, shall best be calculated to irive gen eral notice of the sale. The bill as amended was passed yeas 1, nays 11.... Adjourned. House. A. bill was passed prescribing an oath to be taken by Postmasters.... Several postal bills were reported, one providing that on mail matter of the third class the name and address of the sender may be writ' en, and also the number and Rind or articles inclosed, ana mere may also he written in any book or pamphlet sent throimh the mail the form of presentation without extra postage beinir charged. .. .1 he Army Appropna tion hill was considered in Committee of the Whole A resolution wa adopted providing for an investigation into the atlairs ana management of the First National Bank of Washington at th time of and prior to its failure.... Adjourned Wednesday, February 11. Senate. The bill for the withdrawal of $25,000,000 of Na tional Bank currency from those States having an excess and the reissue of it to States not having their pro rata of currency came up in regular order. and an amendment to the section authorizing the Comptroller of the Currency to issue $23,- OOO.dut) to those States having less than their proportion, declaring that the Comptroller ninrht do so without waitinc lor tue return or the circulating notes of other banks, was agreed to, after which a spirited and lengthy debate occurred on a proposed amendment to insert '-sev enty-flve" in place of "twenty-five" relating to the amount to be withdrawn and reissued Ad jonrned House. Bills were passed extending to the 1st of January, 1875, the time within which settlers on the Cherokee strip, in Kansas, may make proof of settlement and payment, the di ferred payments to bear 5 per ctnt. interest; relative to private contracts or agree ments made with Indians prior to the 21st of May, 1872, declaring that until such contracts are indorsed by tbe Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs their legality must not be recognized by any Government official ; to secure a more efficient administration of Indian affairs.... The Senate amendments to the joint resolution for a military conn of inquiry m the case or General O. O. How ard were concurred in.... Mr. Bass (New York) was appointed on the Joint Select Committee on the Affairs of the District of Columbia, in place of Mr. K. II. Roberts, same State The Army Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House, with amendments which were agreed to. one of which extends the time for the presenta tion of claims to Nov. 1, 1875. and the bill as amended was passed. ...The Fortification bill was taken up in Committee of the Whole and partially disposed of.... An evening session was held for consideration of the bill for revising and consolidat ing the statutes. Thursday, February 12. Senate. The credentials of James S. Harvey, as Senator from Kansas, and II. R. Bruce, as Senator from Missis sinni. were presented, and they were sworn in a resolution passed unanimously by the South Caro lina Legislature, iu favor of the passasre Dy i on- gress of a Civil Rights bill, was presented and re ferred The bill to equalize the distribution of the currency was taken up, and the amendment to substitute '.r,0u0,0uo in place of $&.OOJ,m0 was withdrawn and a substitute for the bill reported by the committee was offered, providing that "$4H,0(i0,0tKl in notes for circulation shall be issued to the National Banking associations now organ ized, or which may be hereafter organized, iu ad dition to the present circulation, under the same rules and limitations as now prescribed by law," and after considerable debate on the question or finance tbe Senate adjourned. House. Bills were passed to authorize the sale at public auction of the military reserva tion of Fort Reynolds, in Colorado Territory, containing about twenty-three sqtjare miles, and the Government buildings tnereon; governing leave of absence to army officers; the Fortification Appropriation bill; Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of expenses Incnrred by the Territorial authorities In Dakota for arms, eouioments. tnilitary stores, sup plies, and all other expenses of the volunteer force m the Indian war of 18t2 The bill to repeal the stamp dnfvor tax on matches was considered in Committee of the Whole, and a lengthy discus- shin ensued on the question of revenue.... At the evening session several amendments were maue to the bill codlfyintr the statutes. Friday, February 13. Senate. The res olutions of the Wisconsin Legislature were pre sented and referred, instructing the delegation in Conjrress from that State to vote for the passage of a law reducing the pay of all civil and military employes of the Government to a scale commen surate with the duties performed.... l'elltions were presented and referred one signed by lti,- H'-iS citizens of California, asking the Senate to Bancroft fc Co., and Maynard & Co. guaran teed that the former would faithf ally carry out their pledges, etc. It has now transpired that Maynard & Co. and N. H. Bancroft Co: are one and the same firm, and that the swindler who liad adopted these titles is a resident of Chicago, named Morris Mason. From some facts that came to his knowl edge, the Special Agent of the PostoiUee De partment, U. R. Hawley, arrived at the con clusion that "N. H.Bancroft & Co." was a mylh and a fraud, and forthwith proceeded to investigate. The result of his investigations "was the arrest of Mason and the exposure of the swindle. Mason was brought be fore United States Commissioner Hoyne and held to bail in the euro, cf $3,000 for trial. Mason became penitent and gave the agent permission to examine the letters and return the inclosures to the writers. Over one thousand letters were opened which had accumulated during the day of his arrest and examination, and of these fifty-two contained ten-dollar remit tances. These were in bills, bank-drafts, and Postoffice money-orders, while one or two sharp customers sent along bogus bills, with a request for change. Such letters as con tained money were separated from those which did not, in order that the money in closed might be returned to the writers, with a piece of salutary advice for the benefit of those who so became the dupes of a knave. Those letters which did not inclose a $10 bill or its equivalent in many cases directed Maynard & Co. to act as the writers legal agent, sell the $200 worth of miscellaneous goods, deduct a handsome percentage as agent and remit the proceeds of the sale to the writers. Other represented that the lucky ticket-holders would be glad to havelhe goods sentC. O. D., when the $10 would willingly be handed over, while not a few show that the writers look upon the 6cheme as a clear swiu- dle and would like to act as special agents for it in the territory ia which they reside. Some of the letters were very amusing. A young lady from Rose Stream, Yates Co., N. Y., addresses the firm as follows: Diabolical and Dear Sirs: Your favor of Jan. 24. announcing our good fortune, was received with deep and heartfelt joy . . We tender you our grateful and heartfelt thanks for the compli mentary ticket and prize, ann jor tne prompt no tification of our good fortune. In regard to the trifling form of your mention of the fa ve per cent, bonus, we would eladlv oblige von. but. owing to the late panic and the high price or Duller, we are unable to raise the money and are compelled to task vonr kindness still further. You forget to mention which prize we have drawn. Now, as our family have no need of horses, carnages, parlor sets, or pianos ineing wen suppneu wun musicui instruments, a tin horn and a baby), we propose that you may deduct the five per cent, bonus and five per cent, extra to recompense you for your trouble, and send on the balance in cash. A sarcastic young man of Purgitsville simply returns the circular with the following informa tion upon it, which will prove a maxim inter esting equally to anglers and lottery swindlers; Suckers don't bite when the water is so very low. Thank you for your offer. A butcher in New Castle, Del., with a weak ness for euchre, writes to the swindlers as fol lows: I received vonr letter, statins that I had been a lucky man, and had drawn a prize of $200, and you demand nve per cent. oeiore penning me pnze. I profess to be a moral man .and abstain from profane lamrnasrc, but I am not so much of a fool as vou are a rotrue. and if you want to euchre me. come to New Castle, where I can get a deck and have the pleasure of seeing yon do it. Messrs. Allen & Baker, saloon-keepers of Valley Falls, N. Y., w rite to request the $200 gift won by ticket No. 154,2?st, and inclose a $20 bill of the late lamented Confederate States of America! They close their letter as follows: "Change being scarce here, and trusting you are honest aud will send chauge back, we remain, etc." 1 foiled a dainty missive, And called it a valentine, Ard sent It aray with Its hidden freight From thin fluttering heart of mine. 'Haste, little valentine, hasten," I cried, " and tarry for mfe Whither my thoughts already are flown The secret I trust to thee. And so my poor little message Like a white dove flew away. And I watched for its mate to return tt me tre the close of another day. But we grew so weary of wailing So weary, my heart and I That I could not wait for the day to pass. So wearily crept it by. So I went myself for an answer. And somebody bade me see If there was not also a valentine Somewhere awaiting me. I e.arched the old room over, In every nook and part; But my valentine only was fonnd at last Safe hidden in somebody's heart. tie letters where so hiuc'h love and trust had been Wasted, and silently ban ished all token of him from the daily life. It was no part of her father's purpose to recall him, so Ray's name was never spoken", now; between those two; to' whom it had been as familiar as each other's. But one day Colonel Darchester came home with a preoccupied, troubled ri!r. His eyes followed Sylvia with a wistful glance, that shunned while seeking hers. She looked up, and, meeting her father's gaze, came and stood beside him, laying her band on his shoulder. "You have something to tell me of Kay Croydon, father," she said, in a low voice. How had she read his secret, he won dered, as he looked up fondly iu the lace think of him, only successful, famous, crotthed with the laurels she fondly be lieved his right; Hhe could never pass the place where he bad worked without a moment's pause and ft wistful glance upward, as if she might still see his face at the window or his shadow thrown across the light d curt.llni And standing so once, as if her yearnings hal had power ia bring up a ghost out of the long-buried past, Sh5 Veard a voice speak her name "Silvia!" , Hay's voice! Sylvia stood motictfj!ea with dropped eyes for an instant, not to !c tu sweet cheat; then turned slowly, half-expoClif"? ;e nothing but empty ... -m m 1 . air. Hut there was a ict ocsiuc ner Kay's form, his face, his very Clf, undis bending over him such a transparent I guised to her by the changes of fotlf Lice as it looked in the nickering firelight I years. It was suaoemy as h sue iiau Why had he nerer seen th change be- only waited for this moment through all fore A sudden pang of dread changed that time j she never doubted nor ques the current of his thoughts. Was this his tionedj she only laid both her hands in SILVEli AND GOLD. passing through life I have constantly found une maxim has led me ariuht: It's not very deep, but it's thoroughly sound. adu ii worus x ueeu scarcely reciie It's a maxim that slates with Dhilosonhv olden. That speech may be silver but silence id golden. I've been married I don't care to tell yon how lonir I've a bit of a shrew for my wife: Tier temper is bad and her language is strong, But I manage to keen out of strife For the peace of my life to this hint I'm beholden, That speech may be silver but silence is golden. She's fond of a row, but a row requires two, And I prudently shrink from retorts. And simply for want of something to do, She reels sne is quite out or sorts And snch a result my belief must embolden. That speech may be silver but silence Is golden. iAnaon jf un. PALE SYLVIA. BY KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD. She was not Pale Sylvia when this story of hers begins. She had a color that would have been at once the delight and the despair of a painter. Kay Croydon, who was a painter every inch, if an un- successlul one, used to say that her cheek was like nothing but a velvet rose-leaf against the light; and, making allowance for a lover's exaggeration, his simile was not lar out ot the way. For Kay was her lover: not quite her betrothed, for, though Sylvia consented, her father refused, and Sylvia would not disobey him even for Ray's sake. "I can not bind myselt to marry you against my father's will," she said. "I can only promise never to marry any other, and, if you care enough tor me to wait, you must be content with that." itay aid care, quite enough, and was content perforce. It was not that Colonel Darchester dis liked Hay; on the contrary, the young fellow was a favorite with him. If only he had been Fortune's favorite too ! For the Colonel, himself a poor man, would not give to another yet poorer his onlv child, the very apple of his eye. But if a prudent lather he was a kind one too and set his requirements at the verv low est mark consistent with any degree of worldly wisdom. ".Let Kay show me that he is sure ot bread and chee&e, and 1 will provide the wedding cake," he said, pinching Sylvia's cheek, cheek, as lovely in his eyes as in those her lover himself. of lilnch tnco aa that llnnraMioai rmin MiUUU'lVOV J lllltt U1J Ll UV11VU1 VUU artist had called her in the foolish, by-gone time? Ah, but tea it wholly by-gone? uouid it be mat all tnis while bylvia had kept in her heart that her silence had not meant indifference? The pressure cf Sylvia's fingers recalled him from his reverie; hesitatingly, in this new fear, he told his news. It was not such as would admit of much preparation; simplv that Kay Croydon was gone why, or where, no one knew or could discover; there was the bare lact, and nothing beond. Sylvia heard it with a calmness that, but a little before, would have satisfied her lather; but now an anxiety had arisen in nis mind wnicn would nave its way uy-and by ne returned to the subject. "Sylvia," he said, abruptly, "It is more than two years since since all that hap pened." ovivia bowed ner nead, but made no other answer. "' Two years is a long time," continued her lather, "especially at your age. My child, I cannot be with you always. If I could know that there was some one to take my place when I am gone." Still Sylvia did not speak, and he resumed ' You know whom I mean. Sylvia, you know that John Hastings wants you for his wife, and that I would gladly give you to mm; lor, apart from his tortune and position, he is all that I could desire for your husband." " Do not ask me, lather I" cried Sylvia, breaking, in a moment, from that deceit- lul calm. " If Kay Croydon is dead, I shall never have any husband in this world !" "And if he is false?" said her father, Sylvia did not answer for n instant. Ihen 1 shall never have one any where," she said at length, slowly, and there was something in her face that silenced the words her father had been about to speak. I here was a prophecy, it seemed, iu Colonel Darchcater's speech. It was not very long after this that he fell ill, aud, going from worse to worse, soon both knew that in a little while Sylvia would be all alone that he would never rise from his sick bed again. It was almost liLe her own death sentence, for these two had ever had such a love for each other as nothing could fomc between. Now that their hours together were num bered, she would not resign one of them, him with that me rose-ieai :i,t a H.,,r quieting calm which a breaking heart knows how to counterfeit for love's sake If one could but draw on the bank of Hut one midnic-ht. when he aeemed slefn- ambition, and parcel out colored canvas ing, and there was nothing but the feeble then, with a kind of bitter recklessness, uumiucr ui me naicu-iaiup to ace tue I jj , his, and, looking up in his eyes, epoke the one word "Itav! But, after the first moment, a kind ol constraint seemed to fall on loth. Sylvia recojrnized that the Kav who Ilau tome back was not Quite the same Kay who had cone away. There was a certain hardness about him, a reserve most unlike his former self. The old Kay Would have pourea out questions anu explanations iu a breath: this one neither asked nor offered any. He told her, indeed, regard ing his mysterious disappearance, that he had been carried on by a vessel lying on the coast, but nothing beyond, not a word of his life in all that time since then Nor did he seem curious about the details of Sylvia's life; he listened, but asked no questions; he heard ot Colonel uarcnes ter's death without other comment than that of an indifferent acquaintance. Was it anj' secret resentment? Was it the in sensible estranstement which separation too often sets between even the fondest hearts? Sylvia could not understand the change, but she lelt it all the same, and showed its reaction in her own manner No one would have taken them for other than the most undemonstrative pair ot friends, or dreamed that these two had once parted with aching hearts. That was what the old, passionate ro mance had subsided into a quiet, com monplace sort of friendship, that might seemingly have been . broken ofl at any moment without pain to either. They saw each other constantly, but never a word of love was spoken between them, and still Kay continued equally silent about the past and future. Sylvia knew that he had other society than hers; she had heard especially ot a certain Helena Rivers who had been a lellow-passenger on nis return voyage, but sue liad not neara 11 irom him: it was only by tue merest ciiance that Miss Rivers' name came to be men tioned between them Svlvia had iust opened a book she had brought home, and, turning to look at the . ' . i .... . ironuspiece, gave it nine cAtiumauuu. "Why. that is like" "Well," 6aid Ray, as she stopped, "like whom ?" "Like Miss Rivers, I think," said Sylvia, handin? him the book. "Is it not?" Kay just glanced at it. "les, mere is a resemblance," he said ; then, after a mo ment, "You know Miss Rivers, then, Svlvia?' "I have seen ner once or twice, wnen 1 was eivinir Annie neaton ner music lesson." answered Svlvia. "She is related to the family. I believe." Ah I Kay pushed tne dook aside, THE MARKETS. pay some attention to the condition of the treaty between the United States and Chinn, with a view of having gome modification made therein, to pre vent the evil of Chinese influx to this couuiry; of ex-soldiers of Indiana, asking an equali zation of bounties.... The bill to equalize the distribution of the currency was. taken up, aud the substitute offered tUf day before was withdrawn and a new one wa offered and debated, providing for the isssue of $16,000.0 0 01 national Bank currency, in addition to mat now in circulation, to be issued to banks now organized or hereafter to be organized, and distributed to the several States in accordance with section 1 of the act of July VA, ltsTn, which section pro vides that the money should be issued to those States having less than their proportion.... The (.'hair announced Mr. Dorsey as a member of the Committee on Appropriations, in place of lr. Ames, resigned; Mr. Harvey as member of the Committee of Mines and Mining, in place or air. Crozier: Mr. Pease as member of the Committee on Enrolled Bills, in place of Mr. Ames, and Mr. liarvey as member of the committee on .Missis sippi Levees, in place of Mr. Crozier Adjourned to me liitn. House. Several private bills were dis posed of. . . .The bill for ascertaining the losses sus tained by citizens of Southern Oregon and North ern California by reason of Indian depredations in 1872 and 1873 provoked a quite excited disenssion in committee or the hole, the enactin" clause be ing stricken out 7tob-which action was report ed 10 tne House ana was concurred in 103 to M i thus defeating the bill A resolution was aereed to directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish copies of all contracts, schedules, correspondence ana oracrs oi tne department, and also a state ment of the amounts paid in nnder each contract, by whom paid in, and under which contract.... Adjourned, the session on the 14th to be for debate only. AN EXTENSIVE SWINDLE. '.V. II. Bancroft Si. Co.," of Chlcaaro. for merly "Maynard fc Co.," of Magnolia, Iowa, Come to Grief in Chicago In the Person of One Morris Mason The Swindler's Mode of Operations. Fob months past the mails have been bur dened with letters and circulars sent by May nard S Co., of Magnolia, Iowa, to prominent gentlemen in the country, containing the cir culars and tickets which indicated a swindle, and which have led to the arrest of the 'firm" and the exposure of the swindler. It seems that the 'firm," unlike most swindlers, instead of selling the tickets, gen erously presented them, and in an accom panying circular announced that when the drawins took place ther would be nromntlv notified, being only expected to contribute five "per cent, of the ca6h value of their winnings to the managers, said Maynard & Co. Shortly after the dispatch of the first circular came another, announcing NEW YORK. February 14, 1S74. Cotton. Middling upland, lt316'ic Live Stock. Beef Cattle $10.COS.ia.5e. Hogs Live, $5.50 '"..00 ; Dressed, $5.757.25. Sheep Live, $5.75(5r.75. BiiEADsTfFrs. Flour Good to choice, $b.6C 7.00; white w heat extra, $7.O07.8O. Wheat No. 2 Chicago, $1.52 1.5:1; Iowa spring, $1.50&1.52; No. a Milwaukee sprins, $1.531.!5. Rye West ern and State, fl.08fU.10. Barley $1.751.85. Corn Mixed Western afloat. 79381c. Oats New Western. 61Sb3c. Provisions. Pork New . Mess, $15.90.! 6. 00. Lard 9in,9c. Wool Common to extra, 4070c. CHICAGO. Live Stock. Beeves Choice, $r.155.60; good. $4. 75 5.(0; medium, $4.354.(5; butchers' stock, $3.254.00; stock cattle, $1004.00. Hogs Live, $4.25a5.75; Dressed, $6.256.30. Sheep Good to choice, $t.2o4.50. Provisions. Butter Choice, 33f.38c. Eggs Fresh, 1718c. Pork New Mess, $14.00 14.10. Lard-8iS8Xc. Bp.eadstctts. Flour White Winter extra. $6.50 9.25; eprinir extra, $5.75 6.25. Wheat Spring, No. 2, $1.171.18. Corn No. 2, 5H 5 3bXc Oats No. 2, 4i424c. Rye No. 2, 82 83c. Barley No. 2, $1.74,1.S0. Wool. Tub-washed, 4858c. ; fleece, washed. 3f'i48c. ; fleece, unwashed, 2534c. ; pulled, 3510c. CINCINNATI. BuEAnsTfFFS. Flour $7.10 7.35. Wheat $1.48. Corn C0K2c. Rye $1.C2. Oats 48 54c. Barley $1.70 1.80. Provisions. Pork $15.00(315.25. Lard 8 9c. ST. LOUIS. Live Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1.50 5.75. Hogs--Live, $4.605.50. Breapstuffs. Flour, XX Fall, $6.507.00. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.55 1.58. Corn No. 2, 59' 50c. Oats No. 2, 4447c. Rye No. 2, 87 88c. Barley $1.801.90. Provisions. Pork Mess, $15.0015.25. Lard 8X8!4c MILWAUKEE. BREAnsTrrrs. Flour Spring XX, $6.006.5fl. Wheat Spring No. 1, $1.22 1.224 ; No. 2, $1.19 1.19. Corn No. 2. 5fi36V4c. Oats No. 2, 40 40'4c Rye No. 1, 7879c. Barley No. 2, $1.70 1.73. DETROIT. Breapstuffs. Wheat Extra, $1.621.63. Corn 61G2c. oats 164014c TOLEDO. Breadsttffs. Wheat Amber Mich.. $1.46 1.47; No. 2 Red, $1.441.45. Corn Mixed, 60 .64c. Oats No. 1, 4647c. CLEVELAND. Breadstuffs. Wheat No. 1 1.58; No. 2 ted, f 1.47 1.48. Oats 4850c. BUFFALO. Live Stock. Beeves $1.62J 5.85. Hogs- Live, $5.20.6.12!4. Sheep Live, $4.756.12. into so many yards of bank-notes, it would not have been long to wait, liny painted and dreamed of great things in the future, and forgot how, meanw-liile, the present was slipping away dav by day till all at once he bethought himself that a year bad passed since Colonel Dar cliester's ultimatum had been spoken. A whole year ! And what had be to show for it that would bring Sylvia any the nearer? 1 he conviction suddenly struck cold to his heart that he could never win ber thus. "The choice is between Svlvia ana lame," ne said to nimselt it is so natural for every young aspirant to be lieve that fame is his for the choosing! The brush dropped from his fingers, he bent his lace in his hands, and kept it hid den there for many moments. When he raised it again it was very pale and almost stern; yet it was kindled by some steaay, inner iignt. "l choose oylvia! he said, lie pushed his palette aside. and with one brief, reluctant glance at the unfinished canvas turned it to the wall. Then he left the studio aojl went straight to a merchant, an old friend of his father's. "You offered me a place in China the otlur day," be said abruptly; "if vou win give it to me now l will take it bo the thing was done. Colonel Da-- chester, on learning it, applauded tbe young man's resolution. "China is a long look ahead ; but at the worst it is nearer than the studio no offense to you, Ray," ne saia wun a smne. And Sylvia? Ah, to Sylvia it seemed indeed a long, long outlook. In spite of all that hung on the journey she could almost have wished that Kay had remain ed in the studio, where he would not at silent tears kept back from the daylight, lest they should trouble him, she saw his eyes open and fix on her lace. Pon t cry like that, child," he said. teebly; "you make it harder for me re membering the harm I have done vou." Sylvia looked at him anxiously, fearing lest ins minu was beginning to wander. JNo," he said, answering her look. "It is on my conscience Sylvia, Hay never wrote to you because 1 made him prom ise " "Father!" cried Silvia, springing up witu a sudden, sharp wail as ot intoler able pain ; then, seeing her agitation re flected in the sick man's tace, she lorced herself into quiet, and, sitting down by him, took his hand and laid it against her cheek with a fond, soothing gesture. He gave an uneasy sigh, and resumed after a little: I put him on his honor to hold no communication with vou till he could show himself prepared to meet my con ditions, lou were such a child 1 thought you would forget him and do better. I wanted you to have your chance. oylvia," he added, almost pleadingly. "I'oor lather ! you did it lor the best," said Sylvia, softly stroking the wasted hand in hers. "God knows! but it was ill done, Syl via," ana ne signea again restlessly. Ill done, truly! Sylvia's heart could not but echo it when, a little later, Colonel Darchester lay in his grave, and she was all alone. Her father was gone, and Kay was gone, wnom ne migni nave ieit a strong stay for her desolation, but whom he had himself taken from her. letSyl via cast no reproach on his memory, not least have been lost to sight and hearing; even in that trying hour when she took irom tue piace ne naa inaicatea the lit tle bundle of letters, with their unbroken seals, just as she had given them to him. She opened one of them, but as her eye oy cnance leu ou tne woras, "l will wait for you, liay, all my life, if need be," she closed it again hastily; she could not bear to recall all that might have been hers, and never be now; she thought, with a sudden, passionate yearning for death, that she was barely twenty, ana tnat ner iiletime s waitin might be a very long one; she lookei shudderingly along the whole blank the present might be wasted time, perhaps, dui ii was very sweet to ner, ana sne naa more faith than Kay in the future's chances. But of all this she breathed not a word to him; and when, holding her hands and searching her face for some comfort, he said, "Sylvia, I shall come back to claim you in a year or two you will wait for me till then?" it was with a smile that she answered "Come back in one year or twenty. nay, you win nna me as you ieit me. 1 will never be the wife of any other." And, with that, the last good-by was said, and Kay Croydon sailed in search of stretch of years, with no love to shorten tne lortune lie lancied was waiting for mem Red, $1.57 Corn 6773c him on the other side of the world. And, on in is side, everything went on the same. Kay was gone, to be sure ; but did the sun rise and set any the less for that? did the butcher and the baker forget to come, or people cease to eat and drink, because an unsuccessful artist had turned his canvases to the wall. and. for love's sake, abandon ed all he loved? No, nobody fasted for Kay; nobody, perhaps, after a little, re membered even that there was a Ray to iasi ior nobody but bylvia. But there was a latent strength in Syl via's softness that forbade her to lie down and die. The first intolerable anguish over, she took up her cross again and faced the weary road, neither with de fiance nor despair, but with that quiet patience wmch grows with tie burden. Withal, it was doubtless well for her that other cares came to occupy her. Colonel Darchester's pension ceased with his death, and he could leave his daughter little beside the tiny house, with its strip F0RTY-TIIIRI CONGRESS. .MoxDAY, February 9. Senate. The credentials of John S. Ilager as Senator from Cali fornia were presented, and he was sworn in Bills were introduced anu-ndatorv of the National Currency act; to amend the Internal Revenue laws Mr. McCrecry, at his own request, was ex cused irom xurtner service on the Committee on Territories, and Senator Hager was appointed in Displace A bill was passt-d 10 to 0 for the relief of the East Tennessee University, and appropriating f ls.o-io to compensate that institu tion ror properly belonging to it orcnnied and de stroyed by the Federal troops dnrinz tho late war. The Bankrupt hill wus further considered, and several amendments were aisDosed or Ad journed. r - T,!it . . , . ximise. liius were lntroaucea ana re ferred to reduce the rate of letter postage to two cents; fixing the salaries of Postmasters in cer tain cities: to reirnlate the hours of service in tho departments at Washington, and to reduce tho number of clerks: for the construction of tho St, Philip Canal: also, of the Atlantic & Great West ern tanai. and ror onemn? the navigation of tho lennesseeand Coosa Kivers in Alabama, and the Ocmulgee in Georgia; to repeal the Internal Kevenue taxes on whisky and tobacco; granting aid to the Atlantic & Great Western Canal Company: to amend the law amnonzmg a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River at Clinton. Iowa A concurrent rewilnti.in for a Hne die adjournment on the 15th of May was debated and finally referred to the Committee of ays ana aieans Uesolu lions were adopted declaring it 10 be the sense of the IIoiwo. that con gress should not adjourn until some measures are enacted providing for a reform in the iciuoi me currency, on tne sunjeci or transporta tion, and for more economical administra tion or tne Government; declaring it to be within the constitutional power of Congress bv law so to regulate commerce among the States as to protect that portion of the internal commerce which is among the several States from all unjust bruVnTwheth", ? imSSSd brraiSVip"S that the t5et beld by each gentleman (and aviest Kansas, being 80 per cent., and good-by to her, Sylvia nev.r had a word not quite past nor future, but the might- would never see Sylvia again till I could or by combinations thereof, or by other common each comnlimentarv sent nnt. -aa imiurto I lne nSnlesl m lscon6in, being 0 per cent, I from him tiptpt nn word, althornrh sh hiro.Wn tranofnrmo1 intn an nr. r fal vpt I satisfv her prudence " S?"!'.1 l.httt the Present condition and mag: ucce6sfui had drawn a r,ri,A t f o,v, Returns relative to the condition of the grow- heard casual lv from other sonrr-pa thu mnt 1 nrount I "Kav!" cried Svlvia. in incredulous re Interesting Crop Statistics. The National Crop Jtportrr (Jacksonville, 111.) publishes estimates of the percentage of the last crops of barley and rye in the hands of the producers on January 15, in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin. The percentage of barley on hand at the date named in the five States, which produced in 1S73 some 9,500,000 bushels, is placed at 30 3-10 percent. The rate of consumption, by which is meant both shipments and home consumption, is the highest in Kansas and the lowest in "Wisconsin, being respectively to and bo per cent. The percentage of rye on hand averages 26 C-10 per cent., or a trifle less than 1,143,000 bushels. The consumption Is As for Colonel Darchester. he assuredlv of garden that had been his special care. did not fast. He waa rottv for th vnnmr Sylvia could not live on roses and dew; man; but, to tell the truth, he was not she mu9t bestir herself to satisfy the un- sorry to have him gone. He had listened sympathetic body, which will not resign with a quiet smile, half-pitying, half- Qe f its prosaic wants, however the amused, to Ray's talk of "a year or two;" soul may hunger and faint. Fortunately, for, being considerably older, and a srood n her case, the wants were of the sim deal wiser, he real izea . better all that a plest, and provided for without much China-made fortune meant. "It will give Sylvia a chance." he said to him self. "Long before Ray finds his apple ripe lor picking, they will both have lor gotten this childish nonsense." To be sure, the Colonel did not know of Syl via's parting pledge; but. had he known, it is to be feared he would not have made much account of it. He had faith enough difficulty. So two more years slipped by. Sylvia was twenty-two, a girl still, yet so far re moved from all girlish things as if a score had been added to her age. Not that she had grown old, for, if the bloom of girlhood was gone, its freshness and soilness remained. And, indeed, she had said he, "suppose a ne'er-do-well, who has made a failure of life gen erally, found a marriage with such a girl as that on the cards, wouic you auvise him to try his chance?" Sylvia did not reply lor a moment, con scious of the eyes fixed on her; then, opening the book again, she said, with a 6mile: "Why not? she is very pretty and verv sweet " V ery pretty and very sweet," repeated Rav. in the same half-mocking tone. "Two excellent reasons; but there is a third, that she is also very rich you say noth ing about that?" "Not to you, Kay," answered Sylvia, quietly looking up in his face. 1 here came a sudden light into nays eyes, under which Sylvia's sank, it was so like the old lime, liut he did not speak, and after a pause she began again, with a kind of timidity: "Hut, Kay, why should you talk about mak ing a failure ot life? You are only twentv-six: is that too late to begin over again, and do all you once dreamed of doing if you still care for art?" Art I" repeated Kay. "l turned my back on art years ago for the sake of Fortune who, in reward, turned her back on me." he ended with a hard laugh. "But is it too late?" urged Sylvia. "Try once more, and win them both, upen your studio again and set to work with Miss Rivers' face for inspiration, if you like," she added, with a smile. "Admirable advice!" said Kav, mock ingly. "Shall we set the wedding bells ringing? Sylvia" he broke off sudden ly "why do you say such a thing as mat to me? You must know that the only face I ever wanted for inspiration is the face I am looking at now? ' pale face?" said Sylvia, with a quick, incredulous glance. "lour pale face!" echoed liay, taking her hands, and looking down at her with the same tender, eager eyes that had searched hers at their long-ago parting. jly darling! my beautiful white rose, more beautiful even than the blush-rose I left! sweetest cheek that has grown pale with watching for me yes, for me tell me so tell me so, Sylvia!" "Is it true?" was all Sylvia could say. O Ray, is it true?" Iler senses seemed to fail for very happiness; she hardly heard the passionate words he poured into her ears. "Oh," she said, at last. clasping her hand3, and laughing that she might not cry, "yes, we will open our studio now! Oh, we shall make our way we have each other; we can work!" And would you really come to a good- for-nothing without a penny? come to him, and work for him, Sylvia?" said Kay. Would I?" said Sylvia, and voice and eyes supplied any want of words. And you shall comer cried Itay, with an exultant ring in his tone; "yes, but to do nothing harder than look at me and talk to me! I told you fmy mtfortune, Sylvia, but not of my fortune. That was the beginning of luck for me. I am not a 'Monte Cristo,' " he went on, jestingly, perhaps in his turn to cover some emo tion, "but still I have heaped up treasures enough in my wanderings to make future work purely a labor ot love. "But, Ray," said Sylvia, amazed, "why have you kept it from me all this while?" Kay's dark: cneeK reddeneu a mue. "l am ashamed to own my weakness," he said, "but, Sylvia, a life that is turned violently out of its natural bent is very apt to get permanently warped. In those THE HERALD. AUVEIlTIsrVU KATES. SPACE. 1 square.. S son are 3 squares. ,'1 column. )i column. 1 column. 1 w. I J w. 1 8 w. ! 1 m. ' 3 m. ; 6 ni 1 jr. f 1 00 fi w) fa on $ibo fsoo fsort f 13 00 1 roi z i I a 7rn a as a on 10 ' m i On S 7.V 4 On 4 7.' ! 8 H H 00 n Of) 5 no! 8 on 10 00 Yi on m nn.;w 00' a. 8 (XI Vi (N) 1 IX) 18 (XI -2; (XI 4') (XI m o i: (xi is (X) i (xi -ir, on 40 txi io no im no All Advertlning billn due quarterly. ' (17 Transient advcrtlsoiMiuU must be paid for in advance. Extra copiu of tbe Herald for ssl0 by IL J. ftrelght. at the Postoiflce, and U. K. Johnaou, cor ner of Main and Fifth streets. in S-lvia, but not in her age. How was lovely soul revealed itself more clearly eiguicen to Know its own heart ? through tne transparent covering, and re One makes allowances for friends itsi placed prcttiness with beauty. No. she another hemisphere; but, still, one does had not grown old, but she had grown expect to hear from them finally. But, estranged; in the world, but not of it, she from the time when Ray Croydon said his lived in a wonderful land all her own, gained more than she had lost, for the years when I was plodding through an . . .... . . I . . 1 r . 1 1 A uncongenial task, without one word to encourage me, I kept brooding over all I had given up; and when the prospect looked just as dark, month after month, I said to myself, with a despairing sort of pride that, 11 it were to my nte's end, 1 mtude of the commerce among the States demand a prompt and wise exercie of those powers and do lies 1'20 to M.... Majority and minor ity reports in thi contested election case from the Third (Viugres-ional District of Arkansas were presented and ordered printed. The mnioritv re port gives the seat to Wilshire as his rimn facie T,"bJ: Tnc minority report directs the Committee ou elections to report on tfte merits of the case. was passea appropriating f .20,000 to ureu;c nu protect tne navigable channel at the luuuui ui uuuaio niver against ttie sand-bar form ed by the gale last December. . . . Adjourned. ana suggesting that the payment of the five per cent., 10, would secure its instant trans mission to the lucky holders of the fortunate numbers. This was immediately followed bv another, announcing the appointment of N. II. Baneroft & Co., of Chicago, as the finan cial agents, and the withdrawal of Maynard & Co. from the further prosecution of the scheme. Payment was to be made to N. H. ing grain indicate slightly increased prospects he had arrived safelv. and entered on the T.. m ... I " 1 lorreoruary 1, as eomparea witn tne indica tions on January 15. The water works in California foot up thus: 630 irrigating ditches, from which ii'.i,yy4 acres or land were irrigated; and 780 mining ditches, having an ae-PTec&tfl length of 4,888 miles, supplying 230,187 inches of water per day. post assigned him. That was all; little enough yet, but for that, he might have been lost, dead, for anything Sylvia Knew, it was all; but, coupled with his silence, it was more than enough. Yet whatever of wonder, of doubt or pain might have been in Sylvia's heart, she In all this time, no tidings of Ray. Dead or alive, he had passed utterly out of the world that had known him. The pictures he had turned to the wall with such reluctant haste gathered dust undis turbed, and the colors faded gradually out of the canvas, just as his image faded out of the memory ot all save one. breathed it to no mortal ear. Only, after a That one forgot neither the artist nor his while, she ceased to write those poor lit-1 creations. It was so she loved best to proach. "I know, Sylvia, it was sham?fully un just, but not perhaps wholly unnatural. Well, 1 came home, and for the first mo ment forgot everything, with your hands in mine. Hut then your manner grew so constrained, so cold " 'Because of yours." "Was it that? Yes. I sunnose so: but I saw everything wrong, and I kept waiting for some- iriirn from you. Hut to-night you brought back the old time so completely, it was too much for tne." "Thank Heaven I" said Svlvia, softly. 80 the wrong was righted, and love and faith had their reward even in this world which chances, perhaps, less rarely than name would have us believe. Tho studio was reopened, not with Mifi Hirers' dark eyes for inspiration though, but a lovely pale face, which, as Kay's pictures are now known, Fortune having lavished her smiles (711 him as soon as bo w&j in rto more need of them, may often bo traced on ! e.invas of the ui tist, who is as unconsciously apt as most other art ists to make a niou'cJ the face he loves best. Applelori's Jattrna.. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A good floor manager A broom. Chess for four is a German innova tion. The Maine chance The thermometer below zero. 'Wat at is the keynote of good breeding? 13 natural. EtECTRic belles Female telegraph operators. A bad habit to get into A coat that is not paid for. Am. overskirts are now made with a diagonal point in front. New York claims one drinking saloon to every 1U0 of its population. A little old maid says fiat the small est women look hopefully to Hymen. A ocnsmitii'8 shop is like a chicken, pie, because it contains fowl-in' pieces. Why is a bog a good mathematician? Because he is good on a "square root." Alkeady many of the retail stores in New York display spring and summer goods. Fukplk is one of the most fashiouable colors of the season, aud is seen iu almost every material. German immigration' to the South Is n Bubject Beriously discussed and generally encouraged by the planters. More than half a million lives nrenow insured by the two hundred and odd coin panics engaged in that business. "Fourteen l'eople in One Room Three Sick, One Dead and All Starving," is a heading in the Atlanta (Ga ) Herald. A Buffalo Alderman told a policeman, who accoslei him, to mind his business. The policeman obeyed, aud locked him up. Coffee is higher in gold than ever known in this country before, but burnt beans is a cheerful lood and cheap aa ever. I'kof. Proctor has killed the man in the moon, for he demonstrates that then is no atmosphere on the moon and uo life . there. A malicious person says that cotton sheets and newspaper sheets are alike in the respect that a great many people lie in them. Leather is now used toline the bottom of walking skirts, anil is said to be tho best thing for the purpose ever intro duced. Diogincj horse-radish is profitable busi ness in Omaha. VVniJe engaged at tho business the other nay a mau dug up $6,000 in gold. Skirts are now made as scant as they were two months ago. About three yards around is now the proper and fash ionable fullness. The difference in the length of passage made by the Cunard steamship l'artlna, on her last two trips from Ojueenstown to Boston, was just eight minuies. An English crauiniar appears to bo needed in the West Virginia Legislature, which lately passed an act to "prevent the owners of hogs Irom running at large." The experiment recently tried in some of the public schools of using a news paper for reading exercises instead of a reading book is proving a great success. An undertaker in Minnesota, wishing to sell out, presents as an inducement to inouirers the lact that a young doctor 01 no experience has just settled in the town. Accoruino to Dr. Holland, "the average American, in the average American res taurant, eats his dinner in tne average time of six minutes and forty-five seconds." More patents were issued in ldi-i to Connecticut inventors than for those of any other State, according to population. Connecticut is like necessity, in that she is tbe mother of invention. Artificial or natural flowers fastened to the mutl carried by tne lasmonauo demoiselle of the period is quite the correct thing, providing, however, that the mull is ot cloth and velvet not iur. Genteel A term applied to people who would be fashionable if they could, and to obiects in connection with which considerations of cheapness dispute tho palm with the desire ot grandeur. A man who wastrving to dead-beat the Lake Shore Road by playing deaf and dumb was asked by the conductor how long he had been so, and he replied: Why, man, I was born mis way: On pit that striped goods will be the favorites for spring; and, as stripes rarely make pretty trim tning, it is fair to sup pose this only another way of saying that perfectly plain skirts are coming in. An editor, who sneaks with the air ol a man who has discovered a new fact by experience, says that the new way to pre vent bleeding at the nose is to keep your n.ise out of other people's business. The London Lancet is of opinion that the constant exertion of the uet in using sewing machines is injurious to the health of women. It suggests the use of steam in large sewing establishments. Recently a boy named Freddie Moran, while coasting in Muscatine, Iowa, ran his sled under a plank sidewalk in sucn a manner as to scrape the flesh from the calf of his right leg, laying the bone bare and fracturing it. The Denver Newt says that recently, as Mr. Lewis Morse, of Hughes Station, Colorado, on the Denver Pacific Rail road, was returning home from Denver, his team ran away, leaving hiin on tuo road, where he froze to death. It is a curious fact that all the Presi dents of the United States but four had each but one Christian name. The moral thus taught to parents is obvious don't use front names recklessly in naming your babies. Neuo York Hail. Two little bovs of Alton. Illinois, were poisoned some days since by chewing coal tar which was intended for rooting. After several days of severe sickness they were able to be about again, with an earnest desire to let coal tar alone in future. Mrs. Julia M. E. Warner, whoso buildings in Worcester, Mass., were dam aged by lightning July 10, 182, has just recovered $335.58 from the lightning rod company whose rods were used on her house and whose agent, in guaranteeing protection, had also guaranteed insurance. One wet night, in Boston, visitors to a public hall found a man at the entrance holding out a ticket check, and saying, politely. "Lmbrellas. please!" l'eople gratefully resigned their wet umbrellas to his custody, but when the entertainment was over both man and umbrellas had disappeared. The San Francisco Bulletin says there are two or three thousand outlaws in the mountains of California, who live by rob bery and violence. They occasionally make a raid on some village and strip it of valuables. They are quite secure from arrest In their mountain ustnesses.