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L A v 'V A CUMING CONVICT. ForKlnRHlB Wary Into Prl6on and Forging "His Way Out. J?ew York Tribune. It was a bcoto or more years ago thatn application was received at th Executive Chambers at Albany lor the pardon ol a convict, one of whoso many aliasses was "Jack Flam," 'from Auburn prison. Jack had 8 pent a largo portion ot his lite in enforced 'confinement and had well -earned Dho reputation ot being one of the most desperate ot unliung villains. His illJfamo was known tothoGovern or, and accordingly lie opened tho application for clemency extremely disinclined to interfere. He very prop erhytfelt that it would bo a crime against the public, a blow at peace and pood order to turn looee such a relentless foe of society. However, he also felt that it was his duty to see on what grounds tho application was based. The result was that on finish ing the papers he rang for the pardon clerk and directed that a, document should be prepared tor his oflicial signature releasing .lack Flnml The pardon clerk had nlHO heard -of Jack's bad eminence, so being on excellent terms with his chief, he turned to him and remarked, with a lace tho picture of amazement: "Is it possible, Governor, that yon are going to pardon so notorious a character as Flamf" "Yes," answered tho 'Governor with a smile. "That's what I'm go. ing to do unless youinterpo3e your veto. After you've made out the pardon, glanca your eye over tho ap plication and see If I haven't done as you will do in similar circumstances when you're Governor." The pardon clerk promptly 'did as he was commanded. Having made out the pardon, he eagerly read the application; and when he got through he went in to the Governor, and Raid in an abashed way, .qr lie laid down the pardon for signature: ""You -couldn't have done anything else; that's the most irresistible application for par don that lias ever met my gaze." The Governor wmiled again, afljxed his signature, and the pardon was mailed to Auburn. And yet nobody had asked for the pardon ot Jack Flam except Jack himself! But as the pardon clerk said, it was an irresistible application. It bore the signature of the Warden, the doc tor and the chaplain of the prison. They united in testifying that Flam's conduct during his incarceration had been in all respects satisfactory, quite without reproach; that he was a very sick man, worn to a skelo ton and sinking fast; that he was the victim of an incurable disease. It was a physical impossibility that he ever would be well again; the chances wcro that he would die with in a month, and it was the agonizing desire of his venerable and heart-broken mother that he might have his last hours soothed byherabiditigeffectiou, outside the prison walls. The War den dwelt upon Flam's fidelity and efficiency In the discharge of his prison duties. The doctor demonstrated that he could not possibly recover his health, The Chaplain expressed his convic tion that Flum was thoroughly asham ed of his past and would die in the faith. Nor were these the only ap plicants for Flam's pardon. The Dis trict Attorney who had convicted him was another. He wrote that he was heartily in favor of his release, that justice did not require that a dy ing man should be pursued with the rigors of the law. Thu foreman ot the 3ury that found luam guilty also made au eloquent appeal in behalf of the truly good dying felon, quoting to the Governor respectfully, but stili J, ,' with the words underscored, "Heshall have justice without mercy that showed no mercy." As soon us the mail train could car ry it the pardon reached Auburn. The Wardep was paralyzed. Jack Flam pardoned! Great Scott! What ' was the Governor thinking of? Hew- 0 ever, there the pardon was, duly sign- L ed and saaled, and Flam stepped out '"of prison a free man. Wasted ton i skeleton? Hardly. He welched two hundred pounds if he weighed five. T5ji victim of an incurable disease? Incurable bosh he was as sound and m tough as a hickory sapling. A re formed man? Not to any extent that the chaplain could appreciate. A few weeks after Flam regained his liberty it chanced that the District 1 Attorney referred to came to Albany on business. His business transacted, he found he had an hour at his dis posal before it would he time tor him to take the train for home. Accord irmly he made up his mind to pay his respects to the Governor. They "were, warm friends and had a pleasant chat. As the District Attorney rose to co he remarked: Governor. I am surprised that so upright a Chief Magistrate should have pardoned so consummate a ras cal as Jack Flam." "Well, for cool impudence that beats anything I have ever heard," laughingly replied the Governor. "Aft er first beseeching me to parden Flam, you turn around and upraid me for granting your request!" This led to an explanation. The District Attorney assured the Gov ernor he had signed no application for the pardon of Flam. The dumb founded Governor rang for the par don clerk, and when he appeared ask ed in nn.excited tone that the appli cation for Jack Flam's pardon should be brought to him. Taking the pa pers tho Gevernor hurriedly turned to one of the letters, and placing a finger on the signature attached to it, he handed it to the District Attorney with the remark, "Isn't that your utogrnnh?" "Glancing at the writing the District Attorney replied: "No. that ia not my autograph, but I'm bound td say it's an excellent imitation ot it." Tableau! A madder man than that Governor tiover existed. Five minutes later the pardon clerk hurried to tho telegraph office with a dispatch, asking tho au thorities of Auburn Prison it they or any ot them had ever signed an appli cation for the pardon of Jack Flam. The pardon cierk informed tho opera tor that the Governor would take it as ft personal favor if ho would "rush" it and request the Auburn operator to"rush"the answer. Tho two despatches were "rushed'consequeut ly in course of half an hour the Govern or was informed by telegraph that nobody connected with the Auburn Prison had ever asked, or ever con templated asking, for the pardon ot Jack Flum. That was a clincher. Tho adroit convict had broken out of Auburn, not with a crowbar, but with a pen. Ie had released himself from prison on forged papers. Tho Governor looked at the pardon clerk, the pardon clerk looked at tho Governor- Tiien a detective was sum moned. What had become of the brilliant and audacious Mr. Flam? By dint of patient inquiry the detective discov ered, not Flam, but the residence of a charmer to whom Jack was accus tomed to devote himself when he was temporarily outof prison. The charm er s bower was m a back street m the lower part of Albany. The detect ive managed to secure a room in a house opposite Beauty's bower, hiding his time and kept his eyes wide open. He -watched and waited in vain three or lour days. And then one morning early the front door of the bower opened, thero was a tender leave-taking on the threshold, and then a man stepped out upon the pavement and sauntered away. , Asficon s the detective set his eyes on the man he saw the escaped pris oner whom ho and the Governor and the pardon clerk wanted so badly. A minute later the detective and his assistant, both dressed in citizens' clothes so as not to attract attention, were on Flam's track. Tho escaped bird, unaware of the net that was closing about his feet, took his way to the park that stretched in front of the Capitol. Reaching that park, he sat down on one of the wooden benches within a stone's throw of the Executive Chamber, whence thepardon had been issued. The detective slow ly approached from behind, and al most betore he knew it Flam found a pair of handcuffs on his wrists. 4,What does this mean?" he asked of the detective with an air in which amazement and indignation were minded in equal proportions. "Why am I subjected to this indignity?" "It's no use, Flam," quietly answer ed tho detective. "I know you and what you've been up to. My name's Kow 1 take it you ll come alone quietly, like a sensible man." "I'll go with you quietly on onecon dition," said Flam. "I claim that you have no right to arrest me, and if you will promise me that if called upon by me you will testify that I made such a claim and resisted arrest, that's all I ask, and I'll give you no trouble. Un derstand me as resisting; I'm not such a fool as really to resist, for I havo no desire to be roughly handled. But regard me as resisting you." The detective promptly acceded to Jack's request, and the two peacefully proceeded down the hill. A few hours later they were on a New York Cen tral trainbound lor Auburn Prison. As they journeyed niong, to relieve the monotony of tho trip, the detective suggested that his companion would explain how he had so successfully managed to put up so neat a job as his escape. "Yes. I think it was pretty neat," said Flam, "and I don't mind telling you, in confidence1, how I worked tho racket, for I know you're square. During my trial my attention was called one day to the signature of the District Attorney who tried me. It was attached to some unimportant paper. I made out to secure this pa per without being observed, cutoff the signature and destroyed the rest of the document. I put the signature carefully away in my vest pocket and transferred it to my mouth on enter ing Auburn, so that it would not be taktn from me when my clothes were exchanged for the pris on uniform. You see, taking time by the forelock, I had formed my plan of escape before my trial was finished. I was sent up for forgery.and thought it would be a good joke all around if I could cet out on what put me in." "Sort of homeopathic like cures like." suggested the detective. "Yes, that was it, although I never expressed it that way. Well, to go on, not long after I entered the prison, I was placed in the office as I expected to be sooner or later and given some routine writing to do. Then I watch ed my chances and went to woik. I carefully thought out in my cell at night the application for my pardon, which subsequently reached the gov ernor. I copied it with infinite troub le, a sentence one day, two sentences to-morrow, and so 'on until I had it done. The district attorney's letter to the governor was in my own dis guised handwriting, but I closely cop ied the district attorney's signature, and wrote over the top of the letter 'dictated.' The letter I palmed off as com ing from the chaplain I wrote in what I regarded as a scholarly hand, a lit tle cramped kind of a back-hand, and not too easily read in plnces. I was going to have his letters 'dictated' like the District Attorney's, but it occur red to me on reflection that the chap lain's salary probably was not large enough to admit of his keeping a sec retary. In the Wardeu's letter, which I wrote in a plain round hand, I put one or two errors in spelling, for the Warden was not a cultivated person. I 'dictated' the doctor's letter on a venture. Of course, 1 had no difficulty in procuring the signature of the War den, for he had frequent occasion to write his name in the office. I induced the chaplain to give me his autograph one Sunday in my hymn-book he ac ceded to my remiest willingly.-being as "kind-hearted a man as I ever met. I had to sham sickness for two or three days in order to get the doctor's au tograph, I was a matter ot two mouths completing my task. I breathed a long sigh of satisfaction as I placed the application papers in an envelope it took me a week to get hold of that long whito envelope and wrote the name ot 'His Excellency Governor , Albany, N.Y.,'onthe back." "Where did you get your postago stamps?" inquired the detective. "I didn't get them that's what bothered mo. But I concluded that the chances were that n letter plainly directed to the head of tho State Gov ernment, a letter which looked as if it might be an important document, would reach hint, stamps or no stampB. So one day I tossed my unstamped letter into a pilo ready for tho post- tnnn and awaited developments. Ten days later the warden camo to my cell one evening, with eyes bulging out of his head with astonishment, and informed mo that ho had good news for mo. 'Have I been pardoned?' 'Yes,' said the warden, 'you have been pardoned. How in tho world, Jack, was it ever brought about?' "I bit my lip to keep front laughing, and answered that I was aware that several prominent and influential persons had addressed letters to tho Governor asking for my pardon. I felt delicate about mentioning to tho Warden that he was one ot tho per sons. Next morning I shook tho dust of the prison ofl my feot. Tho rest you know. If I'd made, a break for the West I'd been all right. But a la dy friend attracted me to Albany." That was tho Rubstunco ot Flam's story. When the detective got through telling it, I inquired what was the upshot of tho escape. How many more years did Flam get for his queer crime? "All tho rest I cart tell you in a few words," said the deductive. "Just before we reached Auburn, Flam turn ed and remarked to me, in earnest tones, that ho would like to have me do him a single favor." "I should liko to have you after leaving me at tho prison, proceed to the law office of in Auburn, and inform him under what circumstances you returned me to prison." "I saw no reason why I should not grant tho prisoner this favor, and I did grant it. The result was that he was discharged from prison, on a writ of habeas corpus or something of that sort. You see that tho pardon was genuine, although tho applica tion for it was not." He Had an Offset. From tho Ionia (Mich.) Mail. A hired man who has been employ ed on a farm in this county for sever al months entered suit against his employer tho other day for balanco of wages, amounting, as he claims, to $32. Tho suit was on trial before Justico recently, and it look ed at first as if the plaintiff had a clear case. He gave dates and figures in a straightforward way and seemed a very honest young man. When the farmer took th o stand he said: "I claim an offset for that $32. No man need sue me for what I honestly owe." "What is your offset?" asked tho lawyer. "He's an unbeliever." "In what?" "Why, in the Bible." "What has that to do with your owing him $32?" "It lias a heap to do with it. I had six hands in my employ, and we were rushing things when I hired this man. He hadn't been with us two days when they stopped the reaper in the middle ot the forenoon to dispute about Daniel in the lion's den, and in three days we had a regular knock down over the whale swallowing Jonah. The man who run the mower got to arguing about Samson, and drove over a stump, and damaged the machine to the tune of $18, and tho very next day my boy broke his leg while climbing the tence to hear and see the row which was started over the children of Israel going through the Red Sea. It wasn't a week before my wife said she didn't believe Elijah was fed by the ravens, and hanged if I didn't find myself growing weak on Noah and his flood. That's my off set, sir, and ii lie was worth anything I'd sue him for $1,000 besides." A Story of Bonanza Kings. They were talking of old bonanza days in Virginia City. Ht had been a newspaper man there in the excit ing days when Fair and Mackey knew more ol the bowels of the earth than they did ol the surface. They always knew a great deal about the people in the earth, though, and managing deals was a matter that few could do as well as Mr. Fair especially. This newspaper man related a little inci dent that I don't think ever appear ed in print. "John Mackey," he said, "was nev er much of a manipulator. Ho was a miner, and always wanted to go straight at thing?. One time Fair went off and left Mackey to run things. They were drifting in the Union Consolidated, ana in making three different drifts which formed a triangle, they came on strmgerB of ore on all sides. John Mackey, like a miner, immediately came-to the con clusion that there might be a large body of ore in tho center or there abouts of that triangle. He immedi ately started straight in toward the middle. Thero was some excitement, of course, in the stock, but as they went on with no indications of abody of ore interest began to die out, and they got through without finding any thing. Fair got back and the first tiling he did was to start a drift -at an acute angle, in the direction the stringers pointed. He came on a small body of $00 rock. He tried a deal, but he couldn't make it go. "'John, John.' he said to Mackey, you've knocked the stuflin' out of the mine. Why didn't you keep the center of that ground a mystery till we'd given the boys a deal.' "San Francisco Chronicle. ALOFT IN CLEARER AIR. Enjoying tho Sky Parks of Gotham What tho Roofs ot tho Tnll Tono mants Aro to tho Dwollors Within. Providence Journal. Tho baby seemed to be making for tho edge- of tho roof as fast as V6ry rapid locomotion on its hands and knees could carry it thero. "No, . no! Coiuo.here, pot," said tho mother calmly, and the infant halted and thon turnod nnd sat down. What a place for a baby that wea on tho roof ot a six-story tenoment house in Baxter street, tho tallest houso in the neighborhood, with a viow somewhat recalling a sceno on the Rhode Island const, with hero and thero a blnck roof to represent tho inky holders, hero nnd thero a puff of steam to suggest the clouds ol spray made by tho conflict ot tho waves and rocks, and all around tho whito and pnlo blue ox pan bo of the upper air. "Aren't you afraid to let your baby piny around here?" I inquired of tho niothor, she and tho infant and I be ing tho only ones up thero, and I not only feeling tho polite necessity of say ing something, but being really curious to know how a mother coiild let a baby out of her arms in such a place. "Why should I be afraid?" sho in quired: "I was as good as born and brought up hero on this roof, nnd no harm qamo to mo ot it." "Roofs aren't to the poor what thoy aro to the tich," sho continued, Beolnj tho look of inquiry in my fnco, in all probability. "I was born in this house, and when I was a little weo thing my niothor, God rest her soul, usca to bring me hero tor tho fresh air in lino weather and tho cool breezo in the Btimmer. When I was a little girl 'twas hero that I camo after school to play at store and house, and with my doll and little playmates. When I got big enough to be allowed to sit up a little late at night here I still came, to see tho lads nnd young girls nt their merriment, dancing and courting nnd flirting and singing nnd entertaining one another. And do you know it was a feather in the cap of a boy or girl to be here. and is yet for tho mat ter of that, for you'll never find the wayward or tho wild up hero once thoy havo yielded to tho life of the streets. And when I got to be cash girl and later yot, when I went really to work to help my widowed moth er, taking a place in a factory, it was still hero that I came for most of my play and good company. Ah, that may seem strnngo.or. very dull to you, but that is tho best of my recollec tions, for everything ood that ever came to me. outsido of monoy nnd tho comforts of tho church, camo 1 o mo here on this selfsame roof. "'Twns here that I leatned to dance, to the music of tho accordion that him who is now my husband could play better than any boy in tho ward. Night after night, in all the fine wenther,.Tohn would come uphere and play for tho girls of the house and our friends of tho neighborhood, nnd when there . wero boys enough wo would dance with thorn, and when thero wore not each girl would take another n'nd be partners. It is itiRt the same now. Any night eight months in tho year, you'll find somo of them hero, dancing nnd sparking, and the old folks sitting nbou', keeping half an eyo on the young ones, whom they pretend not to see at nil, though for that matter when you have children they are seldom of! your mind, in Bight or out. You'd think, maybe, they'd bo afraid, danc ing on the edge of the sky like this. Not a bit. I never gave a thought to tho danger, and Ldon't suppose they do. Well, hero John courted me, and when we were engaged by his asking mo right there where you'ro sitting, we thought to have a nice party down stairs in mothor's room, and bo wo did, but really the best party of the two was when we were making the ar rangements, and all our friuids met here and we had tho best time of all, with dancing and beer, nnd Miko Cronan and his fiddle, and somo of the best singers from tho church hap pened in. "1 wonder If you understand what a tenement roof really is. For in stance, it's all the yard we have, and it's divided up so that it rightly be longs to one floor that's two fami lieseach day in tho week, excepting Sunday, lor them to hang up their wash. Well, somo practically never use it, for the good reason that all they wash they can hang in the open windows of the kitchen. Some Use it only about onco a month and some hang the wholo air full of linen each week. But it belongs to a different (lock every different day, and no one would think of using it for clothes on any day but their own withqut ask ing permission. Each family puts up and takes away their own clothes liiiess each day, and, mind you, even then the soot of the city's smoke gathers on -them that fast that! they must be wiped before .clothes are hung on them. Then, again, do you seo those boxes of earth around the edge yonder? They also belong to the different tenants, and in the summer one vies with the other to see who'll keep theirs the greenest. Some never have any luck in growing things, nnd thu btst of theboxesdon't amount to much, owing to the heat of the sun above and the tin below d tying up the little earth thero is in them, but it is pretty much all that many a tenement child sues of the country tho first few years. I was twelve years old before I ever saw more than the City Hall Park and t'e Battery Park, and then when I went up into Westchester County to my uncle, who has a farm, I had enough to do tp tell all those who wanted to know what the country was really like "Then here's whero many of the men in the tenement sleep all through the hot weather. Yes, it is the biggest and the best bed-room we have when the sweltering heat comes, and the women would be glad to make use of it for the same purpose if it was con sidered right for them to do so. On such nights the windows are thrown open back and front, and the women and children that are too young to be trusted make tho best ot what draught there is, whllo tho men, with a pillow nnd a blanket, or sometimes with nothing at all but their regular clothes and an old coat rolled up tin dor their headB, turn in on tho roof until it's that thick with men that nn old soldlor ouce told mo it reminded hint ot tho dead In tho trenchos on n battlefield where ho was in tho war. But before thero'B any goes to bed at all, every ono in tho houso sits up thoro to cool off, nnd I really think in all the year i hoso aro the happiest hours wo poor people over spend. "They oven had a death on tho roof n tow doors below last summer. It was n poor old German gfintlcnmn, aim ho was very low and sinking when thoy brought him up, thinking it would revivo him, which it did, poor man, but it was in the other world ho Mt it. Nothing bad like that evor came to this roof, and I am glad of'lt for some would always bo thinking of it, and tho plnco would not bo tho jamo after. But we've had a littloot everything, else, I'm thinking, and to mo it's tho best placo there is and tho ono whero I havo lived tho best hours ot my life, child, girl and woman." His Duty. Military discipline implies a sacri fico of all tho natural emotions. A xuan who follows tho profession of nrins must not only bo prepared to leave homo nnd friends nt the call ot duty, but ho must rcnounco at the outset all thoughts of his own com fort or wollbeing. Ito is no longor. -frco individual; he is tho servant of tho State. During tho siego of Gibraltar,' its governor, General Elliot, was ono day making a tour of inspection, when ho camo upon a German soldier, who, though standing at his post, noitllor presented arms, nor ovon held his musket. "Do you know me, Bontinol?" in quired the general. "Why do you ne glect your duty?" "I know you well, general, and my duty uIbo, waB tho reply; "but with in tho last few minutes two of tho fin gers oi my right hnnd havo been shot off, and I am unable to hold my musket." "Why don't you go and havo them bound up?" "Because in Germany a man is for bidden to quit his post until he is re lieved by another." The general instantly dismounted. "Now, my friend," said he, "glvo mo your musket, and I will relieve you. Go havo vour wounds dressed." The sofdier obeyed, but went first to the nearest guard-houso, whero he reported that thegeneral was standing on duty in his place. Hie injury un fitted him for nctivo service, but tho story of his courago Boon reached England, and ho was made an officer. Detecting Counterfeits Feeling, by From tho KnimnH City Stnr. A bank cashior says that tho best way to tell a counterfeit hill is by sound nnd feeling. "Take a bill firm ly botween the thumb and index finger of your left hnnd and pull it quickly through your fingers like this. Now listen to tho sound it makes. It is not just like rubbing silk, and neither does it resemble a paper sound closely. It's a noise that is too peculiar to admit of a description." "Do thoy make counterfeit paper so liko the original that you can t tell tho difference?1' "You can't tell by looking at it. It is only by tho sound and touch. Now listen to the sound made by this counterfeit $20 bill. You Fee, that's a slick noise, something liko pulling glazed or oiled paper through tho fingers. A child could tell the difference between that bill and a genuine ono. But look at it and vou will think your eye is on something that would pass muster for $20 worth of groceries." "Who taught you this business?" "Oh, my first lesson was given by an old man who has been all over this country nnd Europe teaching the business. He has in his possession over a thousand specimens of counter feits. Ho obtained them from tho authorities of the diflerent Govern ments. He has no peer in the busi ness, and every expert in Lite country owes his knowledge to this old man. ' Troops in Ireland. From tlio l'liiliulcljililn Ledger. Ireland always absorbs a very largo portion of tho military forces at home, and just now there are some 2 mf troops there than twelve months ago. Prince nuwanl of baxe Weimar has command ot about 27, 300 officers and men. with 3,000 horses nnd 00 guns, the wholo being divided into three commands. In the Belfast district, under Major General Wiseman-Clarke, there are4,300 olli cere and men, nnd 450 horses, con stituting ft regiment of cavalry, 300 Artillery-men, four battalions and three depots of infantry and a pro portion of departmental troops, In the Dublin district tlijL're are about 14.COO men. 2,000 horses mid 28 field guns, forming three regiments of cav alry, six batteries of artillery, three engineer companies, fourteen battal ions and three depots of infnntry, eight, companies of the commissariat nnd transport corps, and two divi sions of the medical stall. In the Cork District, where Major General Steven son commands, there are two cavalry regiments, seven batteries ot artillery, an engineer company, eight battalions and two depots of infantry and a new departmental troop, making up alto gether 8,800 officers and men with 1,000 horses and 24 field guns. The present total of troons in Ireland is the nearest approach to the 80,000, which is the highest record ot recent years. A ROYAL ROMANCE. PrlncoOsonr of Swodon Forfeits His Right to tho Grown by a Love Match. At Stockholm, in court circles, the question of pence or war excites con siderably less Interest just now 'than tho royal romance that has culminat ed in tho engagement of Prince Oscar Charles, Becond son of tho King ot Sweden, to a younglady of hia nation ality, but not of royal blood' Tho Crown Princess of Sweden who is & daughter ot tho Grand Dukoot Baden, and granddaughter ot Emporer Will- lam of Germany, had amongst her maids ot honor a young Swedish lady, Miss Munck, known for her beauty, grnco and charming manners. Bui although ot noblo birth, Miss Munck was poor and an orphan. Her father, Colonel Muuck, had left her a long lino of ancestors nil gallant sol diers, but little money: Eventually, Miss Munck, yioldlng to the pressing ndvlcoof her friends, accepted an offer of marriage from a wealthy young of ficer belonging to a crack cavalry reg inient, and everything was prepared for tho wedding. The day was fixed, thotrousseauwasboughtand thopres ents had arrived, when suddenly Miss Munck broke oft tho engagement for reasons which convinced her that she did not possess tho exclusive affec tionfl of nor suitor. Sho resisted all attempts at reconciliation and re tired from tho court for aomo time. When bIio returned her former high Spirits had gone and her face wore an expression of melancholy, which', however, enhanced her beauty consid erably. ' Meantvhllo Prince Oscar had besn for a two years trip around the world in tho roynl Swedish frigate Vanndti. Shortly after his return his friends dis covered that ho was in love and tho fact likewise became evident to Miss Munck herself. Sho could hot fail to bo sensible ot the admira tion of tho gallant and handsome young sailor prince; but what was to be done? According to the Swedish constitution, any prince marrying outside tho circle of royalty forfeits his rightB to the throne and his privi leges as a membor of the roynl family. Miss Munck, listening to what she be lieved was tho voice ot duty, again loft the Swedish court. Sho announc ed formally to her relatives never to marry nnd assumed the garb oi a nurse and tho chnrgo of a ward in dn ot the large charity hospitals ol Stock holm. Prince Oscar at last succeeded in meeting her and finally after tv long struggle ho wrung from her the confession that she loved him. Still tho brave girl refused to marry him and it was not until the Prince could tell her that the Queen-Mother had been moved to give her consent that finally she yielded. But tho King's sanction had yet to bo obtained. In vain did Prince Oscar at first plead that as his broth er tho Crown Prince had already two sons his own chance of over ascending the throne wero practically nil, and that he therefore, ought to be allowed to abandon tho privileges of royalty and to become a private citizen, but as time wore on and the King saw his Bon could not bo influenced in tho matter, his Majesty was induced to yield, principally owing to the entreat ies of tho Queen, who was on the.ovo ot undergoing a surgical operation from which sho waH not expected to recover. The King could not resist this appeal from his beloved wife, whom he feared he waa going tolose, and thus for the first time for'SOO years a prince of Sweden will marry the daughter of a private gentleman. Tho Prince in future will be called Bernadotti. lie retains, however, his rank nnd command in the Swedish army, which he has earned through various courses of promotion, The Origin of Beer. . Ale was the sole title oi malt liquor until the reign of Henry VIII., up to which tlmo tho employment of hops as an ingredient in the beverage was un known in England. In tho year 1524, or thereabouts, the use of hops waa introduced from Germany, and to dis tinguish the new kind of malt liquor from the old, the German name beer, was adopted, and with an infinitesi mal change of spelling, became part ot our language. Germany, in truth, is the native land of beer, and nowhere in the world is it treated with such special honor. In Germany the drink ing of beer is not, as with us, a mere means of carnal refreshment, but par ticularly, among tho students of the universities, is elevated to the dignity, of a cult, familiarity with whose ritu al is deemed an essential branch of a liberal education. We remember to have seen, appended to a recipe ol M. Franratelli's for some specially seduc tive beverage, the recommendation. "Stir and drink devoutly." This is precisely the mental attitude of the German student in relation to beer. He drinks devoutly; indeed, it might be almost said, parodying the famil iar Oriental phrase, that in Germany,' "there is no God but beer, arid the student is the prophet." CornhiU Magazine. ro m ' The March of Science, Puck. " Are you interested in the newejt discoveries in science and in the in ventive arts?" asked Mr. Knowall of Miss De Pork, a Chicago girl. "0, yes, indeed!" she replied enthusi astically. "I am so interested in anything of that sort. Why, do you know that when my papa first went into the pork business he had to kill all his pigs by hand, one at a time; and it was dreadful tiresome, sticking three hundred or four hundred a day. But now ho has machines that sim plify nnd beautify the work so that they kill and scald and scrape und cut, up thousands in a day at his pork packing parlors, as you would say in Boston; and the work is done beauti fully. You must go with me and see some it day; its just lovely!"