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1 . i' ' FvsY" r ) lrrtax. BY ACTA WOOLET. Tb iyal splendor fruitful Autumn rowi, ' All earth s a era ol purple mixed with gold, Uinfflrd with white and change snt.nilold; All day the wild be round the an lor bums; The Irost prapes darken, and tb India plume tilow with a richer hue in breeies chill: A sinoky haze obscsres the distant hill; l ast fall the dews at ere, the nights grow cold: Sweet towers that decorate the waning: year, White daises, purple asters. golden-rod. Like all things bright and fair we cherish here, "Soon must yon rest beneath the froien sod: To you death brings no pang, no mortal fear: Sweetly yon sleep, safe in the care of God. A WONDERFUL WATCH. Translated from the French. It was -the shop of the leading watchmaker of Geneva. I will not mention his name out of regard to his fellow-craftsmen, every one of whom is a leading watch-maker of Geneva. For clearness of recital, without treading on any one's toes, he may be called M. Unzahl, which signifies Legion. One cold morning in February, 1885, M. Unzahl sat in his office, dis posing of his mail, when a man, ex act in deportment and attire, opened thedoor of the store and accosted a !erk: "M. Unzahl, if you please?" "Do you wish to speak to him per sonally?" inquired the clerk. "Precisely so." "M. Unzahl is occupied just at this moment. If it is for a purchase, there is the chief assistant who will give you all desired information." "It is indeed for a purchase, but -on special conditions, and I wish to treat only with Mt. Unzahl." "Shall I take j-our card, sir?" The stranger handed to the clerk a small Bristol card of the dimensions of a railway ticket, liearing the in scription: W J. Barker, Ehq.. 21 Granville place, 1'ortman square, TV. M. Unzahl soon appeared and ad dressed Mr. Barker: "What can I do for you, sir?" "Excuse me for having disturbed you," said the stranger, a perfect gentleman, clad in one of those long cape ulsters having squares of differ ent colors, which the French have adopted after having long made fun of them. "I wish to buy a good watch; the price is not the para mount consideration; what I insist on is perfect regularity." "Then," suggested , the watch maker, "you need a chronometer; here is one in silver at only 1500 francs." "No," rejoined the Englishman, 'although I am something of a traveler, I nrn not a marine officer; a good watch will answer." "Try this one," said the watch maker, offering a stem-winding double-case watch; "For a year it lias not varied a second." Indeed," remarked W. J. Barker, "this watch has a good look." "It has more than a good look," responded M. Unzahl, with profes sional dignity; "it is almost a per fect piece of mechanism, approaching the chronometer, though without equalling it." "The price?" "A thousand francs be it, but on on one condition, and it is because of this condition that I took t he liberty to disturb you." "What is the condition?" "That, against this check on the Bnnk of Geneva, you deliver to me a receipt by the terms of which you en gnge to take back the watch at the same price of a thousand francs if when I present it to you again in eighteen months you find that it has varied. On my parti engage to take due care ot it, without touching the works, without even opening the cases, I will merely wind it up every day at the same hour." "Your proposition is acceptable. I am sure of my work and have noth ing to fear. It is a bargain. H?re is the watch." "Here's the check for 1000 francs." "And here is the receipt," added the maker, after he had prepared a receipted bill, coupled with the con dition executed by the purchaser, n. Eighteen months later, in August 1887, M. Unzuhl was superintend ing an important, shipment to South America, when who should enter but Mr. Barker, whom he recognized immediately, for the Englishman had not grown old or changed in any way save that, in place ot the long-cape ulster of the winter of 1885, whose great orange and maroon squares called to mind the horse-coverings nsed in well-kept tables, Mr. Barker wore a rail check ered rait under a short brown over coat, which, by the skill of his Lon don tailor, or perhaps by the use ot stiffening material, , kept itself in position, twining around the waist and dinging to the chest, although It vat not buttoned. "Good day, U . Barker," said the watchmaker in a familiar tone, tem' pored by the respect doe to a sedate caetomer, '-you come to compliment nteaooet mywatcnr "No," answered the Ensbabman laMfefeaSjr, MI Mc It back' Mfto&asfaer' turfed ttatrades- nian witha conciliating air. "That dom not surprise me. alter a year, certainly utter e'ghtcek months, the oil needs renewing." "No!" retorted the Englishman brusquely, "'I bring it back to leave it. This watch is worth nothing." "You astonish me very much," de clared the watch-maker, who from smiling had grown serious. "You astonish me very much, but as it was a conditional sale 1 will repay the thousand francs." Mr. Barker had prepared himself for a contest, giving to his features and his voice the maximum British rigidity, but seeing that the honest dealer offered no objection, he soften ed and gradually relaxed his stiff ness. "When I said your watch is worth nothing, I spoke too strongly. The truth is that it has not fulfilled the condition. It has varied ten minutes, as you can see for yourself by com paring with the regulator by which you set it eighteen months ago." "You arc right, ir," said the mak er; "there is a variation of ten min utes, verily," lie proceeded, as if speaking to himself. "It does aston ish me; however, let us look at it." He opened the watch, whose cases had not lieen touched. The resist ance which they opposed his practic ed nail left no doubt on this score. M. Unzahl examined the works in de tail. Seeing nothing out of the way he inspected the watch with a mag nifier. Everything was in order. Then he submitted it to the eye of his prin cipal assistant. This was an old craftsman whose hair had grown white in the trade. He not only knew all the piirts of a watch by the card, butcould indicate its peculiar temperament. "This one," said he sometimes to his em ployer, "is a little nervous nnd will have a tendency to gain time; that one, on the contrary, is lymphatic, and we must not be surprised if it should run slow; the other yonder has a capricious disposition; it will gain or lose time, or stop, without apparent cause." The temperament of this watch seemed to belong to the last category, for the old workman did not succeed, either with the naked eye or with his glass, in detecting the slightest dam age. Theemployer, equally dumfouuded, forbore further scrunity and took a package of bank notes from his cash box to reimburse Mr- Barker when an idea flushed on his mind. "Excuse me, sir; I do not know whether my question will appear ad missible, but I would like to ask is it at London or on the Continent that you have carried this watch?" "there is no impropriety m your inquiry, and though it may not in terest you much, 1 can give exactly the employment of my time since we separated." "Oh! I do not ask that much; only the locality in general." "But I can give the whole story. There is no secret about it. In Feb ruary, 188G, after purchasing this watch, I embarked for the Indies." "Ah!" breathed the watch-maker. "That is not wonderful for an En glishman. With me it is an old cus tom. Every year I visit Lahore in the Punjab to inspect silk manufac tories which I own in the neighbor hood of the city." "A h ! ah!" repeated the dealer. "You could not have remained there long. I presume. The heat is so fatal to Europeans." "No, I remained there only five months, and when the heat became intolerable I retired to a little cot tage which I have in the Himalayas." "In the Himalayas,'' exclaimed the astonished watch-maker. "Why, sir, our Mount Blanc is only 4810 meters high, and yet no one has ever ventured to install himself there for a summer residence." "I do not say that I dwelt on the Gaurisanker, which is 8800 meters high, and which no human foot has trod, or ever will tread, not even the foot of the highest climber among the descendants ot your Joseph Bal mat," the first victor of Mount Blanc. No! my house is situated merely on one of the branches of the great chain, not far from Lahore, where the English colony have erected com fortable villages, well sheltered against the sun and refreshed by con tinual mountain breeze. There, com parative coolness is enjoyed, which is delightful after the furnace of the plain." "Ah! ah! ah!" ejaculated the watchmaker, who multiplied his ex clamations in proportion as the words of the Englishman seemed to correspond with a preconceived idea. "Ah! ah! ah! how much time did you pass in that charming climate?" "Oh! scarcely a month. A letter from my Moscow correspondent called me from my desired repose. I could not hesitate. It announced the auction sale of an important stock of sables, which I had the sure opportunity of placing in England and France. I left the Punjab for Russia." "Ah! fine, charming," said the watch maker, with an exuberance of satisfaction which Mr. Barker did not comprehend. He merely sup posed that M. Unzahl, like all seden tary persons, took pleasure in hear ing of travels, and that he admired the extent and variety of his own. He continued with his habitual cool- "1 paseed only two weeks at Mos cow. Thirty degrees below freezing point, yon understand, for one re turning from India." , "Yes, yes," said the tradesman, "I understand." Then, whispering to himself, "I quite understand, too, why the Englishman'! watch hat varied ten minutes." Mr. Marker, not having acquired the power to detect thin internal col verse, resumed: "As soon as ru v business was ended 1 left the Muscovite snows nnd pro ceeded to Egypt. "You say to Egypt," interrupted M. Unzhal with vivacity. "Exactly: 1 say to Egypt. I had a crop of ramie to visit. I even re mained until the harvest, which was excellent. Then, instead of taking a steamer, I returned to Manchester by the Buicimen, one of my sailing vesels, for I am a ship-owner. My vessel was laden with a valuable cargo of ramie, that interesting tex tile plant which 1 was the first to in troduce for furniture materials. Then, as I had need of recreation, I returned to Switzerland, where, for a month, I have been making various ascensions with some companions of the Alpine (lul. Anil here I am. The honest wath-maker was withal a shrewd dealer, and had calculated his profit on the information of the Englishman. His conscience did not require him to impart his design. He acted within his right. His reply was simple: "All you have told me, sir, of your late travels has an intense interest; intense is not too strong a word. I must now repurchase the watch at the thousand francs. Only I ask one condition." "A condition?" broke in the English-man, darkening like a London sky in November. "What condi tion?" "That you will give, in the receipt for the thousand Francs, the reason for returning the watch. State that after having carrried it to Lahore, into the Himalayas, to Moscow, to Egypt.to Manchester and back to Switzerland, it has varied, in eight een months, ten minutes. This writing is indispensable lor my pro tection in dealing, with my silent partners." "Willingly, since that is the case." "After you have signed the pnjier you will have the signature verified by your Consul at Geneva." "No objection to that. I havebusi nessat the Consulate, where I am well known, and you shall have the document in half an hour." Thirty minutes later the English man appeared with the legal nf testa tions bearing the Consular seal. The watch-maker handed him in exchange a thousand francs in bank notes, and having bidden him farewell wasabout to retire to his office when Mr. Bark er stopped him. "I do not wish that our business relations should end with this cheer less transaction, which may le called a laisser pour compte.tt Sell me another watch." "Never in my life," said the trades man, decidedly. "I have given you the pearl of my manufacture. Any that I could now offer would not satisfy, so " "Then adieu," said the English man, "and without ill will." "Oh, without ill will," repeated the watch-maker, smiling, fnrfrom it." lhe Englishman did not under stand this "far from it," and took his leave. m. The third day after, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. Barker, on re turning from a short mountain ex cursion with two of his confreres of the Alpine Club, saw before the shop ' of the watch-maker Unzahl on un usual Catherine of tourists whn in August, as is well known, nre nu merous in the goon city ol lieneva. He halted with his friends, nnd when tho first rank of the curious hnddispers- j ed he was able to discover what had attracted their attention. It was a large panel similar to those whfeb exhibitors use for framing their med als, and in the panel was" a placard in distinct characters written in En glish, J- rench and German, as fol lows: "Extraordinary bargain. For sale The best watch ever made in Geneva. In eighteen months, after having leea exposed to the torrid heat of India, to the temperate climate of the middle re gions of the Himalayas, to tho rig ors of the Russian winter to the burn ing sun of Egypt, to the atmosphere of Manchester, charged with fog and coal-dust, and lastly to the sudden changes of temperature in our own mountains, this watch, trnly a won der, has varied but ten minutes in eighteen months. See below the cer tificate of our customer, whose sig nature is verified by the English Con sul." At the foot of this announcement, quite American in form, but strictly exact, the watch was exposed in an elegant casket, with the alluring in scription, "Exceptional price 1500 francs." "Eh!" exclaimed the amazed En glishman, "my watch has risen 500 francs in price. This watch-maker understands what he is about. 1 now fully comprehend the scope of his sly questioning. Why did I not divine it sooner? Well, no matter for at 1500 francs he will certainly not find a buyer, and whenever I wish I can take the watch ogaii at his original price." The next day Mr. Barker returned alone to the displnv window. The crowd was crrentpr t.hnn tho ilnr- t. fore and he was obliged to wait ten minutes before being able to ap nroneh the nln.riir.t Tha roatinr had not changed, but the price of the watch had been ruised to 2,000 iranrs. "Onion!" snid be, "at the rate at which the watch-maker bids on him self I had better hasten to the auc tion." On entering the shop Mr. Barker has not a little surprised to And one or nts companions or tbe Alpine Club waafining for the watch. ''Now." thought he, "it will escc tf me and I ' shall rm-t it, M. Unzahl was right when he said he could not find n bet ter watch. The truth had penetrat ed mv skull u little too late. Asnsunl I sluiil have to pa v for my exjtern'nce after all." "Then," he overheard from the member of the A'nine Club, "you will not let me have it for 1,5M) francs. "No." sir, it is impossible. That was the price vesterday. To-day it is worth 2.000 fra ncs. To-morrow it will lie worth " .,..,. , "Well," pressed the Alpinist, I of fer you 1,800 francs. It is a bar gain?" . ' Two thousand or nothing, bead the certificate." The fellow-countryman went out in a miff, without looking at Mr. Bark er, or oflering his courtesies to the dealer . . w r "Well, M. Unzahl," said Mr. Bar lvPr "Well, M. Barker!" returned tho watchmaker. "It seems to me that my watch be haves very well in your shop a rise in value of 1,001) francs rather quickly." , , "It is worth that," iiiMisted the tradesman. "1 liclieve it now, and to prove it 1 am going to take itngain." "At 2,000 francs?" "Yes, at 2,000 francs." 'You Bhall not have it at that price," said Mr. Unzahl, whom the adventure had put in good humor. "With your permission," responded the Englishman, w ho began to be impatient, "I will remark that there are bounds to the best peasantry." "I urn not in sport, sir, and I have no intention to offend you. If I do not accept your 2000 francs, it is be cause having refused 1X00 francs from one ot your countrymen, I am happy to give you the preference at that price for a. watch which was once yours." "Oh! you nre acting honorably," said Mr! Barker, completely pacified. And with a courteous movement liegrapsed the hand of the shop maker. Passing to him a check for 1M00 francs, he quickly replaced the watd; in his waistcoat. ''No matter," ho communed with himself on the street. "Here is an experience that has cost me 80(1 francs. It will teach me to be more just to all my servitors, whether watches or employes. One does not takesuflicient account of the services, because of a few imperfections. They are ten minutes slow, or perhaps they come to u stop. But some work under thesun of India and others amid the frosts of Russia. That dis turbs the wheel work. Here is 800 francs lost usefully. The lesson 1ms not cost me too much." Thin is an error for James Balmnt. it guide, who discovered the route, nnd made the tlrst ascent of Mont Ulanc with Dr. J'ecrard ol Geneva in Aucusf. 17S1. The family ot Ital mntH have been noted ever since ns guides of skill and rourajre. A meter is 8.21 leet and the lieicht of (iaur'wanknr 20, IM ln-t. tltumii', which is allied to the China or sea (rraHH. is, on account of the toiifrhnees nnd di'lif-n'-y of it fller, now uwd with yr.-nt ail vantage by Knrlih and French mmiuructur ers in combination with other textile mnteri a!. Attempt were ni tide to introduce its cultivation into the SoutiiertiHtatin. but dis continued for lack f a home market. ttt ommercial terra; literally, a leaving on account. Reg-nlaritr Of Habit. One of the most difficult of nil mi nor habits to neqiure, says an able writer, is that of regularity. It ranks with that ol order. Tho nat ural inclination of most persons is to defer until the last possible mo ment, or put off to another time here this can possibly be done, et habits of regularity contribute largely to tho ease and comfort of life. A person can multiply his ef ficiency by it. We know persons who have a multitude of duties, and who preform a vst deal of work dnily, who set apart certain hours for (riv en duties, and are there at the moment, and attend rigidly to what is in hand. This done, and nthnren. gagements nre met. ea :h !n order. i . . i i i ... anu a vast ueui accomplished, not by strained exertion, but. l,v regularity. The mind can be so traineu to tins mat at cert inn hours in the dav it will turn tonnnrtienbu- line of duty, nnd at other hours to oiner ami uinerent labors. The very diversity is restful, when at tended to in reirnlar order ltnt W these run together, and the duties iiuxeu, ana wimt was tKjtore easy is now unnovimr and nrnrrfuiiv nr..i the exuet difference between many is at, mis point, there nre those who confuse and rush, nnd ntfomnt. several thinirs at once and accom- pnsn little, while another will quietly proceed from one duty to another, and easily accomplish ii vast amount oi worn, ine tlinerence is not in the cunncitv of the two hut. ... h regular methods oj the one, as com- uureii w iin tneirreguinrnnd confused habits of the other. Scientific American. Turtle and Bear. A man at Covinrrton. Pa.. Who urns fattening a twenty pound snapping turtle, was aroused eurly one morn ing Dy me noise of a scuffle in his yard. Rennimr thera he . . .- - i.ui tie hanging to the nose ofn 800 pound ";... .mi won near the fence, en- deavorinir to mt rvar Kiiv 1. :.. r forts were interfered with by the tur- .Biivuaiiy me near reached the next vard. but. tho ..n j and shot him dead. The turtle all the time retained his hold, and re fused to let ira until tk. i nose was cnt off. Then it crawled 1"' rr' w P or neth in U south-Boston Budget. TREWILI.ua COiT. Mary had a William tioat And he w:. biuck as jet: He followed Mury round all day. And liked her! you just bet! He w.-ot with her to school one day The teacher k Ved him out: It mudethwhild-en prin. you know, To have tbe oat about. But thonifh old Whacketn kicked him out, Vet Mill be lincered near. He waited just outsnletiie door Till Whackem did appear. Thro William ran to meet the man; He ran his letel let; And met him just behind too know, llown just below the Test: Old Wbm-kem turned a somersault; The coat stood on bis bead; And Mary laughed herself so sick . She had to no to bed. Two .rers. Gladys Ah ott was too much ex cited to sleep that night, so she had wandered down to the moonlit sands to ponder over a very impotant question. She had to proposals that day, and her heart wavered in doubt as to whom she should choose Bertram Wyland was her aunt's choice. He was rick, handsome and somewhat frivolous. John March was not handsome, nor yet stylish nnd still there was a character in which any woman might put her trust nnd faith. As she was dreaming over the all absorbing question that w as to make or mar her life, these words, spoken in a voiceshe recognized, were wafted to her ears: "Conurntulate me, Rollins, old fel low; I've played my game almost to the winning point. To-morrow I have good reason to think the heiress will be mine and it's lucky! for I' ve near ly como to the bottom of my pile. Though, to tell the trnth I'm fortun ate in more ways than one,for,ls-sides the additional attraction, the girl's a dear, tender-hearted little thing." As (ihulys lT,.is forward she sees, walking slowly along, their backs to the balcony, Bertram Wyland and an intimate frieun. Her eyes have not deceived her it is unmistakably he who has just spoken. The hot tears rushed to her eyes as she goes slowly back to her room again and throws herself upon the tied, where she soon cries herself to sleep. She is awakened by tho cry of "fire." nnd starts up only to lo driven back by the over-whelming smoke. "Gladys! whereare you?" someone calls, nndjnst us she is falling, ter rified into unconsciousness bv the dire peril which menaces her, a strong arm catches her. But the fire has gained such rapid headwny that tho halls are impnssnble, find darting to the window John March raises it nnd calls for aid to rhe crowd below. A ladder is quickly brought and ho dm wends in safety nnd lays his precious burden in her aunt's arms. The inmates of the burning building nre speedily made comfortable in a neighboring hotel, and there tho fol lowing morning Gladys has two call ers. She is a trifle pale, but never has looked so beautiful in Bertram Wyhmd's eyes as, in a few cold words, she refuses his suit, and he re alizes that sho is lost to him forever. A few hours later Mr. March enters the room his rival but so lately left. He conies to bid Gladys good-by, ns he intends to leave "for the city this afternoon, He talks awhile then rises to go. "Good-by, Miss Alcott, "ho says, taking her hand and looking down upon her with a j-enrning expression oh his strong, noble face. "I would like to fthink that though we may never meet again, yon will sometimes give afriendiy thought to me." A soft color flits over Gladys's face as she answers: "I shall never forget, Mr. Mnrch, that it is to you I owe my life." The touch ot her wnrm. nft. lmml sent a thrill through all tho young man's frame, and his resolution to go without bringing upon himself the pmu oi a reiusai melted owny. "GlndVK '' hft KTclnimo.l "I l.n.l j '-' ......iv A I IA 1 meant to be silent but I can hide from you no longer thnt I love you! Sometimes I have dared to hope you wiennneu a leeung ior me which time mightdeepen into something warmer, but of late you have leen so cold my heart has failed me, Gladys." coming closer to her side, and striving to read the expression of the sweet, uverwu nice, -you soy mot you owe to me VOUr life Mnv f Tint 1 , : j ' iiij your life s love for my reward?" dub uraws nerself a little away as she says: "Before I give you your answer I want to tell you something. It is this; that I am not rich, u every one seems to suppose, for my aunt could not will her property to me if she wished to doso. It is to iro ud on her death to" v "A nephew of her husband's, Whom she has never seen, and who he thinks is even now in his English home pt in John. "Am fnot right? be says, answering Gladys's look of surprise. ' . ''Yes. But how do you know?" 'As lam John March Klmer, that rentable nephew himself, I llordlv ee how I can help knowing:. 1 cam's irom hngland, three months ago. di ct to your aunt's home, but found ing to amu aJS, I T nintanee incofmlto. WBn Mrs. Elmer learned the tme state of effniisher feelings of relief at the disappointment ol her own plan is utmost too great to put" into words. , Gladys has never regretted her choice, for in her husband's protect ing lovo her days glide by in one sweet idyl of delight and content. Early Hlstery ef tha Saw. According to a recent writer (saj Iondon Iron), saws have leen dis. covered in Germany and Denmark which belonged to the bronze aire. Th metal of w hich they were composed was cast into thin shaft, and serrat ed by breaking the edge. Equully nnd interesting discoveries have lieeo made in America. It has been found thnt saws made of obsidian, which is a kind of gloss produced by volca noes, were used duriug the stone age in Mexico, and snws and knives of the same material have leen found in the alluvial depositsof New Jersey, probably carried thither from Mexico by the action of the water. The I'htenicians are among the earliest nations which nre supposed to have used tho saw. The scholar is not surprised to find a very pretty story accounting for the discovery of the suw in Grecianmythology. Here t lie inventor is said to have found the jaw bone of a snake, which he imi tated by jagging an iron plate. The lacustrine and other early inhabi tants of Europe uro credited with having made saws ot flint, and the natives of the West Indian Islands had saws made of notched shells. Kloped In a Storm. Forsomo time post William I) Hayes, of Prairie View, a young sou of a prominent citizen of that place, and Miss Elonia Seltzer, a 10-year old daughter of George Seltzer, a wealthy banker of I'airland, have cherished a fond i fiction for each other, but the stern parents of the girl have long wnrnedthc young man to cease playing his addresses to her. Not to delay mat tera longer, young liayes stole his intended bride out during tho absence of her parents, nnd, placing her in a buggy, drove through the storm n distance of over fifteen miles to this city, where thov were married by Elder Thomas Edwards. The girl wns almost frozen after her long ride, but bravely faced the wind nnd weather and re turned in the samemnnner she came, but a happy bride.-Tuscola (Ills.) Cor. St. Louis Ilepublic. -- Kooil Habits Of AnimulK. "Bats," states Dr, Andrew Wilson, "Are usually known to be either in sect enters, or fruit eaters, like the fox bats of India and elsewhere. The vnmpiresof South America exhibit nn unusual appetite for blood, ns wc know: but hitherto no one has huh- pected bats of f!sh-lovingproclivitit. A South American spiecies, however, has lieen found to be a fish eater. Tho fact only serves as an ndditona! lesson in the modification of nniimil habits. hen one remembers that nt least one species of parrot 1ms developed a flesh-eating habit, the fact of n bat taking kindly to a fisii dinner is by no means to lie regard ed as of extraordinary kind. Some experiments of John Hunter may ulso lie appealed to by way of show ing thnt changes in food habits may readily enough be produced artificial ly by man." I'nnilstakulilc Qualities. "I confess I am sometimes sorely perplexed," said the father, with a heavy sigh, "when I think of the future of my boys. It is a great re sponsibility to have the choosing ol a calling in life for them." Throng! the open window came the voices ot two bids at piny. "Look here!" loudly exclaimed Johnny, "that isn't fair! You've divided these marbles so as to get nil the best ones in your own bag." Didn't I have all the trouble of dividing 'em?" reiterated M illie hotly, "Think I'm going to spend nil my time at such jobs for nothing?" "So fnr as Willie is con cerned," resumed the fnther, after a pause, "the task ot choosing a vocation is not difficult. I bhall make a lawyer of him." S -SS The Czar's Cork-Used Train From London Trnth. A new imperial train hns just leen built for the emperor of Russia. The saloons are covered with iron out side, and then come eight inches of cork, instead of the steel plates with which the carriages or the old tram were protected. All the saloons (which communicate by a covered pnssngo) nre exactly the same in out wnrd appearance, so that no outsider mav be able to discover in which carriage the czar is traveling. Dm' inv the emperors journey last autumn he passed most of his time in a enrnnge which, from ine out side, looks like a luggage van. a a 1 . CollertlRf Tax. A man named Frye, who lived on Tinker's Island, used to lie the town collector of Mt. Desert. If he didn't get his money the first time he culled, he had an original way of helping tbe delinquent to rememisr inns n would come again. Taking a piece of chalk from his pocket, he would write the word "Tax" on the wood work of the room in large letters; and the autoritv of the official W said to have been ocknowleged so well that the chulk waa allowed to remain there till time or tbe payment of tbe tax had nibbed it off-Lew la ton Journal 4 1; ' Vs v,....,v -i-lir w, ... ,.f .':'J,w.iv.- ti,:4 J fyhi y!"- V!,