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TWO WOMEN.
A grandma Mta In hor great armchair;
Ituitny swcot is tho soft sprint? nlr.
Through tho latticed, lllao-shadowod pano
8ho looks to tho orchnnl bcyoml tho lauo;
And she cntchos tho gleam of a woman's
drew
As It Uwtters about In tho wind's caross.
" That child Is Kind as tho day Is tang
lier lovor Is coming, hor llfo's u songl"
Hj) from tho orchard's llowory bloom
Float fragranoo faint to tho darkening
room
Where grandma dreams, till u tondor grace
And a softer llirht stent into hor face.
For once uimln slio Is young and fair,
And twining i-ojos In her hair.
Once again, blithe as tho lark iilxivo,
She Is only a girl, and a girl in lovul
Thoyoarsdrop from hor tholr weary pain;
Hho is clasped In her lover's arms again!
Tho lust faint glimmers of daylight dlo;
Utnrs tremble out of tho purple sky;
lire Dora tilts up the garden path,
Badly afraid of grandma's wrath;
With rose-red cheeks and (lying hair
She nestles down by tho old armchair.
"(Irundma. Dick says may wo nmv I -"
Tho faltering voice grows straugoly shy;
Hut grandma prcssos tho little hand:
" Vos, my dcurie, L understand!
" Ho may hnvo vou. dnrllngt" Not all In vain
Did grandma dream sho was young again 1
Bho gently twists a shlnlnir curl;
"Ah, mol tho philosophy of a glrll
"Tako tho world's treasures Its noblest,
best
And love will outweigh all tho rest!"
And through tho eusemeut tho moonlight
cold
Streams on two honds one gray, one gold.
H'aWiiMUtim Post.
THE VICTIM OF A VIRTUE.
1 am ono of those persons, envied for
three months in tho your and pitied for
nine, who "livo a 'littlo way" out of
London. In tho summer our residonco
is a charming ono; tho garden especial
ly is delightful untl attracts troops of
London friends. They are not only al
ways willing to dine with us, but drop
in of their own motion and stay for tho
last train to town. Tho vuguo obser
vation "any line day," oi tho more
evasive phrase "some lino day," used
in complimentary invitations, arc then
very dangerous lor us to employ, for
wo arc taken at our word, just as
though wo meant it. Tins would bo
verv gratifying, however expensive, if
it only happened all tho year round.
Hut Irom October to Juno nobody cotnos
near us.
In reply to our modest invitations wo
thou receive such expressions of tender
regret as would convince tho most
sceptical: "a previous engagement,"
"indisposition of our youngest born,"
"the horses ill," some catastrophe or
other, always provontsour friends from
enjoying another evening with us "like
that charming ono thoy spent last
July," They hope, howover, to be
given tho same happy chanco again,
" when tho weather is a littlo less in
clement," by which thoy moan next
summer. As for coming to dine with
us in winter, thoy will seo us further
first- by which t'hov mean noaror first.
Sometimes at thoir own boards wo
hear this stated, though of couiso with
out any intentional application. Some
guests will observe to us, a propot of
dinners: "It is most extraordinary how
people who livo half a dozen miles out
of town will attempt to ignore tho sea
sons ami expect you to go and dine with
them just jus if it was August, through
four feet of snow. It does really socm
as Jones, our oxcollent host, was say
ing tho other day tho very height of
personal concoit."
As wo have occupied our present res
idence for soiiio years, wo have long
had the concoit t:iken out of us; but we
have still our footings. Our soeijil toes
:iro not absolutely frost-bitten, and
when thus trodden upon wo tiro aware
of tho circumstances. It grieves us to
know wliat Jones has thought (and
said) of us, and my wife drops a quiet
te:ir or two duringour drive homo in
tho brougham. I am bound to confess
it is rather a long ride. 1 find myself
dropping asleep before wo have left
brick and mortar behind us, and as wo
cross the great common near our homo
I teel a considcrtiblo change in tho tem
perature. It is a beautiful breezy spot,
with a lovely view in summer time; tho
playground of tho buttorUy and tho
placo of business of Uhhico; but in win
ter it is cold and lonely enough.
In tho daytime tlioro is nobody there
at all. In tho evening, :it uncertain in
tervals, thoro is tho patrol. In old
times it used to bo a favorito haunt of
tho Knights of tho Road; during whoso
epoch, by thoby.lshouldfanoy thatthoso
who lived in tho localit' found it even
more dilllcult to collect thoir friends
around them than now. It has still a
bad name for tramps and vagabonds,
which makes my wife a littlo nervous
when the days begin to "draw in" and
our visitors to draw oil'. Sho insists
upon my going over tho house bofovo
retiring to rest every night and making
a report of "All's well.' Reing myself
not much over live feet high in my
boots, and considerably loss in my slip
pors (in which 1 am wont to make thoso
perogrinations), it has often suggested
itsolf to my mind that it would bo more
judicious to loavo tho burglars to do
thoir worst, as regards tho plate and
thing3, and not risk what is (to moi
much more valuable. Of courso I could
"hold tho lives of half a dozen men in
my hand" si quotation from my favor
ito author by merely arming myself
with a loaded revolver; but tho simple
fact U, I am so unskilled in the use of
any weapon (unless the umbtella can
be called such), that 1 should be just
as likely to begin with shooting number
one (that is mvself), as number two,
tlio "first rulllau." "Never, willingly,
my dear," say 1 to Julia, "will L sited
the life-blood of any human being, and
least of all my own." On tho other
hand, tis I believe in the force of imagi
nation, 1 jilways carry on thoso expedi
tions, in tho pocket" of my dressing
gown, a child's pistol belonging to our
infant, Edward John which looks like
a real ono, and would, I am porsuad
ed, have all tlio cU'ects of a real ono in
my hands without tho element of per
sonal peril. "Miserable ru linns," 1
had niado up my mind to say, when
coming upon tho gang, "your lives are
in my power" (hero loxfiibit tho pis
tol's butt), "but out of perhaps n;nis
taken clemency 1 will only shoot ono of
you, tho ouo that is tho last to leave my
house. 1 shall count six" (or sixteen,
according to the number of tho gang),
"and then lire " Upon which thoy
would. I calculated, all skodaddlo hoi-tor-poltor
to tho door thoy got in at,
which I should lock and double-lock
after thorn. You may ask, Why double
lock? but you will got no satisfactory
roply. 1 know no moro what to
"double-lock" means than you do, but
my favorite novelist a sensational ono
always uses it, and I conclude ho
ought to know. It was tho beginning
of a misty October, when tho leaves hud
fallen oil' early, and our friends had fol
lowed thoir example, and I had boon
sitting up alone into tho small hours
resolute to read my favorite author to
tho bitter end his third volume, where
in all the chief characters (exeopt tho
comic ones) aro .slain, save ouo, who is
left sound in wind and limb, but with
an hereditary disposition to commit su
icide. Somewhat dooressotl by its po
rusiil and exceedingly sleepy, I went
about my usual task of seeing all wjis
right in a somewhat careless and per
functory manner. All was right appa
rently in tho drawing-room, all right
certainly in the study (where I had my
self been sitting), and fill right no,
not quite all right in our littlo back hall
or vestibule, where, upon tho round
table, tin very largest and thickest pair
of navvy's boots I over saw wore stand
ing between my wife's neat littlo um
brella and a pair of her gardening
gloves. Even m that awful moment I
rcmoniber tlio senso of contrast sind in
congruity struck mo almost as forcibly
Jistho presence of the boots themselves,
and thoy astonished and alarmed mo as
much jus tho sight of the famous foot
prints did Robinson Crusoe, and for
precisely tho same reason. Tho boot
and the print were nothing in them
selves, but my intelligence, now fully
iiwakened, at once How to the conclu
sion that somebody must have been
there to have loft them, and was proba
bly in the neighborhood, and indeed
under my root, :it that very moment.
If you give l'rof. Owen a foot of any
creature (just as of less scientific per
sons we siiy: (Jive them an inch, they
will take an ell), he will build up tho
whole animal out of his own head; and
something of tho Professor's marvollous
instinct was on this occasion mine. 1
pictured to myself (and as it turned out,
correctly) a monster moro than six feet
high, broad in tlio shoulders, heavy in
tho jowl, witli legs like stone balus
trades, and hands, but too often
clenched, of tho size of pumpkins. Tho
vestibule led into tho pantry, where no
doubt this giant, with his ono idea, or
half a ono, would conclude tho chief
part of our plate to bo, whereas it was
lying unloss he had already takon it;
a terrible thought that Hashed through
my mind, followed by a cluster of oth
ers, like a comet with its tail under
our bed.
Of course I could have gono to tho
pantry at once, but I felt averse to bo
precipitato; perhaps (upon finding
nothing to steal) this poor wretch
would lool remorse for what ho had
done and go away. It would bo a
wicked thing to doprivo him of tho op
portunity of repentance. Moreover,
it struck mo that lie might not bo a
theif after all, but only a cousin (con
siderably "removed") of ono of tho
maid servants. It would have been
very wrong of hor to lot him into the
house at such an hour, but it was just
possible that she had done so, and that
lio was at that moment supping in tho
kitclien upon certain cold grouse which
1 knew woro in tho larder. Such a
stato of things. I repeat, would have been
roprohonsiblo, but 1 mostsincerlv hoped
that it had oecurod. A clandestine at
tachment, howover misplaced, is better
than burglary with possible violonco.
Coughing rather loudly, to givo tiio
gentlonian notice that I was about, and
to suggest that ho had bettor tako him
self on in my temporary absence, 1
went up to tho attics to mako inquiries.
And here I am tempted to a digres
sion concerning tho oxcessivo somno
lency of fomalo domestics. As regards
our own, at least, thoy remind me, ex
cept in number, of tho Seven Sleepers.
1 knocked at (heir door about a quar
ter of an hour before attracting their at
tention, and it took mo another to con
vince them (through tho ko hole) that
it was not liro. If it had boon, thoy
must all havo been burnt in their beds.
Kolioed on this point, thoy woro
scarcely less oxeitcd and "put out" by
tho communication I was compelled to
mako to them, though convoyed with
tho utmost delicacy and rofinomout of
which language is capable. 1 asked
thorn whether by aculent ono of them
chanced to have a male relative who
woro exceptionally thick highlows; and
if lie was likely to havo called recently
that very evening, for example.
Thoy all ropliod in indignant chorus
that thoy had never hoard of such a
thing by which thoy meant tho sug
gestion; and that no cousin of theirs
over did wear highlows, being all
females without exception.
Satisfied as to this (and groat ly dis
appointed), 1 felt that it was now in
cumbent upon mo to pursue my re
searches. Candle in hand and pistol in
pocket, 1 thoroforo explore tho pantry.
To my groat relief, it was empty. Was
it possiblo that the thief had departed P
If so, he had gono without his highlows,
for there thoy stood on tho vestibule
table as largo as lifo, and, from tho ne
cessity of tlio case, a size or two lamer.
Their build and bulk, indeed impressed
mo moro than over. Was it possible
that only ono burglar had come in thoso
boots?
I entered the kitchen- not a mouse
was stirring; on tho other hand, thoro
was a logtou of black booties, who
scuttled away In all directions oxcopt
one. Thoy 'avoided the dresser be
noath which lay tho gentleman I was
looking for, curled up in a space much
too small for him, but allectiug to bo
asleep. Indeed, though previously I
had not even hoard linn breathe, no
sooner did the light from my candle
fall upon him than he began to snore
stentoriously. I folt at onco that this
was to givo mo tho idea of tlio slumber
that follows honost toil. I knew bo
fore ho spoko that ho was going to toll
mo how, tired and exhausted, ho had
taken shelter under my roof, with no
other object (however suspicious might
bo tho circumstances of his position')
than a night's rest, of which he stood
in urgent need.
"Don't shoot, sir," ho said, fori
took care to lot tho handle of Edward
John's pistol protrude fiotn my dressing-gown,
"lam poor, but honest; I
only camo in hero for tho warmth and
to havo a snooze."
"How did you get in?" I inquired,
sternly.
"I just prized up tlio wash' us'
winder," was his plaintive roply, "and
laid down 'ore."
"Thou you put out your boots in tlio
back hall to bo cleaned in tho morning,
1 suppose?"
At tilts ho grinnod a dreadful grin.
It seemed to say: "As you have the
whip-hand of mo, you may bo as humor
ous as you please; but if' it was not for
that pistol, my fine friend, you would
be laughing on the other sido of your
mouth, I reckon."
"Come, march," said I. "Put ou
your boots."
Ho got up as a wild boast rises from
his lair, and slouched before mo Into
tho hall.
Though ho looked exceedingly
wicked, 1 folt gratoful to him for going
so peaceably, and was moved to com
passion. "Woro vou really in want, that you
came here?" 1 said. "Aro you hun
gry?" "Not now," ho answered, with a
leer.
Ofcoui'ieho was intimating that ho
had supped at my oxpeuso, and at. tho
time I thought it frank of him to ac
knowledge it. If I had known then, as
I learnt afterward, that he had eaten a
grouse and a half, and tho whole con
tents of a large jar of Devonshire cream
winch we had just received as a pres
ent, I should havo thought (more im
pudence. I did think 'it rather impu
dent when ho said, as ho stood at the
front door, which I had opened for his
exit:
"Won't you givo mo hnlf-a-orown,
sir, to put mo in an honest way of busi
ness?" Hut, nevertheless, thinking it
bettor to part good friends, I gave him
what ho askod for. lie spit upon tho
coin "lor luck." as ho was good enough
to explain, "all 01 i.lso, perhaps, as a stib
stituto for thanks", since he omitted to
give mo any, and slouched down tho
gravel sweep and out of tlio gate.
It was three o'clock; tho mist had
began to (dear, and tho moon and stars
woro shining. A sort of holy calm bo
gan to pervade mc. 1 felt that l-!ud
done a good action and also got rid of It,
very dangerous individual, and that it
was high time that I should go to bed
in poaco with all men. My wife, how
over, who had been roused by tlio serv
ants, was on the tip-too of expectation
to hoar all that had taken place, and of
course 1 had to toll her all. 1 described
each thrilling incident with such dra
matic force that she averred thatnolhing
would over induce her in my absence
to sloop in the house again. This was
perhaps but tlio just punishment for a
trifle of exaggeration in tlio narrative
with which 1 had hero and thoro in
dulged myself, but it was very unfor
tunate Now and then I lind myself
detained in town, after dining at the
club, by circumstances over which I
havo no control (such as a rubber at
whist, which sometimes strotcli like In
dia rubber), and hitherto 1 had only to
telegraph in tlio afternoon to express
my regret that thero was a possibility
of my non-return. I lore was an end to
all this, unloss I could reassure hor. I
therefore began to dwell upon tho un
likelihood of a second burglar over visit
ing tho house, which I compared with
thut famous hole mado by a cannon
ball, said to lie a placo of security from
cannon-balls for evermore.
"Oh, don't toll mo," cried my wife,
with just a truce of impatient irritation
in her voice. "Hark!" goodness gra
cious, what is that coming along tlio
road!"
Sho thought it was a burglar on
horsobaek, whereas, if I may sd'oxpross
it, it was the very contrary" the horso
patrol. "Knock at the window; call him in.
I insist upon your seeing him," sho ex
claimod. I had no alternative, since
she said "insist" (as any married man
will understand), but to accodo to her
wishes; so I wontout and told tho patrol
what had happened.
" How long ago was tho follow hore,
sir?" ho inquired.
"Moro than an hour. It is quite out
of tho question you can overtake him.
And beside, 1 really think he is repent
ant, and moans for tho future to load
an honest lifo."
" You do, do you?" said tlio patrol,
in that sort of compassionate tone of
voico in which the visitor of a lunatic
asylum addresses an inmate warranted
harmless. "Well, as I am hero, I'll
just go over tho house and mako sure
thoro is no moro of them. It is not im
possible, you seo, ho may havo lolt u
pal behind him."
"Thoro was only ouo pair of hoots,"
said I confidently; "of that I am cer
tain." Nevertheless, as 1 folt It would bo a
satisfaction to my wife, I acceded to his
request. Ho tied his horse to tho
sorapor, and came in with his lantern,
and looked about him. Thero was no
body in tlio front hall, of couiso, for I
had just come through it; in tho drawing-room
nobody, in tho vestibule nobody-
but on the table where thoy had
stood before stood a pair of gigantic
navvy's boots.
" What d'ye think of that?" whispor
ed the patrol, pointing to one of them.
"They're tho same, I answered in
hushed ama.omout, "they're tho very
same. I could swear to tliom among a
thousand. What can it mean P"
"Well, it moans that tho gentleman
who was going to load a now lifo," ho
answered dryly, "lias thought bottot
of it and has come back again."
And so lie had. Wo found him lying
in tlio very same place under tho
dresser, awaiting, I suppose, events.
"0 1or is that you, Mr. Police
man?" ho said, complniuingly. "Then
it's all up."
If lie had had to deal witli mo alouo,
ho expected, perhaps, to have got an
other half-crown out of mo. Hut tho
groat probability was, ho had doubt
loss argued, that all suspicion of bur
glars, for that night at least, would
have diml out, and tlut ho would havo
had undisputed range of the house. It
was a bold game, but ono in which all
tho chances scorned to bo on Ids sido.
1 helped to fasten a strong strap to
his wrist, which was already attached
to that of the horse patrol's. "And
now," said tlio latter, coolly, "wo will
go and put on our boots."
For tho second time that night 1 saw
that operation accomplished by my
burglar; for the second time saw him
walk oil', though on this occasion a
captive to his mounted companion. I
did not wish, as tho judges say when
thoy put on tho black cap, to add
poignancy to the feelings of this un
happy man (ho was on tiekot-of-leavo,
and presently got live years' penal ser
vitude), but 1 could not help saying:
"1 think you ought to have been
content witli your supper and half
crown, and not como here again, at all
events, in search of plunder.
This aivHimunt had no sort of weight.
l o --,"-
with him, gratitude was unknown to
J that savage breast. Like many more
" civilized individuals, lie attributed hi
I misfortunes to his own virtue.
" No, sir, it ain't that," lie answered,
scornfully. "I'm the wictim of Perse
verance." llclyrama.
Eating Too Much.
Ton poisons dio prematurely of too
much food where ono dies of too much
drink. Thousands oat themselves into
fovor, bowel diseases, dyspopsial throat
affections, and other maladies.
Some years ago, tho residents of a
(Sormun city were ono morning wild
with excitement. Everybody was poi
soned. Tho doctors were Hying in ev
ery direction. Water was tlio only
thing thov had swallowed in common.
The reservoir was examined. In ono
corner a paper of poison was found.
The stomach is the reservoir which
supplies the whole body. A fovor, an
iiiiiammatiou or some other malady appear.-!.
There you will lind tho source
of tho disease.
1 am acquainted with the table hab
its of a largo nuinbor of persons. Thoy
havo all eaten too much food. Nearly
all, too much m quantity, but all have
eaten food too highly concentrated.
Yesterday I saw a dyspoptio friend eat
ing pears at a fruit stand. Ho said
with a smilo "1 go a few Hartlotts
half a doon times a day." Certain
diototio reformers soom to tiling if they
eat coarse broad and ripo fruits, a peek
is all right. Pino Hour bread, pies and
cakos arc great ovils.
A friend who has decayed teeth, dys
pepsia, and a disagreeable eruption,
all produced by excessive eating of ini
proper food, declared in responso to
my remonstrance, " Hut I never eat
more than I want." Every person
wants tho quantity lie has boon in the
habit of eating. If ho could digest
well two pounds a day but oat lour
pounds, ho wuitln the latter quantity.
A man may want a glass of spirits on
rising. Ho is in tholinbit of drinking
at that time.
The body is strengthened by what it
can digest and assimilate. Every ounce
moro than this is mischievous. Tho
man who oats just enough, suH'ors lit
tlo from hunger.
Pardon a word of my own experi
ence. Ihirhur tmniv vimvu .f m-w.tinn I
- H 'J .7VM...J W. ,(l.VSV.U
at my profession, I had but littlo mus
cular oxoroi.se. I ato enormously. An
hour's postponement of mv dinner was
painful. Now 1 can omit a dinner al
together without inconvenience I
have lost twenty pounds in weight but
fool a groat deal younger. (Moro than
half tho thin people would gain flesh by
eating less. ) I have only ono diototio
rule from which I never depart, this
rulo, kind reader, I commend to you.
Always take on your plate, before ijoii
bcytn, everything ioit are to cut. Thus
you avoid the dessert, and aro pretty
Hiiro not to oat too much. This simplo
rulo has boon worth thousands to mo.
Yes, I think thero aro persons who
cat to littlo; but where thero is one
such, thero aro hundreds who oat too
much. Dr. Dio Lewis, in Golden Utile.
PACTS AND FIGURES.
--Now York City Inflicts the country
with 6(1,000 drummers or commercial
travolors, Hostou sends out 20,000 and
Philadelphia 16,000.
Largo bods of carboniferous iron,
Dr. M. S. Mounior contends, aro
contained in tho interior of the oarth,
and these doposits at high tompora
turos coming in contact with wntor
yield hydrocarbons, which, upon suL
sequentcombustiou, send up exhalations
of carbonic acid from tho earth. This
is his method of indicating the source
of that acid in tho atmosphere.
Tlio Iron Aye says: Tho cotton
seed oil mills that are rapidly being put
in operation in tlio South are creating
no lltt o stir and discussion as to thoir
oll'oot upon tho agricultural interests ol
tho country. Tins is a comparatively
now industry, and wo already find that
no loss than 120,000 tons of oil cake, or
cottonseed meal, has but recently been
shipped abroad, not counting the sup
ply soltl and consumed in non-cotton-producing
sections of our own country.
The newly-established postal-card
factory at Castloton, in Rensselaer
County, N. Y., otuplovs about 1110 men
and women, who assisted by tho machinery,-dispose
of 18,000 pounds ol
paper and manufacture .'1,260,000 postals
every twenty-four hours. Tlio contract
calls for 2000,000,000 cards in four
years, ami was awarded tho Fort Or
ange Paper Company. To manufacture
tho requisite pasteboards, 12,600,000
pounds of paper will bo used. Tho mill
runs day and night. Tho papor-nin-oliino,
which is the largest and most
complete in the United States, has
proved its capability by turning out a
web of over twelve miles in length with
out a break.
It is not genorally known that the
(iovorumoul has already appropriated
$226,000 for tho construction of so vou
reservoirs covering 1,100 square miles
and to hold ton Joot of water on tho
average, at the headwaters of the Mis
sissippi. Ouo result of this inland son
will no to soouro navigation seven
months in the year in a vast area (iOO
miles long; the only breaks in which
will bo at St. Anthony, Pokogama and
Littlo Palls. Tho wator will bo stored
by tlio proposed dams from November
to April, and then gradually lot out. It
will greatly help to float lumber. In
undations will bo prevented. The cost
of ninintonniico will bo 87,600 per year.
Tho Chippewa Reservation will bosomo
what interfered with, and several vill
ages will bo destroyed and paid for.
WIT AM) WISDOM.
A bad fix Repairing a broken
window with an old hat. Detroit Free
lYess.
Tho man who toes the mark The
old man who reaches out for Jane
Ann's toiler at two o'clock ixl in. New
Jersey Enterprise.
In roply to the question: "Will the
coming man bo bald?" tho Norristowu
Jleralu iillirnis that "ho genorally is
when ho first comes."
Rebecca Yes, blind men may bo
perfectly sano, although you do believe
In tho saying: "Out of sight out of
mind." i'onlcrrs Statesman.
Fogg says that his friend Pingroy
is so slow that ho never catches cold,
and couldn't got within hailing distance
of tho slowest of slow fevers. lloiton
Transcript.
A musical young friend of ours,
wishing to bespeak his mistress' atten
tion to the suppliant posture lie had
takon up at hor foot, sang with thrill
ing oll'eet this, his earliest exorcise:
"Dora, mo for solace seo do." Fun.
Tlioro is no season of tho year when
tho press is not looking out for the. safe
ty and welfare of some class of citizens.
Just now red-hoadod moil aro warned
not to climb trees as thoro is a great
deal of squirrel shooting going on, and
mistakes are apt to occur. Texai Sift
inys. - Hill Arp suggests a Ceorgla Col
onel's day at tho Imposition. William
should bear in mind that Atlanta has
mado no arrangements to entertain ev
ery male citizen in the Stale at one
time Hut if thoy will come in squads
of ton or seventy-live thousand thoy
can bo accommodated. Atlanta Con
stitution. Tlio lliuijo Jlccoiiiiiig Fasliioniiblo.
Thoro is good reason for believing that
tlio heretofore despised banjo is to bo
elovatod to tho lirst rank as a musical in
strument. Some one has discovered
thai it is of very ancient origin, and of
course that is very much in its favor, as
many persons delight in anything that
is associated with antiquity. A rolio
huntor in Egypt found, or says that lie
found, in tho "tomb of a royal family, in
ono ol tho oldest pyramids, a banjo of
tho exact form of those played by
plantation darkies. In his opinion tlio
ancient Pharaohs delighted in tlio sweet,
sounds produced by the banjo, which
constituted the favorito music of tho
country which has been called tlio
cradle of civilization. It is'oasy to ac
count for tlio introduction of tho banjo
into this country. It was brought by
tho negroes from Egypt by the way of
Ethiopia. Many poople will now ad
mire tho banjo who dospisod it whou it
was thought to bo tho invention of somo
negro barbarian. Indeed, it is stated
that many aristocratic poople, as well
as many accomplished musicians, havo
long been pleased with tho banjo, and
that tho lattor have played it "on the
sly." Lord Dunravon,' of Kngland, is
said to bo an accomplished banjo-plaj-tsr.
Thalberg, tho groat pianist; Miss
Nilsson and Clara Louise Kollogg, tho
opera singers, aro also enthusiastic
lovers of tlio ancient Egyptian instru
ment. A London musical instrument
maker states that ho cannot supplv tho
demand for the fashionable rival of the
piano. -ChUayo Times.
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