n tiii: niii.i:.
'All, foirrt '" mM I Tin' mm ilMijtil lm.
Anil mini Hip rt wllh tumlng m ln lor.
Ami HiiRrrnl If loth to K"(
lllrnMng the lilllo llh Mm t'wler
Toofwrrl Mm , Flimrr Ilium their tii U
M If to ili) llir mulilrn honor ;
Ihr llttlo lolrl from tlirlr lil
With tlmlil hllir rjr tfiittil upon her
Po fntr, with 5n rthrrnil Krsrr,
With ryrnllkostiirsiil mlilliltfht liunlng,
Tlir prrfrrt Iti-Mily of hiT fnrr
Il1 lit til my hi'urt wllh prrt ymrii'nB
I lotpil hrr, J el I ilarril not tell,
Ad hy tin" tllc wr ulixnl, licUliil i
Jlrr words would nuke my hciwi-n or In II
What woihIit that I loii(jr.l met unlit d'
Our Utile Mnr iwrrs'il from the iM,
Ami wliiknl at tin with If uirc wilnMi'il,
Ac If to my, "Niv I Mm tlir id) I"
Arnt l m) hi'fltHtlon twinkled.
Bhn Icnni'il to mi- nern llni Mile
How ronlil the lnnrt of nun rerlM Int
iiuinl n ii' r J llllli' while,
Anil then I rmti'il all. mill IiImiiI hrr'
MINN ASIIIIKII,.
Consternation was depleted mi the
fi.ecs of llio fmulyginup usctnbli d to
lll'tir it. WllOU I 'HiiIhIiCiI lending till!
letter I liml just leeelved frntii until
The group consisted nf myself
M:iry. eldest daughter of tho 1 1 1 1 1 h iuhI
lieurth brown, dark-eyed, lull, ami
eighteen ; Helen, not quite a Iiiovmi,
linol-cycil, almost uh lull, mill sixteen;
Will, browner, darker-eyed, a head
shorter, nml ten ; mnl Carroll, toweling
above iih nil, blno-eycd, fulr-hulrcil,
gnlil-mustitchcil, nml twenty. one.
Aunt wan, in fuel, our great mini,
winter of our fnllier1H niollier. lint tint
only mint, great or Utile. Unit vmi had
over known. Wo Imil uiel her lint two
or three limes iltirlugour lives, as she
llveil in far-away Illinois, nml was too
much oeeupleil with grains ami lienls
to think of freiiiiMt visiting, ami wo -well,
wo wore too poorly pioviileil with
gold ami silver to hit able to take long
and expensive journeys. So what little
visiting there hail lieen hail lieen on
aunt's slile, with one exception, anil
then I was the visitor. It was when I
was about llfteen this shoit hut ineino
ralile visit took place. Yielding to
aunt's repeated solicitations I was her
nainesake- I started from home with
thn Intention of spending Hie summer
months on the Illinois farm. I aniveil
there safely, was welcomed heartily,
and was entertained rigid my nil); hut
before a week had passed away I had
thrown so tired of the twining hound
lossnoss of everything, ami longed so
for the little cottage nml Lilliputian
garden where grow my tlirenroso bush
es ouo red. one while, ami one a
creamy yellow that aunt, seeing the
longing in my eyes, said. "Child, you
'intiHt go back,"' nml hack I came long
oeforo 1 was expected, hut my dour
father and mother assuicd mo not a
moment too soon.
Wo children had always heard twice
nynar from mint -onco collectively at
Christmas, mnl once resprctivolv on
our lirthilays--and oaoh lime the kind
ly noto which exhorted us to "lit! good,
luiltiHtrious, and self-reliant," inclosed
a check larger or smaller according to
aunt'ii gains of the preccillng your.
Those notes wo had hcen taught to an
swer willi many wishes for the old
aily's wolfme, and thanks for her kind
nesses, ami hopes for a speedy meeting;
in short, in a manner Imlitting the only
nieces nml nopliuws of the Cnrtnndy
family when replying to the friendly
epistles of their only aunt, to say no
thing of that aunt being the wonl'lhlcst
nml most inllucntial member of that
family.
A fow days beforo our father died liu
called us together, and said, "My chil
dren, it isin at all likely to occur, but
if your aunt fhoultl ask a favor of von,
grant it at no matter what iuconvoui
euro. She has been my best ami dear
est friend. "
Poor father! I suspect aunt had often
helped him out of pecuniary olroum
.stances. Ho was an unprnotiofil, dreamy
.sort of a man, fond of birds, poetry anil
flowers, ami didn't succeed very well in
life. Hut, in spito of his dreaminess
and his want of worldly tact, and his
being so totally unliko hor in most
ways, ho was. a great favorite of aunts,
and when wo telegraphed his serious
illness to her she left her vast posses
sions without a captain at a moment's
notice, and hastened to his side, mak
ing hor appearance in a bonnet that
Immediately suggested the prairies, it
was so unlimited as to size and so bare
of ornament, and whieh grotesquely
obtruded itself into tho reineinbrauce o'f
that sad timo forover after.
Since father's death things hadn't
been very bright with us. In fact, not
bright at all.
We found there was a good deal of
mutiny owing, and what remained of
the 9'MO aunt gave us on thu day of tho
funeral she bado u.s good-by the in
stant tho ceremonies were over after
our very cheap mourning was paid for,
went to the Luteher, grocer and shoe
maker. We were all willing to do, and did,
whntover wo oould toward supporting
tho household: but. dear! iinr! ilC
about weeds! I never saw anything
grow like bills. "
Carroll, who had an arlstoemtti turn
of niim!, struggled with it, mid I, who
hiulttdress-niakingturnof mind, strug
gled with that, and Helen struggled
with hor books, hoping to hcooino a
teacher hi time, and llttlo Will strug
gled with somebody else's books, for ho
went into u publishing house as errand
boy poor fellow.
Besides tho struggles, wo had mother
on our minds. A fow weeks after we
lost our father wo lost our baby sister.
A beautiful child she was, as briijht as
ft diamond and as fair as a pearl, and
tho prldo and darling of us all. Already
sinking beneath tho blow of hor hus
band's death, when hor little daughter
died too, my mother's heart was nearly
broken. From being asunshinv, oner
gotle, busy woman, sho became listless
and apathotlc, sitting in her room day
after day gazing upon tho pictures of
tho loved ones, or rocking back and
forth, hor hands clasped beforo her,
looking with dry oyes itpon vacancy.
"O that sho could ini niiMo to weep!
that she could bo roused from this
dreadful, spcochloss gloom, Into which
sho has fallen!" was our continual pray
er, for the teirible thought camo to u
often that we should oe our inollici in
a much Hiirin' wn) than wit had our
lather mid l"ler that her brain Mould
at Inst give wnv beneath its weight of
henty, despairing thoughts.
Well, the exchequer wnw low enough,
and mother had had one of her very
bad spells; ami a lady customer had
just been In ami abused me yes, abus
ed; I ran us, nootlier word; women do
lly in such tempers at their dies mak
ers about the lit of her dress, declar
ing It to be "utterly ruined" when It
only wanted taking up a little on one
shoulder ami letting down mi Inch or so
in front; ami Will's right arm was al
most disabled from a heavy load of
books hu had carried a long distance
the day hefoio (how men can hr.e the
heart to give a man's biinleu to a child
I can't see) when mint's letter fell like
a liomb-sliell into our neatly disheart
ened little camp.
Dr.Ait I'ui, lis A fiiend of mine an
liigllshman" (mini's Im guage was cor
rect enough, hut at times her spelling
was somewltat peculiar) "who came
hero pin posingtostml In business, 'ook
the fever, llugitied a few months, nml
died, leaving, lleaxeu knows why, his
onl child, a daughter who will event
ually he a nol-to-he-sulHeil-at all ess, to
mv cme. Having been delicately rear
ci( In the midst of devotion and tender
uess, this place, onlv suited to bold,
sttoug untitles, Is ik little too lull' for
her. So she desires at least I ileite
for her a home in the North, ami I
wish that home to he with you,
"My niece Mary, who 'inherits the
disposition of her father to a great de
gree ami he would have gone out of
Ids way any day to give even a dumb
In uto pleasure will, I am sure, be kind
to her. Canol will love her for her
beauty, If for nothing else, ami the rest
of you will love her because she is most
lovable. Her maid will accompany her.
"At present her ull'airs are in a tan
gle, but I bono to unravel I hem in the
course of a few mouths, ami then you
will he rceoiu"enicil for whatever extra
expense sho may cmisn you. I
would Inclose a check at present wil
ling, hut all my funds are invested in a
speculation from which I expect to reap
much prolit. Do the best you can un
til you hear from me again, when will
farther unfold my plans In regard to
Miss Ashbell, who, by-tho-by, starts to
morrow. ' Ar.Nr."
No wonder consternation ami dismay
were depleted on every countenance
when I ceased reading this letter. No
wonder we looked gaspingly at each
other. What in the world were we in
fdo with this line votmir lady in our
humble home?
What could aunt be thinking about?
True, wo didn't know exactly now poor
we were, for we'd been too proud to
acknowledge our extreme poverty in
our few ami far-between letters.' On
tho contrary, 1 am afraid we had led
her to believe that we were in unite a
nourishing condition. Hut for all that,
she oug it to have known that we were
not nourishing enough to support uilol
leate ami hcautitul girl, used to luxury,
tenderness, and devotion, for even "a
few months. Was ever anything so
malapropos and vexatious? Of course
Miss Ashbell would look with scorn on
oiirseven-rooiueil dwelling, with a back
garden tweuly-live by twenty-live, and
a court-yard ten bv lei,. And suppose
as aunt, with a short-sightedness very
unusual to her. comiilaccntly reinarkeil
- Carrol .Itoiihl fall in love with her?
The proud Kugllsh girl would no doubt
regard him as a fortune hunter, ami
invidiously compare hK frank, impul
sive, rather brusipm manners with the
repose ami "awful" dignity of the lan
guid swells of her own hind.
And somebody else might bo attract
ed toward her men are so susceptible
to woman's beauty somebody who now
thought mv face the sweetest in I lie
worlri. The very thought made my
heart stop heating.
And tho maid? Kven if wo can make
arrangements to ticcoiumoilale her-
ami it seemed utterly impossible for us
to do so- Hetty, our'falthful servant for
the last llfteen years, would look upon
her in tho light of an Interloper, and
treat her as such. Hetty had been used
to being "monarch of all she survey oil."
Kven in house-el aning times theses
times that try men's souls and women's
solesshe scorned tho idea of an as
sistant. "No, ma'am, I'll have no strangers
pokin' roun' inc. When I'm not able
to do the work of this house alone, I'll
And mother dear, shrinking, grief
stricken mother -how would sue bear
the advent of this dainty Miss Ashbell?
Hut we could do nothing to inert the
impending misfortune. Kven if we had
thought of disobeying our father's last
command, ami refusing aunt the favor
sho had not asked, but, in her usual de
cisive way, taken for granted, the young
lady was on her way, and wtuild be
hero in a day or two.
The nows'must bo immediately brok
en to mother and Hetty. I, being the
housukeeper. umlertoo'k to face the lat
ter. 1 will confess I did it with fear and
trembling. Sho heard me grimly, never
ceasing to pear tho potatoes she held in
her lap, and when 1 had ended, looked
up with a sharp nod of thu huad, and
said, slowly and emphatically, "Hetty'll
have to go now, sure. Sho can't stand
no line young ladies and sassy young
ladies-maids about for nothing'."'
Helen wentto mother, put tier arms
about her neck, and with a kiss and a
smile told her of tho expected visitor,
adding, with an assumption of gayety:
"Sho shan't come near you at all, mam
ma dear, If you don't want her; but yon
know aunt has been so kind to us, and
father loved her so dearly, it would bo
Impossible to refuse the first favor sho
over asked of us.
Mother said never a word, but began
brushing the hair from hor temples
with both hands in a nervous way she
hud when anything grieved or annoved
hor.
And then wo began preparing for
im Aui.iw.n wiii'u -,..;. ....... v i...
Miss Ashbell. Will's room was to bo
given up to her, and Will (Carrol's
room was scarcely large enough for
himself and his art traps, as he called
them) was to bo stowed away in tho
loft a proceeding which ho' viewed
with immense dissatisfaction. "I'll
smother up there in hot weather," he
said, with a wry face. "Oh. I wish
thorc wasn't any Miss Ashbell!
don't sho go to a hotel?" ,
Whv
Vh don't she" echoed I.
I sniil we began to prepare for her,
hut for lack of the befori-meutloneil
siltcr nml gold, our preparations were
of (lie simplest kind. Carrol made and
put up tw prctli brackets, and hung,
with a sigh for he hated to pirt with
them the few pictures he possessed on
the walls. I looped back the whlteeur
tains (freshly washed mnl ironrd, with
much grumbling, by Hetty) with new
blue rlbluns, and I covered the trunk
ottoman with bright elilnl., ami Milh
Helen's help made a new mat to place
before the btiicmi, ami we turned an
old table cloth into napkins, and
bought a new napkin-ring ami two or
three cut-glass goblets and a lovely
china cup ami saucer, ami when all wa's
done, waited with anxious hearts for
our unwelcome guest,
Mother had shut herself up in her
room early in the morning of the day
we expected her, mid had lemalneil
there! ami the rest of us were alias till
comfortable as poor, proud, si y, sensi
tive people could be at the thought of a
pefeet stranger's ingress into the very
heart of their home, and wishing audi
lily ami Inai.iliably that Miss Aslihell's
father had never brought her from
Knglaml, when, as the stin sank in the
west, mid a cool summer breee, fra
grant with the breath of the roses, lifted
the cuitalus of our eo.y bay-window, a
card go stopped at our door.
"She's come, ami I'm gone," said
Will, Hinging iIiimii his book and rush-
lug out Into the garden.
Carrol rose liom his chair, ran his
lingers through his golden hair, ami
glanced in the mirror at his new blue
silk neck-tie. Helen sank back on the
lounge with u sort of groau;aml I open
ed the pmlor door as Hetty wi nt mut
tering through the entry in answer to
the bell.
"Is it Mrs, Carnioily's?" asked a
pleasant voice, with yes, it was n silent
lirogue.
"Yes," answered Hetty shortly. And
in another moment a round-checked.
unmistakably red-halreil, good-natured-lookingyouiiggirl
in a plain traveling
dress stood before me.
"flood gracious! Is this the beauty ?"'
thought I, ami Carrol fell back a step
or two.
"Are you Miss Carniody ?" she
asked.
"I am," I replied, holding out my
hand; "mid let me welcome you;''
when, turning from me, she gently pull
ed forward into the room the loveliest
little child I had ever beheld in my life,
with large, soul-lit brown eyes, ami
sunny hair the exact color of "our lost
darling's.
"Tliis is Miss Ashbell," said tlierrniii.
"itinl I am to stay or go back as ou
s It."
I looked at Carrol. He Indulged In a
long umlcr-tho-hrcath whistle.
Helen burled her face in the sofa
cushion mid laughed hysterically.
The child came forward and holding
out her little hand, said, witli a pretty
drawl, "I am to love you, ami you arc
to love me. Aunt said so."
I went on my knees on one side of
her and Helen went down on her knees
on the other, ami we kissed her till her
dimpled cheeks glowed again (yon see
I he house had been so lonely without
our little sis'er), while Carrol looked
on with astonishment, admiration, and
tenderness Mended in his hamlsome
face, ami Will stole In with the only bud
from my precious tea rose, the 'stem
carefully snipped of its thorns, ami
put it in her hand.
"Thank you. boy," she said, "I will
have you for a brother; ami you too."
looking with a blight smile up in Car
rol's face. "There is an angel home,
in a big picture, with hair and eyes
like yours."
Carrol caught her up in his arms,
and away with her to mot tier's room.
And there sho had no sooner said, "Mv
papa mid mamma are both in heaven,"
than mother burst out in a blessed tit
of weeping that left a rainbow behind
t. Ami from that hour the weight be
gan to be lifted from her brain, ami soon
I had to resign my position as house
keeper, for we ha'it our mother back
again as she used to he of old a little
quieter in her ways, perhaps, but just
as sweet, as klud.'as misellish as ever.
And Carrol's picture of "Miss Ash
bell" gained him a place on the walls
of the academy that autumn; and Will
who entered college last week, never
ran away from her again, but has ever
since been giving her roses freed from
thorns, as he did the first night she
came iituotiir us. hrimriiur llirht ami
happiness (Soil bless her! to our sor
row-clouded house.
And I often think, looking at the two
heads (there is only four years differ.
enco in their aires) bem inir over the
same book, that some day Will will tell
her the old, old story, anil she will hear
It with a. smile.
"I shouldn't wonder if j ou were rigid,
Hrownie." says mv husband-how 1
laugh when I think of mv jealous fears
about him once on a tiine! -"you al
most always are."
And aunt's speculation turned out
splendidly (sho is still living, a halu old
woman of seventy-live), and she Insist
ed on our accepting what she called
father's share, and that share was no
inconsiderable one.
And the seven-roomed house has
grown to a twelve-roomed one Hetty,
by-tho-bye, has allowed hor daughter to
assist in tho housework and the
twenty-livo by twenty-tive garden to a
hundred by a hundred, my corner just
tilled with rose bushes.
And everything has prospered with
us, ami no lengthening shadows h-ive
fallen upon our paths, since tho rosy
Juno afternoon wo so unwillingly open
ed tho door to let in tho darling who
loved us, as wo loved her, at lirst sight
sweet brown-eyed, golden-haired,
Miss Ashbell!
(J iris, if you want to encourage young
men, get an album. It's tho ttrst thing
a bashful young man grabs for when he
enters a strange house where there are
girls. We've seen them look through
one until they knew every picture by
heart front page one to (icueral Grant
in the back part, tt's wonderful what
interest a bashful young man will take
In ayoung girl's grandmother and pug
nosed uncle at tho lirst visit, but ft al
ways occurs, liet 'em, girls. It's the
best thine in tho world to ommv a vutinir
fellow's hands, and it's a sure cure for
i bushfulnoss.
tliiniil l'ri-rltj,
In his fourth paper on 'Elements of
National W.iltli." InUnmhuunl It'
to ii for dull ), li.ivu! A Wil's hos
our annual im-omo as n nation to In
;, i.Vj.trfiO Of this income the na
tion els aside as eapit-il for future in
crease not more than .'),uoo.oi), or
ten per cent of the Income I'he pro
cims by which .. r Wells arrives at thi
conclusion Is exciedingly interesting,
instructive and conclu-l vi
lli estimating the rate of wages he
takes, as a basis, tlie elaborate mid care
ful statistical Investigations in Is7.' in
Massachusetts, under the direction of
Hon Carroll S Wright, Chief of the
Mate Hurcau of Labor Statistic lie
says that mules above 1A receive an
average of .Vi1 l.'l per milium, females
above IA, ;U;I I'J per annum. Moth
sexes under IA, Hl! 'A Twelve per
cent of wage-earners obtain additional
incomes in various ways outside of
regular employ tueiit during oil' hours
and oil-days. The average number of
days winked by males was '.Ml liA days,
females, 'JAH 00 per milium.
Of "salnrwceelvcrs," the average
annual earnings were found to he for
males, '1,017 Hi, ami for females.? I'JO.
One of the leading obstacles in the
largest possible annual capital accum
ulation Is the nin of iiiiIkjwiI irutti '
in. i.i, in the use, especially, of atl t'o d
piodticts, lumber, coal, ami other like
material. The destruction of property
by lite in tlie I'tiited States is also
something which llmls no parallel in
the experience of tills countn. The
false ideas extant of the national wealth,
fosleied by the ell'eet of Inllatioti of
prices, etc., produce all manner of un
productive expenditures, induce shirk
ing of physical toll, etc.; under those
ciicuiiistances capital is largely ob
structed, and wastes away as by tin
rot. Ulill, wealth often increases dur
ing haul times, under the stimulus of
economy, forced by the prospect of
want. In his observations on the ef
fect of the trade of politics upon "Na
tional Prosperity," Mr. Wells says,
"apail from the regular working of the
natural laws, there is no one class of
of agencies which so powerfully atlects
the national interests of the people,
which so determines the si.c of their
loaf, the cost of their coal, the price ol
I heir fuel, the purchasing power of their
money, ami the remuneration of their
capital and labor us the policy which
tho government adopts.
"Polities, or the science of govern
ment, in place of being a matter to lie
hurrahed over, or made the subject of
action based ou personal ambition, or
emolument, or a compromised expedi
ency, is in reality a part of the most
serious ami important business of life,
and limls ils most intelligent ami neces
sary expression in seeing that nothing
in tlic nature of obstruction or disturb
ance shall lie artilicially or needlessly
created ivhleh can in any way diminish
the amount of the annual product of
the nation, or impair the equality of
its distribution among the masses.
Transmutation,
Haymouil jLully performed a trans
mutaVum miracle' before Kimr Kdward
1. of ''uglttud. by changing A0.000
pounds ot quicksilver into a cones,
ponding lump of solid gold, mid the
lirst rose nobles were coined out of this
identical l.nlican gold.
The tellers f oig stories arc, as a
rule, equally reckless and ignorant, mid
lack most "of them, at least -the fac
ulty of calculation and the power of
compulation; mid there is, in truth, no
bigger story-teller to be found than his
tory. Fifty thousand pounds of quick
silver forms u respectable mass, not
quite so readily procured in a lump. It
would till something like the space of
titty-eight cubic feet a bulk certainly
rather dillicult to operation in the time
of the lirst Kdward. even by so distin
guished ami accomplished mi adept as
tliegicat l.ully. Hasiug the calcula
tion in the rough upon the respective
specitle gravities of the two metals, the
transmutation would have produced
something likei.',-'"i0(),tH)0of our mono
an enormous sum in the days of l'.ii
ward I. The real truth of the matter
was that the ingenious Kaymoiul, per
fectly aware of one of the most valuable
propel tics of quicksilver, iutle up, in
iiicscuce of the ignorant and credulous
king, and his equally ignorant and
credulous courtiers, a mixture of cop
per, tin, lead, etc., with auro-iiiereurial
amalgam, obtained by dissolving a cer
tain amount ot gold in quicKsiiver, mm
subjected the mixture to a strong heat,
which process would, of course, ulti
mate in the production of just as much
pure gold as the mercury nail Held in
amalgamation.
This was a most simpl.i trick indeed,
but quite suOlcioutly ingenious for the
limited intelligcnce'of tim people of the
dark ages. The king was much as
tounded and deeply chagrined when he
afterwards in vain attempted to imitate
I.ully's "simple process.'' Of course he
omitted to put in tho gold. However,
us l.ully had generously made the ex
periment gratis, no great harm was
done.
What could have been I.ully's motive
In thus selling tho king of Knglaml?
Well, perhaps tho great adept was a
humorist in Ids way, who might have
dearly liked to chuckle in imagination
over poor disappointed l.ungshanks'
long face.
"Wise" Queen Kli.tibeth, and the
wise men of her court were ilone In a
somewhat similar, though certainly a
little more Ingenious fashion, by a trav
eling monk adept, who dipped a knife
and lilo ostentatiously used by him
previously in somo laboratory opera
tions In 'presence of the queen and her
court, into a wonderful tincture, which
miraculously converted the part dipped
into solid gold. The knife was permit
ted to remain in a collection of curios
slties of Queen Elizabeth until the lat
ter half of tho last century, when the
famous mechanician, UetVrov, publicly
exposed tho cheat beforo the French
Academy of Sciences. Tho trick was
performed simply with a kuifo ami li!c,
both consisting of two halves- a steel
one and a gold one deftly soldered to
gether, and coated all over by an Inge
nious process with a thin film of steel,
highly polished, and presenting thus to
t'10 eye a uniform surface of steel. This
film was, of course, easily dissolved by
tho nitilo aeid tincture, leaving the sol
Id gold exposed to view. The trick was
neatly and ingeniously done, and tie-,
in ink w i wi enough to ch.trge noth-1
lug for it. he r'lii"'l. ot cur', iMimt
blank, to e hi secret to Hrr Mtlest)
He resletl content with hallllgsold HT
Majesty, hersi-lf, to whom he pleaded,
In excuse of his refusal, that tranmu
tatni w.is ,u occult nml unholy art,
not tit to 1m toncli.il bv the sacred him!
of a royal virgin of the most Christian
house of Tudor
What object could this monk have
had in nw Ihlllcult to say History
simply hints that he had to prefer to
th- queen certain pleas and supplica
tions in favor of the religious confrater
nity to which lie belonged, ami that he
lesorted to this ingenious device to ills,
pose Her Majesty favorably to his suit.
Ttnult i M'l'imiiir.
An Infant lias Its Arm Itllten MIThj an
Alligator.
Mr I'hilbrick, among many other
living i uriosities, p,,,. esses an alligator
about half grown ami an infant which
Isold enough to crawl ami goalioulthe
yard un.ittemled A s range attain
incut existed between the alligator and
the infant, the former being so docile
that the friends frequently spent hours
dining the day in playing with each
oilier. I'he alligator wuhl amhlccliim
sily to his tank, take a sportive dive,
and returning he would cmluace the
little one, mi to speak, and give uiiiuis
take ible o idem e of delight in receiv
ing tender caresses in return So senile
seemed the fnemlsliip between them
that Mr I'hilbiick never thought of
harm, mid left the playmates to them
selves to pass the tlin'o as suited their
inclination. The friendly relations lnt
not last long, howoer, for Mr. I'hil
brick was startled ahout 10 o'clock on
Wednesday last by agonizing screams
coming from the back vard, ami iiish
iug out he found to his honor that the
alligator had bitten the little fellow's
arm almost entirely oil", the fraction of
limb dangling by a slender bit of cuti
cle. The poor "sutlering little thing
moaned and wept bitterly, and tint alli
gator, seeing the distrcs's lie had clou
ted, crawleilup to his victim ami shed
copious tears of sympathy, hisexpies
siouless countenance giving him the ap
pearance of a .subdued : 1 1 1 1 1 t 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 i i t il
ass. Mr. I'hilbrick seveied the lacer
ated member, diesscd the stub care
fully, ami the animal is now able to
waddle about ou three legs. We have
often heard of "crocodile tears" but un
til Mr. ridlbrick's stateineii' our faith
in their existence could have been easi
ly shaken. Titlluha.iitv Floiubun.
Shimmering After Khmer.
(icueral (Sratit run make an after
dinner speech, but he doesn't like to.
Washington Irvine; could not make one
under any circumstances. It is not ev
ery orator, even who can make a suc
cessful after-diniier speech. It demands
more wit than eloquence, and an adap
tation to those who, being full of tur
tle ami lurhot, would rather lie pleased
than instructed. To listen to one who
knows how to do it is pleasant; but to
hear a wearisome man stammer out
dislocated sentences is painful.
An Kugllsh general at a public din
ner was asked to respond to u toast
complimentary to the ni my. He was a
hero in the field, but s panic-stricken
was lie when standing on his legs at
the dinner table, that he said.
"May it please Your Hoyal Highness,
1 lise the army the Hritish army -whose
valorous "hem, hem, I say the
army '
Here a friend pulled the gallant sol
dier b the coat-taiN ami whispered.
"Thank the gentlemen ami sit down."
The (icueral obeyed. Another dis
tinguished ollicer, on a similar occa
sion, knowing that lie had been chosen
to return thai ks for the army, instead
of dining, made pencil uotis. ' He may
have outlined a good speech, but what
lie said was
"My lords ami gentlemen my lords
ami gentlemen unexpectedly called,"
here he looked at his notes "I say,
unexpectedly called upon" here the
notes dropped under the table - "Kug
land is an island ami ami"- here he
paused for some time "and long may
-.ho remain so."
Ih-ufh ofltobeit Kniinelt's Kxtciitlouer.
A Dublin, Ireland, letter, just pub
lished, says thai on Monday. August A,
an old man died in the workhouse at
Hallmt, Mayo uitiuty, and two days la
ter was consigned to a pauper's grave.
His name was Harney Month. He was
a native of Dublin, ami so long as he
was able to tramp about, he made a
livelihood as a professional ballad sing
er He believed himself at the time of
his death about '.III years of age. He
made a singular revalatiou to the mas
ter ami chaplain of the workhouse. He
told them lie was one of a baud of sold
diers, who ou the night of May, 17DS,
accompanied Major Sirr and Swan to
the house of NicliolasMurphy.il feather
merchant, where Lord Fitzgerald was
concealed, and effected the capture of
the rebel chieftain. Harney Moran
avowed in that terrible business ho
faithfully discharged his duty as a loyal
soldier to the Hritish crown, but Ids
most startling revalatiou was that he
was also the executioner of Kobort Km
tni'tt. This confession has been cor
roborated. Moron's ill-gotton gains
did not prosper. He quitted the army,
and after a wandering life of hardship
and privation for half a century, ex
actly seventy-llvo years after Knit'nett's
death, his executioner has found a pau
per's death and nameless grave.
Jennie June on Yutmfr Men.
Jennie Juno Is indignant, and jabs
ferociously at those young men who do
not marry immediately. It Is very
queer that women are always slushing
away at persons who hesitate in a mat
tor so serious as matrimony. They
seem to expect every man to bo a Hrig
ham Young, though not one male in
10,000 has the, Hrignain gift of accumu
lating property. Writes Jennie. "Tho
present period seems to bo fertile In the
production of a lot of happy youths,
who aro devoted to neckties; who have
not strength, honor or manliness eunugli
to make love to a young girl; who would
not dare to tako tho responsibility of
supporting a wife, but consider that
they gain somo reflected glory by mak
ing one of the trail of worshippers that
dog the stops of any woman who at
tains distinction or notoriety
, IMIMHI.K WI0VT.
liul I'tilJutt -l it JrrrtmiiH'-l'uru"-.n
I'romlsf fu Ilia !
Inu Hll''
A new kind of ghost story, .tlthough
the glmst Iris not Vet Im-cii ell, collies
from the Hlue Mountains in New Jersey ,
ulm i seems to show that a dead woman
l wreaking some kind of vague ten
gence upon her hub:iml because he
m irned a second wife There Is an -olated
spot at thefiHitof the mountains
between Suuiiiiil and I'rovidi-ti 'o. where
there are a few houses, one of which Is
occupied by a iii.iu named John 1'hen.s
ant Thiee vears ago I'heus.iiil marri
ed a woman named S irali Stapletoti,
who died last May. leaving an infant
about a year old On her dying bed
Mrs Pheasant made her hiisba'ml prom
ise th it he would not marry again, lie
soon forgot his promise, ami three
mouths afterwards married a young
glil mimed Mary lluntly, who took good
cue of the child. One" night l.tst week
Pheasant and his wife went to a picnic,
leaving the baby soundly sleeping In
bed, .Soon after they were gone Charles
Kilkenny, who lives in u house adjoining
that of l'hcjisaiit.hcatil thecliildscrcam
lug -is if in pain. He went out, ami
seeing that Pheasant's house was light
ed up supposed that he and his wife
wcie home. The light was uuusuallv
bright, however, ami streamed through
the cricks it, the house ami lighted up
the road. While Kilkenny was watch
ing the light twoyoiiug men who were
going to the picnic came along, and,
Kilkenny calling their attention to
Pheasant's house, they concluded that
a lamp had in some manner been upset
ami that the house was on tire. The
thiee men tin n ran to the houc, mid
were a little astonished on reaching it
to liml that the light had disappeared
ami that the baby had stopped crying.
I'hey thought, howoer, that the Pheas
ants had put out the tire ami quieted
the chili!
The young men then went on their
way, ami ou arriving at the picnic ground
found, to their great surprise, both
Pheasant and his wile there. They told
Pheasant what they seen, ami he and
his wife ami sevcial other persons re
turned to the house. Tho doors were
found to he locked and in the same con
dition as they had been left, butjhe
child had disappeared from its bed.
The house wsis searched and the baby
was found lying under a bed In a room
tip-stairs, wrapped in a shawl and lying
on a pillow, both of which had bclougVil
to Pheasant's first wife, ami whieh had
been kept carefully locked up in a trunk.
A number of trinket which had Im-cii
in (lie trunk, and which had belonged
to the dead woman, were scattered
around near the child. Pheasant ami
his wife were greatly alarmed, and be
ing good Catholics, went for advice to
Father Fesseilo, the parish prie.st. The
priest .said he could do nothing, ami
advised Pheasant and Ids wife to treat
the child with the greatest care and at
tention, and never to strike it. The
priest says the story is incxplieable.but
lie will express no opinion. X,:w York
W'orhl.
A l.niiii In Hawaii.
Speaking of the Hawaiian Islands,
the San Francisco Alta of a recent dale
incidentally mentions the following.
"The people are delighted with the
boldness of American capitalists, ami
in every way express their satisfaction
with the new order of things. One of
tlie Ministers had loaned to the King
a considerable sum of money which it
would inconvenience the monarch to
pay; as there were interests before the
Cabinet, ou vliich this ollicer had pe
culiar views, which were not to tho
liking of the occupant of the throne,
a knot was produced. Thi.s knot was
dexterously cut by a Califoruian capit
alist, who said to his Majesty that he
wished to place a loan in the Islands,
ami begged permission to be allowed to
draw his check for the amount due to
tlie Minister, (ll),000.) and take the
loan at a less rate of interest. The cap
italist at once became the creditor of
I lie (toveriimeiit. ami his interests have
not siiiVered by his adroit stroke .if
tinci.il'. Californians have always been
piipu'arwith tlie Hawaiian people, but,
since this little iillair lias become known,
they aro treated with the most distin
guislied consideration, ami if there
should soon be occasion to call for an
expression of opinion on the subject of
an American protectorate for the Is
lands, thoie .vould be a very unanimous
vote in favor of the proposition."
The HoyhoiMlnfOlc Hull.
Heal puiius commonly develops early
especially in musical art.
Ole Hull's early attempt to master
the mysteries of the violin, dates back
to the sixth year, when an unele.a good
'cello performer, presented him with a
little pine violin, "as vellow as a
lemon.'' Partly by his quick oars, and
partly by his uncle's instruction, .the
child soon learned the principles whtich
governed the instrument. tiul showed
so much talent that he interested his
mother, who showed a desire to have
him receive competent instruction.
When he was but seven or eight years
old, a musician passing in search of
pupils was called in to seu tho boy vio
linist, ami satisfactory arrangement
for his instruction were made. A few
lessons ended tho relation of teachiif
and pupil, however, as the boy turned
critic, and complained that tho teacher
was incompetent. Auother teacher was
found, and yet another, but neither
held their positions long, for Olo Bull
rapidly developed such a knowledge of
tho Instrument, and he was so keen in
perceiving the inaccuracies of his mast
ers, that ho was not a very comforable
pupil.
He was thirteen years old before he
found a competent teacher, and this
man, from being astonished at his
rapid progress and great capabilities, i
became jealous of his skill, fearing to '
sou himself eclipsed, as Indeed ho pres
ently did, in spite of his endeavors to
keep the boy back and disparage his at
tainments. A house too closely shaded by trees
will bo apt to suffer from dampness. In
building let the living and sleeplni
rpoms, as far as possible, face toward
the south, and thus gain tho advantage
of tho sunshine. The uin is the creat
preserver of health.
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