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TEE HHNGESS MENABAS. " Tho Princess Barnabas was in a state of the most profound perplexity. She could not , for tho dainty little life of , her , make up her mind on the im portant question as to whether she should or should not commit suicide at tlio close of the season. It w.as not very easy for the Princess' many ad mirers to understand why she should perturb her mind with such a problem at all , but perturb it she did with that very problem , whether wisely or un wisely. The Princess Barnabas was a very remarkable young woman , who had proved the puzzle , the pride , and the passion of London society for three whole sensational seasons. She was not yet four-and-twenty. She bore the title of a great Russian prince who had married her just before she came ; of age , at a time when he himself was old enough to be her grandfather , and who had considerately died within two years of tho ceremony , leavin : her the absolute mistress of his for tune and his territories , as she hac been during life tho absolute mis tress of his heart for the short tim in which he swayed it. She was saic to be fabulously wealthy. Her jewels were the wonder of the world , and sh delighted in wearing them , in season and out of season , withasemi-barbar ic enjoyment of their glitter and splen dor which was , like evreything els about her , partly Oriental and partly childish. Some time after her hus band's death she had come to Paris and got tired of it , andthenshe crossed the Channel and conquered London During one resplendent session little else was talked about but thePrincess Barnabas. Society journals ravec about her delicate beauty , which seemed to belong to the canvases o : the last century , which ought to have been immortalized on pate tendre , anc hymned in madrigals. Men adorec her. Women envied her marvelous dress and machless jewels. The dying ashes of a season's scandal flared up into marvelous activity around her pretty personality. She was enor mously "the thing. " Enormously /'the thing" she remained during a sec ond season , after an interval of absolute disappearance into the dominions of the Czar. Enormous ly "the thing" she still appeared to be now in her third season , in spite of the rival attractions of an American actress who had. not married an En glish duke , and an American girl with millions who had married the bluest blood and the oldest name in Europe. * It would have been absurd for any one to contest the point that the Princess . Barnabas was the very most interest ing figure of that phantasmal dance of shadows which is called London so ciety. Nevertheless the Princess Barnabas was weary , positively bored. If she had been less of a success , life might not have appeared so desolate. There would have been apiquancy inthepos- sibility of rivalry which would have lent a new interest to the tasteless feast. .As it was , however. London life at tho 'height of its maddest activity appeared -to her as drear and gray as those vast stretches of steepes which lay like a great sea around one of the Russian castlesof thelatePrince Barnabas. It was during this fit of depression when the Princess Barnabas was graciously pleased to agree with the author of * 'Ecclesiastes " that life , was vanity , that it occurred to her that in all her strange experiences she had never yet committed suicide. She immediately gave up her mind to the important problem , whether she should gain this ultimate human experience at once , or postpone it indefinitely. - It was in this frame of mindthatthe Princess went to the great ball at the Russian Embassy. As she nestled among her furs in the dim , luxurious warmth of her carriage , her mind was running entirely upon the various forms of self-destruction which had been made famous by celebrated per sons at different stages of the world's history , and she could find none that were sufficiently attractive or remark able to please her. "Good heavens ! " she thought to herself , with a little shudderyhich even the warmth of her surroundings could not repress , "is it possible to be banale even in that ? " and she gave a little groan as she stepped out of her carriage and up the embassy steps. The thought was still on her mind , and tracing the lei t sug gestion of a frown upon her exquisite girlish face as she entered the great room and took the hand of the am bassadress. The thrill of interest , of excitement , of admiration , which as a matter of course attended upon her entrance did not give her any answer It : ing thrill of gratification. She ap 4L- . peared to listen with the most gracious attention to the compliments of the ambassador. She answered with the daintiest little air of uifantile obeisance the Old World courtesy of a white- haired Minister who have been as much at home as she herself in a salon of the Regent of Orleans. She condescend ed to en tangle in a network of fascina tion a particularly obdurate and im 4. - . - passive secretary of State. Shepatron- ized a prince of the blood _ royal and was exceedingly frank and friendly with the young painter Lepell , who knew exactly how much her familiarity meant , but was at once amused and delighted by the envy it aroused in others. Yet all the while the Princess Barnabas was not devoting a single serious thoughtto one of her admirers. Every idea hi that vain and foolish head was centered upon the one query , Shall Icommitsuicidenextweekand ifsohow ? " It was while hi this frame of mind , Vs. talking to twenty people , and thinking of none of them , that'lier bright eyes , wandering lightly over the crowded room , chanced to fall upon a young man who was standing , somewhat re moved from the press of the throng , in a window recess , which was at least comparatively quiet a tall , grave , self-possessed young man , sufficiently good-looking to be calledhandsomeby an enthusiastic friend. When the Princess Barnabas looked at him , his eyes , which were brightclever eyes , were fixed on her with a look of half-hum orous contemplation. The moment , however , their eyes met he turned his head slightly , and resumed a conver sation with a gray-barred old man with a red ribbon at his buttonhole , whom she knew to be a foreign diplomatist. The young man's gaze had expressed an interest hi the Princess , but it seemed to be just as interested in the pale , wrinkled face of his companion. ThePrincess Barnabas seemed piqued. "Who is that young man ? " she asked , half-fretfully , of the Secretary of State. "Whichyoung man ? " The Secretary of State'sstolidfacegazed vaguely into the dense crowd of dress coats and white shoulders , of orders and stars and diamonds. "Theyoungman in the window talk ing to the gray-haired man. " The Secretary put up his eye-glass and considered the young man in ques tion thoughtfully. He was never known to hurry in his judgments or his replies in Parliament , and he did not hurry now , though it was the Princess Barna bas who was interrogating him , and not a member of the Opposition. Then he answered her , weighing his words with more than judicial deliberation : "He is a young fellow named Sinclair. He is going out to the East , or some thing. Whydoy i < ask ? " "His lace"interests me , " replied the Princess. "I should like to know him. Bring him to me ; or stay , give me your arm , we will go to him. " She rose and dispersed her little knot of disconsolate courtiers. Taking the Secretary's arm she moved slowly to ward the wintlow where Sinclair was still standing. The Secretary touched him on the aim. "Mr. Sinclair , the Princess Barnubas has expressed a de sire to make your acquaintance. Al low me , Princess , to introduce you to Mr. Julian Sinclair. " Theyoungman bowed. Heseenieda little surprised , but not in the least em barrassed. ThePrincess smiled bright ly at him , and her eyes were brighter than her smile. "Thankyou , " shesaid to the Secretary of State with a pleas ant little smile , which was meant to convey , and which did convey , that she had had enough of him. Hepromptly disappeared into the crowd with re signed good humor , bearing away with him in his wake the elderly red-ribbon ed diplomatist. Princess Barnabas and Julian Sin clair were left alone. She sat down on the couch in the recess of the win dow , and slightly motioned to him with her hand to take his place by her side. He obeyed silently. The re cess of the window was deep. For the moment they were almost entirely iso lated from the shifting , glittering bhrongthat seathed and drifted around bhem , Sinclair kept quite silent , look ing into the face of the Princess with an ah ? of half-amused inquiry. . There tvere a few seconds of silence , and then the woman spoke , beginning , woman- ike , with a question. "Have you forgotten me , Mr. Sin- Theyoungmanshookhis headgrave- y. "No , I have not forgotten you , Princess. " Her eyes were fixed on his ace , but he returned her gaze quite iteadily. " .Yet it must be two years since we net , " she replied ; "andtwo _ years is a. ongtime. " * "Yes , two years is a very longtime , " ie said , half sadly , half scornfully. He was decidedly not communicative , ihis young.man , for even the pleasure > f meeting a friend , unseen for two rears , did not appear to arouse in him my desire for conversation. There was another little pause. Nei- her seemed embarrassed , and yet the nterval was long enough to be embar- assmg. Then she spoke again. "Why did you leave St. Petersburg ? Yhere have you been all this time ? He answered the second part of her [ uestion : "IhavebeeninConstantino- > le most of the time. I only returned ; o London a few days ago , and I am ; oing away almost immediately totha 2ast again , to Persia this time. " "For how long ? " There was a faint tone of weariness n his reply , though he strove to make xis voice purposely steady. "Oh ! for- sver , I suppose ; or , at least , until I am in old man , and of no further use. Chen perhaps I may come back on a jension , and write dreary letters to Dhe Times about the errors of my suc- : essors. " And he laughed to prevent limself from sighing. "You have not answered all my ques- ; ion , " said the Princess. "Why did rou leave St. Petersburg so suddenly ? We were such very good friends , and I issure you I quite missed you. " Sinclair got up and looked down into ler laughing eyes. "I left St. Peters burg , " he said , "because I was afraid to stay. " Her eyes were laughingstill , but there vas an unwonted softness in her voice , is she asked him , "Why were you ifraid to stay ? Surely you were not a Nihilist ? " He began to speak , and paused ; ; hen with a determined effort to keep lis voice under control , he said : "I eft St. Petersburg because I was fool jnough to fall in love with you. " "Thank you for the compliment. 5Vas that so very foolish ? " "Not for others , perhaps. For me 'oily , and worse than folly madness. [ never.thought I should see you again : [ did not dream that we should meet ; o-night. But since chance has thro wn is together "for the last time , as I eave England in a few days for the" rest of my life , I may as well tell you , ror the first and for the last , time , that [ love you. " Her eyes were laughing still : those wonderful gray-blue northern eyes ivhich so many capitals raved about ; Dut her lips were firmly , almost sternly set. StUl she said nothing , and he on "I knew it was folly when I rirst found that lloved you over there , in St. Petersburg. I was a poor Eng- 3sh gentleman , and you were the Prin cess Barnabas. I might as well Tiave fallen in love with a star. So I came .away. " "He said the words simply , with a quiet conviction , and held out his hand. ' 'Good-bye , Princess , and forgive me my folly. " She rose and faced him. Any one of the hundreds in the great room beyond who chanced to look at the couple half hidden by the curtains of the deep win dow would have seen a man and a woman talking lightly of light things. "And you have not forgottenmeyet ? " she said. "I never shall forget you , " he an swered sadly. "I cannot love more than once , and I love you with all my soul. Do you remember one day , when we drove together in theNevaPerspec- tive , how you stopped to give some money to an old beggar ? I envied the beggar for getting a gift from you , and you hi jest dropped a coin into my out stretched hand. " Ho took out his watch-chain and showed her the tiny gold coin with the Russian Eagle on it. "I have kept it ever since , " he said. "It is the only thing I care for in the world. I have lived and shall live so much in the East that I am somewhat superstitious , and I think it is my tal isman. Good-by. He held out his hand again. She took it. "Will you come and see me before you leave ? " she asked almost appeal- ingly. He shook his head. "Better not , " he said. For a moment she was silent ; she seemed to be reflecting. Then she said , with a sudden vehemence , "Promise me that if I write and ask you to come you will obey me. Promise me that for the sake of our old friendship. " He b o wed his head. ' 'I promise , ' ' he said. "Andnowgivemeyourarm and take me to my carriage , " said the Princess Barnabas. "Iwanttogohometobed. " * * # * * The next day Julian heard nothing from the Princess. "Of course not , " he said to himself , shrugging his shoul ders at the fantastic hopes which had besieged his brain since that strange meeting , and he doggedly faced his ap proaching exile. But on the afternoon of the second day after the meeting at the Embassy , Julian Sinclair , coming to his hotel after a day spent in busy preparations for departure , found a tiny note awaiting him. It was from the Princess , and had only these words" "Come this evening , I shall be alone. " And he went. * * * * * # * This was part of a conversation which Princess Barnabas chanced to overhear at a reception at the foreign office , and on the eve of her departure for the east. The speakers were Sir Harry Kingscourt and Ferdinand Le- gell. Said the painter : "Have you eard the news about the Princess Barnabas ? She is going to marry a fellow named Sinclair , and is going to live in the east Persia , or some place of the kind. The fellow hasn't apenny in the world and won't have.from her , for I believe that by her husband's will she loses almost all her fortune if she marries below her own rank. " "How very romantic , " yawned Kings- court. "Komantic , " replied Lepell ; "it is absurd. . Have you not heard ? the woman has committed suicide. " And the speakers moved away. "Suicide , " said the princess to her self , smiling. "No , no ; I was going to commit suicide once , but I have learnt what life is worth , and I have changed tny mind. " The Whitehall Review. - A Very Able War Story. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Maj. Toller of Los Angeles called to see me , and in the course of our con versation it came out that he had at 3ne time been a resident of New Madrid , Mo. I remarked that I knew something of the place , as I had been ivith Popewhen hemade the attackon : hat place in the earlier part of the Major Toller explained that he ivas one of the gunners in the rebel aattery posted below the city , and he isked if I remembered any striking in- jident in connection with the work of ; hat battery. I did. Iremembered it ivell. I remembered that one day } here came a shot from that battery ; hat entered the muzzle of one of our 3wn guns , causing an explosion that arokethegun into fragments andkilled several men. Major Toller remarked : "I remem- aer the incident as well as you , and I lave better cause to remember it. [ fired the shot myself , and there is a story about it. One day there came rom the Union battery a large shell , : hat struck without exploding very iear our ownbattery. I picked up the shell , and , seeing that the fuse had not 3urned out , I said that I believed we ; ould arrange the fuse and return the shell with our compliments to the bat tery that had fired it. This was done. [ aimed the gun myself , and we saw by the commotion it created in the Union lines that something extraordinary had occured. Afterward we learned the particulars. A few days afterward bhe commander of the forces came to atir quarters , and for the firing of that shot promoted me to Major. - John Ryder , a wealthy farmer of Rockland Lake , predicted on June 9 bhat he would die on the llth. He sent for a lawyer , made his will , and asked the lawyer to act as pall bearer at his funeral. He then sent for the undertaker , ordered his coffin , and paid for it. He seemed to be in per fect health , but said he had been warned of approaching death. On the llth he sat in his arm chair as usual , and calling his family around him , bade them good-bye , saying : "My triends I am now going ; good-bye all , and God bless you. " He then lay back , closed his eyes , and apparently fell asleep , but when they touched him he was dead. He. was buried , all his previous engagements beingcarried out. He was 76 years old. Newbury Regis ter. General Grant , it is said , can not endure music of any kind except that made by the fife and drum. PASSING EVENTS , Seven-eighths of the callers at the white house come for political pur poses. A colored man. 96 years old , carries the mail between Carthage , Ga. , and the depot , a distance of about a mile. Sunshine is said to be better than medicine. You don't have to pay 81.50 for 5 cents worth of it , cither. There are 1,600 kinds of pears , 1,500 sorts of apples , 150 plums , more than 120 varieties of gooseberries , and 125 of strawberries. The Los Angeles common council has repealed the ordinance recently adopted making eight hours a legal day on municipal work. A spectral mounted Indian of gi gantic size bothers the Indians of the Washakie and Shoshone agencies , in Wyoming , by nightly visitations. The Adventists have revised their calculations , and now announce that the world will come to an end posi tively no postponement this time May 14 , 1886. The first coffee ever produced in the United States is said to have been grown by Mrs. Aizeroth near Mana tee , Fla. , in 1880. She has twenty-five coffee trees on her plantation. One of the residents of B landlord , Mass. , is known as "the cricket woman , " from her penchant for crick ets , her collection of these musical in sects amounting often to seventy-five or one hundred. A woman always shades her eyes by turning her hand over the palm up ward so that the back will not sun burn. During the civil war a woman in the army , in male attire , was dis- uovered by this gesture. Worcester , Mass. , claims to possess the champion mean man in the person of a well-to-do resident , who borrowed a print of butter , and in due course re turned another pat with a piece sliced off , explaining chat in the interim but ter had riz. Miss Tidman , a Staten island music teacher makes her professional rounds on a tricycle. A patent contrivance attached to the rear of the seat , with a strap fastening the handle to her waist and neck , holds an umbrella over her head to protect her from the sun. Paper baskets , for farm and factory use , are now manufactured. The rims are protected by ti wooden hoop on each side , both nailed together , and the large baskets ( two bushel size ) are strengthened by wooden ribs , and 'urnishod with iron bottoms and handles. An old colored woman living in Pitts- mrgh is laboring under the halluciua- iou that every night persons visit her tome and scatter ashes over her porch. She is so firm in the belief that each norning she scrubs and scours every ) oard and piece of furniture in her at- empt to get the dirt off. Henry Stevens , who published a few tveeks ago in London a monograph on he decline of art in the 'binding of English books , charges the decadence o ten classes. They are the author , miblisher , and printer , the reader , 'ompositor , and pressman , the paper- naker , inkinaker , and book-binder , ind the consumer. A cigarette manufacturer at Meriden , Uonn. , contemplates hiring readers , , vho are to sit in the center of the vorkrooms'and read aloud from the lewest novels to the employes. He las imported the idea from Havana , vhefe it is said to be employed with iuccess , diminishing the loss of time ; hrough the gossip and noisy chatter ) f the girls. The work of restoring and altering ; he old mission church , at San Gabriel Hal. , has been commenced. It is in- endad to put in a paneled ceiling of Oregon pine , stained and varnished. Che sanctuary will also be divided | rom the main aisle by a Tudor Gothic ircb window , filled in with sashes of ; he same style , with tinted cathedral- ; lass , walls cleaned down and ialcimined , and _ other incidental work lone. Prof. Brusch has returned to Berlin rom Persia , after spending months in hat country in the collection of notes 0 be used in literary works. Among ris collection is a volume o ? poems ind a tragedy by the shah , which ? rof. Brusch proposes to translate , le says that all plays in Persia are of 1 religious character , and that no cenery whatever is used. The Euro- > ean residents probably number 250. An engineer in a quartz mill in Cal- i * fornia met with a frightful death re- tently. His clothing caught on a. re- rolving wheel and he was whirled apidly around , his body coming vio- catly in contact ith the floor at each evolution. How long he was in this : ondition is unknown , as there was no me else in the mill at the time , and ie was only discovered when his laughter went to call him to supper. Che body was horribly mangled. A new industry in the southern for- ists is the utilization of the needles of he long-leaved pine ( Pinus palustris ) . [ "lie leaves are soaked in a bath to re- nove the glazing , and then "crinkled" or shilling cushions and other uphol- tering purposes. They are specially 'aluable on shipboard , and other > laces where furniture is in danger of lecoming infested with insects. The urpentine which remains in the leaves uakes a most inhospitable abode for hese annoying visitors. A correspondent of The New Yo k "ost , who has been studying the col- > red people of the south , says many > the preachers "are giftod with re - narkable fluency and can run with .rue oratorical skill over the whole jamufc of emotions. Not one of them vhorn I heard couched his sermons in grammatical language , and yet some ipoke with such genuine power that ; his defect was forgotten. There was it times , too , a striking aptness and jicturesqueness of illustration , a use ) f racy similes and figures of speech , Irawn from their observation of the ields and forests , and its manifold ind ever-changing forms of life , or Tom their personal experience in ; hose lowly walks of existence in ivhich all of their days had run. Most jf the sermons , however , were strangely irrelevant and incoherent. " f. ff .T r "f S - i r -1 * * " Commission Appointed to Examine the Pall Mall Gazette's Charges. HENRY EDWAUD MANNING. CATHOLIC AIlCUBISnOP OF WESTMINSTER. His Eminence , Henry Edward M xn- ning , Archbishop of Westminster , was born at Totteridge , Hertfordshire , England , July 15 , 1808. AVas educat ed at Harrow , and Balliol College , Oxford , where he graduated , B. A. , in 1830. He was appointed Rector oi Lavington and Graifimm. Sussex in 1834 , and Archdeacon of Chichester in 1840. These preferments he resigned in 1851 on joining the Roman Catholic Church , in which he entered the priesthood in 1857 , founded an ecclesi astical congregation at Bayswnter en titled the Oblates of St. Charles Bor- romeo. The degree of D. D. , was confcred jn him at Rome , and the oilice of Pro- rost of the Catholic Archdiocese of IVestniinster , Prothonotary Apostolic ind Domestic Prelate to the Pope. At ; he death of Cardinal Wiseman he was sonseerated Archbishop of Westmin ster , Juno 8 , 1865. Pope Pius IX. jreated him Cardinal Priest , March 15 , 1875. The same Pontiff invested aim with the Cardinal's Hat , Deceni- aer 31 , 1877. REV. EDWARD . BENSON , D. D. ATtCIIBISnOP OF CANTERBURY. The Most Rev. Edward White Ben- jon , D. D. Archbishop of Canterbury , Primate of all England and Metropoh- ; an was born near Birmingham , Eng land ' , 1829 ; graduated B. A. at Trin- t'ty College , Cambridge 1852 , M. A. in 1855 , B. D. in 1862 and D. D. in 1867. He was for some j'ears assistant mas- Mr in Rugby School , and head master if Wellington College from its opening n 1858 till 1872 , when he was appoint- jd Canon Residentiary and ChaneelIor if Lincoln Cathedral. In 1877 he was jonsecrated Bishop of Truro. In 1882 > n Mr. Gladstone's recommendation he n'a.3 appointed to succeed the late Dr. rait as Archbishop of Canterbury. The Indians Under Law. At the conclusion of some very just remarks ubouL the Indians in to-day's paper , writes Senator H. L. Dawes to The Springfield Republican , you say : "To these things must be added the bringing of the Indian under the law on equal terms with the white man. " I have seen , of late , in your paper and others , frequent allusions to what is deemed a very great need in the work of litting the Indian to take care of bimself namely , that he should at once be subjected to the same laws as the white man , and held to punish ment like him for any oliense against ihern. It may not be amiss to state exactly his condition in this respect , 30 that the public may be the better jndse whether something else may iot"be needed far more tnan the legis- ation you speak of. It has always been that an offense committed by an Indian upon the per son or property of a white man or by a white man ifpon that of an Indian , anywhere , or by a Indian outside the limits of a reseevation , were punished [ ike other offenses under the laws of he state or territory where they were committed. But offenses committed on a reservation by one Indian upon the person or property of another In dian have been heretofore left to be punished by the Indians themselves in their own way. And sorry work they have often made of it. There has been an urgent call for legislation ex tending the crimi ul law over the reservation , precisely as it exists elsewhere. It is this "need that these frequent allusions are made. Now , congress at its last session' did this very thins , and now every Indian on a reservation , as well as o'ff , is subject to and protected by the same criminal law that the white man is. This pro vision is subject , however , to two ex ceptions , but is otherwise as broad as here stated. 1. It does not extend to minor of fenses , such as simple assault and bat tery , ordinar } ' breach of the peace , and other petty offenses committed among ' the wild 'Indians , for the reason that in the present condition of the reser vation and the courts it would subject every wild Indian on a reservation hundreds of miles , and in some in stances more than a thousand miles , away from the courts , on any charge , however trumped up , to be dragged by marshals "hungry for fees these great distances alone before a distant tribunal , and then turned loose to get back as he could or lie in prison at the pleasure of his accuser. It was the opinion of those who drew this law that such a remedy for such oflenses would be worse than the evil itself. 2. The live "civilized nations , " as the Cherokoes. Creeks , Choctaws , Chickasaws and Semmoles are called , are exempted from this law , because ihe United States has a treaty with them by which it was expressly agreed that these tribes should punish these * REY. FREDERICK TEMPLE , D. D. BIS.TOP OF Ltoifioy. } Tho Rev. Frederick Temple was born Nov. 20 , 1821. Was educated at ; Balliol College , taking the degree of B. A. in 1842 ; was ordained in 1846 ; ' appointed principal of tho Training ; College at Knellar Hall nearTwickon- : , ham in 1848 , and head master at Rug- by in 1853. In I860 he gained considerable no- ' toriety as the author of the first of the seven "Essays and Reviews" , which , caused so much controversy soon after their appearance. In the general election in 1878 Dr. Temple actively supported Mr. Glad-5 stone's measure for the disestablish ment of the Irish Church , and tho Premier nominated him to tho Bishop ric of Exeter. On account of his beingj the author of one of tho "Essays and Re-t i. views" his nomination caused much : - controversy , but his election was con firmed br the Vicar General , and on Dec. 21 , 1869 he was consecrated. SAMUEL MORLEY , M. P. Samuel Morloy , M. P. , was born in Hackney London , England in 1809. He went early to business and is now ! the head of the firm of J. & B. Morley , ; wholesale hosiers of that city. An earnest dissenter , Mr. Morloy has beenf throughout his public career a leading- . champion of Protestant uoncouforinA ity , which he has promoted by munifi cent donations for building new chap els. els.Mr. Mr. Morley represented Nottingham , in the advanced liberal interest , 1865- 1866 , when ho was unseated by pe- . tition. He first came forward "as a candidate for Bristol in 1868 , and was. lefcated by a small majority by Mr. Miles , who was unseated on petition. The following June Mr. Morlev again , became a candidate , and was ele'cted by' a large majority , and continues to " represent Bristol down to the present - time. offenses in thoir own courts. These "nations * ' have each a judicial system which would compare most favorablv with that of many of the states. They have printed laws enacted in a legisla ture of two branches elected every two years , a supreme court , a district court , and a county court , with juries. In these courts justice is administered and offenses punished with fairness / " ' and less scandal than sometimes at- ' tends attempts at it in the states. I have troubled yon with these re marks because it is well that the exact condition of legislation upon this sub ject should be known , and for what congress has done , which is little enough , it is entitled to the credit. My own opinion is that there 5s much greater need of a linn , wise , and sleep less enforcement of existing laws than there is for new ones , though without doubt there can be great improvement wrought in them as they are. But I > . have no right to ask further space of you at this lime. How to Destroy Poultry Vermin. When largo flocks of poultry are kept together considerably ditlieulty is often experienced in keeping them free from those little pests so much dreaded lice. The following method is adopted by not a few extensive breeders and is said to work admira bly : Get a gallon , more or less , of crude petroleum , and , with a spray ing bellows , if you have it. or with a brush , if you have nothing better , thoroughly saturate every part of the inside poultry houses. This will rid them of every vestige of lice , large or small , and , as the small lice or mites mostly leave the fowls in tho morning , it will , in a couple of appli cations , rid them of the pests. A lit tle lard oil and kerosene , half and half , applied under the wings of the birds will kill all the large lice that are on them. But every person who has many fowls should have some sort of a spraying apparatus , and with this spray the fowls and house once a month with kerosene emulsion. " This can be quickly done at night , when the fowls are on the roosts , and will keep everything perfectly clean.- FouUriMonthly. . Why She Liked tho Preacher. "Oh , I do think Mr. Pound- pulpit's sermons are just too lovely for anything , " remarked a lady to a visitor. "Humph ! I think he's as dry as a bone. What can 3'ou see that's so 'lovely' in his sermons ? " replied tho visitor. "I'm troubled with sleepless ness ; but I do enjoy such lovely naps while he is preaching. " Brook lyn Times. The flour mission to make ijood brejfc Boston Transcript. >
