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' I ! THE JOURNAL., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12, 1SS3. Iitt::i it tks P::'.:aco, C:!zatas, Kit.. s uzszi disz carter. BY TEE WASHES. We stood for a little together, The water kissing our feet; Around us glowed glad bright weather; The morning and you were sweet. I thought, as you stood there dreaming, Twas you that lighted the day; And the water, glancing and gleaming And hurrying ever away, " "Vocal with brief light laughter. As past you it fled to the sea. Seemed to linger a little, and after I think it agreed with me. Slushed with the wind and glowing. Silent you stood awhile. Hair in the sunlight blowing. Smiling a dreamy smile. The water sang: "Love is a treasure." "A treasure,' my soul replied; And the pain of it and the pleasure. Sweeter than all beside." And I saw the wavelets glitter. Glad but to kiss your feet; And the wind sang: "Life may be bitter. But loving can xnako it sweet." And she laughed and loitered around yon. Surely finding you fair; And the merry sun ki&sod and crowned you Queen of the morning there. Everything fair seemed to love you, Seemed proud at your feet to fall: And the lark, singing high above you. Sang you were the fairest of alL And scarcely a word was spoken. But our souls to each other spoke. Till the dreamy spell was broken. And we started and smiled and woks. And 6o in the glorious weather. In the morning blithe and gay, Happy in being together. Happily wandered away. Herbert E. Clarke, in Harper't Weekly. MISS LIRRIPIP'S LOVERS. Miss .Lirripip had a pretty face and five thousand a year, not to speak of ex pectations. Pretty faces are common enough, even in these days of agricul tural depression and stagnant trade; but airl with five thousand a year is a rarit'; and a girl with five thousand a year "and a pretty face into the bargain is a positive phenomenon, and, as such, cannot fail to be greatly admired by a number of more or less eligible young men with a taste for beauty of the most substantial kind. Even middle-aged bachelors awake from their habitual in difference when, on being introduced to a lovely damsel of two-and-twenty, they arc conscious that the possessor of a con siderable fortune stands before them; for although money is the root of all evil, it is a root which most people very willing ly undertako the risk of cultivating. Since Lydia Lirripip was thus beauti ful and thus rich, it is not surprising that she had not only admirers men who dared to wish uncertain things; but lovers, too men who had the presump tion to hope. It is true that Lydia en couraged none of them, for she was quite satisfied to live at home with her father. General Lirripip, in Bruton street,Gros venorsquarc, and to ride in Rotten Row in the morning and to drive in the park in the afternoon. But, fortunately, young men do not require encourage ment; nay, in certain affairs the less en couragement they receive the greater their persistency becomes; and consider ing that healthily constituted young women seldom, if ever, give any en couragement to young men, the persist ency of these latter in the face of alarm ing'diflictiltics is a matter on which all of us may heartily congratulate ourselves. Indeed, but for the persistency who knows whether the world would go round? It was the height of the London sea son, -and Lydia Lirripip went with her father one evening to a great ball at the Countess of Carnaby's. Everybody was there everybody, that is, of rank and fashion and ere she had been in the-brightly lighted rooms for five min utes Lydia was engaged for all the dances on the programme. Now, to most of hor partners she was onlv en cagcilfor a single waltz or polka, but, lor ohl acquaintance's sake, or for some other reason, she allowed three gentle men to take two dances each. It was no doubt very indiscreet of her to do so. But in one case at least it was also very good-natured of her. for she per mitted old Pertinax Popinjay, who, as ever' one knew, was far too stiff and fouty to move about properly, to put own his name for the only two sets of lancers. Sir Pertinax was effusively frateful and smiled his sweetest upon er as he returned her programme, and Lydia, instead of regretting her kind ness, felt thoroughly rewarded by seeing that she was giving pleasure to the gray haired Baronet, who, thirty j-ears before had been a noted dandy, but who now struck her as being simply a prosy old fellow, whom very few girls would be likely to dance with. Lydia's other favored partners were Mr. Horace Frcake a young artist who had that year for the first time exhibited at the Royal Academy and Mr. Merton Mur ley, a man who had no profession and no occupation, and who, if he had a pri vate income, derived it from a source not gencraN- known even to his friends. In this world many strange coinci dences happen. Two chemists have been known to make exactly the same discovery on the same day; and two astronomers have claimed to "catch sight of a new comet at almost the same mo ment. It is not, therefore, incredible that while dancing these six dances with her three favored partners, Lydia casually mentioned to each of them that upon the following evening her father was jroinjr to take the chair at the annual meeting of the Society for the Encouragement of Cold-water Bathing on the Continent; that she was not go ing, but would be alone at home; that she wished girls were able like men to amuse themselves; and that she envied her partners their clubs, their theaters and their sociable smoking concerts. Nor is it incredible, that, havingheard this, Sir Pertinax Popinjay, Mr. Horace Freake and Merton Murley all made up their minds to call upon Miss Lirripip upon the following evening, and to make to her certain avowals, which, although they had long medi tated them, they now felt impelled to make as soon as possible, and without any unnecessary delay. What these avowals were may be guessed; but why the three gentlemen all determined at the same time to make them is a ques tion which cannot be explained, although the fact that Lydia that evening looked even prettier than usual may possibly have been one of the extraordinary coin cidence. Lydia little dreamed, when in the small hours of the morning she dropped off to sleep, of what was hanging over her. Sir Pertinax had made no sign; Mr. Murley had not been more attentive than had for f some time been his wont; and "Mr. Freake had been actually more dull and uninterest ing than Miss Lirripip had ever seen him. She therefore slept soundly, and was undisturbed by fears of the com ing eveningand its visitors. The following day was wet. Tht General, who had lived for many years in India, and had a liver which caused him to be somewhat irascible, shut him self up in his library and savagely studied, the statistics " of Cold-water Bathing; and Lydia, who could not go out, painted in her boudoir- The Lir ripip dined at half-past five, to enable the General to get out to -the meeting at half-past seven; and as he had taken no exercise during the day, and hadbeen quite unable to master all the infor mation he required relative to the av erage of cleanliness upon the Conti nent, Lydia's father was not in the best of tempers. "Sit up for me," he said, "1 shall be in by half-past elcYcn." t f These were his Jast words as, the car riage having been announced, ho hur ried away from the table, stopping for an instant at Lydia's side to kiss her on the top of the head. And Miss Lirripip was left alone in solitary grandeur, sit ting at one end of the dining-room, whither she bade :i servant bring two candles, which but dimly lighted the large apartment. Then, 'taking her seat at the piano, Lydia began to play and to sing alternately. The drawing-room at Bruton street was like many ether London drawing rooms. It occupied the whole of the first floor of the house, save where in one corner the staircase ascended, and it was therefore L-shapcd, the long arm of the L having three windows looking out into the street, and the shorter arm one window looking out over some mews in the rear. Heavy curtians of tapestry hung between the back and front por tions of the room, but were usually looped up; and in the backroom was the piano at which, within the halo of the two candles, Lydia Lirripip played and sang. She had considerable knowledge of music and a fine voice, and wrapped up in her occupation she started when the door of the front room opened, and a servant, who was to her invisible, announced Mr. Horace Freake. Lydia rose and received her visitor, meantime ordering the gas to be lighted. It was 8:30. Whv had he called at that hour? Whv had" he not ome in the daytime, when she was so dull, rather than just when she was singing? But upon the whole she was glad to see Horace, who, no doubt, simply desired to inquire how she was after the dance of the previous evening, and had not been able to do so earlier. As he betrayed, nevertheless, a certain hesitation in his manner, she led the conversation and asked him whether he had enjoyed Lady Carnaby's ball. He had, he said, pretty well, and then ensued a pause, during which Horace rather awkwardly took a seat at Lj'dia's side on an ottoman and gazed at the carpet. Mr. Freake was not altogether stupid, but even wits often become rather dull when they are meditating an immediate proposal; and the situation is so trying to almost every man who finds himself in it that it amply excuses the exhibition of a little uneasiness and nervousness. Mr. Freake certainly was nervous, but he soon recovered himself. "Your father is at the meeting, I suppose. Don't you feel it very dull all by yourself. Miss Lirripip?" "No, no! I have been singing; and all day I have been painting. "But dull, I mean, without society? I know that I do; and I have much more society, I suspect, than you have. Un less I go out, the evenings, I find, pass very slowly. I cannot get the excite ment of work, for of course one can't paint by artificial light; and if I try to read I generally go to sleep over rav book." "I think that you must be difficult to please, Mr. Freake. You have a lovely studio, and you ought always to be able to amuse yourself among such beautiful things as vou have in vour house." "No! I don't think that I am difficult to please, Miss Lirripip, for I know ex actly what I want. The fact is, that a bachelor's existence is not suited for a man of my feelings and sympathies. I live wrapped up in my selfishness, and feel my heart growing colder and colder every day. I have beautiful things in my house, but they don't satisfy me. I want living beauty something which I may really care for and do for some thing whfch shall make my life com plete. And it was to talk to you about this. Miss Lirripip, that I came to see you this evening." Lydia experienced a curious sensation which she had never felt before. "You know.I suppose. Miss Lirripip," he continued, "what I mean. You know that since I first saw you, three or four years ago, I have loved vou." And Horace took Lydia's unwilling hand. "Can you,"he went on, "learn to love me? Will you be my " Ratatattattattat! There was a knock at the front door, and Lydia was greatly relieved. "Is somebody coming up? asked Horace anxiously. "Oh, I so much want to tell you all. Say you are not in. Send them away. But let me stay. Promise to let me stay." A voice, evidently Mr. Merton Mur ley's, was now audible below, the drawing-room windows being open and the voice being loud. "It is Mr. Murley," said Lydia. "I expect that he only wants me to give some message for him to my father. He will not detain me. But if I let you stay, you must not talk any more as you have been talking, Mr. Freake." At this moment there were footsteps on the staircase, and Horace, without another word, fled incontinently into the back drawing-room and rapidly drew the curtains behind him so as to conceal himself from the new-comer, who im mediately afterward was announced. Mr.Murlej was not so nervous as Mr. Freake had been upon his first appear ance. He shook hands with Lydia in an easy and light-hearted manner, paid her an airy- compliment, seated himself comfortably opposite her, and, without many preliminaries, revealed the object of his visit. "I know that your father is out. Miss Lirripip," he said, "and I mav as well confess at once that I have deliberately taken advantage of his ab sence to come and see you upon a sub ject which nearly concerns my happi ness. I should have spoken about it last night but that I could not command your attention save fora few moments at a time. Now, however, we are safe from interruption." "But, Mr. Murley, it would be so much better if you would call when my father is in." "Oh, that is not important my dear Miss Lirripip. It is a subject that may le settled by you alone." "Please, Mr. Murley, do not tell me about it now," pleaded Lydia. "The windows are open, you know, and there are servants about the house, and " Ratatattatattattat! This time Horace, as well as Lydia, was greatly relieved, but Mr. Murley was furious. "Let me see you to-morrow," he said, hastily. "Yes! no! no!" returned Miss Lirripip, thankful for any opportunity of getting rid of him. "Good-by, Mr. Murley, good-by!" And Jthe same servant who showed up Sir Pertinax Popinjay showed down Mr. Merton Murley, who glared at the Baronet with a look which spoke volumes. "My dear Lydia," said Sir Pertinax as he offered "both his hands to Miss Lirripip; "you were really charming last night. I never saw such a perfect sylph in my life, and many people agreed with me. You were the belle of the room. There is no doubt about it." Tm sure it is very good of you. Sir T 4 . f remnax, to say so," returnea Lyaia. "But I thought that the Countess her self " "Oh, the Countess! She and you can not be mentioned together, my dear. Every one said so. And besides, the Countess of course is married. She has met her fate. Ha, ha! But you you are still my dear Miss Lydia, I may be a fool; but, upon my honor, I have come here this evening with the deter mined intention of asking you whether you will have mo. Yon know I worship the very ground you stand on." And, to Lydia's great consternation, the old gentleman, ere she could prevent him, Mdlantly knelt at her feet, and took her hand, with the evident intention of pressing it to his lips. "g' "Do get ud, please. Sir Pertimx," said Hiss Lirripip, forgetting for tmo sent that Horace Freake was withim hearing, but anxious that the BaroBffe ahooM not make UmmU u&neoesaajity ridiculous even to her. "You can talk just as well if you sit down; but really you mustn't talk in that way. I don t want to be married; indeed, 1 don't. You know I like you very much, but I couldn't possibly marry you." Sir Pertinax rose with dignity and looked rather disappointed. "I had hoped, Lydia, that you liked me well enough even for a husband. What you say, however, may not be final, because nothing can alter myrregard for you, and perhaps in the future you may think better of me." "I could not think better of you than I do,"' returned Miss Lirripip, feelingly, "and you do not know how sorry I am that this-has happened We can never be the same to each other. I am so sorry." Sir-Pertinax began to feel sorry, too, for up to that evening he and Lydia had always been like uncle and niece, and. In an uneasy way he turned the conver sation into another channel. But he could not for long carry it on, and in less than a quarter of an hour he said good-by, like a sensible man as he was in spite of his weakness, and departed. No sooner had he quitted the room than Horace emerged from his hiding place. Lydia blushed to remember ail that he bad overheard; but he did not allude to it. "Lydia." he continued, almost as if nothing had happened to disturbe him, "I love you truly and with all my heart. Will you, can you learn to love me, for your love alone will make me completely happy." "Do not ask me," replied Lydia, who was once more seated. You know what I have just gone through. My head is in a whirl." "But think how happy you can make me, Lydia! You would be everything to me, as, indeed you are already, and I would spend all my days in making you happy." It is unnecessary to chronicle the whole of the further conversation that took place. Suffice it to say that at last Miss Lirripip discovered not only that she could, but that she actually did, love Horace Freake a little, and on the strength of that she promised to marry him. Horace was in the act of presuming upon this promise by kissing Lydia for the first time, and was enjoying one of the happiest moments of his life, when another of those furious rattattatats shook the house. "Another?" said Mr. Freake, with a smile. "I shall go back to my retreat until we know who has arrived, for now I must be on the spot to look after you." And in spite of Lydia's protestations, he once more retired to the back drawing-room. Two minutes afterward the General, very hot and very angry, stamped up stairs and burst into the presence of his daughter. "Everything has gone wrong!" he excluimed. "They voted me out of the chair: they flew in my face; they decided that the wretched foreigners don't want cold baths." And he pounded with his stick, which he had brought up with him, and looked at Lydia, as though she were the cause of his discomfiture. "Weil, papa," said Miss Lirripip, soothingly, "all the better." Now you won't have to go to any more of their hor rid meetings." At this juncture, Horace, who was troubled with a slight cold, gave forth a stifled and infinitesirually small sneeze. "Lydia," cried the General, as he threw himself wearily into an arm-chair, "I'm sure there's a cat in the back drawing-room. Go and turn it out." And Miss Lirripip, having no alternative, went cautiously behind the heavy cur tains, and was there received in her lover's arms. "You cannot speak to him to-night," she whispered, "He would not listen to you. You see how cross he is. Come again to-morrow." Horace, therefore, silently took an other kiss, and Lydia, having unlocked the little-used door of the back room, chased him, with many expressions of animosity, down the softly carpeted staircase, and with a cry of "Shoo cat!" finally let him out of the front door. When she returned to the drawing room, General Lirripip gave vent tc some angry expressions of hostility toward the entire feline tribe, and when he had thus delivered himself, went off to bed. How the story ended may easily be guessed. When Lydia's father was in a cooler mood Horace found no diffi culty in obtaining his consent to the mar riage, which took place three months afterward; and to the end of their days, neither Sir Pertinax Popinjay nor Mr. Merton Murley had any idea that a third person was present, when they pro posed to Miss Lirripip in Bruton street, Grosvenor .square. Chambers' Journal. Better than Money. There was once a poor man, a linen weaver, who sat every day, from earli est dawn, in his workshop, hard atwork; and as he was one who put his trust in God, to pass away the time he would sing many a hymn or innocent song, as he felt inclined. And he had so clear and strong a vpicc- that the neighbors required" no alarm to wake them m the morning. But this greatly annoyed a rich merchant who lived near him; for he never could sleep before midnight, owing to his anxious thoughts about his money, and very early in the morning he was' awaked by this noisy, vexatious sing-song of his neighbor; the weaver. He reflected how he could put an end to this annoyance. He could not forbid it; for singing, like praying and working, is the right of every man in his own house, with which no one can interfere. He must use other means then. He sent for the workman, and asked him at what value he estimated his singing. The workmanreplied that he thought that it was certainly worth a day's wages, as it made the day's work itself so easy to him. The merchant inquired how much that was. The man replied, and it was certainly not a large sum which he named. Then the merchant said he would pay him a-month's wages -in advance, not for the singing, indeed, but that he should hence sing no more, but keep a strict silence. And he laid down the money before him. The weaver thought to himself it could not be easier earned; so he took the money-and promised he would be as still as a mouse in his worshop. When he got home with his money he counted it out full of joy; and they were all good new coins more money than he had ever possessed before. In the evening, before he went to sleep, he gazed at his treasure for nearly an hour; and at night he put it under his pillow, lest a thief should steal any of it. At midnight he still had it in his head, and thought about what he should do with it And in the morning when he arose it seemed to weign aown au nis iimos iikc ieaa his head' was weary with lying awake so anxiously, his hands were heavy and lazy, ana refused their usual service. Ah and he dared not singU Time passed away slowlv and tedious ly, so that he could scarcely endure the day. Meanwhile he had been thinking the matter over and had come to a con clusions for the man) who stood at eight that evening in the merchant's office was the weaver. "Sir, with your permission," he said, "here you havevyour money back again; it is an evil spirit-which does nof allow me to sleep quietly." . And oefore the merchant could say ft word in reply, the weaver was already atside. the door, and singing, with a 'clear, full voice: A fresh and merry heart . Is worth more than money or wealth. XrlllnuB, XraUrum. . Chatterbox. How Cure Are Sometimes Effected. Faith is a raro wonder-worker. Strong in the belief that even' Frank is a doc tor, an old Arab, who had been par tially blind from birth, pestered an English traveler into giving him a seid-k;tz"p'v.-der and some pomatum. Next flay the chief declared that he could sec .K?t!r than he bad done for twenty years. A sea Captain, when one of his crew craved something for his stomach's sake, on consulting his book, found "Number fifteen" was the thing for the occasion. Unfortunately there had been a run on that number, and the bottle was empty. Not caring to send the man away unebmforted, the pkipper, remem bering that eight and seven made fifteen, made up a dose from the bottles so num bered, which the seam.m took with startling effects, never contemplated by himself or the cribbage-looking Cap taiu. That worthy jumped too hastily at conclusions, like the Turkish physi cian of whom Mr. Oscanyan tells the following story: Called in to a case of typhus, the doctor in question examined the patient (an upholsterer), prescribed, and, departed. Passing the house the next day he inquired of a servant at the door if his master was dead, and to his astonishment heard he was much bet ter. Indoors he went, to learn from the convalescent that being consumed with thirst he had drank a pailful of the juice of pickled cabbage. Soon after ward, a dealer in embroidered handker chiefs, seized with the same malady, sent for the physician, who forthwith or dered him to take a pailful of pickled cabbage juice. The man died next day; and the doctor set down this memoran dum in his book for future guidance: "Although in cases of typhus pickled cabbage juice is an efficient remedy, it is not, however, to be used unless the patient be by profession an uphol sterer." Lady Barker's New Zealand shepherd found a somewhat similar potion of in finite use. When his mistress expressed her surprise at his possession of a bottle of Worcestershire sauce, Salter said: "You see mum. although we gets our health uncommon well in these salu brious mountings, still a drop of physio is often handy-like, and in a general way I always purchase myself a box of Hollo way 's'Pills of which you do get such a lot for your money - and also a bottle of Painkiller. But last shearing they was out o' Painkiller, so thev put me'up a bottle o' cain pepper, and like wise that 'ere condiment, which was very efficacious, 'specially toward the end o' the bottle. It always took my mind eff the loneliness, and cheered me up wonderful, especial if I added a lit tle red pepper to it." Sir Walter Scott's piper, John Bruce, spent a whole Sunday selecting twelve stones from twelve south running streams, with the purpose that his sick master might sleep upon them and become whole. Scott was not the man to hurt the honest fellow's feelings by ridiculing the notion of such a remedy proving of avail; so he caused Bruce to be told that the recipe was infallible; but that it was absolutely necessary to success that the stones should be wrap- fed in the petticoat of a widow who tad never wished to marry again; upon learning which the Highlander re nounced all hope of completing the charm. Lady Duff Gordon once gave an old Egyptian woman a powder in a frag ment of the Saturday Review. She came again to assure her benefactress the charm was a wonderfully powerful one for, although she bad not been able to wash off all the fine writing from the paper, even that little had done her a great deal of good. She would have made an excellent subject for a Llama doctor, who, if he does not happen to have any medicine handy, writes the name of the remedy he would administer on a scrap of paper, moistens it with his mouth, rolls it up in the form of a pill, which the patient tosses down his throat. In default of paper, the name of the drug is chalked on a board, and washed off again with water, which serves as a healing draught These easy-going practition ers might probably "cite plenty of in stances of the efficacy of their method. Dr. John Brown, of Edinburg, once gave a laborer a prescription, saying: "Take that and come back in a fort night, when you will be well." Obe dient to the injunction, the patient pre sented himself at the fortnight's end, with a clean tongue and a happy face, Proud of the fulfillment of his promise. Dr. Brown said: "Let me sec what I gave you." "Oh," answered the man, "I took it doctor." "Yes, I know yon did; but where is the prescription?" "I swallowed it," was the reply. The patient had made a pill of the paper, and faith in the physicians skill had done the rest. In some Lancashire districts the country people believe that to cure warts the same number of pebbles as warts should be placed in a bag, which is to be dropped where three or four roads converge, and that the person who picks it up will obtain the warts in addition, warts are also said to disappear soon after they are rubbed with a black snail, but that it is essential that it must afterward be impaled on a spike of the hawthorn or no eilect will be produced. Persons afflicted with tumors of any kind are advised to rub thorn with a dead man's hand. Whooping-cough ii supposed to be cured by passing the patient nine times round the body of an ass. Those who suffer from rheumatic pains are advised to carry small pota toes in their pockets, which are believed not only to cure, but to prevent a return of the disease. Exchange. Educate the Hand. The head of the American youth, male and female, has been too long educated at the expense of the hand. It is about time this sort of thing should stop, if the claim of the Yankee that he is nothing if not "practical" is to be in future anything more than an idle boast Let it not be understood that what is vulgarly known as "book learn ing" is to he despised or neglected; it ought not to be and must not be; the more of it the better. But in these days of concentration of wealth and capital, of production bv great corporations, the proportion of those tk work or wages is constantly growing larger. Agricultural independ ence is being encroached upon by in dustrial dependence, and how to" use his hands in the coming battle of life is now, more than ever before, becom ing the serious question for every American boy. Industrial or manual education, then, is destined to become a feature of the education afforded by our public schools. Geometry and a jack-plane are no more incompatible than that delightful study and a blackboard. Arithmetic would cease to be stupid if mechanical education enough were sandwiched in between recitations to tnable the boys to manufacture that is, make with their hands, aided by proper tools the conditions of their problems. Even text books would be ioubly interesting if some of the schol ars would spena time enough in a printing office to learn how it was made, and be able to describe the pro cess intelligently. There is not a blacksmith shop in the country but should have two or three boys in it a part of the summer vacation, if for nothing more than to consider whether they should like the bvsiBess; not a carpenter shop bat should tolerate a few school boys in it man and than, that they may learn how ts drive a nail comity; anf so on throughout the trades. Division of labor, which has come with the intro duction of machinery, while a good and necessary thing, is derelict in that it has nothing, in the place of the appren tice system which it has destroyed. Let the school and the workshop co operate in every cuinmuiiityin the coun try, and the union of text hooks and tools will be consummated in a surpris ingly short time with beneficial results It is" not proposed nor is it desirable to turn all schools into workshop: that would be as unfortunate as the present state of affairs, which is all books and no tools. , Thoughtful men interested in educa tional matters are not neglecting these phases of instruction for youth. In this city the institute of technology is not an .experiment, it is an institution. Its methods duly modified are applicable to a country high school. It does not in the least interfere or obstruct the classi cal education which distinguishes the neighboring university at Cambridge. Its school of mechanic" arts admits boys as young as fifteen. Several schools for manual education are already started in New York. St. Louis boasts of one of the best in the country. One of the most significant signs of the times N a recent circular of the Carriage Build ers' National Association which has es tablished in New York a school for the advancement of technical knowledge among apprentices and mechanics of the carriage trade. Why should not every trade have a like association for a like purpose? Mining Gazelle. A Calamitous War and Humiliating Peace. Although the terms of the treaty of peace between Chili and Peru are of a most crushing character to the latter country, anything must be considered a deliverance from the reign of terror which has prevailed there since Peru was placed completely at the mercy of its conqueror in 1881. No unprovoked war of national aggrandizement has been as savage, as unrelenting, as suc cessful as this descent of Chili upon Peru. The discovery of large beds of nitrate of soda and of borax, and al most inexhaustible deposits of guano in the Province of Tarapaca, excited the cupidity of tin; Chilian Government. With a desire to acquire this rich terri tory from a weaker neighbor it was not difficult for Chili to trump up a pretext to declare war. This was found in the consummation of a secret treaty of mu tual defense against Chili entered into by Peru and Bolivia. Although this did not threaten any offensive war against Chili that country .seized upon it a- cause for war. Her demand that tie treaty should be abrogated not being complied with. Chili declared war April 5, 1879. Peru had a nominal army of 40,000,poorly equipped, while Bolivia had virtually no army at all. Chili, on the other hand, was in good lighting trim. Her fleet was formidable, her cavalry well-mounted and armed; her artillery consisted of the best modern guns, and all told she was able to put about 7o,000 men in the field. On land Peru made a stand against her enem but at sea her two ironclads, the cele brated Huascar and the unfortunate In depencia,hcld theirown aaint superior numbers until th-j latter wa wiveked. Even then, for four months the Huas car was a terror to the entire fleet of Chili. The terrible engagement in which she was finally overcome, after the com mand of the vessel had devolved on five officers, who died at their posts, was the greatest naval fight of modern times. Her capture left the entire Peruvian coast line of 1,400 miles open to the Chilian fleet. Then disaster trod upon the heel of disaster, until Lima fell and the whole of Peru was overrun by the merciless invadeis. All the industrial and commercial pursuits of peace were prostrated by this ferocious and pro tracted war. Chili's loss was 3.27G killed and 5,G10 wounded; Peru's. 11,672 killed, 4,431 wounded and 7,020 taken prisoners, and Bolivia's, 920 killed,l,210 wounded and 300 taken prisoners. Chili has gained everything she wished. The treaty provides that Tarapaca shall be come the territory of Chili. Also that she shall occupy the flourishing towns of Tacua and Arica for ten years. At the end of that time they arc to decide by a popular vote to which country thev will belong, when the country se curing them shall pay the other $10, 000,- 000. Chili has to assume on the best terms possible for her the arrangemeut of the Peruvian foreign debt, for which the guano deposits of Tarapaca were mortgaged long before the war, but from the territory which passes into her control she will be able to do this and quickly repay herself for the expenses of her "costly campaign. Peru is reduced and humiliated almost beyond recovery Chicago Herald. An English Sale of Shares. A few days ago a remarkable sale was held of shares in the New River Water Company the oldest undertaking of the kind" in England. One half of a "King's share,'- and smaller portions of other "King's shares" were up at auction together with twenty 100 shares of a new issue. The "King's shares" are freehold property, and are passed by deed like land. When James 1. assisted the founder, Sir Hugh Mid dleton, with funds to complete his great undertaking, a moiety of the en tire concern, divided, for the purpose of this arrangement, into seventy-two equal parts or shares, was assigned to the King, and subsequently this moiety, or thirty-six shares, was reassigned to the company in consideration of an an nual payment of 500 forever. The present income rf the shares so com muted was last year 92,000. In twen ty years the dividend per share has risen from 876 to 2,541, and the company's income from 210.000 to 473,000. At the sale the property was divided into eighty-three lots, the "King's shares" being sold in fractions of one-hundredths, one-hundred and sixtieths, sixtieths, and one-hundred and ninety-seconds. They realized at the rate of about 91,000 for an entire share. The new issue of shares of 100 each brought 385 apiece, and the en tire proceeds of the sale, which extended over three davs. amounted to upward of 60,000.- -London Cor. Philadelphia Telegram. m Saved Monej. The other day a man went into the Merchants' Bank, and, drawing the President aside, said: "I am the cause, sir, of saving you four dollars It's a small sum, it is true, but still it amounts to something.'' "How have you been the means of my saving money?" the President asked. Well, this morning I started out with the intention of borrowing five dol lars. Since then I have cut down the amount to one dollar. Let me have the dollar and you may keep the other four." "You are a generous fellow," the President replied, "and, since you have shown such consideration, I will aid you. I will cause you to save me five dollars, for I shall "not give you the dol lar." "Then I am to receive no reward?'- "None that I can figure up in this world." "Well, I reckon I'll have to take my chances in the next world. Very little reward we get here. Good day. sir." About an hour afterward, when the President arose to go to dinner, he dis covered that the Kind-hearted visitor had stolen his hat The slang phrase "a dead sure thing" has been superseded by the ele rant expression, "a deceased surety." Captain Snragar's Pfenre. An incidont illustrating the character of the late Captain Joseph Swagar, ii related by Mrs. Tabitha P. Cunning ham, a venerable lady over seventy years of age. In lb36, when Captain Swagar was commanding the steamer Diana, Mrs. Cunningham, her hus band and little two-year-old daughter took a trip to Netv Orleans on the Cap tain's boat for their health. It was their intention to remain in the Crescent City for quite a while, and they en gaged a suite of rooms with an old French lady, who had several persons stopping at her house. One of these boarders was a lady who. shortly after the arrival of the Cunninghams, was taken suddenly sick and her disease developed into a case of small-pox. The patient was removed to the pest-house, and the bed upon which she had been lying placed in the yard to be fumiga ted. Mrs. Cunningham looked out of a window, and was horror-stricken to sec her little daughter enjoying a fine tumbling on the infected bed. Mrs. Cunningham was almost scared to death, and feeliug .sure that her little darling would sooner or later be stricken with the dread disease, informed her husband that she was going to get back to Louisville as soon as possible. She inquired what boat was going up tho river, and was told that Captain Swagar's was the only boat running at that time. It appears that Mrs. Cun ningham had formed rather a dislike for Captain Swagar on the down trip, on account of his too authoritative manner, as she supposed; but there was no other way for her to get home, and she was compelled to tako passage on the Diana. The boat was sixteen days reaching Louisville. Sho had an immense trip of passengers, both the cabin and deck being crowded. On the second day out the Tittle girl was taken si -k. audCaj tain Swagar had two physicians who wore aboard the boat, to attend her. Before long they announced that the little sutlerer had the most beautifal case of i::all-pn they lad ever seen. An effort was made to keep the matter quiet but it finally leaked out that there was small-pox aboard the boat, and then such excitement never was seen. The hundreds of passengers rose up in a solid body and demanded of the Cap tain that the Cunningham family should be put ashore forthwith. They clam ored around him, waiting to know whether or not he intended to comply with their demands, and threatening what they would do in case he refused! The passengers had mutinied, so to speak, and Imd turned into a howlinfr mob. The Captain s :w that some decisivo action was necessary, and drawing a revolver he leaped upon a chair, and Iiointed it straight at the heads of the eaders of the mob: "Silence!" he roired, at the top of his voice. "I am commander of this boat, and these people have paid me their passage to Louisville, and I intend to carry them there unless the boat blows up or Miiks. If any of you pas sengers desire to get off at the next landing, you can do so, and 1 will re fund you your money. You now know what I intend to do, and tho first man who opens his mouth again I'll blow his brains out." The determination depicted on the Captain's countenance had its effect upon the mob and it dis persed. "I could have worshiped that man forever after that," said Mrs. Cunning ham, in relating the storj', "for it was his brave conduct that saved my little girl's life." When the boat reached Portland the Captain hired a carriage and had the family conveyed to their home. Strange as it may appear, not a single one of the passengers took the disease that the little girl had brought aboard the boat. Louisville Commercial. Bonanza Farms. A few months ago a sensation was created in California by the murder of a great ranch-owuer who had long been famous as a representative of the new school of farmers. Dr. Glenn's wheat field, the circuit of which was a lively day's ride, was celebrated in books of travel, and every stranger wished to see it as a specimen of the ''bonanza farms" which were to revolutionize the agricul tural systems of the fertile West He owned enormous productive estates in various Darts of tho Pacific slope, and gave employment to armies of laborers. When his affairs came to be settled af ter his death there was another sensa tion. It was doubtful fur a time whether he died a millionaire or a bankrupt. There were debts to the amount of a million dollars on the principal farm. It was a dry season and the crop was light At last it is announced that there will be a considerable surplus to divido among the heirs; although the vast fortune which report very natur ally assigned to this great wholesale op erator in farm labor has shrunk to mod est dimensions. Tho collapse of the Glenn enterprise is not to be regretted. It was carried on, as we now know, with difficulty and danger. Drought and other acci dents of Husbandry, which brought dis appointment and perhaps embarrass ment to the small farmer, might sweep away from the bonanza wheat-grower die last penny of his fortune and the last shred of his credit. It is well for ambitious men to see something of the risk attending the absorption of im mense tracts of land in a single estate. Because most kinds of manufacturing aro economically and efficiently con ducted in large establishments, we are apt to assume that the tillage of the earth can best be managed on the same wholesale plan. The tendency toward this experiment has been strongly marked at the West where large tracts of fertile land await occupation. But nobody seems to succeed in keeping such overgrown estates together. If they are not broken up after awhile for business reasons, they are sure to bo divided by the interference of death. There aro land-owners now in Calfor nia who are fully aware of the dangers of undue concentration, and arc cutting up their estates as a matter of policy, believing that one of the greatest inju ries they could do their children would be to leave them too much land. The farm laborer in this country has univer sally the ambition to become a farm owner. He is not content to work per manently for wages; he will not look on patiently whilo a few rich men absorb all the available land and ask him to do for them the work which can not be done by machinery; and if the bonanza system should ever be carried so far as to make a real division between the laborer and the land-owner one class holding the property while the other had the numbers and the voles wo should see somo startling social disturb ances and some wild legislation. The small farmer has been the great safeguard of our civilization. If wo have never had any serious and pro longed conflicts between labor and cap ital; if the people have always been order-loving, just, and iu the "best sense of the word conservative; if we have been able to receive millions of the poor and the discontented from foreign coun tries and convert them without the least friction into thrifty and useful citizens, it is because we have made it our na tional policy to give every man who wants it a stake in the country. The typical American farmer is laborer and tapitalist at once; and wherever the two great forces of society are thus united mere must be prosperity and peace K. T. Tribune. TjM most difficult punctuation is rtt& s ssnf to a gossip's tongue. BBpjsjsmjsjfci WiaBni- ABBBBBBBBn s) I M P 9 M3L HLfssl k BBBBBBBBBn H W .snsHfiilaSfeftEKcsfc BHtB s iF fcssSSM?BSBs1saBSSSsWBlKJ s' ! KAvrwAKI). rtnilv CnnLii Tr-it... .. r On.nl.u f.it rago.Kutia City. SI. Louis, uud nil oit-t5 Eaat. Through citnt viiv IVurin to tmllun hmU. 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