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'"5" :r $. 'JT J tel Sr- - il t . fv 'll 4 w X ' - L if i ill I U. H r li! 1 m v r 'Tem ab. Wew sass-a KSIK'po' ltTO lipctooy" coaiptete J" -satia' began and he two wo the Mtart to tell ttei nate cracks. ie w.,. "cuer, yey both struck to "nua onenin' sir-then fell 1st on their 3Vomnrthoro -bs they were QUteuyiyin (ed m if Ult divll f ear of tbeir wcronigb cracked their dlges Tffiu.7was sound. An men, nearly dead from a batln'. Ted away home they'd enough of the JutwoUttIe blackthorns (it's truth I'm re latin') . . , .. 'ere laug-hin' like maa at tae aeea ey aw aone. John H. Byas. A VILLAGE SCANDAL. "I do not believe it," said Mrs. Grant, . emphatically. But what everybody says most be true," persisted Mrs. Jeffrey. "By no means," said Helen Grant "Once everybody said the earth was flat now we all know it is round," "Speak for yourself!" retorted Mrs. Jeffrey. "I don't know it's round, but 5m willing to believe it on good evi dence. Thank heaven, I'm not so stub Txrn that I won't believe. I'm one of the sort that can be convinced of a thing even it I don't see it" Mrs. Grant flushed a little and tears came to her eyes. "She is my friend, and I love her dearly." she said. "She has faults every one can see that; but this wicked, shameful story I simply cannot believe it Oh, Mrs. Jeffrey, can you not see that it is a matter of conscience with me as well as with you?" Mrs. Jeffrey, a little ashamed, but of the same opinion still, rose to go. "If the matter is brought up in the church, you will then hear all the evi dence. After you see the letteryou may change your mind" Pine Falls was convulsed over its first scandal The tongue of censure that had faintly reproved when Abram Har ris had carried his mother off to the poor-house, and indulged in audible criticisms when Laura Cowles had been baptized in the river in midwinter dur ing a church revival and died of inflam matory rheumatism a week afterward, had now broken silence and carried the story from house to house until it was on everybody's lips. A mania for visiting seemed to have broken out among the ladies. Half a dozen could be seen any day with a lit tle bundle of knitting or 'crochet in hand, going to make informal visits or calls at the homes of their intimate friends or near neighbors. To be sure each lady was very particular to ex- Elain, if opportunity offered, that she ad promised to show Mrs. So-and-so a new stitch or pattern, or she had been intending to take her work and "run in" to see Airs. Such-a-one for six months or more. It was really a shame to neglect one's neighbors so. Mrs. Jeffrey and Mrs. Martin were seated on the back porch of the Jeffrey mansion, engaged in earnest and con fidential conversation. Overhead in the apple tree the robin sang unheard. On the floor a mischievous kitten played with Miss Martin's ball of zephyr, tang ling the thread unheeded, while her crochet work lay idly in her lap. "She alwaj's did seem frivolous to me," remarked Mrs. Jeffrey. "No care of her house, no interest in domestic matters. There's a great deal said in these days about a woman's hiding a God-given talent under a bushel, and smothering her genius under domestic drudgery; but I've noticed that the wo men who :iro domestic and take an in terest in their homes are not the women who figure in scandal cases or elope ments." "Perhaps," replied Mrs. Martin, who was not so conservative as her neighbor, there's a great deal of human nature in women as well as men. Most of them take an interest in some one thing be sides housekeeping. With some it is Stinting, with others music, others ncy-work or religion. I've known women who were really dissipated, you might say, in religious work; they car ried it to such unreasonable lengths. You and L not being gifted in any of these directions, have gone on in plain, quiet home life. But we must not on that account find fault with those who see life from a different standpoint or call them frivolous because they take an interest in things we don't care for. Mrs. Downs was always fond of dress and fancy work, but until this story came out everybody seemed to like her. "Well, you can say what you please." returned Mrs. Jeffrey, wrathfully. "when a woman behaves herself, she won't be talked about The most shameful part of the whole affair is her assumed inno cence. I saw her myself walking the streets with Mr. Colton only last even ing, as cool as you please. If there's a man in this village that I pity, its Jack Downs." The next day was Sunday, and the minister. Mr. Snow, looked around at the rapidly filling pews with a feel ing of calm complacency. Every body belonging to the congregation was there. Every face wore a look of keen expectancy, and when Jack Downs entered with his pretty wife significant looks were exchanged and a suppressed sensation was visible throughout the audience. Youthful and pretty, she added to these attractions by a taste in dress that was simply perfect As she came slow ly up the aisle twirling her fan non chalantly whispered comments passed from one to another. "How brazen! Did you ever see suck effrontery?" murmured Mrs. Dorr to Mrs. Cowles. "She's a plucky little piece!" said Mr. Martin to his wife, iu a tone in which surprise was so evidently flavored with admiration that his better-half bestow ed upon him a glance of withering acorn. "What audacity!" said Mrs. Brown to her daughter Cora. But that young lady, who rejoiced in the distinction of being the village poet ess, was wrapped in poetic contempla tion. She knew that Mrs. Downs had fallen under public disapprobation be cause of a love-letter that had been found by some one addressed to her and in Mr. Colton's handwriting. Other people saw the reprehensible married flirt accepting protestations of love from a gentleman acquaintance. Not so Miss Cora. This Byronic state of affairs did not so much shock her moral sensibilities as it presented a theme for her muse to portray the ago nies of misplaced affection. Viewing the whole matter simply as an abstrac tion, she surreptitiously drew out her hymn-book and slyly penciled on the Biarein: Xet the cold world deride me, I will but lore thee mote. Whatever fate betide thee" Here she stopped, the only rhyme that suggested itself being "gore." Strug gling with the situation she had just changed the line, "I will not shed thy gore to ."My heart but can adore, when she was recalled to herself by the sound of Mr. Snow's voice as he finish ed reading theusual list of notices. "A most painful circumstance having arisen that seriously affects us as a community as well as a congregation, since it com promises the good names of two of our Mmbers, I feel it a daty toafcrd an opportunity for a full explanation. The congregation are invited to meet at the to-morrow bthve o I hope that every member el 1 ililMi Atkt ro Aapeaoefc Twaagioi four1" Tho'U After that it mattered little whether the sermon were a marvel of brilliancy or the dullest disquisition that ever bored a long-suffering audience. No one paid the slightest attention to it ex cept old Maj. Dorr, who was so deaf that he only caught about one word in ten, and had thus missed the story of the love letter that the school-teacher had written to Mrs. Downs. He always want regularly to church, however, and affected to receive great satisfaction therefrom. After the conclusion of the services, Mrs. Cowles, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Martin, and Mrs. Jeffrey stopped in the aisle for a moment's conference. "I shall take Beatrice Cenci out of the school," said Mrs. Jeffrey. "No child of mine shall be under the instruction of a teacher who writes love-letters to a married woman." . "And to think that Mr. Snow should attempt to cover it up and excuse it" added Mrs. Cowles. "I don't know but we shall be obliged to withdraw from the church. Mv husband thinks there is a great deal of corruption among ministers themselves, nowadays." Certainly no one was better able to detect corruption anywhere than Mr. Cowles, if half the stories of his own immoral escapades could be relied up on. But Mrs. Cowles1 friends remained discreetly silent on this poiut "I shall not allow Cora to go to the parsonage to-morrow evening," inter posed Mrs. Brown. "I think the dis cussion of such subjects has a most de moralizing effect on young people. It is a deplorable affair all round. But when the eveniug came Cora did go. More than that to her mother's great horror, she crossed the room and sat down by Jack Downs and his wife, who sat alone together on the long sofa, although a great many were standing up all around the large parlors. This was not so much from sympathy with Mrs. Downs as a professional in stinct such as that which impels a sur geon to investigate all sorts -of patho logical monstrosities. She wanted to observe for herself the ravages of re morse, humiliation, and unhappy love, the better to finish her poem. But Mrs. Downs was as pretty, as gay, and as nonchalant as ever. Once or twice she whispered behind her fan to her husband, and once she actually laughed, which so outraged the sensi bilities of the more severely virtuous matrons that they shuddered with hor ror at her audacity. Mr. Colton was a romantic looking young man, with disheveled hair, and a look of general shrewdness. He had lately come to Pine Falls as a teacher, and now stood leaning against the man tle. His romantic appearance, so at tractive to the ladies, was due to his hair, which he wore long on account of hisears, they being enormously large, and an interesting pallor which was caused by dyspepsia and not unhappy love, as the young ladies supposed. "I have here," said Mr. Snow, "a let ter which has been a theme of much severe comment The envelope is ad dressed to Mrs. Downs, and it was pick ed up in the street by Mrs. Martin's lit tel son, who took it to his father's gro cery. The contents are in a different penmanship, with Mr. Colton's name as a signature. I will ask Mr. Colton to make an explanation, which will no doubt be satisfactory." "Satisfactory!" repeated Mr. Cowles, with more spirit than politeness. "It seems to me that when a man writes in that style to another man's wife, calling her husband a base wretch" here he cast an indignant glance at Jack Downs "and urging her to run away with him, a satisfactory explanation is not an easy matter." "You are mistaken, sir," answered Mr. Colton. "An explanation iu this case is very easily made. 1 am a mem ber of an amateur theatrical club, and I wrote out my part at Mr. Downs' one evening, copying it out of a book of his. Mrs. Downs gave me an envelope from one of her letters that lay on the table to put the manuscript in, and I unfortu nately lost it on my way home. I will now read the lines, if Mr. Cowles will look over the printed pages and see if I read them correctly." Shamefaced, Mr. Cowles looked on whUe Mr. Colton read, with much dra matic effort: My angel, fly with me! Afar in other lands beyond tbe sea. We'll build a borne 6acrcd to love aud thoe. Scorn the base wrtch wbo in your bumble home Profanes tbe name of love ah, be my own! And heaven is not so high, nor earth so vast. But that its treasures at thy feet I'll cast. "There is a full page of it with my name signed at the bottom, but this will suffice, I think," and Mr. Colton coolly sat down, while a look of consternation .went round the room. Mrs. Downs went up to Helen Grant and kissed her. "Thank you, dear, for your faith in me. I heard all about it and I'll never forget it as long as I live." She looked so gentle and girlish in her dainty white draperies, with that look of childish gratitude in her blue eyes, that kind-hoarted Mrs. Jeffrey went up and put her motherly arms around her ami said, with tears in her eyes: "Forgive me forgive us all, won't you?" Jack answered for her: "She forgives you we both forgive you, neighbors and friends; but if any man repeats such stuff again, about my wife or any other woman, I give him warning here and now that it will afford me infinite pleasuro to give him a sound thrash ing." And that was the last of the great scandal at Pine rails. A Georgia Fish Story. The old rounder, casting a meditative S lance toward where the sun had gone own, said: "Well, gentlemen, I had a little experience of my own once. I went down on tbe Chattahoochee River, in Decatur County, to visit an old friend. He had often told me of the splendid fishing there, and I was anxious to try it It was late in the evening when I got there, and I retired early, so as to be ready for the fun next day. I asked how far it was to the creek, and they told me it was only a few hundred yards, just beyond the fence. By light next morn ing I was up and securing a good tackle ana a few sawyers, started off toward the creek. The fog was so heavy, for it was wood's burning time, that I could not see any distance ahead of me, and so I groped my way as best I could across the little clearing. Beaching the fence I climbed over, and picking my way carefully, for I did not want to fall in the creek, I proceeded slowly down the slope until I thought I must be near the water's edge. Baiting my hook I threw it forward, aud just about time enough for it to strike the water I felt a pull, and with a jerk I brought in a fine fellow. For ten minutes 1 stood there and pulled them in, and then, fearing that I would spoil one day'6 sport, I re gretfully retired, and by accident I reached the house through'the fog. After breakfast the fog lifted and we got ready for a day's enjoyment You may im- Eagine my surprise when on going to the ace where I had caught so many early the morning, I found that it was a full hundred yards from the bank of the creek. The truth is, I had not touched the water, but just stood there and caught them out of the fog." Atlanta Constitution. A plan for rendering paper as tough as wood or leather has been devised m Europe. It consists in mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in the course of manufacture. It-has been found that the greater the degree of concentration of the zinc solution the greater will be the toughness of the paper, which can be used for roofing and for making boxes ad other articles. Bret Harte's Way. 'v It will be observed by those who are solicitous about tbo present tendencies of American fiction, as manifested in the work of a school which is just now onmewhat'nroliiic that here is a distiu- guished American novelist who has im- aginauou. auu u ....,. , .., who allows his people to develop their own characters and words; who doesn't travel through miles of explanation, criticism, and analysis in order to achieve inches of narrative movements; , who doesn't mount the platform, like i the man with a long stick at the pano rama, and bore the audience to death; who had rather use one word than forty, if he has the right word handy; and who bad rather stop short than become tedious. What in the name of common sense is the use iu subjecting the people of fic tion, primarily meant for our entertain ment to a process of psychological anal ysis more rigid anu minute than we dream of applying to real people whom we know and like or hate our whole lives long? V. Y. Sun. MISSING LINKS. The village of Bannister, Mich., is moving along without any church or ganization. There is a young man about 20 years old in Athens, Ga., who says he lives on 30 cents a week. It is said the Queen of Portugal great ly dislikes her new stepdaughter, the Princess Amelia of Orleans. Miss Jeffreys-Lewis, when on tour lately, gave a benefit at Tombstone, ArL Ten, to aid in putting a fence around the graveyard. There are over thirty criminals in jail in various parts of the State of North Carolina under sentence of death. Over half of them are likely to be hanged ere tho year ends. A costume adopted by the Fat Men's Base-Base Club, of Orlando, Fla., con sists of a Mother Hubbard dress, and it is said to be cool and comfortable, if not an aid to fast running. Gen. Lew Wallace has settled himself permanently at literature as a profes sion at his home in Crawfordsville, lnd. He receives $3,500 a year from the' books he has already written. A Toledo police justice refuses to pro tect women out on the streets after 10 o'clock. He says they have no business at tbat'time to be anywhere but home and out of danger of insults. Edmund H. Pendleton, brother of Minister Pendleton, and author of "A Centennial Bohemian," is said to be putting the finishing touches to another society novel at Bar Harbor. The following rather mysterious pas sage appears in the last number of the London World: "So the pretty Welsh matron has driven the American maid en off the field. So much the better. The Yankees have enjoyed too long a run of popular and royal favor." Here is what they used down on Long Island for a clambake, and the cost was , $450: Twenty bushels soft clams, 1 barrel of hard clams, 40 sheepsheads, 2 large Kennebec salmon, 150 lobsters, 100 chickens, 100 pounds of tripe, 6 , dozen bunches of asparagus, 50 pounds of frogs' legs, 1 barrel of hard crabs. j Charley Shcehan, thirteen years old, ' of Lafayette, lnd., went in bathing ac companied by his dog. The boy could not swim, and while paddling about in water nearly up to his neck, the dog got i on his back and pushed him down. As i fast as he came up the dog pushed him under, and the boy was drowned. The people of Fremont, Ohio, are a little bit sensitive over the disparaging remarks frequently made of cx-Presi-dent Hayes by the unmerciful uews- Eaper paragraphist "The R. B. Hayes nown in these parts," said one of the citizens recently "is a benevolent cult ured, and courteous gentleman, heartily in sympathy with his neighbors, in stantly ready with purse and voice to forward every wise scheme for advanc ing the material interests of the town." The President has had the head florist of the white house conservatories out to his farm to see what it would cost to fix up the grounds. Also an architect to see how much money it would require to make the house habi table. Both improvements will necessi tate an outlay of $30,000. Phistor. the florist says the President has got a hole out there that'll hold lots of money. It is said that the President will sell ofl some of his twenty-nine acres. Two needle stories come through ex changes. One is from Rockland, Me., where a farmer killed a cow and found embedded in the flesh near tho heart a largo darning needle. The other comes from Groton, Conn., where a horse re fused to eat, and nearly starved to death before a careful examination of his tongue revealed a needle over two inches long. The obvious comment is that each of these animals had succeed ed in finding a needle iu a ha stack. His Majesty Dom Luis, of Portugal, who speaks some half-dozen languages and devotes most of his time to litera ture and science, granted an Interview to the London Times' correspondent at the recent marriage festival in Lisbon. His Majesty declared that Shakspeare would occupy his attention for some time. He has already translated into Portuguese and published "Othello," "Hamlet" "The Merchant of Venice," and "Richard the Third." "The Tam ing of the Shrew," now in proof, comes next Two highwaymen recently stopped the British Columbia Express Company's coach on the Cache Creek route. They told Driver Tate to get down from the box; but he said that it wasn't safe to leave the horses. "It's a d d sieht safer than to sit there," said one of the robbers. "Get down." He got down, and one of the bandits stood in front of the team with his rifle cocked and pointed at Tate, while the other went through the treasure- bag, which they robbed of its contents, with the excep tion, as the report says, "of one small package of $1,000, wliich they over looked:" Chickens are valuable outside the question of eggs and flesh. A full grown hen will yield from two and one- nau ounces to lour and one-half ounces of feathers and down. The feathers serve for bonnet decorations, the orna mentation of military shakos, and for dusters. The average sized feathers are employed for beds and bolsters, the down for pillows. But the latter class es are not held in as much esteem as the same from geese and ducks. When the feathers are plucked, they are placed for a short time in a baker's oven, after the bread has been withdrawn, to kill the insect germs before they are sent to market John Buskin, being asked the other day for aid in paying off a church debt replied by letter thus: "I am sorrowfully amused at your appeal to me, of all the people in the world, the precisely least likely to give you a farthing. My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is: 'Don't get into debt Starve, and go to heaven; but don't borrow. Try first begging. 1 don't mind, if it s really needful, stealing. But don't buy things you can't pay for.' And of all manner of debtors, pious people building churches they can't pay for are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray be hind tbe hedges, or in a sandpit or in a coalhole first? And of all manner of churches thus idiotically built iron churches are tbe damnablest to me. And of all the sects and believers in any ruling spirit Hindoosr Turks, feather idolaters, and Mumbo Jumbo log and nrc-worehipers who want churches, your modern English evangelical sect is the most absurd and entirely objection able and unendurable to me. All which you might very easily have found out from my books. Any other sort of sect would, before bothering mo to write it to them." There are several stories related by the Court Chaplain respecting the ec centricities of the King's brother, the Duke of Cambridge, who would give vent quite loudly to the thoughts cur rent in his mind during divine service. When the clergyman said "Let us pray." the Duke added audibly, "With all my heart" On another occasion, as we have heard, he said: "Why the devil shouldn't we?" Once, as the un fortunate curate was reading the story of Zaccheus, "Behold the half of my goods I give to tho poor," the Duke as tonished the congregation by saying aloud: "No, no! I can't do that, that's too much for any man no objection to a tenth." In answer to "Thou slialt not steal" the Duke remarked "No, I never did steal anything except some apples .when I was quite a little boy.' Once the Duke objected to the prayer for rain on accouut of the wind. "No use praying for rain in a northeast wind." "The prayer for rain sometimes causes quarrels in country parishes. We knew a case of a farmer" rushing to the Squire to complain of his parson's selfishness. "Directly he geU up his own rubbishing piece of hay." jaid the irritated agriculturist, "ho begins to pray for rain!" The Court Chaplain informs us that the curate of Kew got so nervous at the continual interrup tions of his Royal Highness that he re signed his appointment Temple Bar. Philadelphia Croqaettea. The formula for their preparation is for a large pair of fowls, weighing twelve pounds, or two pairs weighing seven pounds the pair. Select those having the largest amount of breast meat Boil a sweetbread for three minutes, put it into cold water, and after an hour take it out and drain. Boil a calf s brain for five minutes and set aside to cool. Boil half a pint of cream with tbe same measure of bread crumbs, sifted clean of crusts aud lumps. Boil the chickens till tender in just enough water to cover them; when the broth is cold skim off all the greasef then boil it down to halt a pint Remove from the chickens the skin, fat and tendons; cut off all tbe brown meat and reserve it for family use the following day, either to fricassee, stew with giblets, or to mix with an equal amount of roast real and make into breakfast croquettes, to be eaten hot Chop the white meat with the sweet bread and brain, quite tine, first adding a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, the lightly grated outer yellow rind and the juice of a large lemon, one heaped teaspoonful of salt and half a teaspoon ful each of powdered mustard, maco and while pepper. Cut fine two shallots or one small onion, fry with four ounces of butter, add a tablespoonful of flour and stir till smooth; put it quickly into a saucepan, add the chopped meat, the broth jelly and the soaked breadcrumbs; stir brisk ly, and as soon as hot add the yolks of four eggs, stir a little and taKc off the fire. When cool enough to handle mix and chop it lightly, spread on a platter and set into the ice-box to stiffen. After an hour or two mix and mold as fol lows: Sprinkle a molding-board with sifted cracker-dust; take a heaping tablespoon ful of the meat paste and torra the cro quettes in tho shape cither of a roll or a small sugar loaf, the latter being gencr allo preferred. For this use a deep, Dointed wine ?Iass lisrhtlv buttered. There arc, also, tin moulds made ex pressly for this use. When all are done dip them, one by one, into well-beaten eggs and roll in finely-sifted bread-crumbs; after au hour dip and roll again, and set iuto tbe ice box till wanted. Lastly, in enough very hot lard to float them, fry to a rich, golden brown color, turning them with great care while cooking to keep them shapely. A convenient thing for this purpose is the fiat frying-basket of tinned wire. Serve on 'a napkin and garnish with sprays of parsley, and water cress. The above will make about one a half dozen croquettes. From the Caterer. A Professor's Surprise. When Professor Tult's. of Phillips' Exeter Aeadeiny came into the recitation-room this morning his face was as dark as a thunder-cloud. Fifty or more young gentlemen sat facing him, and from the appearance of the profes sor, it was evident that a storm was brewing. Immediately after prayer it burst "Gentlemen," said the professor, "I am pained to hear that some persons, who consider themselves gentlemen, have been guilty of a contemptible ac tion. I do not make any specific charge against any particular young person, but I have every reason to believe that within twenty-four hours I shall be in possession of facts that will lead to the detection of the person or persons who locked up that horse in my room." Ihe hfty students listened with bated breath, and when the professor had concluded every face was the personifi cation of child-like innocence. Each man personally condoled with the pro fessor, and said the affair was dastard- To your correspondent the professor told the following story: "Some time during the night some of those young men went to my stable, and, taking my best horse, brought the animal into the academy, out into the dormitory, and up two flights of stairs into my sleeping room, where I found it this morning. How they managed to get the animal there I am at a loss to see." It took three laborers over a half hour this morning to get the animal down while all tbe youths in the village stood around and cheered themselves hoarse. Pittsburg Commercial- Ga zette. Weighing the Evidence. Tbe convening of the courts often af ford occasion for anecdotes connected with the administration of justice and the various experiences of the lawyers. We beard a new one this week. In the reconstruction days a certain district haa a pretty fair and well-meaning negro for a justice of the peace. He had heard judges deliver charges and caught on to a few ideas dimly. A case was up before him in which most of tbe testimony was reduced to writing. It was a case of a white man against a negro. When the lawyers had conclud ed the case before him, he pulled a small draw scale out of his pocket with the remark, in his peculiar dialect that the law directed that he should weigh the evidence, and before the lawyers had caught on to his intentions he had tried the two batches of testimony by the scales, and without hesitation rendered his decision in favor of the white man, because his testimony weighed two ounces the most This is Virge Dasher's story. We vouch .for it; that is, we vouch that it is a-good one. Valdosta QaJ) Times. Amateur photography is still the vogue, and undoubtedly at the summer ing places every one that one knows wUl be taken, or else have to submit to' being "took." The Qneen Anne house which Justice Gray is going to build at Washington will cost about $76,000. A. Rassian Princes. Karoline Bauer tells the story of tbe Princess Natalie Kuraklin. She was an imposing and captivating beauty, with the temper of a hend, and became the most admired and feared woman at the court of the Emperor Alexander. Her husband idolized her, and, unfortunate ly, allowed her complete control over himself. To indulge iier love for pleas ure and luxury he went beyond his means, and then sold one estate after another. Once, when he hauded her a little packet of bank-notes he had won, as a sort of ieaee offering. Natalie seized them and threw them into the firo, to cure the General, as she suiu, of club gaming and laie hours. Another night, when she was adorned in full splendor for a court ball, the General kept her waiting. At last ho came, greatly excited, with a red face and flashing eyes. She supposed the excite ment was caused by wine aud told him so iu vehement words. "No, dear dar ling." he protected. "I had the most important business to utteud to, con cerning yourself anil our Alexander. Look at these ruble notes you'Will not throw them into the tire." "I will, though!" she exclaimed. And as she spoke she snatched the notes from his hands and threw them into the flames. He shrieked in despair and rushed for- ward to save them too late! There was seen a bright blaze, and "Nata lie." he said in a hollow voice, "you have just destroyed our whole fortune Jt'oD.OOO. 1 hojAs if 1 should not return alive from the C:un rmis that you may never have a bister repentance. To day 1 received orders from the Emper ! or's own lips to join the army in the ! Caucasus to-morrow. In order to se 1 cure your and our ehild's future, 1 to J da sold our last estate to the Crown, and everything now is ashes, ashes!" Gen. Kurakiu was killed in one of his first engagements iu the Caucasus, and Natalie became the most heartiess of widows. A rteinarlraulu Verdict. The Atlanta Const liition relates the follow ins storv Ironi South Carolina il- ! lustrative of thu sudden ascendency to f power of the negro in that State during the days ot l-eeonstruetiou: A prominent farmer of Heauford dis trict had coueltutive evidence that one of his negro tenants was stealing large ly from him. A warrant was issued for the arrest of the negro, aud his case was brought to trial before a newly-appointed negro justice of the peace, who sum moned a jury of his own color to pass judgment on the trial. The trial was a brief one and the evidence was so over whelming and conclusive against the defendant that the justice sent the jury out with the statement that the case was so plain that it vas not necessary for him to instruct them as to their "duty. After a few minutes' consultation the jury returned and thu foremau an nounced that they had agreed. "Wat is your verdic'?" "We find' Mr. guilty." The announcement was a shock to the room, as Mr. was the plain tiff. "You fools," exclaimed the -indignant justice, "go back aud bring in a verdic'- "greeable wid de fac's." The astonished jury withdrew and in n few minute again returned with smil ing countenance-. "Well, is you ready?" asked the ma-hogany-hued "judge." "Yossir; we tin' Mr. not guilty, but guilty of accusin'. Summer Kercragcs. Lemon Syrup.- -Put in a preserving bottle three pounds of white sugar, cover with one quart of water, nndlet it boil until it is a clear syrup, stirring frequently: when cold add one ounce of citric acid aud two teaspoonftUs of oil of lemon; bottle immediately. Hop Beer. Put three gallons of wnter into a bell-metal or porcelain-lined preserving kettle; add two handfuls of hops: after boiling for an hour put in one cup of wheat bran and one quart of molasses; let it boil for fifteen min utes longer; when it is milk-warm add one teaspoonful of light yeast Set the mixture in a warm place to ferment for a day aud night, after which it may be bottled; secure the corks with wire or string and lav the bottles on the side in a cool place. Mead. Boil well together three pounds of sugar and one quart of water; when cool add one ounce of tartaric acid mid vanilla to taste. It is ready for use at once. If it is to be kept bot tle and cork securely. When used put three tablcspooufuls in a tumbler, add a quarter of a tr-aspoonful of bi-carbou-ate of soda, and fill tbe glass with ice water. Strawberry or Raspberry Acid. Take two and a hall- ounces of citric acid, sprinkle it over six quarts of the fruit, add one pint of water, aud let tbe mix ture stand for twenty-four hours; pour ofl the liquid slowly, and to each pint add one and a half pounds of white sugar; stir every day for a week until thu sugar is dissolved, then bottle, but do not cork for a dav or two. They were contrasting two different styles of onitory in Congress, as illus trated by Cou pressmen Kverbart and O'Neill. Mr. Everhart, In :i speech on the Kivor and Harbor bill, talked about tbe Goidian knot, the Serbonian bog, Jupiter and Danac, the fabulous shores of Calypso and Atlantis the imprima tur of tho Elzevirs, and the Palimpsests of the Vatican, ending up with a refer ence to Kzekiel swallowing the roll. Mr. O'Neill, on the other hand, got up and said simply that the bill looked like a steal, but that he was in favor of it, provided St. Loui.-t got her share of the pork. This is the sort of eloquence that St. Louis appreciates. Chicago Tri bune. .Unprofitable Customer. Almost every machine-shop owner has suffered more or less from the friend who drops in to have a rivet put in his knife, the spring of his pistol fixed, or some other one of the million little odd tinkering jobs done. Of course, he does not expect to pay for it, "it is such a trifle, you know, nor does the proprie tor like to make a charge, and thereby lay himself open to being thought "small." When a charge is made, it is seldom commensurate with the cost of doing the work, and rarely, if ever, pays for the annoyance and diversion from more important work. Such jobs, it is safe to say, are always distasteful, but the proprietor does not know exactly how to refuse to do them. Not only do they take more time than would be sup posed, but considerable time is wasted m getting back to regular work, and in mauy cases other employes have to wail on the one doing the job, machin ery is idle, and the minds of tbe men have to go back and gather up the threads of the work in hand. Such jobs are an imposition, not intentional per haps, because those imposing them are ignorant of tbe annoyance they cause, but this does not lessen their cost in any measure. The machinist who does not want such work should plant himself squarely against it and refuse to take it at all. A few words of explanation would satisfy any reasonable applicant Industrial World. m i m The other morning at the Tombs, be fore one of our most courteous police justices, a war of words waxed hot and furious between two distinguished law yers of that locality. "Shvsaid one, in a vigorous aside, "you are a confounded liar' "Sir," responded the other, "you am an infernal fnnl " "Gentleman. ffentleman." entreated the courteous JudM, you will kindly adores your obwirTatiop to the court, "ff J. Qun. "RATTLESNAKE JIM." A Cvrloa Character and th Baslneaa He ParKtir. Everybody in Wayne county knows "Rattlesnake Jim" -"at least every per son in the southwestern part of the county is conscious of the fact that there is such a person in existence, writes a Wooster. O., correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. To many he is known as James Jeffrey, lawyer. Until recently he was a practitioner at the Wayne county bar, but abandoning the legal profession he sought a home on a stretch of prairie in the south western part of the count', where, with his family, he has resided for some years. The sobriquet of "Rattlesnake Jim" was attached to him on account of his propunsity for capturing rattle snakes. The surroundings of his home gave him full sway in that inclination, as he has invaded the home of the rat tlers. For three years past he has been catching rattlesnakes for various parties, and upward of several hundreds of rep tiles have been captured by him iu that time. The reptiles aro the prairie rat tlesnakes, or massasauges. a very poison ous reptile. His mode of securing them is to worry the snake with a cane or stick until his snakeship becomes cow- ed, which he asserts will be in a very short time, and then pick him up, and he will be as harmless as a kitten. He claims that snakes form the acquaint ance of persons the same as any other animal. From exjM'rieuee he has learned that the snakes make their ap- Searance some time in May, and then isappear in August lying dormant for nine months. A snake will not receive rattles until two years old. He relates that be bad frequently heard that snakes would swallow their young when danger threatened, but always was suspicious of the statement until he saw the state ment verified. He encountered an old female garter-snake with a lot of young ones one day. He approached the snakes, and tbe old female opened her mouth, into which the young ones glided with lightning rapidity. He killed the old snake and found twelve young ones inside of her. According to bis statement a snake would be a paying boarder, as one frog is sufficient food for a year. Jeflrey strongly ad vances the claim that snake-catching is a gift possessed by persons with suffi cient magnetism in them to make the reptiles apparently powerless. A 5-year-old daughter of Jeffrey's possesses that magnetism to a superlative degree, for she handles live snakes, and likes to play with them, and never was bitten. She takes a snapping-turtle and presses her cheek to the turtle's nose, and does not suffer any injury. Jeffrey holds that the only reliable 'cure for a rattlesnake-bite is turpentine. A bottle of turpentine held against the bite, the mouth of the bottle over the bite, against which the turpentine is allowed to touch, will draw out the poison, which is noticeable as it comes out. making a sort of blue flame in the turpentine. Although Jeffrey has never been bitten he has tested tins cure ou dogs' struck by the fangs of rattlesnakes, and found it infallible in every instance. Some days ago Jeffrey came to Wooster, and dropping iuto a restaurant laid a large male rattler (the males are black and the females black and yellow, spotted) on tbe floor. A skirmish among the occupants of the room occurred, and since then his presence anywhere causes an uneasiness among persons near him, as they expect to see a snake crawl out of bis pocket He Saw the Card. A United States Senator, who, years ago, used to flirt with chance, but who has since become a staid and conserva tive citizen, said to a Washington Critic reporter one day last week: "Here is a card story that you won't believe, but it happened just the same. Just after the war I was in Washington on a visit, and ono night I went around to a gambling house with several ac quaintances. I happened to know the man who ran the place, and stopped in the ante-room for a few minutes to talk to him while the rest of the party passed into the card-room. In a short time I followed. There was a faro layout there and a crowd gathered about it, and as I came up the cards had just been put in the box for a fresh deal. The instant Hooked at the box I saw under the first card, which you know does not count, the jack of clubs. It was as plain to my eyes as though the top card were made of glass. Before the dealer began I asked him what odds he would give me if I called the second card. He look ed up a little queerly, and the people about the table laughed derisively. 'That is a curious way of betting,' he said, 'but I'll lav you ten to one that you can't' I put down $10 and called tbe jack, and when he removed the top card the jack of clubs was there sure enough just as I had seen it I would have called the suit, but I was afraid he would not bet The cards had been put in the box before I came up to the table, and the only one visible was the top card, but it is literally true that I saw the card under it You don't believe it? I did not suppose you would. Nevertheless, this is absolutely a fact Of course, I did not attempt to account for it; and it has never happened since." m i m Chaaged Hia Mind. One of the "boys" now hanging out in Detroit was nabbed in Pennsylvania a few months ago for some swindling game, and was locked up in a county jail pending examination. He was the only prisoner in the building, and he hadn't been in there fifteen minutes be fore he felt that an hour's work would let him out It was a tumble-down af fair, built half a century ago, and the turnkey was a young Quaker. As he received his prisoner, he said: "I think 1 shall place thee on thy honor not to escape," All right" replied the prisoner, "I want to stay right here and see this case through." He had the run of the corridor and an open cell, and about two hours after supper he had no trouble wrenching a couple of bars off the corridor window. Waiting for the jail to get quiet he lift ed the sash and climbed out on the sill for a drop to the ground, but at that instant he heard a voice from beneath him. saying: "On second thought I concluded that thy honor might not be as safe as my vigilance. Get thee back, or I will blow thy head oft" The prisoner not only "got thee," but the old crib held him safely until he was taken into court Detroit Free Press. This story is told of Mr. Mac , a well-known humorist residing at Rock liffe, Canada, on the Ottawa, who com bines the duties of station agent and postmaster: Having acted for some time as master of mails at that place to the satisfaction of the community, but without pay, the M. P. for the district procured his appointment as postmaster, and the head of the department wrote him that he had much pleasure in con firming his position "the salary to be the same as heretofore." This pleased Mac immensely, and he wrote to the chief acknowledging the honor. "I just wrote him," he says, "that I felt honor ed, as in duty bound, by the confirma tion of my appointment and was glad to know the salary was to be the same as heretofore, namely, nothing a year; for, says I, I'd h-h-h-halo like f-f-f-furv to have top-p-p-pay anything!" Har- per's Magazine. A man who died at Burlington, la.. tl other day left WW to the reporter who should write the "best obituary" of Happiness remits from that true conteatmeat which indicates perfect health of body and miad. You may possess it, If you will purify and invigorate your blood with Avert Sarsa pnrflhu E. M. Howard, Newport, N. H. writes : "I suffered for years with Scrof ulous humors. -After using two bottles of Ayert Sarsaparilla, I Found great relief. It has entirely restored me to health." James French, Atchison, Haas., writes: "To all persons suffering from Liver Complaint, I would strongly recom mend Acer's Sarsaparilla. I was aflBIcted with a disease of the liver for nearly two years, when a friend advised me to take this medicine. It gave prompt relief, and has cured me." Mrs. H. 31. Kidder, 41 Dwightst., Boston, Mass., writes: "For several years I have used Ayers Sarsa parilla in my family. I nver feel safe, even At Home without it. A a liver medicine and general purifier of the blood, it has so equal." Mrs. A. B. Allen, TVinterpoek, Va., writes: "My youngest child, two years of age, was taken with Bowel Com plaint, which we could not cure. We tried many remedies, but he continued to grow worse, and finally became so reduced In flesh that we could only move him upon a pillow. It was suggested by one of the doctors that Scrofula might be the cauie of the trouble. We procured a bottle of AYER'S Sarsaparilla and commenced giving it to him. It surely worked wonders, for, in a short time, he was completely cured." Sold by all Druggists. Price $1 ; Six bottles, 95. Prepared by Dr. .1. C.Ayer v Co., Lowell, Mass., U. S. A. Tin: OMAHA & CHICAGO SHORT LINE ().' THE IF. THE BEST ROUTE From OMAHA TO THE EAST. Two Trains Daily Ikhvetii Omaha Chicago, and Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Dubuque, Davenport, Rock Island, Freeport, Rockford, Elgin, Madison, Janesville, Beloit, Winona, La Crosse. 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