Yellow Roses. Us tho "old, old story" of youth and maid, Inro memory's chasms, re-echoing low. Of rich yellow roses a cluster he sent In the long ago In the long ago. A wee, dainty note in his heart lay hid 'Mong the buds concealed, like a fairy sprite. "At the ball," it read, "if with me you'll wed. Wear a rose to-night wear a rose to-night." Bewildered by light, by sound and sight. With nascent hope bis spirit glows. Now the heart beats fast, for she comes at last; But alas! no rose alas, no rose! Without one word, unseen, unheard. With smothered sigh and downcast eye; With a check that burns and n heart that breaks. Ho passes by ho passes by. With a breast that throbs and a brain on fire; With a bated breath and a sudden start. Her lover's "good-night" to the host she hears. Like a knell at her heart like a knell at her heart. Years many havo flown, o'er oceans un known, Tho roaming he crcr remembers that day: "Lang Syne" is sweet, onco more they meet. Their locks arc gray their locks are gray. ' Tis a fancy interred in the tomb of our years. Youth has ever," he muses, "for age a charm," So be tells ber at last, for the tempest is past. And his heart is calm his heart is calm. "Golden roses, as rich.as the oriolo's wing. That day on my heart is engraven," cries she; "Buttheuote'mongthc roses, so carefully hid. Was no'cr seen by mc ne'er seen by me." Then she lifts with care from a "casket rare," Oft sunned by smiles, ort bedewed by tears. The yellow roses, still treasured by love. Thro those weary years turo those weary years. Silken corn of the sky's lightest blue she un ties. Like a gem in the earth at the cluster's core Rests the dainty, triangular, sweet-scented note. Never found before never found before. Ah! there's many a wreck on time's rough ecu. That tho world knows not shall never know And there's many a heart guards its faded rose Of the long ago of the long ago. J. Hooker Hamersley. THE LOST RING. Next to our own homestead my Kes trel House. No farm-land was attach ed to it. It was simply a park and gar dens, built for a rich man's pleasure; and in its midst stood a fountain, bund ing over which a stone mermaid comb ed hercarven hair with a carven comb, using the basin for a mirror. There had been a time when :l.e water arose and played in showers all over the mermaid's head and shoulders, ran down her tresses and dripped over her hands. Those who had seen it said it was a pretty sight; but the machinery was out of order, or, perhaps, had been turned oil", ami it played no more. The house, handsome and picturcs- 3ue as it was, was all shut up; the win ows barred and the doors fast; moss covered its stone steps anil balustrades, and the Mowers were all gone, save such hardy bushes as took to a wild life kindly, ami bloomed a little every year. "1 wonder they don't live here, the people who own this place," my young Uncle Morris used to say when he" spent his vacation with us. "It's a jolly old place; it's a shame it should stand like that." And then my mother would say: 'Something very dreadful happened there years ago." I hail heard that before. It was a story I was not to hear, and I wondered why. All my uncle's vacation I trotted about with him. and as he was fond of fishing I took to lishing too. He gave me a rod and line, and taught mc how to put on bait and we used to go to a line stream a long distance oil" and fish together. 1 never caught anything, but he as sured mc that I would some day, and I felt very manly as I trotted away, beside him with my rod over my shoul der. The not always welcome care of my mother and aunts relaxed, and I heard it said that Ned was sure to follow Morris everywhere, and to come home quite safe. My uncle's vacation was a very happy time to me. When it was over a change came. Feminine rule began once more. I was forbidden to go to the river-sido lest I should be drowned; and my rambles were limited to our own prop erty and the deserted park of Kestrel House. After his return to college my uncle often wrote to mc. and 1 was careful to reply, hunting up the big words in my little dictionary, but it was humiliat ing to confess that I was considered too small to go a-fishing in the river. However, one day an idea came into my head which enabled me to obey my relatives, and yet indulge in the sport I knew my uncle thought so much of. I resolved to fish in the basin of Mer maid Fountain in Kestrel Park, and ac cordingly I carried my rod and line there. The first day I had better luck than usual, ior I frojr. camrht a small green I looked at him a moment, reflected that his frog mother might be anxious about him, and put him back in the water; and I mentioned this in my let ter to Uncle Morris, who replied that there was no knowing what I might catch next; but I caught nothing mora But one autumn morning, when all the red leaves were falling and floating over the basin like little fairy boats, I realized the fact that it was growing too chilly to sit with pleasure beside the fountain waitingfor a bite. "Oh!" I thought, "if I could catch something now, this last time! Some thing to write to uncle about!" Ami just then the little lloat bobbed up. I had, perhaps, at last hooked a lish. Delighted. I carefully drew up me line. Something glimmered upon the hook. It was not a lish. However, I hastened to detach it, and found it to be a very handsome cluster diamond ring. Ignorant of its value as I was at that time, I could not but admire it, it spark led so brilliantly. There was no mini at the bottom of the spring.only shining white pebbles. It was perfectly clean, therefore, after its bath, whether that had been long or short. "I'll give this to mamma," I said, speaking aloud in ny astonishment, and ashamed of having done so wheu I heard the sound of iny own words, because it was "like the baby." But the next moment someone answered mc "You have found my ring," a voice said in my car; "yon have found my ring. At hist, at last, thank Heaven!" 1 turned. The afternoon was drawing to a close; the park was grey with shadow, and misty with the autumn air; and the figure of a woman near me seemed misty, too a figure dressed in white, with pale hair hanging to its waist in curls, and a face that I could barely sec was fair and delicate. "Of such is the kingdom of Heaven," she whispered. "Child, take the ring toMarmadukc KestreL Tell him that Agnes did not lie. Tell him you found it in the Mermaid Fountain. Tell him Her voice grew faint She was gone. Who is she? Where did she go? I was vaguely terrified, and clutching the ring, tightly in one hand, I began to run, but looking over my shoulder to see if she was following me, I stumbled andfelL Someone picked me up. It was old Marmaduke Kestrel himself. Sometimes I had seep t-:--"- sadly through the park by himself, though he lived a long ilit:iiu:fuff at a hotel, and was ottcn abroad. Travel ing for his health, people said. "What is the matter, little one?" he said. "Have ou hurt yourself?" "No." I said. "The'lady frightened me. She was she seemed to go out like a candle. She said it was herring; but she did not take it. She said 1 was to give it to you, and say: 'Agnes did not lie' Is she Agnes? Does she always look like that? What did she mean?" Mr. Kestrel sat dowu upon the stone scat beside the fountain, and held me by the arms, and stared into my face. "Tell me what you mean, bov," ho said. "I was fishing in the basin of the fountain there," said I. "and I thought I bad caught a trout, but it was no fish at all, but a beautiful, shining ring. See!" I held it out to him as well as I could with his grasp upon my arms, and he let go of me and took it from ma Ho peered at it curiously, and said: "Your eyes are young. Read what is engraved on the inside, child." And with much paiti3, for it was growing twilight, I spelled out these words: "To Agnes, from Marmaduke, 18 .'" Then he took it from me again and said: "Go on." "I thought it was a pretty ring," I said, "and I would give it to mamma. And then there was a lady there by the fountain, fair, with long, light curls, but like smoke or mist I could not help being frightened, and she said: " 'It is my ring. It is found at last, thank Heaven!' and words that Jesus said in the Bible and then, 'Give it to Marmaduke Kestrel and tell him you found it in the fountain, and Agnes did not lie.' Was she Agnes?" He answered, "Yes," and stooped down and kissed me, and went his way, taking the ring with him, and I ran home to my mother and told her the story. She was frightened. She held mc close. "What was she, mother?" I ask ed. "I do not. know," she answered. "It is in our family to see strange things. Perhaps you have seen one of them. Do not talk about it. and say your prayers to-night very carefully." An hour or so after this my father drove home lrom the nearest town in his light trap. "Something happened at ihe notel this evening.'" he said. "Marmaduke Kestrel is dead. He came back very pale after a walk in Kestrel Park, they think; and a fall was heard in his room soon after. They found him on the Hour beside his desk, already dead; but lie had written on a paper words nearly like these: " 'I have doubted the purity of the sweetest woman who ever lived. I Ail them bury me near the fountain in Kes trel Park, with the ring I wear upon 1113' finger, and write iioii 1113' stone these words: " ' "To the memory of Agnes, moit faithful and beloved wife of Marma duke Kestrel, whose body lietii here, but whose soul hath gone to ask pardon of her he wronged in thought tor twenty bitter years." ' " And my mother, with a cry, clung to his arm and told him my strange story. "What does it all mean?' I asked. "Who was Agnes? What did Mr. Kes trel do to her? What was it I saw in the park? Was it a ghost?" But my mother put her hand over my mouth, and my father told me that there were strange tilings and wicked stories in this world that children could not understand, but that Agnes Kestrel was said to have died of a broken heart be cause her husband was cruel to her, and thought she had given away a ring she swore .-lie had lost. Afterwards 1 understood what this story might be; but I cannot explain to myself what it w:is that happened in Ke&lrcl Park any more clearly than I understood it in 1113' childhood. WIT AND HUMOR. There are some things a man never finds out, and one of them is the fellow to whom he owes a bill. New Haven News. Tramp I have lost an arm, sir; will Passer-by (in great haste) Sorry, but I haven't seen anything of it. New York Sun. It is said that a St. Louis man can jump from the highest eminence without injury. His cars aci as parachutes. Ncw'llavcn Nans. In Kentucky they spell it whisky; elsewhere it is spelled whiske3. 'lhey drink it with more E's than they spell it in Kentucky. Boston Herald. A young lady bookkeeper who has just married s:i3:s that there shall be no side door to her house. She proposes to keep her husband on the single-entry system. Burlington Free I'ress. Scene, front door. Time, 12 o'clock Sunday night: She Say, George, when arc you coining again? He O, I'll be here Monday nirht- She Sa3. George, can't 3-011 come before Monday? Life. The superiority of man to nature is continually illustrated. Nature needs an immense quantity of quills to make a goose with: but a man can make a goose of himself with one. Shoe and Leather lieportcr. Now that the cockroach fighLs have been invented, with all the exciting ac cessories of a prize-ring contest, there is no reason why the sporting editor should leave his desk to witness a mill. Nonoich Birtlclin. "I hate that man!"' exclaimed Mrs. Uppercca. "I'd like to make his life miserable!" "Tell you what," said her husband warmly, "I'll send the villain an invitation to your musicale. We'll torture him!" Bnrdettc. "What about stockings?" demands a fashion paper. If the bold, bad editor who asks such a question in public print will excuse the burning blushes of his daily contemporary we would timid ly suggest g-rt-ts. Burdcltc. The Major (rocking Nelly on his knee for Aunt Mary's sake) "I suppose this is what you like, Nelly?"' "Yes, it's very liice. But 1 rode on a real donkey yesterday I mean one with four legs, j'ou know." New York Sun. "Your conference meets soon, I be lieve?" remarked a prominent Allegheny Methodist to another. "Yes," was the reply. "Will your minister remain with" you?" "Yes, he has signed with us for another year." Pittsburg Chron icle. Bertie "Mr. Schuyler, are you a very strong man?" Schuyler "No. not very strong. Bertie." Bertie "What did pa mean, then, when he told sister at the breakfast table to-day that he saw vou with a heavy load on last night?" The Judge. "I never intended you to return me that S5, my dear fellow," said he. "I want you to consider it a gift" "No, no," said the other. "1 am honest about paying my debts; and besides I may 6trike you for $10 next week.' The Judge. An American base-ball player was in Belfast when the riot broke out, and he saw clubs flourishing and heard pistols popping, he began to grow homesick. When the excitement subsided, ho asked a stranger if the umpire had escaped. Norristown Herald. "See here, my friend," said an East ern man to a Western citizen, "you are a little too fresh for this section of the country. You had better take a drop." "Thanks. 7Wnk it sam' aB " Barkeei.' replied the Westerner, wininjz ' his mouth. Xcw York: Time. Mother "Heiv, dear husband, is the dit!sniakerV. 1 have let her our daugh ter a new costume to make. She hoks therein enchanting, and will preMsntly a husband therein hunt np." Father "So and how much cost then this hunting costume?" Fiicgcude JJ'aclter. Customer (to waiter) Yon don't oharge 50 cents tor canned lobster, do you? Waiter Yes, sah; dat's de price. Customer But I ean get them fresh at this season for lass than that Waiter I don't know how 'tis, sah; I s'pose it costs somethin' to can 'cm. New York Times. "My dear." said a Concord lady to her husband, "if you do uot make haste we shall be late to the School of Philo sophy. Aren't you nearly ready?" "1 will be ready," replied the husband, who is not much of a philosopher, "just as soon as I can find my chestnut bell.' New York Sun. One of the old-timers (loq.) "Sonny, what time do hit say de 'scurdgeon train start?"' Young one "Eighter clock." Old-timer --Mornin or ebe nin'?" Young one (reading) "8 a. m." Old-timer (sternly) "Boy, don't vou trifle long o" me. Mornin" or cbe nin?" Harper's Young Folks. Young lady (to turnkey) Can I take these flowers in to the prisoners, sir? Turnkey Yes, mem; the thieves and pickpockets will be glad to get 'em. Thev dotes on flowers. But they ain't no murderers in now, menu The last one was pardoned out yesterday. Young lady O, I'm so sorry. New York Tillies. Customer (to bartender) My physi cian tells mc that I must drink nothing but a little gin with plenty of milk. Have you got 11113' fresb. pure milk. Bartender Sony, sir, but we haven't a drop. Customer (111 a disappointed tone) Is that so? Well, gimme some gin. I must do the best I can. New York Sun. Head of the house "Where's the pitcher of beer?" B03 "Ma's clothes got on fire aud I grabbed up the beer and threw it on her to put out the flame." Head of the house "I want 3011 to understand that beer costs money. Anybodv'd think you was born with a irold spoon in vour mouth." Tul-liits. A well-dressed countryman stopped at the entrance of the Petroleum Ex change on lower Broaitway and gazed inside with considerable interest A broker on the lookout for commissions saiil to him cordially: "Are you in oil, sir?" "No, mister." said the counts man, moving away. "I'm no sardine." Harper's Bazar. De Baggs Bagh-y blind! Impossible! De Kaggfl My dear sir. I saw him last Sunday in his pew with an absolutely expressionless face while Deacon Stuouch was trying to attract his atten tion. De Baggs With a contribution box? My dear chump, that kind of blindness attacks him once a week. litiladelphia Call. Boarder "Mrs. Finnigan, what is this?"' Boarding-house mistress "A chicken, sir." "O. it is, eh? I thought iua3"be it was a reed-bird." "Isn't it good. Mr. Baker? I stuffed it with bread and onions, and the nicest filling " "Mrs. Fianuigan, do 3011 know what I would have stuffed it with?" "No; with what?" "Another chicken." Philadelphia Call. De Baggs I'm a wretched man, Bagley. 1 am afflicted with insomnia and life is getting to be a burden. Bag 103 Nonsense! there are plenty of cures for that De Baggs (despairing ly) Yes, I know there are, but I've tried them all without effect 1 go to church regularly and even there 1 can't go to sleep. Philadelphia Call. Anxious Mother "It was after 9 o'clock when Clara came down to break fast this morning, aud the poor girl didn't look well at all. Her system needs toning up. What do you think of iron?" Father "Good idea." Mother "What kind of iron had she better take?" Father "She had better take a flat iron." New York Sun. The striking mania reached a colored preacher in a town in Mississippi, the other day, and he arose before his con gregation and said: "Ciiiren, 1'se bin tiyin' hard to preach de gospel on $2 a week, anil 1 ze got ilisrourageil. lou has either got to raise de salary to 3 or 1'ze gwine to go out an' skirmish fur hogs an' chickens 'long wid de res' of you an' take 1113 chances of gwine to heaven." Bv an unanimous vote of the congregation it was decided to con tinue the salary at $2 and let him skirm ish. Wall Street Xcws. FUN FOR Till: BEAKS. Ifor the Animals at Lincoln Park Take the C0I1I Weather Attempted Sui cide. The effect of the recent sudden change in the weather was nowhere more noticeable than among the animals at Lincoln Park. Those of them which come from cold climates and delight in frosts and chilling winds seemed great I3 pleased with the change. The sea lions have not been so actiie for months as they were the other day. Bright and early they were out splashing around in the little lake which surrounds their cave of rocks. Later they ate their breakfast with apparent relish, and then started out for a game of tag which last ed for two hours. "They don't like the warm weather aud uiwa3s brighten up when it turns cooler," said their keeper. "I think an unusually long stretch of warm weather would kill them. Sometimes during the middle of summer they don't cat regularly, and seem distressed. A day like this puts them on their legs, or rather, their fins, 'cause thev ain't jrot legs." The big polar bear, which has spent hours aud hours during the summer sit ting on a cake of ice and meditating, was scrambling around yesterday in a manner which showed that he had de cided to take a more hopeful view of life. The smaller bears, which had pushed him around the last few months before because he was too laz3 to knock them away, were very much surprised when he knocked a saucy cinnamon bear half way across the den with a swoop of his left paw. The keeper was leaning over the iron fence when this occurred and it made him laugh hcarti- "Give it to him. Jack," he shouted. "You've waked up now for the rest of the 3car. Give the black fellow a sloog behind ye." Sure enough, big Jack turned quickly and sent the inquisitive black bear spinning head over heels. "He's suffered dreadfully from Ihe hot weather." resumed tho keeper. Somc days he was an awful sight, sit ting on a cake of ice, with his big red tongue a-hansin' out I had to watch him pretty sharp for fear he'd get a sunstroke. If the hot weather had last ed a week longer I'd had to get a barrel of ice-cream for him, even if J paid for it myself. "Does he like ice-cream? Well I should say he did. One day last sum mer a young lady let fall a paper box filled with it into the den. Jack got it It beat honey all hollow, ana was the greatest invention he'd ever struck." The prairie dogs did not seem to care a rap whether the weather was warm or cold. They dodged in and out of their holes with all their accustomed brisk ness. The raccoons, badgers, wolves, and foxes all enjoyed the cool wave, and for the first day in two months kept their tongues inside their months for an hour's stretch. The other side of the.. case was the feeling geuerated in th nwnirait o.- All the hairy little inhabitant had chills, and altogether the3 were so mis erable that they looked like a group of condemned anarchists. The saddest case of all was the little blue-nosed ba boon from middle Africa. He shook and shivered all the morning, whining piteously. At 1 o'clock, having shaken hands with all his companions, he created a sensation by tiying to commit suicide. In the cage was a pail of water. With a parting shudder he sud denly plunged his head into the pail and held it there. The rest of the mon keys set up a yell which attracted the attention of a keeper, who rushed to tbc cage. The suicidal baboon would have uudoubtedly succeeded in taking his own life before the keeper got to him, but just as he was about to make his last kick a big prehensile monkey let himself down from a bar aud pulled the little fellow out of the pail. Chica go News. AN ALASKAN G LAC IE It A River Stopped Short and Turned to Ion In Its Alabaster Bed. Picture to yourself a vast river, two or three miles in breadth, pouring down from the eminence of au icy peak thirty miles away a river fed by numerous lateral tributaries that flow from every declivity. Imagine this river lashed to a fury and covered from cud to end, fathoms deep, with foam, and then the whole suddenly frozen aud fixed for evermore that is your glacier. Some times the surface is stained with the debris of the mountain; sometimes the bluish-green tinge of the ancient ice crops out; generally the surface is as white as dowu and very fair to look upon, for at a distance we were about eight miles from the lower edge of it the eye detects no flaw. It might be a torrent of milk and honc3. It might almost be compared in its immaculate beaut3 to one of the rivers of Paradise that flow hard by thu throne of God. It seems to be moving in majesty, and yet is stationary, or nearly so, for we might sit b3 its frozen shore and grow gra3' with watching and even our dull e3es could detect no change in even a ripple of it A river of Paradise, in deed, escaped from the gardens of the blessed, out overcome by tho squalor of this little globe it has stopped short and turned to ice in its alabaster bed. One evening about 8:JU o'clock and the sun still high above the western mountain range we found ourselves op posite the Davidson ('lacier. It passes out of a broad ravine and spreads fan like upon the shore under the neighbor ing cliffs. It is three miles in breadth along the front and 1,200 feet in height when it begins to crumble and slope to ward the shore. A terminal moraine a mile and a halt in depth separates it from the sea. A forest, or the remnant of a forest, stands between it and the water it is 8I0WI3' but surety approach ing. The fate of this solemn wood is sealed. Anon the mightiest among these mighty trees will fall like graiu before the sickle of the reaper. We were very near this glacier. We saw all the wrinkles and fissures and the deep discolorations. We saw how the monstrous mass wound in and out be tween the mountains, and crowded them on every side, and rubbed their skins off in spots, and left grooved lines like high-water marks along the face of the cliffs; how it gathered as it went and ground to powder and to paste whatever cams within its reach, be coming worse and worse and greedier and more rapacious as it creeps down into the lowlands, so that when it reaches the sea, where it must end its course and dissolve away, it will have covered itself with slime aud confiuiou; it will have left ruin and desolation in its track, but it will likewise have cleft out a valley with walls polished like brass and a floor as smooth as marble; one that will be utilized in after ages, when it has carpeted itself with green and hung its walls with the tapestry of its vine. Surety no other power on earth could have done the job so neatly. One sees this work in process and in fresh completion in Alaska. The bald islet yonder, with a surface as smooth as glass and with delicate traecry along its polished sides tracery that looks like etching upon glass was modeled by claciers not so verv main years ago; within the century, some of them, per haps. A glacier, probably the very glacier we are seeking, followed this track and ground them all into shape; every angle of action, of motion shall I 6:13 is iudelibty impressed upon each and cvecy rock hereabout; so all these northlands. from sea to sea, the world over, have been laboriously licked into shape b3 the irresistible tide of ice. Verity, the mills of the gods grind slowty, but what a grist they grind! Letter in San Francisco Chronicle. IDEAL EYES. An Old rhlloRopher'rt Opinion of Different Colored Optics. "Character reading by the color of the C3cs is a comparatively new study, but is steadily gainiug in favor," said an old gentleman the other day as he sat on one of the benches in Madison Square and watched the hurrying throng go by. "I've been studying eyes for the last half-cciituiy," he continued, "aud I can teil you that blue e3es, and brown eyes, and green eyes, anil all the other kinds were not made for nothing. They were colored to assist people in read iue the character of their owners, and a little knowledge of what the different colors denote will be found of great assistance iu iifo." "What do you consider tho most beautiful eyes?" was asked. "Well, they're very scarce," said the old gentleman, letting his eyes wander over the half-dozen faces before him. "Not one here has cot the ideal eve. It's a perfect violet or a velvet brown as soft and gentle as a doe's. Violet eyes are ver rare. I don't mean deep blue eyes, but genuine purple eyes. Babies have them sometimes, but I've only seen one or two women with them, and never a man. They denote too perfect a character for that gentleness, intelli gence, devotion, and boundless faith. Those virtues aren't often found in one person. "Brown e3cs? Yes, they are plenti ful, and physically perhaps the most beautiful e3:e in the world. I think they come next to violet e3es when they are light enough to read feeling iu them. Dark browu eyes are too deep. They seldom mirror the heart feelings, but are fine to look at" "Gray i'3es are the most common in the world;. so what in general do they characterize in the opiuion of the eye ologist?" asked a youth with a pair of blue-gray orbs. "Well, there are a hundred different kinds of gray eyes, 30U know," said the old gentleman. "Yours are one kind, mine another. People haven't become advanced enough to have more than four or five colors to apply to eyes; so any that aren't blue, or black, or brown, or hazel arc called gray. You seldom sec a real stupid person with gray eyes; but the genuine gray that is always found among highly intellectual people. Steel-gra3 eyes with large pupils denote intense feeling; blue-gray eyes are gen eral among people with kindly hearts. You never find a real mean spirit be hind a pair of blue-gray eyes. "I've made a study of real blue eyes," he continued. "They denote quickness of thought, and generally fine physical development, wheu thev arc large and bright. About nine-tenths of our engi neers, railroad brakemen, light-house-keejxjrs, policemen, cadets, and army and navy officers, and many others selected tor physical perfection, have blue eyes. Very few blue-eyed people are color-blind or near-sighted. "Hazel eyes denote musical ability and grace of x!rson. Thoy are very prctt) eyes too, ami then there are real green oyi-s. They ant not no scarce as is generally ii:q.iisi-d; but I haven't made a close --tii.ly of t limn, or of yellow eyes eilher. I h.vir I lie latter ant -rery fattliinnahh-. but I shouldn't imagine a yollow-eted pi-rs-in would have a niee disposition.' After a further discussion altout the value of ryi-iii.iyy tin: old scientist nut on his golo.r.iiuiiril glass's over a pair ot shaip gn- ie- .iiitl v ndered oiitol tho Mpiaie, paiw ng to ascertain the color of the optic- of even person who passed him. Xlw Y.rk Journal. HE OBKYKD OKDEUS. Secretary Itttimey' Adventure Sergeant. Here is an anecdote, writes With a corre- spondent of the AUa I'nhfornian, which I recalls an episode occurring to one of I Secretary Eudicott's predecessors of the I war portfolio. Secretary Ramsey of j Minnesota. During the incumbency of tiie latter gentleman lie indulged m a trip down the Potomac river one after noon on board Admiral Porter's splen did steam 3-acht Falcon. Neariug Fort Washington, some littee'n miles distant. Secretary Ramsey expressed a desire to inspect the once-famous fort, then, as - now, in dismantlement, and garrisoned oulv by an ordnance sergeant. So tho sergeant yacht made a landing at the pier, when the United States a r 1113'. in the person of 1 In; Tzy.Icd old ordnance sergeant, hurried down aud forbade the party from di-embarkiiig in terms more forci ble than polite, flavored with an unmis takable Milesian accent 1 Secretary RaiiiMsy, who is fond of a joke, vainly expostulated against closing approach to Aineriran citizens, but the 'Unite i States army" was obdurate and said he whs acting under orders of the secretary of war. After badgering him awhile, to the intense amusement of the company. Secretary Kainsey said: ! "Well, M-rgeant, 1 see you obey orders striutiy, and as you are acting under ' uiitliorilv of the seerehirv of war. onlv . the secretary cau revoke, or modify the j order." Exactly, gentlemen," sternly re plied the old martinet "So you might as well be off and not be pestering me 11113 longer." "(ji'iiileiiieii.,,Haid Secretary Ramsey, turuui 1 to his friends, "will ou kindly picM-iu me to the sergeant" S rgeaiit." haid Admiral Porter, permit me to present the secretary of war, your Micriur officer." "Holy Moses!" cjuailated the veteran as he brought his hand to salute. "And this is thu M-crciiiiT, and why didn't ye let me know before ye was coming? I would have been reaity to receive ye for insp;eliou." The pink of military propriety was in sore d:.ircs. He had not been entirely poliie, and felt himseit derelict He was. however, put at his ease bv the secretary, and. the party ascended the hill into the fort, and were shown around the rapidly de.-aying quarters and other objects of interest aud curi oMly. '1 tie M-rgeanl. however, got his ii:veii:e upon the secretary. Vhen they apjuoachcd the magazine the ser geant halted tiie party aud triumphant ly Maid, "Mr. Secretary, there is the magazine, mid with tlxw respect, nil. I S:i3' ou can't o :iio tiie m iaziiie; that is :ijaiiii onli is and regulations. There is just one place hen: over which you have no antliority, sir, aud 1 can't show you the magazine." "Never mind the magazine," exclaim ed the sueretrv. "You are entirety cor rect, sergeant." Turning to iiis friends, llr- su-reiaiy added very emphatically: "H.ttig mc. ii the magazine is not just the place where 1 don't want to go. aud preler to give a miiihty wide berth." Sure, tiiere's no powder in it Mr. Sccrclarv. but 3ou can't inspect it, just the same," was the parting shot the hcrgcnut fired at the secretary as the party withdrew. DWARFED TREES. Arts of the Chinese Lanlsrape Gardener Pigmy Hearers of Fruit anil Flow ers. "Melican man him heap smlart; him makce tlee glow velly big. Him no saveo ma kec -tlee glow little. Chinee maii do that; me tlell 30 u how do that," said Hop Low, a Chinese laudscapc gardener f nsshly arrived from the Pacific slope, in answer to inquiries about the (leculiar dwarfed trees shown in Chinese garden scenes. "Chinaman him makce tlee any shape him wants," continued the speaker; "likce bell, likee closs. likee man's baud. Me makce olange tlee likee man's hand iu China. When him old him no bigger than this," said the gardener, holding his hand about two feet from the floor, "and him havee nice glood olangles on him. Me makce oak tlees just likee samee." The celestial, who seemed in a com municative mood unusual with his race, u cut on to say that the dwarfed oak bore acorns and that its wood was just like that of tho tree of natural size. Citron and bamboo trees were also dwarfed, and fur this purpose the lucbee tree was a favorite. "How is this dwarfing accomplished?" was asked. Him velly easy," was the reply, and the shaker described the process, which consists briefly in covering a branch of a full-grown tree with mold, and bind ing the same on tightly with a cloth or matting of somo kind which is kept constant soaked with water. The liners 01 the uranen tnus covereil soon shoot into the mold. The branch is then carefully cut from the tree, and after the bandage is taken off it is plant ed iu new earth. The fibers then be come roots, and thus that which was a branch on the parent tree becomes a trunk, bearing flowers and fruit The buds at the extremities of the branches which are intended to be dwarfed are torn oil" as soon as they appear, and b3 this means the growth of the branches is arrested, ami other buds and branches shoot out. After a certain time sugar water is applied to the trunk of the dwarfed tree, ami by this means insects are attracted which wound the bark aud give it the kuottcd appearance pe culiar to old trees. When it is intended to give any peculiar form .to a tree the branches are bent into the shape nnd retained iu it b3 meaus of pieces of bamboo. It is said that bamboo trees 'scarcely four fecc high are frequently distorted to represent dragons and other fanciful creatures dear to the Chinese imagina tion. These the informant above had- never seen, but he smiled blandly and said: "China cleat clounllic. 0 and shouted after the scribe: "You clomce black again, me tellee you slome more." He has been brought to Chicago for the purpose of exercising his fantastic skill upon some of the handsome north side and suburban grounds. Chicago Sews. HIS LAST "SCOOP." What a Reporter Did After a. Terrible Rail road Accident. It is not many years aero that Tony B , the attache of a Central Iowa paper, now defunct, rode out from a Southern Iowa city one line morning perched daringly on the brake of a flat car that was attached to a "wild freight," and loaded with iron rails. He was like other reporters, made up of vice and virtues only the first seen by the world, the latter best known to bu intimate friends. He bad been in newspaper work for about six yean, was thoroughly capable, and scored more "scoops"" than were ever recorded against him. This, in the eyes of the city editor, insured his entrance into parauisti. To make the story short, forty miles out -from its starting point the "wild" , freight, with a leap of madness and a terrible crash, went through a bridge, dowu sixty feet nnd Tony sitting on the brakobeanu It was over in nn in stant Such things don't wait for time ! to catch up with them. When the con- j ductor of the train (the only one unin jured) crawled out of thu wreck his eyes fell first on Tony, lying across the side , 01 a dismantled oox-car, on nis chest a heavy rail, his legs crushed, and dying. Beyond him lay a dead brakeman; the engineer was buried under his machine, and by a large bowlder was the fireman with a broken bark. Tony was con scious, and when the conductor reached him asked for paper and pencil. They were found in his pockets. Unable to i write himself, he dictated this, angrily oruenug ine men who naa come up to let him aloncr j C. E. , Managing Editor Star, , la.. Train througu bridge at , I was un board and am hurt Will send full par ticulars at once, t. a. A farmer was secured, who carried it to the nearest station. Then this boy, true to his duty and not flinching before death, suffering frightful agony, and, while williug hands sought iu vain to release him from his position, dictated a "special" of 1,600 words to his paper. , What he suffered no one cau ever know. It was with difficulty that he could f breathe, and every rasp cost him a 1 wrench of agony. But he held death . back down to the last few lines. "The killed were " and so on, ending with the name of "Tony B , report er." As he ended that his eyes filled with tears aud he looked up wistfully to the conductor, who had written the telegram for him. and who himself could not keep the tears back. "Tell my mother," said Tony, "that I did my duty; and, boys, rush that over the wires for me. It's a -scoop.' " It went , over the wires all right and it was a "scoop." But before it was printed , Tony was dead. St. Paul Pioneer Press. 1 A Rich Yoang Man. George Gould, in his own right, is a rich man. When his father bought him a seat in the stock-exchange, five or aiz years ago. and started him in the stock brokerage business as a member of the firm of Washington E. Connor & Co.. (iould was given an out-and-out present of $500,000. He is credited with astuteness iu speculation. He is out of the brokerage business now, and for his service as confidential clerk to his father he gets an allowance quoted in Wall street at $20,000 a year. He is no spendthrift, though to "some extent he has patronized the sporting world. He Ls a member of the New York Athle tic club. He has a fine stable of horses, of which he is especially proud. It has been common report among the leaders in Wall street, or those, at least, who may plausibly lay claim to some share in the business secrets of Jay Gould, that a plan was developed by Mr. Gould last winter, during the pendency of his southern railway strike, by which he proposed to elevate George to a prominent and independent place in the financial or railway world, probably as me president 01 one 01 the big uouid corporations. The anxiety of Mr. Npr vin Green to get out of harness tiaa been thought the opening of a prospec tive avenne for the millionaire's son. Now that "the boy" such is his father's favorite designation is happily wedded, the plan of last winter may hasten to maturity. George is now, and has been almost since he became of voting age, a half dozen years ago, a director in many of the great corporations controlled by his father and Russell Sage. He is a vice- E resident in some of them. People who now him well and aro not overmuch given to toadyism, aver that he has remarkable business faculties. His father trusts him a good ways; he did a vast deal 01 the work that was done at this end of the line during the Missouri Pacific strike troubles. His father thought it would be a waste of the young man s time and energy to send him through college, but he hooked him tight to a tutor who knows all the mys teries of arithmetic, and George is prob ably one of the best and most thorough accountants in New York. Likewise he is a practical telegrapher; bo knows how to run a typewriter fast as his father cares to dictate, and withal is somewhat expert as a stenographer. It is his boast that he could earn a living as a newspaper reporter if he ever col lided with the need of it Just now he is not expecting to collide. Wedding presents? The groom be stowed diamonds on bis bride. His parents gave their blessing; and that means something more than a six-pence when one's father confesses to owning t50.000.000. New York Times. m m Ono on a Bishop. Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, a man warmly esteemed by all sorts and conditions of men, and even more so by children, was making ono of his episco pal visitations, and was the guest of the rector 01 me pariau ue was visiting. The rector, who was a rigorous man in the trainiug of his children, had a little boy six years old, who was a great favorite with the Bishop, and of whom, in turn, the Bishop wus much beloved. Sunday afternoon the Bishop and tbo boy were left alone for a while in the rector's study, and were chatting com fortabh. "Let us look at your picture book?" said the Bishop. "All right" said the boy. He brought the picture book, laid it on the right-reverend lap of bis guest, and then went furtively back and closed the stud3 door. "We'll have to do it on the sly. Bish op, you know!" said he with a grin. The next Sunday the Bishop preached a magnificent sermon on the sin of overrighteousiiess. Professor Lcinaistre. of Limoges, de scribes a new disease which is at the present'time quite prevalent among the school children of France. It is known amonsr the common people as perleche, and is contagious, it consists ia an abrasion in the corners of the mouth, which becomes little ulcers aud some times bleed; it lxsts from two to four weeks. The description given of it cor responds to what is commonly called in this country a '-cold sore'' or "fever blister." In the sore Lcmaistre has found a microbe, which he calls strep tococcus plicatilia. Thcao have been found in drinking water, and it is sur mised that they have been transferred to the lips of a person, thence to the edee of a cup, and thus all who used the cup became affected. Professor Lemaistre has examiued the 5,500 chil dren who attend the thirty-two schools of Limoges, and has found 312, or one in seventeen, affected with tho disease. m The pale moon distilled its silvery beams in shimmering beauty o'er a scene of enchanting loveliness, includ ing among other attractions a mascu line arm entwined around a twenty-two-inch corset filled with plump and ani mated sweetness of the feminine gender 01 puriKips 11 pounus avoiruupois. a rich baritone voice gaged down to a soft 'tone poured into the not unwilling auricular of the damsel sentiments like these: "Fair Ethel, true it is that I possess little of this world's goods, but don't you think that our love for each other would more than recompen " Her young brother had cut the han nock rope. Dansvillt Breeze. 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