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J- Iilttle Folks' World. Tar wv. at.d vet bo near m,utiim Trnero an uavc wrm Played beside its sparkling waters, in...- ttat wnrimAnmm frrfpn. danced Bn..ikoim.vnriii e dwell In ana its noises only seem SJke the echo of a tempest or the shadow or a And grows not old forever, aweet and young It is to-day, ,., , 'Tis the Land of IJitlo People, where the happy children play. And the things they know and see there are so wonderful and grand, L'?i Things thafwlser folks and older canBot Imeif nor.understand; i J? In the woods they meet the fairies, flod-thS giants in thir caves, . See the palaces of cloudland, and the mermen in the waves. m . .w Know what ail the birdies sing of, hear the se crets of the flow'rs. For the Land of Little People is another world than ours. Once 'twas oars; Mis ours no longer; for when nurscrv-'ime is o'er, Thro'the Land of Little People we may wan der never more. But we hear their merry voices and we see them at their play, And our own dark world grows brighter ana we seem as young as they. Roaming over shore and meadow, talking to the birds and fliw'rs, ,,,.. For the Land of Little People is a fairer world than ours. THE GIRL HE SOUGHT. I don't know what we are to do with her!" exclaimed Joyce feebly. "Neither do I," said Rex, knitting his blonde brows with an effort of thinking. "Well, whatever we do, don't you put your fork on your plate with the prongs down!" cried his sister, fixing her eyes upon him. "Don't have her think us quite such barbarians. Oh, dear, if I only had a new dress I would not mind bo much!" "I suppose this suit is pretty bad?" suggested Rex, regarding his coat-sleere dubiously. "Of course it is," was the ruthless re joinder. "Disgraceful!" "Well, sho can ride the cob," said Rex illogically, brightening up. Joyce was unutterably contemptuous. "From morning till night? We can say to her, 'Miss Gray, of Graysham, we didn't want you to como to Lisle, though vou are our cousin fifteen times removed.. But since you insisted, why, here's the cob, at least. Get on him and ' " "Git!" supplemented Rex. "Very pietty! That's another thing! Do be just ns slangy as you can! I shall be shaking every moment of the time she's here, expecting you to say or do something something odious!" "1 say, Joy. suppose sho brings s maid with her?" This time it was Joyce who dropped her fork, regardless of whether the prongs were down or up. She turned red Orst and then white. The idea of ilrs. Gray, widow of Cap tain Gray, was dreadful enough. But the thought of the maid was too awful. Joyce burst into tears. But tear- would not arrest the hand of fate, and in due course Airs. Gray, of Graysham, arrived. She was a tall, lithe, languorous per son, with the finest complexion art could produce, and a pair of wonderful black eyes and a- head of wonderful gold hair. She had some blinding toilets what on earth or in heaven had sho brought them to stupid, humdrum, unutterably pokey Lilc for? And Joyce, in ten minutes, felt like an uncombed, uncrowned, awkwardly capering colt beside the winner of the Dei by. Bv-t he-bye, votir next-door neigh bor L Mr. "H-iriett, i he not?" asked Mrs. Gray of "(.'oiiiin Rex," as she call ed him,Mth a charming rlance and in tonation, e!ier-:..etly, you know, and yet not loo much so. "I know him very well. He nni-.t diivo over and seo niL and if we arc invited up there, you will enjoy it, Joyce dear. It is such a beautilul place!" Joyce fancied iier.ielf appearing at the Halletts in her one best gown, by the side of this bewitching queenly crea ture, and began looking at her cousin, Mrs. Gray, iifteen times removed, more than ever. She confided her sentiment to Rex after their guest had sought the retire ment of her room. "I don't care whether it's in hospitable or not, I know 1 shall detest her there!" "And a great little fool you will be," 6aid Cousin Rex. "She's a very charm ing woman." and betook himself out into the moonlight. Joyce thought he had gone over to Bee Mike about the cob. But no, a little later sho saw him parading pensively backward and forward, and occasional ly stopping and looking at the moon. She caught herself by both ears to make sure she was awake. Rex look ing at the moon! Sho did not believe that he had ever in his life known what it was like before. Mrs. Gray had lost no time in ap prising Mr. llallett of her arrival in the neighborhood. The next morning she came down with obvious expectations in a dress so bewildering under a treacherous aspect of matutinal simplicity that Rex ap parently did not know whether it were the moon still or tho sun which shone in at the window. Joyce also had come down flattering herself that she was looking rather nice. She had brushed and twisted her hair vigorously, and studied the back and sides with a view to new effects. Her white dress was fresh. But when she caught sight of her small brown hands on the table-cloth beside Mrs. Gray's shining pink, con scious nails, with their air of the world, a frightful revulsiou of feeling took place in her. She was a perfect guy. Everybody could sec it. You'll bo back when Mr. Hallett comes?" said Mrs. Gray in sweet inter rogative tones as she saw her young kinswoman disappear in the garden. "1 don't know," was the stiff reply. Then to atone for her want of hospitali ty, Joyce added, uttering the lie with great and ominous graciousness: "I would not leave you but that the sex ton's little girl is sick, and I must go and see how she is. And Rex will en tertain you." There was irony, deathly if covert, in this thrust. No fear but that Rex would entertain her. He had gone over to the enemy foot and horse. When Joyce got back she found Mrs. Gray moving about the sitting-room with a sort of suppressed lambency and .slight absent-mindedness which is per fectly intelligible to another woman, even though she be but nineteen, and the most bottomlessly unsophisticated of Lisle-bred girls. Mr. Hallett had been and gone. And he had stayed, too, a long time really quite a conspicuously long time. He had not positively, it seemed, been able to make up his mind to go. "We are invited up there to a fete champetre on Friday, Joyce dear. I think it will be charming. Mr. Hallett was very nice." ' Mrs. Gray's eyes wandered to her young cousiu's face. It was certainly overheated from walking in the sun. And the freckles just across the bridge of the small nondescript nose and under the brown eyes were quite apparent in this broad light What a little goose the girl was to wear that opaque white starched dress, the languidly elegant widow mentally commented. It made her look like a little brown peasant. Under the cir cumstances she could afford safely to give the child a little harmless gratifi cation. "Mr. Hallett was most particular to mention that he hoped you would not forget the invitation. It was so nice of him." Joyce felt herself reddening furiously, but whether at Mr. Hallett's particular mention or at the patronage of the lover ly Airs. Gray's tone, was left to the lat ter lady's optional conjecture. The only reference to the fete cham petre between that date and the Friday of its happening occurred-iw&4elera-tetc betwixt brother and sister. Tm not going," announced Joyce. "You're not?" Rex looked up, frown ing. "What's the matter with you? You act as though you wanted to avoid Mr. Hallett It looks ridiculous. He's never done anything to set you on your car. that I know." 'Joyce was silent f'i "Ohr you needn't pretend that he -has,",Bneerea Kec "You ve never seen 'him more than half-a-dozen times all told, and he never took any special no tice of you one way or the other,' with brotherly outspokenness. "You're a very close observer," fired Joyce. "But there's one thing yoa haven't observed, which you'd do well to that you needn't waste your time in falling in love with our charming cousin, because she pays no more atten tion to you than to a little boy, and she's in love with Mr. Hallett there!" and as Rex regarded her, paling, steadi ly "Yes," she triumphed vindictively, "and that's just what she came to us on a visit for, because we live near him and she wanted to get him. He's rich and she isn't, and she's going to marry him if if she can!" Joyce's tones had been growing more hysterically shrill with every word, and now she ran out of the room with a 60und in "her throat that would have struck Rex as mysteriously suspicious had he not been absorbed in the ruins of his own blighted youthful visions. Joyce indicated that she knew that women were privileged to change their minds by appearing at the fete cham petre as serenely as though she had .never announced any intention to the contrary. Indeed, she was far more than serene. Her spirits seemed to have risen for the occasion to an extraordinary height Rex looked at her reproachfully, be ing still very much depressed himself. Mrs. Gray regarded her with barely repressed amusement She (Mrs. Gray) was lovely in the extreme in a white gown and hat respectively fluffy with Face and feathers. Sne smiled imperceptibly when she noticed the powder on Joyce's nose. How crudely that ridiculous chit had clapped it on! To attempt to make up when one did not know how! Mrs. Gray pressed her perfumod trifle of a handkerchief to her lips. Mr. Hallett's tall distinguished figure was seen approaching their party with a visible empressemenl as soon as they dismounted at the entrance to tho grounds. Mrs. Gray, with her langaor ous grace and her syren-like smile, gave him her long-gloved hand. "How more than beautiful your al ways beautiful place is to-day!" she murmured. "You must let me take you all over it though," said Mr. Hallett "And, Miss Varian, 1 believe this is the first time I have had the pleasure of seeing you under my roof-tree?" He was by Joyce's side, and his hand some dark eyes were peering discreetly under the shadowing brim of her broad hat "Yes; but better late than never," laughed that young person, raising and drooping her shining brown eyes with killing effect Mrs. Gray's pencilled eyebrows con tracted with amaze. Was that little gawk of a country girl actually trying to flirt with Mr. Hallett? Absurd! She had been awkward before, but now she was absolutely grotesque. But grotesque or not, Miss Joyce Varian was certainly walking away with Mr. Hallett by her side, and the exquisite Mrs. Gray was bringing up the rear with her dear Cousin Rex. "Shall I fiud a shady place where we can sit down?" queried the latter eagerly. "No," was the reply, as cutting as possible. "I shall go and pay my de voirs to Mr. Hallett's aunt who receivee for him. You don't know ber, 1 sup pose?" and'suc left him standing there. And Mrs. Gray was growing livid with fury. The excitement goaded Joyce on. Suddenly she said plaintively: "I am so much afraid I am keeping you from your other guests. We had better go back." They had wandered off beyond the precincts of the lawn, where most of the people were assembled. "Oh, no don't!" cried Mr. Hallett "They're all right You see you came so late 1 had ample time to attend to all of them. Then my aunt's there. Tell me, why did you run away the other day when I went down to Lisle? I waited and waited, but in vain." "Why" Joyee opened her eyes very wide "you didn't want to see me? You came for Mrs. Gray." Mr. Hallett made an impatient ges ture, and muttered something under his beard. "Did I come for Mrs. Gray the other two or three times I drove over with out an invitation for you never would invite me before she ever had seen Lisle?" "You might have come for Rex," was the grave suggestion. "fiex!" "See; I am sure Mrs. Hallett is look ing for you she is looking for some body we really must go back." And she managed to escape from him, and to keep him at bay, too, all the rest of the afternoon. But what mattered that? Mrs. Gray was defeated the peerless, the sorceress by that little chit of a country girl with a retrousse nose and pink cheeks! Defeated, and she knew it, and her visit to Lisle and all her scientific scheming had been but labor lost The next day she and all the bewilder ing clothes and the wonderful toilettes left Lisle together. They had been gone a week when Joyce was rolled up in a ball on one of the garden benches with a book in her lap which she was not reading. Mr. Hallett had called several times, but never been received. Now Joyce suddenly looked up, and seeing him come towards her, sprang to her feet "Don't disturb yourself," he said coolly. "You absolutely would not let me come near you, so I forced myself into your presence. It's abominable, I admit But not half so abominable as the manner in which you treat me." As she kept a dignified silence. "Why do you do it?" he asked. "I want an answer, Joyce. She turned towards him with height ened color, and an ominous gleam in her eye. "Oh, don't get angry! You know perfectly well I'm in love with you, and you know that I want you to marry me. You must have seen how I felt about you from tho first day. But your be havior has been shocking. How could vou play fast and loose with me so? But, never mind. You were enchant ing the other day. I'll forgive you everything before and since on 'the strength of that When will you be my wife?7, "Never!" "Joyce?" "Never never! Never will I marry anyone! I am not fit! -I am a per per perfectly hor horrid girl! I flirt ed with you pur purposely the other day, and I led you. on, because I wanted to sp spite Cousin Gray, and and I was jealous of her and I thought you were going to marry her and '' The rest of the speech was buried on a shoulder clad in tweed, upon which the tears were running down in streams. "No, no! Let me go!" "Jovce, are yoa going to be tractable?'1 "I tell yon I'm a horrid, false, treach erous girl! There let let mega And and I put pow powder on ray nose!" in a rising lyrical burst "Oh yes, 1 saw it," very calmly. "A great mistake, too. You leave pearl- powders to your fair cousin. I prefer those freckles myself," looking down at the face still pressed against his coat "They're horrid, loo!" "Oh, -no." After a pause: "Henry," in a still small voice and carefully, "Cousin Gray's visit to Lisle did not turn out just as she intended, did it?" A laugh. "Not just I can't say I'm in the least sorry, either. Are you?" But this, being a thoroughly unfair question, neither deserved nor obtained an answer. PENINSULA "SUPERSTITION. Prevalent In Lower Delaware and la Parts of Maryland. A belief in the supernatural and in the forecasting of eveuts by and signifi cation of signs and omens is not as i generally supposed, restricted entirely to the negro race of the Maryland and Delaware peninsula, writes a Washing ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Times. Superstition 4is prevalent to a considerable degree among the whites, and it is a curious fact that in many families where wealth and intelligence predominate, an implicit belief is placed in signs and tokens and what they por tend. They are sincere in this belief and will cite numerous instances where a mysterious knock upon the door, the startling rattling of a window sash when the air was calm and serene, or the dismal bowling of a dog have been followed by "bad luck," to give ap parent strength to it Among the white laboring classes superstition holds their minds with a wonderful power. Any strange phe nomena in the heavens, auy abnormal condition of the weather, or any un usual commotion on land or sea, each have their own special significance, and while they all exercise an undue influ ence upon the minds of these people, each one formulates his or her own opinion, and draw their own personal conclusions as to the probable sequence of these signs. A lady, venerable in years, prominent in society, living in affluence, and residing in a Maryland town, once dismissed a most dear and intimate acquaintance with a severe reprimand for trenching upon her ideas with regard to this belief. The subject of superstition was under discussion and a large circle of friends were pres ent This lady friend was ridiculing such belief as preposterous and ignor ant and it was commented upon ad versely by several other members of the company. But the hostess was in vulnerable to their attacks and hu morous puns, and good-naturedly re butted them by several incidents which occurred which were in fresh recollec tion by all present, and incidentally mentioned her horror of a person book ing over her shoulder while she was standing before a. looking-glass. The evening wore on, and when the com pany was about to disperse the hostess arose to arrange her hair before a small toilet looking-glass. Her friend came up behind her suddenly and peered over her shoulder. A remarkable tableau ensued. With blanched features the hostess threw up her hands, and with a wild shriek fell swooning to the floor. The proper restoratives were resorted to, and when she recovered conscious ness she arose to her feet, nervous and timorous. Pointing her finger at her heretofore bosom friend, she said in a firm, determined voice: "We are friends no more. Go!" Expostulations were utterly useless; she would listen to no explanation, and, with a wounded heart and her face bathed in tears, the lady took her de parture. This occurred twenty years ago. They have never exchanged words since. By a strange coincidence of circumstances a month or so after ward intelligence of the death of the only brother of the hostess, who was in India, was received. On the first day of the new year the negro is debarred the privilege of enter ing a white person's house, as their presence is regarded as an omen of bad luck throughout the eutire year. Woe be to auy person with a black skin who crosses the threshold of a white man's house on the first day of the new year. A negro man came near paying the penalty of his forgetfulness in this respect with his life. lie started in the gate of a house and was advancing to ward the door, when he was confronted by the resolute and angry occupant, who stood ready to receive him with a wood-ax. The frightened negro sudden ly collected his senses, and, remember ing the day, turned to flee. As he did so the ax was hurled after him, and went whizzing over his head, the helve knocking off his hat There is to-day living in lower Dela ware an old gentleman, once conspicu ous in public life, who constantly keeps his gun charged with old-fashioned silver 3-cent pieces, who has an im plicit belief in their virtue to destroy the power of negro conjurers when fired at them. There are several more who keep their revolvers loaded with the same metal for the same purpose. Why the annihilating qualities of silver are more superior to lead or gold, they are unable to explain. Yet they are pro foundly sincere in their belief that a volley of the jingling metal fired at not into the body of a conjurer, will dis solve his mysterious power, and prevent him from committing harm. " Superstition in the negro is proverbial. We can easily understand that the root from which springs his absurd ideas is ignorance. But why it should hold men and"women of brilliant minds and of high social distinction in its grasp is a psychological question we can not answer. In some parts of Maryland the people will not have the house leek, a small green plant bearing a pink flower, upon their premises. This plant blooms, ac cording to their theory, but once in seven years, and should one of them be in or near the house at the time of blooming, when the tiny bud begins to develop someone will be taken sick, and as it continues to expand they will grow worse, and when it has bloomed into the perfect flower they will die. Another superstition characteristic ox this ostracised plant is that so long as anyone carries a leaf about with them adversity will be close at their heels. There are countless numbers of signs and omens of ill-luck, sickness, death,' disappointment, etc., that make a curi ous and interesting category. The howling of a do" is a sure sign of death, and when throwing your shoes on the floor, should they turn upside down, the grim spectre will claim some member of the family ore the year has tassed. The dropping of the dish-rag oretells the coming of a stranger; to meet a funeral on the street is an ill omen, and many will go squares out of their way to avoid meeting an ap proaching cortege; to go out of the house and forgetting some simple article, have to return for it presages disappointment, and you most sit down and cross your legs if yon would dis solve the spell ana be successful in your errand. These and many other equally absurd notions are prevalent among the people of the lower peninsula, and if seems as though the advancing elements of enlightenea civilization and intelli gence will never be able to destroy them. BONNETS. The Demand of Ladle efFaaaloa. I a recent letter upon the aristocracy of England, says the New York Sun, a writer said that the Eiurlish women would be surpnsea to know that tno Americans, whose taste in dress is so greatly admired over there, pav as high as 20 or 25 tor a bonnet That statement aroused the curiosity of many feminine Sun readers. Who pays $100 or $125 for a bonnet? They did not know any one who did, and yet it might be true. But it seems it is not true. The most fashionable milliner in New York says so. She gets more for hats and bonnets than any one else in town, so that her word on" the subject is final. "It is absurd," she said. "We could easily make hats and bonnets that would be worth that price, but no one would buy them. Do you know how much the most fashionable and wealthy ladies in town want to get their bonnets for? Twenty-live dollars. We get $35 and sometimes $40 for a bonnet but these prices are' mainly for imported ones. There's not much money in an imported bonnet at tboso figures. Take one that costs 100 francs in Paris;. that's $20. Add 50 per cent duty: that's $10, or $30 in all. So that when you take the risk of its not pleasing and your help and rent into consideration, your profit is small. Of course all our im ported goods are from Paris. There's nothiug tasteful or pretty made for wo men in London. They dress the men well there, but the women are obliged to look to Paris for styles. "When a woman pays $35 or $40 for a bonnet she expects to get everything the whole store. She pretends she can get the same thing lor less money in Sixth avenue, when even a man can see the difference between bonnets here and bonnets there. What makes the cost? Oh, the quality of the velvet the expensive trimmings and feathers. Now here's a love' from Paris (holding up a jauuty bonnet of chocolate-colored plush trimmed with a row of heavy jet beads and with half 'of the russet-red tail feathers of a bird of Paradise). I've refused $35 for it It is as good, and as showy, and as expensive as any woman on the continent has or can get And it is too expensive for most of them. They don't like to go above $25." 'Tsee all your hats and bonnets are trimmed with feathers. Don't you feel the effect of the Audubon movement for the protection of birds? 1 thought the ladies were going to get along with out causing the slaughter of birds for their adornment" "Do I feel the movement? Guess I da But what geese the women are. Now, this very hat will be put aside by half a dozen women in succession because it has got the head and beak of a bird of Paradise among its trimmings. Oh we can't buy that with a head of a poor little bird on it,' they say. And then they turn arouud and buy a hat with a pair of wings or a bird's back or a breast on it Just as if a bird miht not just as well lose his head as his tail or back or breast But there's never any reason in any of these crazes. These Audubon women wou't buy a hat not trimmed with feathers, but they insist that they shall have nothing else no claws, beaks or heads." This milliner said that women are very eoononiical. They compare favor ably with the men in this respect They may pay $25 for a bonnet, but they insist on getting the worth of their money. "Give a man $100 and a wo man $100," said she, "and see what each will do. The woman will bring 'home a lot of things. The man will smoke up cigars, drink wine, aud get up a dinner for his friends. He will have nothing left but a headache for his money." Whether this comparison be true or not, recent researches into the fashions adopted by the ladies this winter has revealed the fact that it takes an euormous amount of money to satisfy a woman of fashion. It has been found that bonnets come as high as $40, seal skin sacques are bought every day for $500 or $G0i), and coats of Russian sable are worn by ladies whose hus bands paid $4,000 for them. The tailor made cloth walking-suits average $100 in cost and only form one in the scries of four dresses needed for a lady's daily changes. Her afternoon home dress is likely to cost $75 or $100. her evening dress, if in the height of fashion, will cost $400 to $500, and she needs a $25 wrapper to wear at her toilet bcfoie breakfast The Broadway shopping es tablishments now keep on hand silk under-clothing at $35 a suit, chemises at $00, skirts at $50 and $60. drawers at $35 to $60, stockings at $12 a pair, and corsets. "if Coal-Oil Johnny were to come to life again and try to throw a fortune away, he could not spend one half so much in dress," said a storekeeper tho other day, "as it is deemed necessarv for a rich woman to spend if sho wants to keep up to the standard set by other wealthy women." Nomenclature of Iron and Steel. Pig-iron is melted direct from the ore in the furnace, and contains from 3 to 5 per cent of carbon. When melted it is called "cast-iron" or "metal." Spiegel iron is precisely the same, but contains in addition from 5 to 15 per cent of manganese. Bar-iron, often called wrought-iron, is pig-iron which has been smelted and deprived of nearly all its carbon, either in a puddling furnace or by the Wallon, Lancashire, or other analogous process; the spongy mass or ball of iron is usual ly hammered or rolled into a bar. Puddled steel is precisely the same as bar-iron," except that the process of puddling is stopped when rather more than half of the carbou has been removed from the pig-iron. There is consequently no hard and fast lines between bar-iron and puddled steel, the one intergrading to the other by imperceptible degrees. Although there are an indefinite" number of interme diate stages between the softest bar-iron and the hardest puddled steel, and although it is impossible to state the exact percentage of carbon which marks the dividing line between tho one aud the other, it is usual to call all puddled bars which cannot be hardened in water bar-iron, and all those which can, puddled steel. This dividing line falls somewhere near, a mixture containing 1-2 per cent of carbon. Blister-steel is bar-iron which has beeu converted into steel in a convert ing furnace, and varies in the amount of carbou which it contains from 1-2 to 1 1-2 per cent Bar-steel is blister-steel which has been tilted or rolled down to the size required. Cast-steel is steel that hns been melted in a "pot" and poured into a "mold." thus becoming an "ingot," which is afterward hammered and rolled to the size required. It may be of various "tempers," varying in per centage of carbon which they contain from 3-4 or less to 1 1-2 or more. Not Impressed by the Queen. A woman who has seen not a little of social and political life in Washington for the last thirty years is Mrs. Martha J. Coston, writes a correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. In the course of a pleasant chat I asked Mrs. Coston what part of her social experience dur ing a Iifteen years' sojourn abroad she enjoyed the most "To be candid," she replied, smiling ly, "I must confess that my presenta tions at the English and French courts were to me the most entertaining, be cause there was so much that was novel, and the glitter and pomp and display was such a striking contrast to our re publican wav of doing things." "What did you think of Queen Vic toria?" Mrs. Coston replied: "It was at the princess of Wales' first ' drawing-room aiu-i n;i marriage mat I was presented, and the queen did not receive; but afterward I had a capital opportunity to see her. It was at the launching of tt he Victoria, at which I was invited to bo present by the duke of Somerset A brilliant company was assembled awaiting hor majesty. At last there was a commotion and I sup posed the queen was coming. I looked earnestly for some appearance of royal ty, but only saw a stout elderly lady. whose self and toilet, 1 thought would make a good caricature for Punch as The British Matron Abroad.' She was very broad, both of .stature and of breath, and her face was rod and cross. Her toilet consisted of a large, gayly plaided poplin, so short in the skirt as to expose the tops of a pair of heavy .walking shoes. A long, loose velvet sack fitted so tightly over the full dress 1 that it gave the wearer's figure a barrel like appearance, and a dark green hat j of uncut velvet, its plumage draggled by rain and blown by the wind, was worn 1 on a head that did not suggest familiar ty with a crown, but the finishing blem ish was a huge muff of royal ermine suspeuded round the lady's fat neck by a cord, and which, not being in use, wobbled helplessly back and forth over her well-rounded body. " Who is that funny, fussy woman?' r I asked laughingly of my naval escort, a British otlicer. " Good heavens, madame!' said he, in a low voice, 'that is our gracious sovert'iirn! lor a moment 1 was speechless, but not half convinced, until 1 noticed that all the gentlemen were standing, hats off, amra fiuc-lookins: gentleman, whom I recognized as Prince Albert, joined the lady in plaid, also standing uncovered. The day was cold, bleak, and cheerless; the wind whistled around us. and great rain-drops fell. 1 really felt my first gleam of admiration for her Britannic majesty when she ordered the gentle men, including her husband, to put on their hats." He Got Only Half Fall. "I'd like to make a bargain with you." This remark was addressed to the proprietor of a low-priced eating-house on Market street about 7 o'clock the other evening. The proprietor, who also actetl as cashier, looked up and saw standing before him a shabby-genteel man, with a little gripsack in his hand. "What kind of a bargain?" One that will get hie my supper, give you the worth of it, and save you three times the price of it every day. "That's a bargain. You just prove to me first that what vou propose will do that." "Well, see there; that gas-jet of yours is burning tluve times the amount of fas thai it ought to to furnish the light it now gives. This burner and a grip sack was opened and a burner taken out will reduce your gas-bill two thirds for ewry jet that itis put on. I sell them for the unpreccdentedly low price of ten cents. You can give me twenty cents' worth of supper, and I'll put on two of them for you. You get the two burners, which are worth the price of the supper, ami you save more than that in r:lsevery day.' Well. :o ahead, 1 don t know that I think your burners are any better than tin oid one-), but I'll give you a chance." "Half a dozen fried oysters and a cup of coffee," said the man to the waiter. These were dispatched at a rate which seemed to indicate that suppers at any prico were scarce with the gas-burner man. When he had finished he put on the two burners, while the proprietor stood by and watched him. "Seo here." he said, when he had finished, "there are two more jets that ought to have these burners on, even if the rest don't need them. It would pay you to have them on every jet in the house, but anyhow you let me put them on these two, and I'll take an oyster stew and a piece of mince pie. Come, what do you say?" "N-n-no, not this time, I guess," Baid the eating-house keeper slowly. "I think I've invested enough for to-night You come around a year from now, aud it my gas bills have been any smaller I'll have you put on a dozen." "But I may starve before that," said the burner man, laying his. hand plain tively on his stomach. Then seeing no act of compliance on the part of the eating-house keeper, he walked up ana down the double row of men in the room importuning each one to buy a burner for three cents apiece. l'hila delpfua North American. Reformed Convicts. "You would hardly believe it, but many of our 'boarders' desire to remain even after their terms have expired," said one of the keepers of the Kings county penitentiary to a Brooklyn Eagle reporter. "Long term prisoners of both sexes in time learn to love their 7x3 feet cells. For instance, in the female department we have two or three life prisoners. These have become so accus tomed to the rules and regulations of prison life that I hardly think they would escape if an opportunity was of fered them. As you see, they have decorated and furnished their cells, and have evidently made up their mind that they have come to stay. And then there is another class of prisoners, who, knowing that they would be unable to earn an honest living outside, prefer to remain here where they receive good treatment and enough to eat." Said a prominent Brooklyn police of ficial: "I have long contended that a home should be provided for ex-convicts, wherethey could go when released and earn an honest living. Such a home could be established on the outskirts of Brooklyn, New York, or any other large city. The men, and in fact the women, could be employed in manufacturing industries, and thus be free from the blackmail levied by their fellow-convicts." "How blackmail?" the reporter ask ed. "X will tell you. convicted ielona desiring to reform often travel many mites irom tne scenes ot tbeir crimes. They are unable to obtain work unless they suppress the fact that they have been in prison. I know many instances in which convicts, having settled in some western city where they were leading an honest life, have been track ed and exposed by fellow convicts. Such men have been compelled to pay heavy blackmail, or else be exposed and disgraced. In case a man, an ex convict, has been leading a straight life for live years in a town where he has made new friends .and new asso ciations it is rather hard that he should be compelled to lose everything simply because at one time in his existence he has been crooked. Men of this stamp who have been exposed give up all hope and return to their former life." This anecdote about himself was told by the late Dr. Magoon: When the doctor was a student at Colby bis supply of money was very small. One Saturday he started for Pishon's Ferry, intending to preach on Sunday, with out a cent in his pocket He walked as far as the ferry, but how to get across was a problem. "The ferry man was waiting, and to hesitate was to be lost" said the doctor. "So I stepped into the boat and sat down with apparent unconcern. 'Where are you going?' asked the ferryman. Go ing across to preach,' 1 replied. As we touched the other shore I asked how much the fare was. 'Nothing,' was the answer, and I tooV my bundle and went on my way rejoicing." Wattrville (ife.) Sentinel. The Eton Block: Clab. In the "good old times," Eton boys used to get into great scrapes when they went poaching in Windsor Park sometimes they were caught One dark night two of them had planned a fine excursion. One of them he was after ward a cabinet minister of Great Britain was getting out of bis window very quietly, thinking he heard his friend below waiting for him. "Is all right?" he whispered. "Right as my left leg!" answered a voice, and the boy dropped into the arms of the bead-master. Dr. Keate flogged more than eighty boys at one time. They were fifth-form boys, and they had started a little re bellion against the doctor. So he had the tutors bring them to him, two or three at a time, after they had gone to bed, and he took 'em one by one; it was after midnight before he was through. Well, at last the old flogging block itself was carried off. That was when Dr. Hawtrey was master. One morning it was the day after a boat race againat Westminster a lot of the boys were sent up to bis room to be flogged; but the block wasn't there, nor the birch, neither. Three of the boys managed to get the block out in the night and sent it up to London. It was the seat of the presi dent of the "Eton Biock Club" up in Lon don for a loug time. Nobody could belong to that" club who hadn't been flrKTOrml at P.tnn f'irir tiiiioa TMio hni usedto talk the il'igiring over in their debating society. They don't have such flogging any more. "Edwin D. Mead, in St. Nicholas. Lincoln on Quarrels. After telling of the Shields duel in the January Century, Nicolay and Hay give the following: "This was Mr. Lincoln's last personal quarrel. Although the rest of his life was passed iu hot aud earnest debate, he never again descend ed to the level of his adversaries, who would gladly enough have resorted to unseemly wrangling. In later years 'it became his duty to give an official reprimand to a young otli.er who had been court-martialed for a quarrel with one of his asjociate3. The reprimand is probably the gentlest recorded iu the annals of penal discourses, and itshows, in few word the principles which ruled tho conduct of this great and peaceable mau. It has never before been published, aud it deserves to be written in letters of gold on the walls of every gymuasium and college: "The advice of a father to his son, 'Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee!' is good, but not the best. Quarrel not at all. No man re solved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones though clearly your bwn. Butler give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right Even killing the dog would not cure the bite." In o'te of the public schools the other dav while the teacher was instructing the scholars on tne fully of intemper ance sh! commenced by saying that liquor was man's greatest enemy. A young Hibernian, fresh from the Emer ald Isle, who was listening with much attention, said that we should love our enemies a statement which the teacher thought was right, but was much perplexed by the witty remark. "But" continued the boy, with a good natured smile, and relieving the em barrassment of the teacher, "we shouldn't swallow them." Portland Argus. Do " on Know that Beggs' Cherry Couyh Symp will relieve that cough almost instantly and make expiration easy? Acta simulta neously on the bowels, kidney and liver, thereby relieving the lungs of the sore ness and pain and also stopping that tickling sensation in the throat by removing the cause. One trial of it will convince any one that it has no equal on earth for coughs and colds. Dr. A. Heintz has secured the sale of it and will guarantee every bottle to give satisfaction. .'feb2 Full sleeves are worn by girls from 10 to 14. They are formed into a wide cuff extending from the waist half way up the forearm. The Population orCelambaH Is about ,'t,U0U, aud we would say at least one hair are troubled with some affection ot the Throat and Lungs, as thoe com plaints are, according to statistics, mora numeroiiH than others. We would ad vise all not to neglect the opportunity to call on us and get a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial size free. Res pectfully, Dr. A. Heiutz. Bogwood ornaments, bracelets, but tons and clasps are worn in mourning, and are sometimes beautifullv carved. A TenlMe Fire arouses the apprehensions of a whole city. And yet the wild havoc of disease startles no one. Sad to relate, women suffer from year to year from chronic diseases and weaknesses peculiar to her sex, knowing that they are growing worse with every day, and still take no measnres for their own relief. Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" is the result of life-long and learned study of female complaints. It is guaranteed to cure. White fox fur on green plush wrap is very effective. The lining of white satin makes it more elegant Salt Rheum or Eczema. Old sores and ulcers, Scaldhead and ringworm, Pain in the back and spine. Swelling of the knee joints, Sprains and bruises. Neuralgia and toothache, Tender feet caused by bunions, corns and chilblains, we warrant Beggs' Trop ioal Oil to relieve any and all of the above. Dr. A. Heintz. Corduroy jackets are among the new est shown for spring wear, and are recom mended as jaunty and stylish. ed -Be!t isi Every Cane. D. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer at Chattanooga, Tenn., writes that he was seriously afflicted with a severe cold that settled on his longs; had tried many remedies without benefit. Being induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, did so and was en tirely cored by the obc of a few bot tles. Since which time he has used it in his family for all Coughs and Colds with best results. This is the experience of thousands whose lives have been saved by this Wonderful Discovery. Trial bottles free at Dowty ft Heitkemper's dreg store. A Kfcd o Boue Ncraplasr. Edward Shepherd, of llirrisburg, 111., says : "Having received so mnch benefit lioiii Electric Biiier-, I feel it my ihiiy m :-.r .vi-tl'i ;:iig humnnify "ti:v it. it veliiul n i tinning Mire in my leg for cigii! -:i-: mv doctor- told me I wwii.ti imvi-i.i !i,vl-the boue 8er.ed or ie ampul'ftl. I used, inse-..i, thre bn'rlu ..' '; -.trY Bitter and seviin l..xs li., ,'-Arn'e-i S'v- and my leg i- mv. ruj"d i::s! i!l." E'ectne "Mars are Bold at ti i jcoU a biiiclo, andY. ,.-,-;. ,-, r-n-i Salve at 211-;. L-or box bv I).wiy .fc Ileitkentpei V. Youug women, said to be religious en thusiasts, now carry the blackest kind of prayer books for Lent. Parity mir lu;l. If your tongue is coaled. If your skin is yellow and dry. If yon have boils. If you have fever. If you are thin or nervous. If you are bilious. If you are constipated. If your lioucs ache. If your head aches. If you have no appetite. If you have no ambition, one liottle of Beggs' .blood 1'iiriiler and Blood Mukcr will relieve auy and all of the above complaints. Sold and war ranted by Dr. A. Heintz. Railway carriages are now fitted up as churches in i.ussia, so that people can worship as they travel. Ciiamugklain's Couh iichiedy cures the most obstiuuto coughs. Dowty .v Heitkemper. Try it! Gernuun' has issued orders to weed out certain classes or" Ivcnchiuen from Alsace. Look out for an iiuiux of opt-ra bouffe singers. Deeay of the Bone-, with some thirty other symptoms, mark the progress of that terrible dis ease known as catarrh. It advances stage by stage of fearful anuoyances, and if neglected, is certain to end in general debility, and possibly in eon sumption or insanity. Dr. Sage's Ca tarrh Remedy will cure it at any stage. This medicine has been long before the public, and thousands have been restor ed to health by its never-failing virtues. Camel's hair shawls made into wraps will be very fashionable this spring. Itch, Prairie Mange, and Scratches of every kind cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no other. This never fails. St.M by O. B. Stillmau, druggist Co!umbu3. Folds or puffs of silk net are more frshionable than niching for the neck and sleeves. Mr. Wm. Westlakk. stock raiser and breeder of thoroughbred horses, living near Avoea, Nebraska, was badly injured by lieiug thrown from a sulky. After using liniments and consulting physi cians, without Wing afforded any relief, he obtained a liottle of C!iainIorlain's Pain Balm from the druggist at Avoca, which he began using and noticed a change for the better, after a few appli cations; in two weeks he entirely recov ed the use of his arm. It is unequaled for severe bruises and sprains, rheuma tism and lame back. Sold by Dowty & Heitkemper. It is predicted that within a year walking skirts will be made long enough to "touch and drag" as well. A Cireal NiirpriiM Is iu store tor all who use Kemp's Bal sam for the Throat aud Lungs, the great guaranteed remedy. Would you believe that it is sold on its merits and that each druggibt is authorised to retund your money by the Proprietor of this wonderful remedy if it fails to cure you. Dr. A. Heiutz has secured the Agency for it. Price 50c anil $1. 2r iu size Jree. The skirt of black cbantdly worn with a basque bodice of black velvet makes a very stylish for receptions or small dinners and is always becoming and pretty. RihT I -h A fulfil Mtilvrv, The 1. s. "tlve i:i itn world for Cuts, Bruise, Sores, Ulcer, Salt Kheuni, Fever Sores, Tetler, Chapped Hands, Chilblain.?, Corns, and all Skin Eruptious, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar anteed to ive perfect satisfaction, or money relanded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dowty & Becher. i7niay-ly TIE LA16EST AID FIIEST STICK west of Omaha, nt GREISEN BROS. The best manufactories of the conntry represented. Not to be undersold by anybody. Come nnd see prices at GREISEN BROS. This la the swat PRACTICAL HIGH-CUT SHOE ever Inverted. Itla veryQBHTBBTifl DBMeTTMdglwa the atmeprotectloaMabootoroYer-galtor. itu convenient to pot oa ad the top caa be adjusted ts it any nkte by atoply mortasUni tmt nm IteMteby w GREISEN BROS. -fcw-L-" 13ta Oct. -86-tf Bm b BBa 'BmBS BBBBBBBsiBBBBBBBbI H 'bb bbJ'bb3Mb Bb BBkB BBBBBBBMBfllBTBl W'Jr bbbbbbbbbbbV bjU SE BBBBBSB""""""""" BBHBbLBBS .BBBiVaBBTivVSVB? .BBBT BBfl ZsWBBT BbT tt BEAST! Mexican Mustang Liniment Sciatica, Scratch, Coatraetei Lumbago, Spraimi. Kosclaa, Rheumatian, Strain!, Eraptiosj, Burns, Stitches, Hoaflil, Scalds, StiffJoiati, Screw Stiagt, lackacar Wonat, litea. Galls, Swianay, Bruises, Saras, Saddl Galls, lunioni, Spavia PilM. Coras, Cracks. THIS GOOD OLD STAND-BY accomplishes for erery body exactly wbatUclalnie- for it. One of the reasons for the great popularity at tho 3Iutang- Liniment la found In Its aatveraal applicability Everybody needs such a mediate. The Lasaberaasm needs It In case of accident. The Ilraaewlfa needs it for general family u. The Caaaler needs It for hU teams and liU men. The Mechanic need It always on hU wrt bench. " The Miner needs It la case ot emergency. The Vlnneerneedslt can't get along without it. The Farmer needs It In hi house, his stable, and his stock yard. The Steamboat nib or the Boatmaa needs It In liberal supply afloat and ashore. The norse-fancler needs it-It 1 hU beat friend and safest reliance. The Stock-grower needs It It wlU saTo him thousands of dollars and a world of trouble. The Railroad saaa needs It and wUl need it so lung as his life Is a round of accidents and dangers. The Backwoodanaa needs It. There U noth ing like It as an antidote for tho dangers to Ufa. limb and comfort which surround the pioneer. The Merchant needs It about his store among his employees. Accidents wUl happen, and wins these come the Mustang Liniment la wanted at onco. Keeps Bottle lathe Hoaao. Tls the best of economy. Keep a Bottle la the Factory. IU Immediate use In case or accident seres pals and loss of wages. Keep a Bottle Alwayo la tho Stable for aao whoa waated. AND - BUSINESS COLLEGE. "ETrercLorrt "fcTe"b. Tlii- institution irt?ixtnt yminK iMoiIe thoroiitdilj fur Teaching, for I(unimt,a Life, tor AcliniKMon to College, for Law or Meiiicftl Schools, for Public Speaking, in Instrumental and Vocal Miihic, in Drawing and Painting, unci in Kloctition. Short-hand anil Tixswritinc. In the Normal einrtmmt, thorough in struction it Kivt-u in nil hntnchttt required for any certificate from 'l'hinl (iraile to State I'ro fensiomtl. The HtiHinesH Course includes Penmanship, Commercial Correionilence. Commercial Law and Hok-ket'iiiuir, with the best methods of keeping Farm, Factor-, HankinK and Mercantile accounts. (Five premiums were awarded to this department at the recent State Fair.) Expenses are very low. Tuition, Itooin Kent and Tahle Hoard are placed at coot, as nearly as possible. First Winter Term begins Nov. It lastJ; Second Winter.Term, Feb. 1, ls&7. For particulars address the President of novS-'WStf NoilMAL COLLFQK. Fremont, Neb. LOUIS SCHREIBER, r. All kinds of Repairing done on Short Notice. Baggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. rShop opposite the "Tattertll," on Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 2B-m TRA KS SELECTED SHORE -ascKEir. I THIS PAIL . iTRASrCS Cheapest Eating on Earth A8K?0Tja GS0CZB FOB THE. TRASK'S JARS THKOMCIMAL ami DHL! CEHUIHE! Tak no other I MONEY to be made. Cut thiu ont anl return to uh. and we will wmi jou frw. pomething of great value and imDortann tn cno that will start yon in lmine which will bring j on in more momey richt away than anvthinv in .the world. Anyone can do the work and live at home, fcither 11; all iiwh. Something new, that just coinx money for all workers. We will start jou; capital not needed. Thin is one of the gennine, iuiiortant chancer of a lifetime. Thoee who are amoitiona anil enterprising will not de lay. Grand outfit free. Addre, Tbde A Co., Augusta, Maine. loc2.s5y WOM CUSSES idl clashes with employment at home, the whole of the time, or for their Hpare momenta. Busi ct new, light and profitable. Pennons of either sex easily earn from .V) cents to j.'.OO per evening and a proxrtional sum by devoting all their time to the bnsinent.. Boys and girls earn nearly as much as men. That all who see this may send their addresx, and test the business, we make this offer. To snch as are not well satisfied we will send one dollar to pay for the trouble of writing. Full particulars and outfit free. 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