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AS' UNEXPECTED VISIT.
It was with the air of a man pro
foundly indifferent to his own successes,
that Gerard Strickland, twitching bit
cuffs and stretching his arms, before let
ting his hands fall into Ids lap, sank back
into the luxurious arm chair by bis li
brary fire, after throwing on the table
the letter that announced his promotion
to an enviable post in the civil service.
As he thought of the post, his advance
ment seemed to him no subject for con
gratulations, but only one of those grim
jests with which fortune delights to
mock disappointed men.
An old man servant, one of a sort
"growing rare, entered the room with an
evening paper. He laid it at his mas
ter's ride, and stood at a respectful dis
tance, waiting, lialf hesitating, with
some anxiety legible in his countenance.
"Well, Thomas?" asked Strickland.
"I beg your pardon, sir; but do you
remember what day it is today?
"No, Thomas.
"Your wedding day, sir!"
Strickland's face clouded.
"I did not know, sir, whether you
would wish for dinner the same wine as
as you used to liave."
"No, Thomas; I shall probably dine at
. the club."
"I ordered dinner, as usual, sir, and a
bouquet, in case"
"Quite right, Thomas, quite right."
For an instant the heart of the pro
moted official sank. The fidelity of his
old domestic was humiliating. How he
would once have resented the suggestion
that Thomas would remember this anni
versary Ix'ttor than himself! And that
it should fall to the old servant to order
from the florcst the bouquet Gerard hiin
"6elf ha:l loen formerly 60 proud to bring
home, on this evening, to ids wife! But
the slight sense of annoyance passed
away quickly. It was with absolute in
difference that, seeing the man servant
still waiting, ho asked
Anything else, Thomas?"
"This morning, when you had just
gone, a young lady called. Hearing you
were not at home, she said she would
call again this evening, about 6. She
wished to see vou on important business.
"ner name?"
"She left none."
"Did you see her?"
"No, sir."
"Did John say what she was like?"
"Rather tall, sir; a young lady, dark,
and fashionably dressed."
"If she calls I will see her. You may
go, Thomas." The servant left, and
Strickland continued to himself: "Tall,
young, dark, well dressed, business with
me. Who can she be?"
"The lady is here, sir, in the drawing
room," said Thomas, returning to the
library, after about ten minutes.
' Strickland went to the drawing room.
At the door he paused a moment to steal
a look at his visitor. She stood by one
of the tables, idly turning the leaves of
a photograph album. Her back was
toward him, and he could distinguish
only the tall and graceful figure of a
woman, well dressed and wearing ex
pensive laces.
"Madam!" he said, advancing.
The lady turned. Strickland started as
if he had received an electric shock. To
conceal, to tho best of his ability, his
surprise and the sudden pallor of his face,
he made her a profound bow.
"I hope I am not inconveniencing you,"
she said, at the samo time returning his
salute. Then, with a quiet ease, she se
lected a chair and sat down.
"Not in the least, I am at your service,"
said Strickland.
"As I shall avail myself of your con
descension, I hope that was not merely
a compliment."
"May I ask you how I can oblige you?"
The lady stroked the soft fur or her
muff, and once or twice lifted her search
ing eyes to Ids face. Apparently she was
hesitating to name the purpose of her
visit. Meanwhile, Strickland gratified
his eyes with a good look at her, lovely,
fascinating still, as the first day he had
seen her. Only her pure profile had
gained more decision; and her eyes had
a profoundcr meaning than when he last
looked into them, as those of a woman
who had lived and suffered.
At length she said:
"Do you still correspond with mj
father?"
"Yes. It is, however, a fortnight since
I last wrote to him."
"I received a letter from him yester
day. He is coming to town to-morrow."
This time Strickland made no attempt
to conceal his surprise.
"To-morrow! Your father, who never
leaves homer
"The medical men order him to the
south coast, and ho will, on his way, stop
in town, to spend the night with"
She paused.
"His daughter," said Strickland.
"He says nis son. And so we find our
selves in a pleasant embarrassment."
She leant back, and with a small hand
began drubbing a waltz on tho table at
her side.
"You call it pleasant," said Strickland.
"I did not come here to discuss words,
but to discover a plan of action."
"I see none."
"And you are a politician, a man of
genius! If those subtle arts, that have
been so successfully employed in your
own advancement, could be, without
prejudice to you, this once employed to
extricate me'from"
"Excuse me, madam: but your re
proaches are scarcely likely to assist me
to exercise my imagination."
"Bah! Well, 1 have a plan. First, I
do not wish, cost what it may, to let mv
father know the truth."
'The unhappy truth!"
She made a little grimace, and pro
ceeded: "My father -would be cruelly
hurt, and the sins of the children ought
not to bo visited upon their parents. My
remorse I beg your pardon, that is of
. little consequence" here" she looked
aside to warn him not to expostulate,
and continued: "Hitherto, thanks to our
precautions, the distance of my father's
residence, and tho seclusion in which ho
prefers to live, has been spared litis sor
row. To-morrow our clever edifice of
dutiful falsehood falls to the ground, and
1, at azaet. am unable to conjecture the
ooneequencos."
-AndL"
"Mr. Strickland, it is absolutely nec
essary to prevent this scandal. I trust
you will assist me. My father must find
e together; and we must avoid every
thing that would serve to awaken sua
picios."
She spoke sadly, as well as earnestly.
.4 deep shadow of concern settled on her
hearer's face. Wrapt in thought, he de
layed the answer. His visitor became
impatient.
Yc
roar promised courtesy coats too
fa." she demanded..
"No. I am ready. Bat I see many
dmVnltipw. The servants?"
"Give the new man servant I found
here this morning a holiday. I win
peak to Thomas."
"If a friend should cam"
"Yoa will see no one."
"If we meet your father, people will
see ns together.
"We will go in a closed carriage,"
"Tew fattier -will stay here several
hears. Good and simple hearted as he
is, do yem believe it possible he will not
vsooniae a bachelors house?"
"IwiUsaad my work, my music, and
so om, this evening. My room?"
"Is as yo left it-
It ill ihn to be 1
washsB BeactfttodsoalTftJfr. Greecry.'
"By purine; tne anecoonate couple.
Can yoa remember year grimaces and
fooleries of two years ago?" she asked,
sarcastically.
"No: I have forgotten them." replied
Strickland, with a frown.
And the two looked into each other's
eyes like two duelists,
"When will yoa come here?" asked
Strickland.
"This evening. I will bring my
things, and I shall slightly disarrange
this and that. I hope lshall not incon
venience you. Yoa are not expecting
anyone?"
"No one. I was going oat. If yoa
wish, I will stay and assist yoa. My en
gagement is unhnportant"
"Pray go. We should have to talk, and
we have nothing to say to each other."
"Nothing. Will you dine here?"
"No, thanks: m go home now, and
return by-and-by."
She rose. Strickland bowed in re
sponse to her bow, conducted her to the
door without another word, and re
turned with a sense of relief to the
library.
When he returned home, shortly after
midnight, the house had resumed an
aspect long strange to it. Lights were
burning in the drawing room, and a
little alteration in the arrangement of
the furniture had restored to the room a
forgotten grace. Bouquets of flowers
filled tho vases, and a faint sweetness of
violets floated about the hall and stair
case. The piano was open, and some
music stood on tho bookstand. On the
boudoir table was a work basket. By
the hearth his visitor was sitting in a
low chair, her little feet half buried in
the bear skin rug, and her head reposed
on her hand, while slip gazed wistfully
into the fire.
Was it a dream? Bertha's flowers;
Bertha's music Bertha herself in Ids
home again! Two years' misery can
celed in an evening! In a moment
rushed across his memory a golden woo
ing, a proud wedding, happy montlis,
and the bitter day of separation. Ho
turned away, and passed to his room,
saying, "Good night!"
"Good night!" replied his wife, with
out moving.
The strange event that had taken place
in Gerard Strickland's house prevented
none of its inmates enjoying a whole
some night's rest. Bertha, persuaded
that to-morrow's comedy could effect no
real change in her relation to her hus
band, went to her room with the feelings
of one who spends a night in a hotel.
Strickland, similarly regarding the past
as irremediable, read in bed for half an
hour, and then fell asleep.
To get married they had both com
mitted a thousand follies. After meeting-her
at a table d'hote, Strickland had
pursued her lialf over Europe, vanquished
the difficulties of an approach to her
father in his secluded country house, and
ultimately, assisted by the lady's prayers
and tears, gained the old man's reluctant
consent to surrender his idolized daugh
ter. The young married people, passion
ately attached to each other, enjoyed
fifteen months of remarkable happiness,
and then came the end.
Bertha became jealous. Devoted to
her husband, proud, hasty, immoderate
in all her thoughts and emotions, she re
sented, with nil the intensity of her
nature, a meeting between Strickland
and a former flame, a dance, a note,
half an hour's conversation. The hus
band unfortunately met her passionate
expostulations with the disdainful in
souciance of an easy temperament. The
inevitable consequence ensued, a bitter
misunderstanding. An impudent serv
ant, a malicious acquaintance, half a
dozen venomous tongues, lashed the
wife's jealousy into madness. An ex
planation demanded from her husband,
was refused with a sneer. He had begun
to think her a proud, unloving woman,
and, under tho circumstances, judged
self justification ridiculous. The follow
ing morning she entered his library, and
with marvelous calmness, without quav
ering over a Eingle word, announced to
him their immediate separation for
ever. Taken by surprise, Strickland
tried to temporize, acknowledged he had
been thoughtless, did all in a man's
power to avoid the rupture. Bertha only
replied so proudly, and with so much se
verity, that self respect forbade him fur
ther self defense.
They separated. Strickland externally
bore his misfortune with quietness, and,
in counsel with his own conscience, con
cluded his life broken and ruined by his
own want of tact The husband and
wife met two or three times, as people
who barely know each other. He de
voted himself to professional duties, re-
.sumed some of his bachelor habits, and
amused himself as be could. She led a
quiet, almost solitary life, restricting her
pleasures to 6uch simple enjoyments as
sho could provide herself at home, and
seldom appearing in public. On one
point both agreed, to write regularly to
Bertlia's father, repeating such stereo
typed phrases as "Bertha is well and
sends her love. I believe she wrote to
you a few days ago." "Gerard is well,
and at present very busy. He will not
this year be able to accompany mo to the
seaside."
It will be easily believed that, to go to
her husband's house and to ask a favor
of him had cost Bertha's pride a struggle.
"For papa's sake; for papa's Kike!" sho
repeated to herself, to steel her nerves to
the humiliation, which, however, Strick
land's cold courtesy had cjonnidi'ralilv
lessened. If ho would Ik cmiallv m ' '
erate on the morrow, a little spirit, a little
self command and some clever pretend
ing might enable them safely to conduct
her farther through the few hours to be
spent in town; to see him off from Vic
toria, and, with a polite bow, to separate
and return to their several existences.
Dinner was ended, Mr. Gregory smiled
.contentment and happiness, and the two
actors at the opposite ends of the table of
necessity smiled too.
Their parts had proved difficult. From
the moment of the old gentleman's ar
rival they had had to call each other by
their Cliristian names, and to use the
little endearments of two married people
still in love. More than once a word, an
intonation, that sounded like an echo of
of the dead past, made Strickland pale
and Bertlia tremble. Their embarrass
ment momentarily increased. The more
perfect their dissimulation the bitterer
was the secret remorse that wrung the
hearts of both of them whilst they ex
changed for meaningless things words,
looks and smiles, once the most sacred
rigns of affection. With the fear of be
traying themselves bv an indiscretion
was intermixed another, a misgiving
lest, while they acted affection, they
should be guilty of real feelings warmer
than the courteous indifference with
which they desired to regard each other.
On the stairs, when Mr. Gregory, pre
ceding them, was for an instant out of
sight, Bertha turned back and bestowed
on her husband a grim look of fatigue
that meant, "How are we to continue
this?
"Tis only till to-morrow. Bertha," he
replied in an undertone, wishing to help
her. But the Cliristian name (which, be
cause he had in the last two hours used
it so frequently, unwittingly slipped
from his lips) caused her to turn her face
away with an angry frown.
By the fire in the back drawing room
Mr Gregory appeared actuated by a de
sire to ask all the most awkward ques
tions, and to broach all the topics of
conversation most difficult for his host
and hostess.
"Letters are welcome, Bertha." he
said, "when people cannot meet, bat I
have enjoyed my little visit more than
aU the pages you have sent me, There
Is very little in letters. Don't you think
yanr wife gmw ha,nrlxwn?rt StriU?
"I teU her so every day."
"And so he tells me. Bertha. His let
ters are all about vou. Yoa have a
Baodel husband, my dear."
"I have, papa."
Strickland hung his head and regarded
the pattern of the carpet.
"I should like to see your house.
said Mr. Gregory, after a mo-
Tbe little party set out on a tour of the
minam After an inspection of several
rooms, as Strickland preceded them into
the breakfast room, the father' stopped
his daughter and saidi
"Bertha, where isyoar mother's por
trait?" -
"The frame had got shabby and we
have srot it to be re-suV replied the
aaugmer. promptly .
"Where does it generally hang?"
"There."
She assigned to the picture which she
had taken away with her, the first
empty space on the wall that met her eye.
"I don't think that a very good place!"
said the old man. "Oh, what a woman
she was! What a wonderful woman!
You should have known her, Strickland.
You owe her your wife. When she was
leaving me. poor dear! she made ma
promise never to hesitate to make any
sacrifice that should be for Bertha's
happiness; and so. when ray little girl
came to me and said, 'Papa, I can never
be happy without Gerard;' I thought of
my dear wife, and let her go. I feared,
when I sent her abroad, I should lose
her. Well, you were made for each
other. Do yon remember your first
meeting in Paris?"
They remembered it
The tour of the house was completed,
and they returned to the drawing room,
Gerard and his wife congratulating
themselves, not without reason, that
the good papa was not very observant,
for many a token of something abnormal
had been plain enough.
With a common sign of relief, the two
actors sank into their respective corners
of their carriage, after seeing Mr. Gregory
off the next morning from Victoria. Mot
a work was spoken. Bertha watched the
drops of nun that trickled down the
windows. Gerard studied the back of
the coachman. They had again become
strangers.
Presently, moving accidentally, Strick
land touched his wife's arm.
"I beg your pardon," he said.
"Pray do not mention it."
Perfect strangers! Yet both in the si
lence were anxiously meditating every
event of the last few hoars, remember
ing the most trifling impressions, and
studying all they signified. As they came
near a cross street the husband asked:
"Shall I drive you to your own house?"
"I am coming to yours, to superintend
the packing. Mymaidcannotdoitalone."
On arriving, the wife at once went to
her chamber. Strickland, conscious of
utter purposelessness, returned to the
back drawing room and took up the
paper. Bertha passed backward and for
ward. Once or twice he caught a glimpse
of her moving about the room. At last
he looked up..
"You will tiro yourself, he said; "can
not I assist you?"
"No, thank you. I have nearly done."
A few minutes later she came and
seated herself on the opposite side of the
fire. She appeared tired. As sho sat, she
looked around to see if anything had been
forgotten.
"I think it rains less," said Strickland,
who had laid down the paper.
"No. It rains just the same as before."
"Is tho carriage ready?"
"I have sent to know."
Tho carriage would be ready in ten
minutes. Those ten minutes seemed an
eternity. When the servant entered to
say the carriage waited, Bertha rose, and
stood for a little while before the mirror,
arranging her laces and ribbons, with
difficulty, for her fingers trembled.
Then sho slowly drew on her gloves, and
turned toward her husband. He had
risen, and was standing waiting.
'Good morning, sue said, bowing
eligh
;ntiy.
e bowed, but made no reply. She
turned, and quietly, with calm, even
steps, walked from the room. She could
hear that he followed her.
They were in the halL Suddenly he
stepped to her side.
"Bertha! You are not going without
first forgiving me?" he exclaimed, iu a
voice in which grief mingled with pas
sion. She turned round, and in an instant
had thrown herself into his arms.
"Darliigl you wiU never leave me
again?"
..,
No. no. love. Never!" Henry Cres-
wcll iu Biumiy's Magarine.
WHALE MEAT AS DIET.
It la Net Only Wholeasaae tost Alio Very
Palatable.
Talk of batchers shops. A whale Is a
whole meat market in itself. It is a float
ing Smithfield, a marine edition of Copen
hagen fields, an entire Billingsgate.
Nobody need ever starve when whales
are in season. A few of them would
provision a city for a long siege. Fortu
nately, as the world grows older, it learns
to judge more fairly of neglected kinds
of provisions. It is a pity that the true
value of whale flesh has not been dis
covered long ago. How many poor
families might have been amply fed if
only "whalo extract" had come into
fashion years back. Gourmands should
also show their gratitude for the gift of a
fresh flavor. It must be admitted, with
regret, but without hesitation, that the
list of ordinary articles of food is very
limited, and that beef and mutton are apt
to become monotonous, even when varied
with fish and poultry, and aU the eat
able fruits of the earth as well. The
edibility of the whale is, therefore, an
exciting discovery."
Tho only drawback the pleasant
picture which arises Vam the mind con
templates 50,000 people dining off one
animal is contained in the thought that
whales, when they are proved to be val
uable for dietetic purposes, will be hunt
ed until they become scarce and perhaps
extinct. To guard against this danger
we have no doubt that whale breeding
would come into fashion. People who
found other forms of food culture unre
munerative might remove to countries
where the climate allowed whales to live
in comfort and establish whale farms at
the mouths of tidal rivers. There is, in
fact, no end to the opening for enter
prise and ingenuity which are available
owing to this remarkable addition to the
domestic larder. Medical Classics.
THcka mt Indian Jugglers.
Some of the tricks are performed by
every juggler you meet; others again are
of 6uch an astonishing nature, and bor
der 60 nearly on the miraculous as to be
beyond the capacity of an ordinary per
former. Of this character are the orange
tree trick and the burial trick. If, after
having witnessed these feats performed
in broad daylight, one is of the opinion
that it was an optical delusion produced
by the mesmeric power of the operator,
I can only say that the ability to obtain
an absolute mastery over every faculty
of the observer is no leas astonishing
than would be the actual performance of
an apparently impossible feat.
The most noticeable feature in the per
formance of the Indian. Juggler is the
entire absence of any kind ofapparatus.
His scanty clothing affords no oppor
tunity for concealment, and every feat
is performed simply by manual dexterity
or is a delusion effected by mesmeric in
fluences. The famous wizards of Europe
and America were nothing without ap
paratus, and a great deal of the effect of
their performances was due to then mag
nificent and costly paraphernalia. In
genious mechanisms and expert assist
ants were absolutely essential to the
success of their delusions. As an illustra
tion of this I may mention that Anderson
who, by the way, was the poorest
wizard I ever saw, considering his repu
tationmade oath some thirty years ago
in an English bankruptcy court that his
apparatus, destroyed by the burning of
Covent Garden theatre, London, was
worth over 980,000, and that the effort
to replace it was the cause of his insol
vency. This amount, of course, included
stage properties and everything neces
sary in his business. A 75 cent carpet
bag would hold aU the appliances deemed
necessary by a Hindoo juggler. Even in
the beautiful butterfly trick he manu
factures hMpaper butterflies as occasion
rvqnrtftAm R. Remain In THa fin.
mopolitan.
"How far is it to the next station, air?"
""Bout two miles by rafl."
"What's the name of the place!"
"Barker."
"Barker? Why, that's the name of this
town.
-Yes. but. ve see. the road takes a
Vin cIiaa nnfA ' amhas In Iwnft mm
'bout a couple of blocks above."!
per 8 .Bazar.
AnornetSewuitotbemoath of Har-
Sanaa. near Syracuse, and rave
him a sting which resulted in his death.
TO AN ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Twinkle, twinkle, BttJearc,
Sickly, blue, uaeertala spark;
Upabovea head you swbnr.
Ugly, arrange, expensive thfeg.
When acroai tto foggy air
Does tto traveler tat tto dark
Blew your rartlsaoe, little are?
When yoo fade web modest bias.
Scarce mora bright than farthing
Would be know which way to go
If yoa always taiakled art
CokLi
re ao aotioB what too are;
How year woadrone 'fristta" works.
Who ooatrola its Jaaaps aad jerks.
Youna faster Hke tto day!
ffftaarty, gieta, taeoearant ray l
No; where'er they worship yoj
AUttoworUfebleckorbtae.
Thongs your Hght perchance surpass
Homely oil or vulgar gas.
6UH a doee with this remark)
I detest yoo, ettle arc!
fit. James Gazette.
THE PROMISE OF SCIENCE,
raw Is Beady BeSara the OM Is Oat
a Beach
Everybody knows as well as The Loo
don Tunes that the world is wearing out
that the time is coining when we will
have no coal to burn in our grates, and
no iron to make our grates out of. even
had we the coaL A close record of the
output of 'the oil fields discovers the fact
that the petroleum reservoirs are run
ning dry, and investors have not the
faith in the inexhaustible flow of natural
gas that the sellers of wells could wish.
We know tliat precious metals are dug
out in less quantities than formerly; that
the diamond market, in s-iu of Kim
berly, is cornering itself: thai iiialinjraiiy
and pine will some day he things of tiff
past, liko the buffalo rote and the dixlu.
We are confronted with the fact th:;t the
guano deposits will not last fon-ver. thai
there is a human limit to the prixhu'tioii
of electricity, and tliat our children m-v
era! times removed will have nci'.in'i
auinino, chloroform nor aii:i!i;w lyiv..
If course this general exhaustion ! oK!
earth's treasure house is some tiiueuhcati
of us. It will not happen in our ibv
nor in the next century. We csi ;? oa
burning the candle at Itoth rails for a
few hundred years before humanity has
to adjust itself to the newer and inure
economical conditions.
But, despite tiie fact that the time of
stress is so far ahead of us that wo can
look back to it jokingly, it Li pleasant to
learn that science is getting ready fr
the rainy day. We are on the eve of a
new age and on the threshold of a new
civilization. Aluminium, according to
Nature, is making ready to take the place
of steel, and it will be cheaper, lighter,
stronger, and a thousandfold more plen
tiful and cheap. Its price now puts the
new element m the debatable land be
tween pure chemistry and practical com
merce, and it is a question of time merely
when we sliall build our houses, our
telephones, and our air ships out of the
silvery core of our common clay, instead
of heavy and refractory iron. Heat and
food, according to science, we are to
gather from tho sea in proper fish culture
and wise electrical work. The economist
brightly believes tliat we will solve the
labor problem before the middle of the
Twentieth century, and solve it to the
satisfaction of both parties. The Religio
Philosophical Journal is equally confi
dent about the proper rearrangement of
wedlock and religion in the same time.
So tliat if with every glance backward
there is uneasiness, with every look for
ward there is hope some of it real, if
much of it is false. Humanity will fit
itself to the new conditions, or perhaps
more probably fit its environment to
itself. Sir William Wallace, could he
have dipped into the future, would have
feared that there would not be Jedburgh
bows nor cloth yard shafts enough to
arm the soldiery of Germany of the
1880s, yet the men are fairly armed.
Hence we may believe that the roaring
loom of time is weaving a very comfort
able web for the Young America of
Anno Domini 4888, and we mat consent
to let posterity take care of itself, with a
sanguine confidence in the result.
Chicago News.
Area Kaesay U the Hamsa Tefea.
The Wagner school of musk) has proved
itself the arch enemy of the human voice
and of all rational modes for its develop
ment. The unnatural demands made
upon the vocal organs, through Wagner's
total ignorance of tho art of singing, aad
the abnormal development of the orches
tra, through the impatient yearnings of
his unquiet soul, have banished for the
time aU chance of melody in music, and,
as Wagner's utterances are the outcome
of an age of noise and hurry, of ruined
faiths and tragedies of passion, his genius
must have its day and work its full meas
ure of barm upon the voices chosen for
tho inhuman task of personating his su
perhuman creations.
But this time will come when the pres
ent mad havoc with the lungs and throats
of singers shall cease. Just as men begin
to see that war must be abolished, be
cause the weapons of war have reached
too high a power of destructiveneas, so
the thunders of drum and trumpet in the
modern orchestra must subside, if that
sweetest music, the tones of the human
voice, is to be preserved to tho race. The
reaction must come. When the orches
tration is made so magnificent and so
suggestive that the voice is an unwel
come interruption, and when the instru
ments are so noisy that nothing of the
voice can lie beard beyond a screech or a
howl, it is time for the two departments
of expression to be separated; tne orches
tra should be left to itself, and recitatives
should be delivered over to the spoken
drama. There is no denying the genius
of Wagner. His power of converting
musical instruments into echoes of hu
man passion has never been equaled, and
will probably never be surpassed; "Lohen-
gin. "Tannhauser"and "DerFliegende
ollander" will live forever in poetry
and in song; but all the same, Wagneris
to be feared and shunned by singers as
the great destroyer of the human voice.
Detroit Free Press.
AsaerteaBJi More Hospitable.
"Between the American and English
systems of club management," said
Crawford M. Kendrick, a prominent
member of the University club, to a
Republic reporter, "there is a vast dif
ference, which is especially noticeable
to an American visiting London for the
first time. The leading American clubs,
while exclusive enough for all sensible
purposes, are conducted with a view to
their members being enabled to extend
the privileges of club life to visitors
from other cities or countries, and there
isn't a club in the United States where a
stranger, properly introduced by a
member, would not be at once hospita
bly received and made to feel at home.
That's ono of the beauties of our club
life. But how different with the large,
first class London clubs. They have an
enormous membership, running up
sometimes to 6,600 or 7,000, and all own
large and magnificent club houses. But
they are tho sacred and inviolable re
treats of members, and no stranger
passes beyond the reception parlors.
You may go that far and send In your
card, but your London friend, no matter
to which one of the swell clubs be
may belong, cannot get you an entree
to the inner social life of his club, and is
unable to extend any hospitality that
way. Londoners who have visited New
York and other American cities, and en
joyed the benefits of our more friendly
system, are beginning to complain of
this, and to protest against the rigid ex
clusivenesB and selfishness of their own
dubs. St. Louis Republic.
Care.
An army surgeon was one night an
noyed by the coughing of the sentry out
side his tent. Unable to sleep, he de
cided that something must be done for
the man, and so compounded him a
strong and very disagreeable done of
mflymA. Then, going out, he ordered
the man to take it. The sentry at first
refused politely, and afterward angrily
and "emphatically. But the surgeon
sternly fnristpd upon his rights, and the
man was mnaUr induced to swallow the
conoonnd. The result was evidently
satisfactory. Tne souna or coognina;
ceased in the camp, and the surgeon went
to sleep with the consciousness of having
done good deed. The next morning he
was summoned bythe officer in com
mand, who said to him: "How is this,
air? I hear serious complaints about you
in relation to the sentries. One of them
has reported that In the middle of the
night you came out of your tent and
abased him in the most dreadful man
ner. He said you made him swallow a
drink which must have been poison."
The guard had been relieved while the
surgeon was compounding his mixture,
and be had cured the wrong man.
Army and Navy Journal.
In the bazaar, Teheran, tbure are the
flversmiths fusing the metal into ingots
and bars, hammering at tho plates, de
signing, engraving, chasing and solder
ing: the work is -seen in progress from
the very beginning, and woe be to the
unfortunate wretch who shall be de
tected in using alloy or an unnecessary
quantity of solder. The workers in
leather, in copper, in iron, the manu
facturers of textile fabrics, all give a
continuous industrial exhibition of their
own, which is open to all the world,
"free gratis, for nothing." The confec
tioner produces his sweet stock in trade
under the eye of the purchaser. The
Persian likes to have everything made
specially, and sits by to see it done, to
make sure that what he buys fa fresh,
and that he isn't cheated.
It is not to be wondered at that the
bazaars are the favorite lounge of the
middle and lower classes. All day long
the great arches of the bazaar are
thronged by a noisy, pushing crowd,
hurrying and gesticulating, but all in
high good humor. Here come the moun
tebank, the buffoons, tho proprietors of
dancing bears and monkeys, the street
conjurors, and the man with the tame
lion: the itinerant venders of flowers,
lettuce, nines and hot tea: the sellers of
eggs and poultry; tho dealers in weapons
: and second hand clotliing. and innu
merable liawkers.
It b not to be wondered at tliat Ae
European traveler finds it very difficult
indeed to tear himself awav from the in-
l numerable attractions of the Persian .ba-
zaar. The bric-a-brac hunter may come
! upon a priceless piece of faience, which
j he may possibly secure for a few pence.
I Here one may occasionally pick up a
1 numismatic treasure, which the owner is
. glad to jKirt with for a little more than
: the price of the metal: but here the
! stranger must beware, for skillful for
1 gcries of old coin are not unknown, even
in Persia. But there is one honest cus-
torn invariable in the Persian bazaar: if
a purcliaser is dissatisfied with his bar
gain the seller is always ready to return
him his money if he brings back what
he has bought within twenty-four hours.
This is a custom never departed from.
Good Words.
Mexican aail Spaniard.
The average Mexican, like the average
American, is free with liis money neg
lectful to those little economics which
Europeans understand so well, and,
therefore, when a rich Mexican land
owner is in need of a manager for an es
tate he looks about for a frugal, thrifty
Spaniard, who, if he does make money
for himself, does not neglect bis employ
er's interest. It is a common error
among Americans to fancy the Spaniard
as a boasting, proud fellow, averse to
toil and preferring gentility in a faded
velvet coat to hard work and comfort.
A witty Spaniard lias said somewhere
that all Spaniards are cither Don Quix
otes or Sancho Panzas, and there is some
measure of truth in this saying. The
Sancho Panza class of Spaniard has the
hard, homely sense of tho New England
farmer, and not a little of the dry humor
which the Yankee possesses as by birth
right. The Spanish language has thou
sands of sharp and racy proverbs availa
ble for every day use, and the hard
working Spaniard makes free use of
them.
Another Anglo-Saxon misconception is
that the Spaniard is a man who is ever
seeking a quarrel and whose temper is
fiery and uncertain. There are streaks
of romanticism in the Spaniard, and any
amount of good qualities that wear
well in every day life. Ho is patient,
good humored, and will share his meal
with an unfortunate countryman. There
is much sturdy fiber left in the Spanish
nation, which, we must not forget, dis
puted the control of this hemisphere
with ourselves for centuries, ana left
never to be erased marks of Spanish
domination. The Spaniard resembles
the Anglo-Saxon in his propensities for
colonization, his willingness to emigrate,
his capacity for hard work and a certain
arrogance tho Anglo-Saxon or Spaniard
never loses. Cor. Boston Herald.
Odd Devices for Photographs.
There are various ways for providing
surprising results in photography, things
that in One age would have been called
magic, but in ours recognized as scien
tific tricks. The ghost picture, for in
stance, in which a shadowy ghost
through which material objects are visi
bleis seen between natural attitudes
and occupations. This is produced by an
almost instantaneous exposure of the
figure that is to do duty as tho ghost,
followed by a full exposure of the figures
and properties that are to appear nat
ural. Another novel trick was shown
recently in a photograph reproduced by
a prominent trade journal, which pre
sented the photographer, seated at a
table, playing chess with himself sitting
on the opposite side of the table, while
he himself stood up in the background
looking at his two selves playing.
Tho figures were all on the negative,
which was produced by three successive
exposures of the plate, parts thereof
being masked each time by a black vel
vet shutter. Still another trick is that
by which a person who likes that sort of
thing may appear to bo photographed
riding upon a flying goose, or a fish, or
any other desired style of ridiculous lo
comotion. This is done by the subject
holding upon bis lap a huge piece of
white or sky tinted card with the fanci
ful figure drawn upon it His face ap
pears above the upper edge of the card
and seems, in the picture, joined to the
funny little body mounted on the goose
or fish. The statue picture is made by
about the same device. Photographic
Review.
Bhr Meaey Made hr Tags.
"What is the most money ever made
by a tag in one trip?" was asked of an
old tag man in South street.
"The very largest money ever obtained
was when two tugs picked up a derelict
off Sandy Hook. She was in good con
dition, but bad been abandoned by hei
crew, who were panic stricken. She
was drifting ashore, and the courts al
lowed a salvage of $28,000 for the two
or $14,000 for a day's work each. But
that wasn't a towing job. The biggest
price ever paid by a ship for towing at
this port, so far as I know, was when a
ship captain had beat his way up to the
lightship after a long winter voyage
from Manila. Reaching this point, with
the harbor before him, the northwest
wind became a gale he could not face,
and he saw the shores of Staten Island
fade, and began to think he had Ber
muda hard aboard. Ho couldnt stand
that prospect, and was compelled to pay
$1,500 by a heartless tug captain of
about my size snd disposition. That is a
sober fact. Yoa will near tug men tell
stories of larger sums, but then those
men were Intended by nature for fisher
men." New York San.
Worn by a
The superstitious and believers in the
supernatural attributes of dreams will
find a seeming confirmation of their
theories in the experience of a Nashville
young man. He retired one night, in a
normal condition, it may be stated, and,
falling asleep, was soon on the race
course. In the dream he backed a par
ticular horse which the "talent" consid
ered wholly out of the contest, and In
dreams saw that hone dash under the
wire an easy winner. The excitement
such as to awaken him, and, after
amikmr at his folly, he once more fell
asleep, only to fall under the spell of the
same dream aad awaken as before.
Coming uptown the next """f; be
dropped b a pool room and saw the
-ojacsooarowu as
aOtol shot.
Ashamed of bain iaaTnt.
encea oy a aream ne stanea oat Tram,
then sheepishly said to himself: MrDgo
you- $3 anyhow, for fun." He did so,
and then he went on to his day's labor.
That evening he dropped into the room
again, and thereupon the board aawa
ring, the winning mark, around the
name of the horse be had backed. Pre
senting the ticket he received in
$43, and went home to court mot
happy dreams.
The horse was Biavoura. Nashville
American.
Several noble KentucTdans have rashly
wagered their money on a dispute aa to
which city of the Celestial empire has
the greatest population, and ask that
The Enquirer shall deckle the bet. Of
course the race is simply between Can
ton and Peking', but it ii far from easy
to settle even that. The censuses put
forth by the Chinese rovernment are
notoriously open to suspicion, and even !
these are grouped as to provinces and
not as to cities. All statistics as to the '
latter are little better than guesses. Lip- i
pincott's "Gazetteer" (latest edition)'
gives' Canton 1,500.000, and says that
Peking's population is estimated at 2,000,- !
000, but adds, "This is undoubtedly far !
In excess of the fact." "Martin's States-'
man's Handbook' (Great Britain), which
is largely made up from the "Almanach
de Gotha," gives Canton 1.500.000, and
Peking, 1,000,000. Spofford's "Ameri
can Almanac" gives Canton' 1,500,000,
and Poking only 500.000. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Chinese Marriage Castes.
In one respect, at least, China sets an '
example which all the world would' do .
well to follow. In this empire every one
marries and no one ''boards." Hence,
generally speaking, there ere as many
wedded couples as there are men ana
women above the marriageable ago, and ,
as many centers of borne life as there '
are couples married. j
The one modification to this rule exists
In the fact that a newly married pair
finds its home in the family of the hus
band's parents until the bride is herself a
mother. With tho marriage ceremony
the bride loses absolutely and finally all
connection with her own home, and be
comes an integral part of the family of
her husband. In it sho is only a servant,
performing the most menial duties and .
condemned to a life of hardship and I
drudgery until she is a mother. Then, j
at last, sli9 is entitled to a certain amount j
of respect and recognition, as something :
uigner man a ueasc us ourueu. vor.
Chicago Herald.
Something New la Fishing.
Fishing by artificial light is not a new
thing, but the way some fishermen along
the coast of Maine are using tbe electric
hght is new. The old way was to plunge
an incandescent lamp into tho water, the
!. - -1 T m 1 1 .
connection being made with some source 1
of electricity on board the fishing vessel,
and tho mains to the lamp often got foul .
of tho fishing tackle or the cable of tho
vessel, destroying its usefulness. Now a
Frenchman has adopted a better way by
adopting a lamp worked by a primary
battery, the whole of wluch can be thrown :
overboard and regained when the trip w
ended. The battery consists of six Bun-
sen cells, m wincn, however, chromic
acid 13 placed Instead of
formerly used. The cells are
in tension with a twelve-volt Edison
lamp. Tho success of the experiments
lately naa presages the general adoption
oy our coast ushermen or this new
covery. Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
dis-
Glaea for Many
Soak half a,pour.d of glue over night
in a quart of good milk and boil it the
next day; it will dissolve moisture much
better than glue dissolved in water.
An adhesive mucilage for labels, suit
able for bottles orglass, may be prepared
by soaking glue in strong vinegar; then
heat to boiling and add flour. This Is
very adhesive, and does not decompose
when kept in wide mouthed bottles.
The following preparation Is very use
ful for gumming large sheets of paper,
which may be kept on hand ready for
use: Starch, two drachms; white sugar,
one ounce; gumarabic, two drachms; to
be boiled with a sufficient quantity of
water. Jewelers' Becord.
A Psttlriaalra Kuls a Cow.
One of The Chronicle boys who was
out poesum hunting the other night
stummed over the dead body of a cow in
the Little river -swamp. The cow had
crumpled horns, from one of which was
dangling a huge rattlesnake. The Indi
cations were that the cow had seen tho
snake coiled and hi the act of springing
upon her, and had accordingly hooked
tho reptile, tho horn penetrating the
snake's body so that the rattler was una
ble to free himself. The cow's horn
killed the rattler, but the rattler's fangs
killed the cow. And yet tradition says a
rattlesnake's bite doesn't harm a cow.
Washington Chronicle.
GTew to maw nweaj
Mr. F. H Shelton says: "I took off
from over the pipe some 4 inches or 5
Inches, just a crust of earth, and then
put a couple of hushels of lime in the
space, poured water over it. and slaked
it, and then put canvas over that, and
rocks on the canvas, ko as to keep the
wind from getting undemeatlu Next
morning, on returning there. I found
that the frost hud been drawn nut from
the ground for nearly three feet. You
can appreciate what an advantage that
was, for picking through frozen ground,
with the thermometer below zero, is no
joke. Since then we have tried it sev
eral times. It is an excellent plan if
you havo time enough to Kt the lime
work. In the daytime you eaunut afford
to waste the time, hut if vou havea spare
night in which to work.it is worth while
to try it. Scientific Aniericun.
Forty-four Mile of Cub.
The spectacle of forty-four I1 miles
of cabs is enough to make any one shud
der, yet that to the length to wluch the
London cabs would extend if they were
E laced in a line. We owe this interest
ig calculation to Sir Charles Warren.
It cannot be said after tluj that he died
no good as chief commissioner. But we
are also told that there is only standing
room for twenty-three miles of cabs, so
that we have twenty-one miles of cabs
always wandering about the streets of
London, No wonder there are numerous
complaints about "crawlers." London
Court Journal.
Keaort.
At last the United States census report
of 1880 is completed, the twenty-second
and last volume bavmg been Issued. The
work contains over 19,000 pages and has
cost the country nearly 18,000,000. It i
said to be the most elaborate undertak
ing of tbe kind In the world's history.
New Tork World.
Baal Article.
"So you will wear diamonds at the
reception next week, Mrs. Shoddy? re
marked Mrs. Featherbrain.
"Yea, Mrs. Featherbrain: real Pari
sian diamonds. My buslamd always
gets the best of everything.'' Jewelers
weekly.
The Xadoaaa aad the Tab,
of whom Miss Phelps writes, was a gen
uine specimen of health and strength.
She doubtless heeded the warning of her
predecessors, and understood and ap
preciated the matchless qualities of Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which re
lieves and cures so many ailments pe
culiar to the sex. As a powerful, invig
orating tonic, it imparts strength to the
whole system, and to the womb and its
appendages, in particular. For over
worked, "worn-out," "run-down," debili
tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers,
seamsteresses, shop-girls, housekeepers,
nursing mothers, and febel women gen
erally, "Favorite Prescription" is the
greatest earthly boon, being unequaled
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"Did n't Know 'twas
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May do for a stapid boy's excase ; bat
what can be said for the pareat who
sees his child laagsfahiwg daily aad fails
to recognise the want of a tonic aad '
blood-purifler? Formerly, a course of
bitters, or sulphur aad molasses, was the
rale ia well-regulated families ; but bow
'all intelligent households keep Avar's
Sarsaaarilia, which is at once pleasant
to the taste, aad the most searching and
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Nathan S. Cleveland, 27 E. Caatoa at..
Boaton, writes : " My daughter, now 21
years old, was ia perfect health until a
year ago when she began to complain oi
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in impure blood, and iadnced her to take
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healthy action, aad ia dae time reestab
lished her former health. I find Ayer's
8anaparilla a most valuable remedy for
the lassitude aad debility incident u
spring time."
J. Castrizht, Brooklyn Power Co..
Brooklyn, N. Y., says : "As a Spring
Medicine, I find a splendid substitute
for the old-time compounds ia Ayer's
Sarsaparilla, with a few doses of Ayer't
Pills. After their use, I feel fresher ana
stronger to go through the summer."
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