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r- v-- 7- : r'itn.' -jNarv?vjr- izr A laaVSr . - rfJt j E r. 1 li :':vTKE SIN OF OMISSION. It Isnt the thins; you do, dear, U's the thing you leave undone Which Rives you a bit of heartache At the setting of the sun: 4' The tender word forgotten. k Th letter you did not write, - .Thf flower you might nave sent, dear. Are your haunting ghosts to-night. l Tfcutone you misht have lifted Out of the brother's way, --The bit of hearthstone counsel 'You were hurried too much to say: The loving touch of the hand, dear, ". t The gentle and winsome tone 'XbnZ you had no time or thought for, ' "With troubles enough of your own. little acts of Hnrtm-aa, - 80 easily out of mind. .These chaBces to be angels Which even mortals find They ccme in night nndsflence. Each child reproachful wraith. When hope is faint and flagging. And a blight has dropped on faith For life is all too short, dear. And sorrow is all too great. To suffer our stow compassion - That tarries until too hue; And it's not the thing you do, dear. It's the thing ycu leave undone Which gives you the bitter heartache At the setting of the sun. Margaret E. Sangster in Boston Globe. A LOAD OF HAY. A load of bay in .the crowded 1 A whiff cf the scent of clover. A change of thought vague iscosaplets A living a young life over. A day in August, and clouds of white, A shifting or light and shadow. The hum of bees and the martin's flight; The meadow larks and the meadow. Strong arms of men and the yellow grass Of the swathes, the steady swinging Of forms of laborers, strong and lean. The scythes with their steely ringing. The roar of trade and the newsboys' call; And the dream of a moment's over: Twas brain wave came through the nose, and aB From a whiff of the scent of clover! Stanley Waterloo THE MANSFIELD GHOST. "Do you believe in ghostsT said I to my friend Fentnn, as we Kit on the porch one evening, enjoying a quiet smoke in the cool night air. "Yes. I have seen one." "You have! When? WhereT "Don't ask too many questions at a time and Til tell you." "Well, go on.' I'm all impatient to hear it" "Well, one summer, about ten years ago, liaving not business that needed my particular attention, I thought I would run down to shire, and Bee my old college friend Mansfield and his wife. "When I got down to his place I found that neither liimself nor his wife was at home, but as the housekeeper expected them to return in a few days I concluded to stay till tfeey came. V "' The first da after my arrival I spent in ramblingnirbugh the grounds about the ancienC-phice; the next day was a rainy one, and I had to stay in the house: My room was on the third floor overlook ing the court yard, r After dinner Xwent up to it, and, stirring up the fire, I took my IJMc and 6atdown to read. I read a shortrtime, cstPtUen, letting the book drop on my knee, listened to the steady drip, drip of the rain on the flags of the courtyard. Soon I fell into a reverie, and then into a state of senii-conscioue-ness."-; "v , , IwJEksrottsed from my dreaming by seeingfthibdgh my half closed eyes the door npipclctrly open and a young woman enter;' She was an 'extremely pretty girl, with light liair falling in long curls over: her shoulders. Her dress was an old fashion just as I suppose my great grandmother dressed when she was young. Her tiny feet were incased in nigh heeled, red morocco slippers. She advanced to the tablo and laid off her scarf and drew up a chair to the fire without as much as a "how d'ye do? or even taking- the slightest notice of -me whatever. She then drew from her pocket a miniature, portrait of a very handsome young man! From my posi tion I could see it as it lay in her hand. His countenance was open and manly ,and his 'dark hair was clustered in short curls around his "forehead. He was dressed in a fashion as antiquated as that of the lady; delicate ruffles were around his throat and at his wrist; in his hand he carried a riding whip. She gazed at the picture long and tenderly, with a loving Emile on her lips. One of the curls fell back and dis closed to my view a ghastly wound on the temple. Till then I had been too amazed to think; but now the conviction rushed upon me that my visitor was not of this world. I was frightened, and sat like one in a dream. She replaced the picture in her pocket and; going to a corner, drew out a harp. I had never seen it before, though I had been in the room a dozen times. Draw ing it to her side, she ran her fingers over the strings and began to sing ma low voice. Her cong was in some for eign language. She had a sweet voice, and as it floated through the room, mingled with the lingering sounds of the harp, they had an unearthly sound that filled me with .dread. Suddenly she stopped in her song, and, looking in the direction of the door, sat in a listening attitude for some time; then site resumed her song. But she seemed restless. 'Shelooked first at the door and then at the; window, as if ex pecting someone. At last she rose and. Butting the harp in the corner, ran to le window and murmured to herself: "What can keep Roger? He should have been here before now." She stood but a moment, when she grew pale as death, her eyes dilated, she clasped her liands above 'her head, and. with a wild scream of agony, threw up the window and flung herself out. This roused me. I sprang up and ran to the window. It was closed! This staggered me. I threw it up and looked down into the courtyard, fully expecting to see her lying senseless on the stones. But no. There was no one there except a servant hurrying out of the rain by the very spot where she would have fallen. She could not have got into the house, as there was only one door opening into the yard. I ran down to the door. A servant was sweeping the passage. "Have you seen any one come in?" "No, sir." "How long have you been here?' "About tenminutes, and I am sure no one has come in."- I went back to my room and sat down to study over my adventure. Suddenly I thought of the harp. I rose and went to the very place I had seen her put it. What was my surprise to find no harp thereL I searched every nook and cor ner of the room, but could not find it Here was a new evidence of the ghostly character ot. my visitor. I concluded to keep my adventure secret till the return of my friend. He "came "the next day; in the after noon I asked him to come to my room, as I wished to see him. We went up, and, taking seats, ha "Well, what is it?" ""Thave seen a ghost" Instead of laughing at me, as I ex pected, he looked very serious and said: "When?" "Yesterday, in the oak sitting room." I then told him what I had seen, and he listened with a troubled air. .When I had finished he studied a few minutes and then said: "Would you know her again if 70m were to see her picture?" "Yes." vCosne with me, then." He took me to another room, and there, hanging, side by side, were the portraits of the young woman and the yoaafrman, wnosa mimatsre I had asset in your hand. "Tbere she is, and there is the young Mr I cried. are the portraits of Roger and Mansfield. It a strange thin. batyoBara aottke only one who has aeam taa ghost; I nave never seen it, but say father and mother both saw it BctMwitan. I wifl L3L.SM. I-'.. -S TnsnVttWaM'asnty mm& this occuptea oy an ancestor of mine named Roger MiiMsinlfl He had been married about one year to the daughter of a neigh boring gentleman, whomhe loved dearly. He was passionately fond of field snorts, while she was of a retiring disposition, loving home and home amusements, and as her will was law he had given up hunt ing forhersake. "One day a large company of the gen try rode out to hunt, and Roger, for once, gained the consent of his wife, and joined them, promising to be back at a rqTt?in time. The -day wore on and the hour at which he was to have come back passed, but he did not appear. "She tried to while away the time by playing on the harp as she sang a little anng in the Italian language; but still she was uneasy. Hearing a noise she put hei harp aside and, going to the window, saw, carried on a litter, the dead body of her husband. She gave one bhriek una precipitated herself from the whitlow. Her bead struck on the stones and she was killed. "Her husband had been killed by being thrown from his horse in taking a leap. "I have one thing to ask you, Frank. Never tell my wife what you liave been, or she would not 6tay in the house another night" I promised. We went below, and I stayed about three weeks at the Grange, but I gave that room a wide berth. Now, I know that some skeptical per son would pooh-pooh on hearing this, and say I had eaten a hearty dinner and fallen asleep and dreamed what I have been telling you; but this I knowhat I was not asleep no more tlian Pamat this moment, and that I did really seethe Mansfield ghost Minneapolis Journal. CLIMBING. Once these bIBs that I have 1 Seemed like towering mountains tall; Kow In the evening, sunset stained. My weary soul doth find them small. Before my sight no Rlxbls rise, Mont Blanca stand towering up seanme; But in the sky life's daylight dies, And, is It worth our while to clhabi Lie down. O soul, and be content; Behind the hills do lie. all low. QT level, dull accomplishment; Sayond the eternal stars still rIow. Bennett Bellman, ON THE PATH BELOW. I reached Burton's in the mountains beyond Bristol, late in the evening, hav ing, as usual, blundered about the trail. The cabin stood just off the road, and all around it was silent and dark. It has always been a wonder that his dogs did not attack me. He had three, and they were as cross and crabbed as old bears. They came running down the trail to meet me, growling and barking, but as soon as they came up they made friends. They were playing around me when I stood in front of the cabin and called: "Hello! you! Hello! Hello!" In about a minute a "voice answered: "Who is yer, an what's wanted?" "Stranger in search of lodgings." . Ho seemed to doubt it, for he made no immediate reply. After a long minute I heard a woman arguing: "I tell you he must be all right If he wasn't them dogs would hev devoured him!" "Wall, come in!" called the man, and I stumbled along to the cabin to find him In the half open door with his rifle in his hands. My explanations soon sat isfied him that I was all right and he struck a light, piled some blankets in a corner and said: "Stranger, that's the best lop I kin fix ye off hand. Jist tumble down and doan' worry about nothin'." I was soon fast asleep, having nothing to keep me awake. Right in the heart of tho grim old mountain among peo ple whose faces I had only glanced at among men who settle their disputes with Knife or bullet entirely at their mercy and in their power if they wanted to rob or kill and vet there was no cause to be afraid. When you are the guest of a mountaineer you are 6afe. Next morning I found the family to consist of husband, wife and three chil dren. The oldest of the three children was a boy of 12, who had killed his bear and was a dead shot As soon as I had looked around me I knew that a distil lery could bo found near by. After breakfast Burton pumped me for a few minutes, sized me up in his mind as "O. K." and said: "Come up with me and see the boys. And I want to tell you that we've bin ex pecting visitors fur the last two days, an wo may hev a scare befo' night" "What sort of visitors? "United States chaps arter our stilL They've liad a spy in yero trying to lo cate it We saw him twice yesterday." There were three other men at the still, which was hidden away in a dark and rugged ravine, approached by a footpath which could be ambushed at every rod. ; All the corn was "toted" on the men's , hack over this path, and the kegs of wuissy were 6lung to a pole and carried between two men. The still was perfect, but small, and in the five or six months it had been in operation the men had not made the wages of mechanics. I asked one of them how long since he had had a five dollar bill, and lie squinted bis eyes, counted his fingers, scratched his head, and finally replied; "Wall, stranger, you may remember the battle of Stone River?" "Yes." "A right smart ago, wasn't it?" "Yes; twenty-five years ago." "Wall, jist arter that fight I and a five-dollar bill, and that's the fust and last time." What money they made by illicit dis tilling went for boots and shoes, clothing of the plainest kind, tinware, tobacco and tea. One of them had had three pounds of brown sugar in his house within a year. The others had not had an ounce; one had not tasted tea, coffee, sugar, wheat bread or fresh meat (out sido of wild meat) for over two years. The still was about a mile from the house. If any stranger came by the trail one of the dogs was sent up the ravine with a piece of cloth tied to his neck. Half way between the two, as I discovered later on, was another path intersecting. This came out of another ravine, and was used by the men only occasionally. The boy was stationed at this intersec tion to watch both paths and give an alarm if danger threatened. lit was about 11 o'clock in the morning when he came running in and said: "Spy coming, pop!" Then an instantaneous and terrible change took place in the bearing of the men. We had been lying, about at ease, every man seemingly having a heart full of kindness, but this announcement started a blaring fire in every eye, set every jaw, and! could see desperation in each face. It needed no handwriting on the wall to tell mo that the spy woula be wiped off the face of the earth with out compunction if discovery threatened. Burton beckoned to me, made a signal to the others which they understood and we climbed up the rugged face of a rock, ran for a quarter of a mile over broken ground which was well wooded, and then suddenly halted at a spot overlook ing the second path and high above it Burton made me a sign as he crouched down beside a large rock, and cautiously approaching I looked down into the ra vine and saw a solitary man the spy. He was coming up the path. If he passed the 6pot where we were stationed bis scent alone would locate the still. "Click! Click!" 'Good heavens! but you are not going to shoot him!" I whispered to Burton as he cocked his rifle. Ha half turned to look at me. Has face was as hard set as iron. "For the sake of earning a few dollars he would see us starve!" he replied. "He knows his danger. Let him pass this rock and I will shoot him!" I dared sar no more. Burtonwasdes perato and determined. We looked down at an angle of forty five degrees on the spy. You could have told that he was a spy by his actions. He had the gait of an Indian bent on a surprise. He looked about him like one who expected the whistle of a bullet at any moment He came slowly on. voniu I Tiruii nimf atax. .Ma around arm. ' Coming coming-- PQfafcng advanc ing aft a steady pace towards deaths Would .Burton shoot? He already, had the man covered. Thump! thump! thump! It was my heart pounding away Mkaa pile driver. It would be murder. I would be accessory. If I dared to sboa Thank God! Was It the fall of a frag ment of rock op on the mountain aide, or the hoarse call of the great buzzard poised above na which made the spy halt in his tracks? Ten feet more and a finger will press the trigger. He peers this way and that he looks up and around he starts to advance, but halts again. Is some one praying for him has he a guardian angel who whispers a warning? It is two minutes two minutes which tick away so slowly that they seem to be hours in length. I lean against the great rock, almost gasping for breath, while Burton has his eye at the sights and his finger ready to poll. It fa a tableau on the threshold of death. It is a pantomime at the edge of a grave, "Go back! Go back!" I entreat in mind to the 6py. He removes his hat wipes his brow and is evidently anxious. "If you value your life go back!" I would fain say. He looks around him like one who feels danger in the very air. "You will be shot if you advance! Hear and heed the warning!" The warning reached him by that mys terious channel which the human mind has not fathomed. I saw him start, in fear, and then, seeming entirely against his will, he turned short about and al most ran as he hurried up the path and out of sight "H'm! He'un has got off this time, shurc," said Burton, as he rose up and let the hammer of his rifle down. "You would have killed him?" I asked. "Dead as this rock!" "It would have been murder. "Then let he'un keep away from yere!" M. Quad in Detroit Free Press. A "Women's Hautn la Seagal. At a meeting of the Royal Asiatic society of Bengal a description was given of a peculiar custom among the aborig inal tribes of Ranchi, a group of .ham lets in Chota Nagpore. It is known as the Era Sendra, or women's hunt On the present occasion the object was to expel the cholera demon, and it is usual when any great calamity overtakes the land for the women to dress themselves up in men's clothes, arm themselves and go out to hunt not in the jungles, but in the nearest villages east of them. -They chase pigs and fowls, and everytliing they kill is theirs. Thev also levy black mail from the heads of the villages for the purchase of liquor. The villagers cannot prevent the slaughter of their animals, Dut the head men generally com promise matters by giving the huntresses a pig and paying a small sum. Toward evening the hunting party retires to a neighboring stream, where they cook and eat the meat and drink the liquor. They cat nothing after this meal, but bathe and return home. Men are not allowed to accompany them on such oc casions, and they conduct themselves for the time being in a very masterful and masculine manner. They are decked out in coats and all the finery they can borrow from their husbands and sweet hearts, and they flourish their spears, axes and sticks, beat their iron drums, shout, 6ing hunting songs and dance just as the men do. The ceremony be gins in the west, and each village that has been visited goes out on a similar excursion to its neighbors, but always to the east By this means it is supposed that tho evil spirit is safely conducted out of the district without offending its dignity. One village near Ranchi is an exception. It is called Mahadaiva, or devoted to Mahadev, and there the Amazons are not allowed to enter, as it is supposed to be under the special pro tection of its 'patron saint If cholera appears there it is because the Mahadev is offended, and he must be propitiated before it can disappear. London Tunes. Tfee f tho Pen. A manufacturer of gold pens, in speak ing of tho ancestry of this writing in strument, which is said to be mightier than the sword, said: The earliest mode of writing was on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, stones, ivory, bark and leaves of trees, and from the latter the term "leaves of a book" is probably derived. Copper and brass plates were very early in use, and a bill of feoffment on copper was some years since discovered in India bearing date 100 years B. C. Leather was also used, as well as wooden tablets. Then the papyrus came into vogue, and about the Eighth century the papyrus was superseded by parchment Paper, however, is of greater antiquity, especi ally among the Chinese, but the first paper mill in England was built in 1586 by a German at Dartford, in Kent Nevertheless, it was nearly a century and a half namely, in 1713 before Thomas Watkins, a stationer, brought papermaking to anything like perfec tion. The first approach to the pen was a stylus a kind of iron bodkin but the Romans forbade its use on account of its frequent and even fatal use in quarrels, and then it was made of bona Subse quently reeds pointed and split, like pens of the present day, were used, and in time they were replaced by pens of steel and gold. New York Telegram. What a Close Santa "Do you know what a close shave means? I never did until I looked at a face the other day through a microscope which had been treated to this luxurious process. Why, the entire skin resembled a piece of raw beef. To make tho face perfectly smooth requires not only the removal of the hair, but also a portion of the cuticle, and a close shave means the removal of a layer of skin all around. The blood vessels thus exposed are not visible to the eye, but under the micro scope each little quivering mouth hold ing a minute blood drop protests against such cruel treatment The nerve tips are also uncovered, and the pores are left unprotected, which makes the skin tender and unhealthy. This sudden ex posure of tho inner layer of the skin renders a person liable to have colds, hoarseness and sore throat and it is only that the face and neck are pachyder matous" "Hold on, barber! Not another word!" exclaimed the customer. A look of sad ness had come over his face and he seemed to be mentally calculating the amount of epidermis that had been sacri ficed in many years of dose shaves. Suddenly jumping from his chair he said with deep feeling: Til never shave again." In a moment more he was gone. The aesthetic barber was astonished at the unexpected result of his effort to rid a fellow being of a foolish notion, and he had a chill when the boss barber told him that the loss of trade would be de ducted from bis salary. New York Tribune. An ingenious stopper has lately been patented for use in bottles containing poisons. The stopper is made of India rubber, and is surmounted by a perfor ated ball of india rubber brightly colored, so as to render it distinctive in the light, and containing a bell which rattles when the bottle is moved, thus drawing atten tion to the character of the contents, even though it be impossible to see the label. Such a warning stopper would have rendered impossible many of the accidents which have from time to time taken place, notably one a few months ago, when a distinguished surgeon lost his life owing to a mistake as to a bottle containing poisonous medicine. Cas sell's Family Magazine. A New Use for Cora Cobs. Building blocks made of corn cob form the object of an Italian patent which has been issued. The cobs are pressed by machinery into forms similar to bricks, and held together by wire. They are made water tight by soaking with tar. These molds are very hard and strong. Their weight is less than one-third of that of a hollow brick, and they can never gat danM-Ciac1imatl NAPOLEOFS COUPS. AN OLD STORY OF THE GREAT FRENCH EMPEROR RETOLD. Each Darlaa; as Was Raver Baaalea Dts solvlBc uw CccmcD. cf Vtv Hundred -Tat Capture Franca with Ktovaa Haadred Soldiers. Not. 10. 1791. The two councils met at Saint Cloud. The republican majority in the Ancients inveighed against the trick by which they had been left out m the proceeding of the previous day. Bonaparte appeared at the bar to justify his action. He be gan a violent speech, lost his presence of mind, but catching a glimpse of the grenadiers outside he threatened the council with military violence if they should decide against him. Meanwhile, in the council of five hundred Lucien Bonaparte read the resignation of the three directors amid shouts from the members of' "No Cromwell! No dicta tor! The constitution forever!" Bonaparte now entered with four gren adiers, and attempted to 6peak, but was interrupted by cries and execrations, and could utter only a few broken sentences. The members appeared to be on the Kint of proceeding to violence against 31 when a body of soldiers rushed into the hall and carried him off. A motion was made for Ids outlawry, but Luciea refused to put it, left the chair and went outside the hall, where he addressed the troops, declaring that a body of factious men in the pay of England and armed with daggers had set the deliberations of the representatives of the people at defi ance, and that he, as president of the assembly, summoned the military to quell the disturbance. The soldiers hesitated until Luciea swore that he would stab his own brother if he attempted anything against, the Republic. Murat, at the head of a body of grena diers, then entered the hall and ordered the assembly to disperse. The members replied with shouts and execrations. Th drums were then ordered to beat the soldiers leveled their muskets, and the members of the council made their escape by the windows. Bonaparte had mean while gone to Paris, where he said that attempts had been made to stab him. and one person declared that he had received wounds intended for Bonaparte. The Council of Five Hundred was dissolved by a vote of about fifty of its members, who also, in conjunction with the An cients, passed a decree making Sieyes, Bonaparte and Ducos provisional consuls and investing them with supreme execu tive power. The coup d'etat was merely begun on the 18th Brumaire, and its suc cess was only assured on the 19th. After his installation at Elba, early in May, 1814, Napoleon feigned resignation, but really and secretly he prepared a small body of picked troops and a dimin utive navy for any chance and bent an attentive ear to every rumor from France. News from the continent began to re store his hopes. A report came tliat the 'allies were thinking or transporting him to a distance, and that the Vienna con gress was about to break up. He re newed his preparations, concealing them' as best he might The only thing that should have re strained Napoleon was the interest of France, and not loyalty to treaties which had never been respected toward him. The promises made him had not been kept; the French government had not paid the annual two millions promised hiiu and had seized the personal property of his family. Moreover, he fully believed in the scheme for depriving him of Elba and transporting him to sonio remote region. He sent a message to Murat begging liiin to apprise Austria that be should soon be at Paris, and would ac cept the treaty of May SO, 1814. If he was sincere his return bad not even the excuse of endeavoring to restore to France the frontiers that she had lost through him. He set sail Feb. 26, at Porto Ferraio, with Gens. Bertrand and Drouot and 1,100 soldiers, 700 of whom belonged to the Imperial guard and the rest were Poles, Italians and Corsicans. The fleet, composed of seven vessels, escaped the French and English cruisers guarding Elba. On the morning of March 1 the' fleet cast anchor in Juan uulr, between Cannes and Antibes, and a landing was easily effected. Napoleon chose the way across tho mountains of Provence and Paunhiny to reach Paris. He set out. scattering proclamations to the people and the army as he went, imputing his misfortunes to treachery and claiming to lie recalled by the prayers and complaints of France. He addressed an eloquent appeal to tho troops. "Unfurl," he cried, "the triccl ored streamers which you wore in our days of glory. Victory will march be side us; the eagle and the national colors will fly from spire to spire to the turrets of Notre Dame." On the Gth of March Napoleon reached Grenoble, where there were several regi ments and a large supply of arms and ammunition. The general in command of the troops sent out a detachment of engineers and artillery to blow up a bridge over the little river Bonne, in the hope of delaying Napoleon. The men disobeyed their orders and never touched the bridge. The chief officer fell back some distance and posted himself 'be tween the hills and the ponds. Napoleon marched straight upon him, and the commandant, doubting his men, would fain have retreated, but there was a time. Napoleon was close at hand, on foot, at the head of his little band. "Soidiers," he cried, "do you know me?" "Yes! yes!" was the answer. He bared his breast and cried. "Which of you will fire on his emperor?" They waved their caps on their bayonet points, shouting, "Long live the emperor! ' ran to kiss his hands, and, wild with joy, hailed him as their general, their emperor, their father! Napoleon turned to Drouot and Bertrand. "Within ten days," he said, "we shall be in the Tuileries. A fresh supply of troops came up from Grenoble, commanded by Col. La Bedoyere, who embraced Napoleon and joined him. On the same day Napoleon entered Grenoble. He now had 7.00. 1 soldiers, and with them ho reached Lyons March 10, and entered the town in the evening, the garrison joining hfc troops. March 13 he left Lyons, and on March 18 he was joined at Auxerre by Marshal Ney, who had been sent to taste him prisoner. On the night of March 19 Napoleon reached the palace of Fontainebleau, and on the evening of the next day he was in the Tuilerics. Thus ended his second and last coup d'etat New York Herald. The Czar's Mentor. It is no secret that the emperor of all the Russias pays far less heed to his offi cial advisers than to the private friends he made in his youth, who have no min isterial dignities. M. de Giers, his faith ful minister of foreign affairs, has little real control over the destinies of Rus sia, But M. Pobodonezoff, the czar's old tutor, is said to be more powerful, and has shaped manv of the social measures which within the past few years have been introduced into the empire. The Paris Figaro gives an interesting account of a less known counselor to whom Alexander Hi, it seems, often goes in search of health and comfort He is a Polish priest named Zmudowski, and lives in the little parish of Podborz, a few miles from Spala. Zmudowski is, of course, a Catholic, but despite his heterodoxy no man is more loved and trusted by the orthodox czar. Alexan der made his acquaintance at Skiernie wicz fifteen years ago, during a hunting excursion to Poland. While on a visit to Field Marshal Prince Bariatynski. Ids father's life long comrade, the then czare witch was one day thrown into the com pany of a priest whose culture did not prevent his being an ardent sportsman. This was Zmudowski. The prince soon grew much attached to the priest who at that time was about 45 years old. Fearing tho influence of a Polish Catholic on his son's mind the late czar at last stopped their intimacy. On his father's death, however, Alexander HI returned to Podborz and renewed his friendly intercourse with Zmudowski. Since then whenever the cares of state andMba Nihilists have allowed him a oonaay ne nas ceen m tne naonot aceai ing off to Poland to rest and strengthen himself in the society of the priest. Ha made ineffectual efforts to induce him to come to St Petersburg, and, having failed, had a chateau built near Podbors, which has become his favorite country The czar's long talks with Zmudowaki have caused thelstue of several decrees materially improving the hard lot of Polish Catholics. The recent foundation of a peasants' bank in Poland and other liberal measures nnght probably be traced to the counsels of the Podborz cure. Waasca cf Tho better class of Japanese women are by no means uneducated.' They re ceive, I am told, a better training than the women of any other Oriental nation, and they are better treated than those c any other Asiatic nation. The Japanese girl can, as a rule, read and write Ja panese. She learns all about household matters, and she takes the whole charge of the household- This is her sphere, and she is known as the honorable mis tress of the household. Her husband has no right to bo meddling with the cooking stove. She pays the servants and the market bills, in the case of the poorer merchants she often acts as one of the clerks in the stores and takes the place of the husband when he is not present In the country you will find her often working in the fields, and at Nikko I saw great numbers of women who acted as the leaders of. pack horses carrying copper and goods up and down tho mountains. Still, I think the women here have an easier time than those of the lower classes of Germany or Hol land, and you see fewer labor hardened faces among the other sex here than you do in many of the countries of Europe. The wife is, however, after ail but little better than the servant of the husband, and the ties of marriage and divorce are here so loose that he can dispense with her at pleasure. Marriage in Japan is not attended with the solemnity and re ligious ceremony of the American wed ding. It is a civil contract, and the ne gotiations for it go on, as a rule, through the parents. The young man and woman have no preliminary courtship, and the seeing one another for one or two times is the only chance they have of deciding whether there is any compatibility of temperament Frank G. Carpenter. Thoagut It Was the TarUT. Old Undo Peter Simonson was, in his day, one of the richest of ante-bellum planters. He owned and worked more tlian SCO slaves, and nearly all of the river bottom lands along the Ocmulgee river between Hawkinsville and Macon, Ga., were tended by liis men. He was quite a sportsman and spent the greater iortion of his, time hunting about his plantations or fishing up and down the river. He liad been born and raised of poor parents right upon the Indian frontier, when the Creeks held the greater portion of Georgia, and had lived there all his life. He usually had a negro boy along with him when he hunted to carry home his game for him. One dav in the latter uart of the vear 1836, while hunting in the swamps about six miles below Macon, his attention was attracted by a singular noise. He has tened to the river bank, when something, the like of which he had never seen in his life, came slowly around the bend below him with fire and smoke and much puffing. He lumped for his gun and climbed tho nearest poplar tree. "Skin up that ar tree, Sambo," old Peter yelled to the little darkies. "All right, niassa; wliat is it?" "One 01 them ar tariffs I've hearn con gress hev been threatening to send down to destroy our craps and eat us up, feathers en alL" He sat upon a limb with his rifle in his hand until the "thing'' went out of sight around the next point above him. It was the first steamboat that came up the Ocmulgee as far as Macon. Detroit Free Press. She Swallowed the Car Fare. If there is any one thing that makes the horse car conductors mad it is the custom of some folks of using their mouths as purses for the car fares. It is a great nuisance in summer during travel on the open cars where the conductor has a full complement of passengers. A Lewiston conductor says that children are the worst. Some of them disgorge a handful of change, and he has to accept it One day a very pretty young lady who was a guest in Anburn from a Mas sachusetts town, was coming down from the lake. She was one of a gay party of half a dozen, and they made merry on the down trip. When he was one seat from her in his totr of the car he looked over at her. She was so pretty he couldn't help it Just as he looked he was pained to notice a fearful change in her coun tenance. Her cheek blanched and she seemed to choke. Her laugh died on her lips, too, and 6he joked no more. When he got along to the party the young lady's eyes were bedewed with tears. "I I had some money" The conductor with infinite tact says that he just passed it along, saying: "I know all about it You've swallered it I see you do it" The young lady blushed and the car rattled along. A child with five coppers in its mouth is a fearful picture for the conductor, but what do you think of one with 24 cents in its cheeks? Better buy the youngsters 10 cent purses. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Steel Bead Ornaments. As the swell girl goes down Broadway, fur trimmed and soft as to visible sur face, a chink chink of metal is sometimes heard. That noise is made by the im pact of her bead embroidered stockings. It is a new freak to have our hosiery heavily ornamented with steel beads on the ankles and calves. Now don't go to suggesting that we might wear circlets of something just above our hoofs like those put on horses to keep them from "interfering." We want to interfere with tho heart of man. Many a time have you read in novels how the frou frou of a dainty skirt or tho swish of mysterious draperies have set a chap to fluttering sentimentally. Well do we know that nice little assaults on the mas culine ear draw the masculine eve. Well, that is the principle of the clinking stock ings. It is as yet a genteel device. Of course, it will bo quickly vulgarized, as the metal heeled gaiters were, and there are women in New York naughty enough to put not only bells on their toes, but castinets on their ankles and cymbals on their knees, if thereby they could com mand attention. Clara Belle. Playiac Cards. The first pack of playing cards of which any copy is preserved was in use in Venice in 1125, and contained seventy eight cards in all, twentv-two of which were picture cards of very quaint char acter. One picture card represented the devil, another death, a third the moon, a fourth the sun, while the fifth depicted the judgment day. The Venetians called it the game of tarois, and it was no doubt the original parent of the modern card pack, with its kings, queens, knaves, etc. The French developed the game greatly, and it became the stan dard pastime of all the royal courts of the Sixteenth century. Cards became so frominent a feature of social life in ranee that when the revolution came new card packs were devised in which kings and queens were done away with, Ehuosophers and popular heroes and eroines taking their places. Boston Globe. ATanias; It is now noted that the abolition of the car stove will make a clear gain of the apace in each car which tho heater occupies, and that each train of seven or eight cars will thereby be enabled to carry twenty-five or thirty more passen gers. This is the long sought for argu ment to be employed with effect in in ducing tho use of steam heat instead of stoves by the railroads. It appeals to the corporate pocketbook. The ordinary ar gument, based upon sympathy for the roasted passenger, appeals only to the soul, ana corporations are proverbially soulless. Washington Star. Printing in raised or ambosaed letters was begun at Paris, by Hauy,' in 1780. A BATTLE OF BULLS. THE DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WHICH LEFT BOTH COMBATANTS DEAD. Thomas 8. Moore, a waD known and substantial citizen of Garrard county, Ky., tells a graphic story of a desperate encounter that occurred on the crest of a knob of his neighborhood between a couple of enraged bulls, in which both were killed. The animals had wandered to these bights, and, upon sighting each other, at once engaged in a duel to the death. Those unacquainted with the in stincts of such creatures cannot easily imagine what extreme ferocity they sometimes display. In speaking of the incident Mr. Moore said: "Being interested in the study of geology, I happened to be on the knob at the time, and was startled about 4 o'clock in the afternoon by a fearful bel lowing. Looking some distance ahead, I saw the animals advancing toward each other with their noses on the ground, turning this way and that, and casting dust into the ah with their fore feet When only a few yards apart they suddenly leaped to the attack with a frightful noise and began to gore each other with a frightful energy. Above the fierce and noisy trampling could be heard the grinding of their interlocked horns and the violent snorting of brutal rage. HORNS USED USE DAGGERS. "The breeze blew aside the dust and re vealed the tigerish character of the on set, as with wide set limbs and tails curling in the air they charged again, stabbing with their pointed horns. Tiny streams of blood shot -down their necks and sides, while their distended nostrils omitAd a reddish foam. "The prodigious strength of these magnificent animals thus brought into violent activity afforded a spectacle both tumultuous and thrilling. The exertion of the encounter, added to the pain of each newly inflicted wound, inflamed their combative spirit to the pitch of tempestuous fury. One of the bulls, fol lowing up a temporary advantage, plunged his horns into the chest of his antagonist, and, with a quick upward jerk of the head, ripped open the flesh to a depth of several inches, while from the gaping wound jets of arterial blood began to spurt. In a towering passion and with gleaming eyeballs, charging furiously upon his adversary, the wounded bull drove his horns into his abdomen, making a horrible opening through which the entrails gushed. "The impetuous and stormy nature of the contest had carried the combatants to the verge of the cliff, but. blind with deadly fury, they saw no danger. Each, mortally wounded and weakening mo mentarily from profuse loss of blood, waged the battle with that fiendish des peration shown only in wounded ani mals. It was evident, however, that a crisis was near at hand. The 'situation had resolved itself into the grim condi tion of a death struggle. With lowered heads they backed away a few yards, defiant, implacable, and again collided with a force that seemed to split their skulls. THE DUEL'S TERRIBLE ENDING. "This terrible shock staggered the bull with the chest wound and forced his eyeballs from their sockets. He sud denly plunged forward to his knees on the brink of the precipice and remained in a quivering stupor, with liis open mouth burrowing in the dust The other. tottering and covered with blood, but still terrible in his weakness, charged heavily upon his kneeling and senseless foe, struck him on the flank with the force of a ponderous projectile, and hurled him headlong over the precipice. The body executed a somersault in mid air, fell with a noisy crash through the treetops upon the rocks below, whero it was subsequently preyed upon by vul tures. "The remaining bull seemed to realize in a stupid way the danger to which he himself was exposed. He drew back from the brink over which his hideous muzzle had been momentarily thrust, and with entrails trailing on the ground staggered a little distance off, fell prone to the ground, rolled over on his side, shivered a moment, and then lay still m the embrace of death. The battle lasted nearly an hour, and in point of sanguin ary details and tragic horror has no parallel within the limits of my recollec tion.'' Philadelphia Telegraph. The Lace Leaf Plant. The lace leaf plant is chiefly found in the rivers of Madagascar, but it is diffi cult to find, as it grows best under wa ter. The root is something like a po tato, and is roasted and eaten by the na tives. The leaves are of different colors, from tho light green and yellow of the young growth to the darker shades of the old. The largest leaves are a foot long, and are delicate mesh work, the center and edges forming a skeleton on which the threads are supported. Look ing down into the water where the plants arc growing the leaves aro said to look like a spread of magnificent lace in brown, green, olive and gold. They thrive well in greenhouses, only requir ing a wet soil and damp, warm air, but the trouble of securing them makes them a rarity. St Louis Globe-Democrat. A Foreigner's Properly Bights. An alien who may come to this coun try intending to become a citizen as soon as he can be naturalized, upon making deposition to that effect before any officer authorized to take proof of deeds, shall be entitled, after taking out his first papers, to acquire real estate. Certifi cate of such deposition is filed In a book kept for such use in the office of the secretary of state. The person so co quiring real estate may sell, assign, mortgage or dispose of it in any manner for the ensuing six years as if he were a native citixen, out he cannot lease it In case of lus death within the six years real estate thus regularly acquired falls to his heirs, if he die intestate, as if be had been naturalized. New York Times, A afaael TcaileC An Alabama man charged with steal ing a calf made the following statement: "1 was always teached to bo honest an' most always have been, but when I seed that calf I caved. I never wanted a calf so bad in all my life, an' you all know that when a man wants a calf be wants him." Tho jury returned the following ver dict: "We, this jury, air satisfied that Steve stolu the calf, but as the feller that owned the animal is considerable of a slouch, we agree to clear Steve an' make tho slouch pay the costs." Atlanta Con stitution. Oary Oaa Way. A newsboy who honored the gallery by hisjpresence at a performance of Coqaelin ana Hading at the Opera house, and had rather a wearisome time of it, was ac costed on coming out of the theatre by a companion, who asked him whether he "liked the show." "No," he replied, "you can't understand them unless you come in a carriage.'' Philadelphia Ledger. Used Sarah Jane McIIroy, a 17-year-old girl of Kingston, Ont, saw two toughs as saulting a citizen. Instead of Tainting aba laid her parcel on the sidewalk, screamed murder, grabbed one of the assailants by the neck and hurled him aside, and gave the victim aa opportn nity to handle bis other foe. When she modestly told her tale in court she was given round after round of applause. Cincinnati Enquirer. For the beat results there needs be the longest waiting. TnatrueaarTestistha l an pamgieacueu. , xob lauuna flm,thssooaai last Tfeunaat- u Fleaabh Feraelty GaMaa ay aa Al- j scat Hants facrtllacasa ca HaCaai ah Harlesl frcca the Pcclflca hy a ! Ban with Its Death Weans. Want of Sleep Is sending tlioasands annually to the insane asylnm ; and the doctors say this trouble is alarmingly-on the increase. The usual remedies, while they may give temporary relief, are likely to do more harm than good. What is needed is aa Alterative aad Blood-purifier. Ayert Sanaaarilla is incomparably the best It corrects those disturbances ia the circulation which cause sleepless ness, gives increased vitality, aad re stores the nervous system to a healthful condition. Rev. T. G. A. Cote, agent of the Mass. Home Missionary Society, writes that hit stomach was oat of order, his sleep very often disturbed, aad some im purity of the blood manifest ; but that a perfect cure was obtained by the use of Ayer's SarsapariUa. Frederick W. Pratt, 424 Washington street, Boston, writes: "My daughter eras prostrated with nervous debility. Ayer's Sarsaparilla restored her to health." William F. Bowker, Erie, Pa., waa cured of nervousness and sleeplessness by taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla for about two months, during which time his weight increased over twenty pounds. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, FKErABED BT Dr. J. C. Ayer at Co., Lowell, Mass. old by all Druggist. Price $1; six settles, fa. Iatelltecaea of 1 How "fly" the average crow is, too. Note some time, when you are riding along in a train, how induTerent a crow is to the flying engine and cars. Note, too, how carelessly they will sit on some near by tree, or in some field, aa you drive along the highway. Now atop the horse and see how quickly their aoadi come up and bow uneasy they get If e ten to one that before the carnage has ceased rocking, and before you can take ' aim with a gun, every one of them are on the wing. Once two of us were rid-' ing along a road, and in a field were several crows. Close to tne road was a high ledge around which the highway led, hiding us for a moment from the birds. Here I jumped out while my com panions drove right along at the usual gait Waiting a moment, I crept up the ledge, and when I looked over carefully every crow was walking off and looking back. They did not see me, but they missed me from the team, and reasoned there was danger, and I did not get a shot Lewiston Journal. A Irlaadly Sheikh. When the Prince of Wales was travel ing in the Holy Land with the late Dean of Westminster, the royal party came one day to the banks of Jordan. As they sat at meat in the tents they beheld a number of mounted Arabs riding down to the ford, headed by their sheikh. Presently an Arab messenger arrived at the tents, and his message was that the sheikh desired to see Dean Stanley. The small but courageous dean at once arose and walked down unarmed to the inter view. The sheikh, who had dismounted, advanced with dignity, laid both his hands on the deana shoulders, and be holding him steadfastly, said these words: "Arthur Penrhyn Stanley." The astonished dean looked up and saw that that Arab chieftain was William Gilford Palgrave. A. J. M. in Notes and Que ries. A Toad as a Weather Prophet. A curious weather prophet is beuur shown in a Broadway store window. It is a tree toad confined in a glass tube. There is a little ladder for it to climb up and down on, and so susceptible is the little prisoner to changes that it ascends to the top of the tube when the air grows moist in advance of rain and descends when clear weather is near at hand. It also becomes noisy before a storm. To those who have never seen a tree toad it may be interesting to know that it re sembles the ordinary garden toad in form, but is more flattened. The color varies from pale ash to dark brown, with blotches of greenish brown, and the stomach yellow. 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