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"".lJW.J 4Ky?jf? C5 -ft t . sj; J" - i J .&'. Tb " ' . . x . " ,.- in Y---v & tvi- " "-i ? 5T'i.-4sS?4--!-55i0ir ," 53. "C3 r-C VjT.f-P I .LT- " - "!- " - " ' 1" ' " "7 ' "T fTT-T 1- r r - -- I I I ! 111 I I I I it li i I u,UB!lliZBK4HITl&B 2 lv I-, v- "" - " ' ft," f r rC, JAMES GIVEN, THE IAMjOWMAH. swh.aadtheh ud other tMshe versa! Tan j i ii-ny---- "v-mi- M( TediqitodMarbUwaladdeIn XMathaaiMatoCfcaataTeaiX Aad awe took the ptoos of (las; Ihe theasht of each mm was la ABdatoaoetheybexaatelea. feowap alcatel nap- i e'er. tataebanlrBatlaft AadrWedoatlathe ; Qtveea. tae paraed. I opuroaga iabiave,aoBleaeM aadheaaU farK faU for theact with hie Mfe- Bat he reeked aet the oeat. to Aad bow he Is f rae Hfc Brood, KaBaataoel has cjoee to the Of haa who died far Aadas Chriat ataaja laataarethatJa OiTd Aad he boated do greed utdlaree; Pat awk the world oter aad lad Kyeacaa A aaaa more aoble thaa he. For he gave up hie life, aa oBeriag, te aate Theat who were' aothhMr to aha; Aad ea earth hewB hare hat ibove, a bright dlodewi, Bet hie aaawwiB e'er Hve fct the of tree Aad fl travel Croat oceaa to eoaaa; Aad thea waader back to hie owa kad agala. Where be tared for uaeeMk devotloa. Aad Uo poor, humble i place Hteh ap ea faaie'a I BMaa It ia letters or i "The Hero of the Joaa H. -A. J. AMBITION. "Why. Iibbj, Is that yon? Stop a minute; I'm going your way and IU walk home with you." Tm in a hurry, Jobr ataauMcedthe tall young girl whom Job Lmdley bad addressed. uBat I won't detain, yom a aeoondr catrhing uptaecbange aad the parcel from the counter of theUttto general abop which aerred for grocery, dry good em porium, floor mill and poatoffice for the dwellers in Succothville. 'Tm ready now." Iibby Morse was a. slender, bright eyed girl of 18. Job Iindleywas the Tillage druggiBt, a quick, keen faced young fellow, with a healthy glow on Ids cheeks. TTiey walked briskly along over the hard frozen winter roads, in the gray twilight. "Were you getting anything at the store?" Job asked. "Have you any bandies for me to carry?" Libby laughed bitterly. v- "I was asking for tetters,'' said she. There were none for me. Ididntmuch expect there would be. Lock don t come tomer "LuckT Job looked at hernia per plexed way. I hope, Iibby I do hope you haven't been persuaded into buying tickets in the Breesetown lottery!" "Nonsenser retorted Iibby. "Tour uncle gives you all the spend ing money you want, dont he?" "He gives me all I ask for, Iibby an sweredadding, within herself: "And little enough that isl" "You're not discontented at living withhimT "Not especially." '"Because, Libby, if you dont like it where you are" "Oh, Job, there comes Alice Mark hamr hastily interrupted the girl. Tve got a message for Alice. You'll excuse me, wont you? Good-byl Job Lindley stood puzzled, in the middle of the road, watching Lobby's figure vanish against the yellow bar that still marked the spot where the sun had gone down half an hoar ago. "If s queer," said he. "Fm hanged if I understand it! Every time I get any where near that subject she slips away from me, exactly as if she understood what I was going to say. It's like try ing to catch the waters of a running brook in one's hand. To me there's no girl in all Succothville like Iibby Morse, and yet I can't for the life of me tell whether she cares forme or not?" In the meanwhile Iibby had joined Alice Markham, the young district school teacher, whose week it was, in "board ing around," to go to Mr. Morse's. "Oh, Alice," said she, breathless with the haste she had made, "I've had such an escape!" "Child, what on earth do you mean?" said Miss Markham, who, though she was scarcely a month older than Iibby, in actual time, had the dignity of at least thirty summers. Perhaps it was as much owing to the responsibilities of her position as to natural temperament, but still it was there the sober, charming sedateneas of a young queen. "I think, Alice," said Iibby, in a mys terious whisper, "that Job lindley wants to ask mo to marry him. I've just been walking with him." "Well and if he does?" "It's such nonsense," said Iibby, slightly accelerating her swift, elastic pace. "I don't see that at all," said composed Alice. "Every girl is the better for a good, sensible husband." "Fiddlesticks!" cried Iibby. "As if a girl with an ambition like me wanted to be tied down to life in the back parlor behind a druggist's counter!" "An umbitionT repeated Miss Mark ham. t "Ah. I haven't told your cried exult ant Iibby, dancing up and down until feet Bounded like tiny tbefroaesi ground. "But I hare ambition two or three of them! affsall I tell you what they are, Alice?" "If you can leaveoff flitting along like a will-o'-the-wisp, certainly," said Alice, ILftoy's 'Well, you see," explained Iibby, lewerielwrvoicetoacoMtiBUtialssys tery, although tbera wars only the frost brightened stars aad the yellow risa of light above tbe western woods to hrar hri naniminii alhai. "Vm la farm of hUe, aad as he bean af htoown, henatanflyfeelsasif I a burden tohisa. And ha hints that I st hi In In ill list aiaaUali, fis mjstlf Row what can a girl do for herself in iviBe but ro oa to ta piaam aTm aa In Ian Ismi mum nM frJtjweMilhMi feaa teases. aRvaaia Aad he Diaaged her prow to the aaat; HHahewwtthroach the terrftie aaaiwha eVBBVMaTp BatafaVafL mmmc taacactoryortaaa "Hot ajara ibi. I mast umivm," said "WsB," uaiauMl Lttihj,"! don't fancy airjwt taaas three roads toalrraaftoed. aWrvwiiohsdout thiaautbai paths for aafwaaf. rve beau sluijaag up ths , , - isauaaJUfaa, aaal. Tm wrjataua lav yT A hgal-. . " - v . aTaaaa. ' f-BaBLaatA -mjf efam faaafflHBwaTeTa satWswaBnl elaeTaafamefa in inoir'aboafclvvar "A atvch as other rirta, I fancy. aid- Kiddy libbr. 'Tve rcaa'aboutl "dl and Luciadi all ' -. - aad of courss onadepeuakabod on oae'a bauoiaation. It waant a bad story, I know. Well, that's one road. And I read thesis! am sat of tiieWoaaan'a Barter establiahaaent in New York how they'll pay you for good cake or pre- or anything of that sort, lew a I rnwmauinai an I sant a box or jam to tbem, a box that ought to net nee 110 at least." "That's Number Two," smiled Alice, "Excuse me f or saying that I have more faith in Number Two than in Number One." "We shall see," nodded Iibby. "And the third" "Yes," amid Alice, encouragingly, "the third" 'I answered an advertisement for a wife," whispered Iibby, banging down her pretty bead. "Yea, Alice, I did. You needn't start back in that tragical manner. Otberglrlsdoit. Whysbouldn't I? Such n beautifully worded advertise ment! A widower, all alone in the world, sighing for sympathy and love a widower of means, Alice!" "Libby, you have done wrong," said Alice, with a gravity that impressed her young companion more than she would have been willing to confess. "Well, Tve done it, and there's an end of tbe matterr mid Iibby, with a rebel lious toss of her head. "So there's no use in lecturing me. Uncle Tom shall find out that I'm not entirely without resources. A hundred dollars for the story (besides all the fame it will bring me, Alice), $10 from the plum jam aad there, you eee, is enough to buy quite a neat little trousseau for marrying the widower. People dont launch out with silk dreaBSSsnddoasns of under clothes 83 much s they did, and" "Iibby," urged Mies Markham, "are you really in earnest?" Iibby broke out into a little hysterical laugh. "Alice," said she, 'Tve thought of nothing elm and dreamed of nothing else for a week. And it's strange so strange that I nver have received an answer to any of the three communications!" Just then little Tommy, the youngest hope of tbe house of Morse, came trot ting across tbe sear meadows. "Ohv look here. Lib!" said he. "The storekeeper he's found a lot o letters as got hid away under the mealbags, where they was sortin' the mail on Thursday. They calculate ,Pete, the puppy, done it he's chuck full of mischief and tricks; and tho storekeeper he give me a lemon ball if Td take these to you. I was lick in the inside of the molasses' keg with Johnnie Piper and Sam Stokes under the counter"-:: Libby grasped the letters, and even by that imperfect light Alice could see the snow and crimson chasing each other across her face. They were already inside the little gate, and Libby caught at her compan ion's arm with nervous haste. "Let us go upstairs to your room, Alice," she whispered. "There is always such a swarm of children in the keeping room, and one never can have a moment to one's self. Besides, there is only that lamp in tbe house, and I can't read by candle light" Side by side, in the school teacher's apartment, by the light of the nickering, strong scented kerosene lamp, Iibby and Alice opened the letters. The first, whose envelope bore the stamp of The Titusfield literary Clarion, was brief enough. The editor regretted that Miss Morse's manuscript had proved unsuited to his columns, but would re turn it to her address on the receipt of sufficient postage stamps to defray the cost of transportation by mail. "There's an end of that!" cried Iibby, passionately, tearing the letter in two and flinging its fragments on the ground. The second was an elegantly written note on scented and monogramed paper from the secretary of the Woman's Bar ter establishment, ftwtfr'g that Mg Morse's kind favor, per the Backawaxen Bailroad express, had been sampled, and had unfortunately proved to be below the standard which the establishment had set up. The box awaited her orders, and Mrs. Geraldus Geoffreys remained hers truly, etc., eta "It's all nonsenser cried breathless Libby. "Standard of excellence, in-1 deed! It's all favoritism. There's a ring I know there is! The whole thing ought to be exposed through the news papers." - The third letter was brief enough. It was' from a well known lawyer in New York stating to Miss Elizabeth Morse that her communication, together with numerous others, had been found among the effects of a notorious swindler, who had fled from justice about a week pre viously. It was returned to I s r. with a well meant warning to avoid such traps in the future. Mbit of his dupes, it was stated, had inclosed money, rings and photographs to him, but she waa for tunately among the exceptions. Poor Iibby! She burst into angry tears, with her head on Alice's shoulder. "Oh, Alice," she cried, "what a fool I have been!" And Mies iffHn was endeavoring to console her, when Tommy came' clat tering up stairs to shout at the keyhole that "supper was ready, and marm had been frying flapjacks, and there was some real maple molasses on the table, better than that on tbe inside of the keg at Billings' storer Alice went down. She knew that it would give mortal offense to Mrs. Morse's housewifely pride to neglect this sum mons; but Iibby flung a hood over her bead and rushed out into the cool night air. "I couldn't speak to any one just now," she pleaded. "You'll keep my secret, Alice won't youl" Just there at the gate stood Job Lind ley, a black shadow against the starlight. "Libbyl" It was all that ha amid, but tbe one word was so full of devotion, allegiance, tender appreciation, that Iibby stopped involuntarily. It was a healing bamr to her hurt spirit and wounded pride. "I was coming to auk you to go to Swope'e Comers with me to-night," aeid he. "There's to tea concert there, and -but is anything the matter, Iibby?" be asked, checking himself in mid-explanation. "Yes. Job, I should like to go," said Iibby. "It's very good of you to ask "But you're in aomeaort of trouble, Iibbyr exclaimed Job. "You've been crying? Haa your uads been cross to you? Because, Iibby, yom needat stay day under biaroof unless you IfyoullcoaMtomeaadbemy wife, Iibby, there's nothing you need askforuvaia. It may aowad abrupt to you, tut love story of asms, but it's - - .-.-.iff - . m .11.. m baan li awilaag ea myites erary urns B was a atrauge, abort unriihL whan they came into the noisy, cawarful hoses mom, Lftby had giomiiii to be honest Job-a wife. had lackuy driven bar into the aura maVVaafelmf mV BVuBafaaal mamYaafafi aafWaK. "I have got aay own love atory new," aba aaal to AMm Markaaaa. 'Bsttar fmttiaemwa:ofTMTIIiiilillTViM Usriem' erv is worth forty seal And' as for the plum jam, well let that go! Mr leraldus f ebflreys is welcome to it for her afternoon teas!" .."And you are really happyat r, lastr wistfully aaked alias Markham, . .' "Yea, dear AlicevlTeally-am happy at last eaid Libby. , And her radiant face bore wfraaw to: her wordiLaturday Night. A Betae SwaJtowe BUD A horse in a small town near Norwich, Conn., which is disposed to swallow any thing that comes within its reach, re cently bolted a--large ball of wrapping twine. The ball rolled hi easily, but a knob at the end 'of the cord anchored itself windward between the animal's front teeth, and the knot and the visible piece of twine served as a "key to the situation when tbe young groomswoman visited the stable and inspected bersteed. There was a somewhat troubled look on the horse's face as be stood with feet braced, ears lopped, mouth open, and in his eyes was a mute appeal that be tokened a growing suspicion that prob ably the case was hopeless. The young lady unloosed the knot, wound six inches of the cord around her hand and began to unravel the mystery. The horse kept Ids mouth open, looked wise, and seemed perfectly to understand what was going on, and out, yard after yard, fathom by fathom, the animal compliantly yielded up his peculiar dinner, and on neither side of the manger was a comment ut tered, except that now and then the grateful beast emitted a sigh as he ob served the external ball swelling in mag nitude and felt the internal one steadily diminishing. Finally the but yard of cord was reeled out of the horse, wound up and the ball taken into the house, where the animal couldn't get at it again. Lowell News. Oaalel Webster ae a Flaaader. "Webster." said RufusChoateoneday, "I want to borrow $500, and I wish you'd lend it 10 me." "1 haven't the money today, Mr. Choate." said Webster, "but you give me your note and I guess I can get it cashed for you." Gratified lieyond 'measure. Choate sat down to write his note. "By the way. Choate." said Webster, in an offliand way, 'you might as well make that note for a thousand, as I can use 500 myself." "Certainly," said Choate. cheerfully, and he signed a note for sin even thou sand. Then the immortal Daniel sauntered down to u banker's office. "Ah! anvthing 1 can do for you today, Mr. Webster?" "Can you dir-counta note for a thou sand lor kivT - "With -pleasure." The great statesman pocketed 1,000 in bills, gave $500 to Choate, who was ef fusive in his thanks, and kept the other 500 himself. Daniel Webster, my sen. was wh&t wou-d be called in these days "a finan cier." Lewiston Journal. A The Roumanian villages are by ao means as picturesque as the Bulgarian, which derive most of then? beauty from the trees and gardens by which they are surrounded, for every Bulgarian is by natural instinct a gardener. In south eastern WaUachia and along the shores of the Danube tbe peasants five in holes dug in the ground and roof ed over with a rude thatch, but near Bucharest the houses are fairly built, whitewashed and covered with a thick thatch of cane, which extends beyond the walls and forms a shady veranda supported by poles. I noticed that the walls of some of the houses were embel lished with gayly painted pictures of flowers. The object of these adornments was not SBsthetic, but strictly business like. It was practically the same as if a card were hung in the window bearing the inscription: "Young lady of mar riageable age to be disposed of. Excel lent references and adequate dowry. Inquire within." The convenience of tins method of advertisement is disputable. A young Roumanian in search of a wife has only to take a stroll through his na tive village. In a quarter of an hour he ascertains how many eligible damsels are furnished by the community; inqui ries follow, and very probably before evening he is suited to nis fancy. En glish people who are "shocked" by this practical system ought to fornia society for the suppression of our own matrimo nial journals. Fortnightly Review. A Trick f TraAe. While coming up Market street the other day, in the face of a sweeping rain, what was my astonishment upon passing a prominent clothing store to see a bhte flag waving fa front of the build ing, with "clear and fairweatber" on it in large white letters. I thought, how ever, that, the proprietor bad forgotten to take it down, and named on. It was still raining when 1 approached the place the next day. The same flag was fluttering merrily in the breeze in spite of the terrible falsehood it had written on its face. My curiosity was aroused, and I decided to karn, if possible, what object tbe proprietor could have fa al lowing it to remain there. I entered the store and asked kirn the question plainly. At first he gave me evasive answers, but finally be became confidential and said: "That is one of tbe very best advertise ments I ever had. When it rains I put out tbe 'clear flag, and when it is clear vice versa. People passing along the street and noticing the apparent mistake come into tbe store and tell me about it That is when my clerks get in their work, and there are few days when they do not sell from one to five more suits than they otherwise would. You know tbe difficult thing is to get customers inside the door. Why, I wouldn't give those flags for a half dozen 'barkers and they dont make half the noise." Philadel phia News. - A Doable Weddlag "Do I marry many people who have been divorced?" repeated a well known clergyman to a reporter. "It depends entirely," he continued, "on the cause for which the divorce was granted. I follow the scriptural injunction. 'By the way," he went on, "I heard of a rather strange marriage which took place a few nights since. At a bouse in the northwest there waa a double wed ding. One of the couples were elderly and staid and tbe bride had been divorced for other than scriptural causes. Her son was the bridegroom in the younger pair. A Methodist minister, whom I wont name, but of whom church tbe old couple were members, was invited to perform the ceremonies. "He promptly declined to officiate for tbe divorced woman, but he would have no objection to joining the young folks together. Tbe cod people made' no com platnt; they engaged tbe services of a Methodist local preacher, whom views on the subject of divorce were more liberal than those of their pastor. A few evenings since the two couples and the two preachers stood up together fa the xne two services were read b happy; four wed. and two with respectable Yooailaa Hew Vesuvius baa lately been very active. It baa been rapidly throwing up a new cone of eruption about thirty to forty yards to the southwest of 'the original one, and the flasare across the crater plane towards the west-southwest Is in creasing in sue and hi richer in add em anations. It is possible, therefore, that an eruption aaey take place soon on that aide of the cone, since the tuattaads to shift along the lbaaawKmamsiia that direction.-New York HO CH0IK GIRIS fffAHTHX MEN AND OVt AHE NOW M QUIRED FOR CHURCH SERVICES. young woTOia aed that where I have snag for the yean will do away with a mixed choir and employ boys and man only. All the churches are going' that way. And yet when a girl who gets her living by church singing talks of jobungaeonuo opera company, there is conaternation among her friends, who at once exclaim: She might amg fa a church choir; Mm So-and-so gets $3,000. a year at Dr. Blank's church on Fifth avenue. Cant you say a good, word for. singers who would like to earn their living by church singing, but are unable to find work owing to the demand for boy choirs? I came to New York five years ago, and have managed to support myself, after a fashion, ever since by ataging fa church and giving music lessons, and I know at least a dosen other girls who have done thff namn ng- DBBAM8 Or THE FBOVTlfCUIS. There is not a successful church singer fa any small town fa the interior oftbia state who does not dream of coming to New York fa order to earn some money and perfect herself fa her art; she knows that she can hear good muaio here for a trifle, that schools axe plenty, and ahs has an idea that the churches of this city aad Brooklyn are always ready to par big salaries to singers. They lwvi"neard how Miss Emma Abbott beganat the late Dr. Chapfa'a church, wenttoEurope aiid blossomed out into an opera afager. They are not averse to afagfag fa opera if a good engagement offers. But comio opera is something too dread, ful to think-of; that never entered into their calcuUtions. The result of this popular delusion is. that scorescf clever jouug worn an coma from their country homes to New York every year to reap disappointment, perhaps losing excellent chances at. home in the meantime. A change fa fashion has eliminated the woman afager from the church choir. Go to the organist of any big church where chorus girls are em ployed, and he wfll tell you same story. It is worth while uttering a word of warning to the score who are now think ing of trying for fame and fortune here." A few hours' visiting among organists showed how true was tnisplaint. Twenty years ago almost every Protestant Epis copal chiirch employed a large chorus of men and women, the best of whom re ceived salaries. Today the churches where mixed choirs .are employed and paid may be counted on the fingers of one hand. In a great many Presbyte rian, Methodist and Baptist churches the members of the quartet of singers are paid to lead the congregational sing ing, but the choir, if it exists, is a volun teer one. In the leading Episcopal churches great pride used to be taken with the choir, and there was a constant rivalry. With "high church" .or ritual istic services beganthe change. THE VETERAN'S "VIEW. A veteran organist, who did not wish his name used because the church which employed him might object to his re marks, said: "The disappearance of the church choir, and the consequent disappearance of women from our church choirs, is part of the Anglomania with which we have been afflicted for the last twenty years. It is English to have only boys and men in the choir, and so tbe ladies have toga I can mention a doaen churches which held out for years against the boy choir erase, but have been obliged to' give in. Zion church, Holy Trinity fa Forty-second street, Calvary, and St Jamer fa Madison ave nue are all important churches that have sent adrift their mixed choirs within the last three years and. now employ boys. in tne case or uaivary cunrcn tnere was particular hardship. Mr. Joseph Mosen thaL who had been organist there for twenty-two years, had to leave when the change was made, because he waa too old a man to adopt new ways. The con gregation wanted a boy choir, and they have it. "Whenever the boy choir comes in, a number of lady singers lose then? places. The salaries paid may not have been huge, but they enabled a great many young women to. live in this dry while perfecting themselves as music teachers. Some of the most successful musk) teachers in the great cities of the north and west got their training here aad sup ported tnemseives py cnurcn engage ments. The most successful organisb, in resisting the demand for a boy choir, have been the warrens, xatnerana soo the first at St. Thomas' church and the latter at St. Bartholomew's. Go to Mr. George W.Warren, the veteran organ ist of St Thomas', and bewill teU you how small is the field for young women who wish to make a living by church singing fa New York." New York Star. The Hefcht eg .Oeeaa Wa A writer fa The Liverpool Mercury a captain of the mercantile marine has taken great pains to. take what are prob ably the most careful observations as to J tne neignt of ocean waves in a gale wnicb have ever been recorded. He made them during a voyage round Cape Horn and to do it he went up fa the main rigging, to get if possible, the top of the wave coming up astern fa a line of sight from the mast to the horizon at the back. The reason he selected the main mast was this, that as a rule it is nearly amidships and when the sea is running we sea aneaa ana rrom an una the two ends, forming a hollow amid ships (the actual foot of the wave below the mean draught equal to the sight ele vation) and the observer necessarily is above the true heucht It was a difficult operation, but the captain obtained some gooaoDservanons, makingthe Height or the waves on the mast On measuring the distance from them to the main draught be found them to be as follows: 4, 61, 68 and 65 feet respectively, vary ing fa length from 750 to 800 feet New York Home Journal. Philadelphia Doctor (despoadently) Just my luck. I have only recently suc ceeded fabecomiagthe regular family physician of the Westends, aad now they have taken steps to render further employment of a doctor unnecessary, or nearly so. Wife Why, my dear, what have they done? "They have bought a inter." Fhfla aVaphkt .Record. The Dec and the Bee. A dog, being annoyed by bees, ran, quite accidentally, into an empty barrel lying on the ground, and, looking out at the bung hole, addressed his tormentors thus: "Had you been temperate, stinging me only one at a timc'you might liavo got a good deal of funoutof me. As it is, you have driven me into a secure retreat; for I can snap you up as fast as you come in through the bung hole. Bsbokl tlie folly of intemperate zeaL" When ho had concluded, he awaited a reply. There wasnt any reply; for tbe bees had never gone near the bung hole; they went in the 8amo way as ho did. and made it very warm for hun. Tho lesson of this fable is that one can not stick to his puro reason while quar reling with bees. Ambrose G. Bicrce. wSo'liave a story for say that before Jacob men i fiat once, aad then inune- tbatPatri- a natural by "Tbere's acaaarful note!" said a bright to tne writer. "Iamnotf- aftar next Easter the church smeary died. Theyaasureus arch war the first who died aaata, before mm all man sasi &. awe aawomy w wan was oroereu msad"of every raince to his saajacts to eaapky aoms mlalaij exrannation after f aha WeMamT is. a aermanent point fa a treat many people's and that how young where from am to fl8 a week caa aswenasmaa earnlnc five eraix as much. Yet they aianagetodoitaad have enough money left to make a po lite little ripple in the society in which amyamve. The early elevated trains and cam are crowded with well vounc 'men. who ease about as placently and self satisfied as if they were part owners in a railroad and lived only to cut coupons and draw dividends. They are dressed well, and their cloth fag, from the cape coat to the light cloth gaiters over their shoes, would compare favorably with tin latest fashion plate. Yet if you follow them you will be pretty sure to learn that they are simply clerks in broken offices, and do not receive more than $15 in a majority of cases. How do they dress so well, thea? Do they "borrow" from their employers, or do they speculate in bucket shops? They do not "borrow." and. as for speculat ing, they do that sometimes fa a small way. Their clothes are bought honestly enough with the money they earn every week, and the way they do it la very easy. Most New Yorkers have heard of that class of people known as "fences." whom business is to buy stolen goods from the thieves direct at a ridiculously low price, and sell tlie atuff to small dealers at a small profit A "fence" will buy any thing that is stolen, from a silver spoon to a suit of clotties or an assortment of clothing, and tliereby bangs part of the tale. Every time there Is a big clothing robbery the stuff is fenced and immedi ately passed to the sacred precincts of Baxter street Sometimes the better portion of the thieves' work find their way into clothing stores fa lietter neigh borhoods, and because of the extremely reasonable price at which it is bought, the suits arc sold very cheap Now, you would not suppum a broker's clerk would go to Baxter street for clothes. Neither does he. He sends the clothing man's agent for wliat he wants. This agent calls on the clerk and is told what style of clothing b wanted. Then the young man is measured, and when the clothes come liome they need very littlealtering. Tbe cost is comparatively nothing. A good Prince AUrt coat and vest can be bought for f mm $8 to jSO. while cutaways and sack suits are to be had for prices ranging from $5 to $15. Of course a great deal of the stuff is second hand and a great dc:il is Ktolen. The second hand clothes are easily "fixed up," and the merchants f liixter street liave so' deli cate a facility for this "fixing up" pro cess that they will change the whole complexion of a suit The stolen goods are sold just as they are bought with the exception of a slight cliange fa the maker's tag on the inside of the collar. Still there is another, more legitimate, way of obtaining clothing that is fash ionable, new and costly. There are a great many young men. rich and fash ionable, in New York, who spend most of their time buying and giving clothes away after wearing them once or twice. This may seem strange to men who hare but two suits, and wear them until they are absolutely too threadbare to wear any longer, yet nevertheless it b the case. Suits of clothes costing all the way from $50 to $100 each are made for these wealthy young men, and arc worn prob ably three or four times and then given to valets. To follow the course of tbe clothes from thb point would be a pretty heavy undertaking. Sometimes they are sold to second band dealers on Sixth, Fourth and Third avenues, who make a handsome profit on every suit bought and sold. Out of the clothes given to hun the valet keeps the best for himself, of course, and manages to make consid erable money out of what be sells. Thus it b that so many young men earning small salaries can dress so fashionably and live honestly. The Clothier. Ha Was Wroax. "Can I speak to you a moment?" be said softly as he called the chief dork fa the postoffice to the window tbe other day. "Certainly." "Thanks. I didn't know but you were busy. Two months ago 1 came here and' asked for a letter. Remember it?" "I do not" "Probably not, as you are always busy. 1 didn't get any. I gave it as my opinion that some of you had stolen it Remember?" "No." "Probably not but I spoke very em phatically. That was my opinion, and I went away feeling very much hurt- Re member?" "No." "Probably not as I am of no great .consequence. 1 now desire to ask your pardon. Will you forgive me?" Of course." "Thanks. I believed you would. You1 see, I expected a letter from my aunt None came. She couldn't write one; She was dead. See? Therefore, how could 1 get one? 1 take it back. I apol ogize. I was wrong. Shake." That's all right" "Thanks. ITl-never do it again. Thb b an honest postoffice. I was wrong. Good-by." Detroit Free Press. The Athwtle Record. The steamships have not yet done with the Atlantic record. But the proof of the pudding b not mora in the eating than that of the ship fa her actual sailing or steaming. Vesseb built so far as ap peared, exactly alike have allowed wide difference fa speed. The newer craft will illustrate tbe question of the double screw. The principle hm been success ful fa its application to smaller boats on riven and in harbors. If it works well fa rough water it will largely revolution im marine construction. So. as the ro manco of the "wet sheet" and the "flow ing sea" and the "wind that follows fast" sinks below tbe ocean horizon, adeno renews the charm and mystery. Brook lyn Eagle. OrJgfmeTthe Hera b another custom of tbe ancients, aad one fa which we can aee tho origin of our menu cards. Each guest, as soon as he had settled upon hb couch, was banded a paper upon which was written tho name of every article to be served at tbe feast and fa tbe order fa which it was to be served a convenient if notanfa dbpenmble custom; indeed, fa the pres ent day we would be apt to look upon the omission as barbarous, for what could be more so than to keep a man of mod erate gastronomic capacity fa ignorance of some coming delicacy, and thus allow him, fa the dark, to crowd it out with some previous dbh or dishes which he may tolerate rather than fancy. Table Talk. - At Fribourg. hi Switaarlaad, a auapsa afoa bridge b thrown Is thrown ovsr the gorge of Gotteroa, which is SI? feet above the valley. The structure b vary nkht aad aaracsful, and b by far the loftiest true imp mil nn bride ever built aav eaMPi uterrogatisa salads, boms A Mew rmaaxT. An Infiaf pbabt. who has jwet rescind hb fifth year, has appeared oaths asa- sfaal horboa af 8t Pit urt irg. Hb fa- ! in iblina of Chopm b sasi to bseaaa TW0CEAT1AIIX DlfTERCNCES THAT ONLY ON INVtaXMATON. b fun of which of of aUkaow what to expect b always hard to get fa a perpetual thai itac coafessioa of wner hi ant to accent with a convey bat a shadow of asesamf to the hearer, aad to trust to experience sa the beat teacher. I leave it to any candid reader to say , if ha would know which rjroaabed the the Chateau of the Pharos or the of St Brians? Yet one b a and the other bat let ma not anticipate. A KXASAST YUlXM TO BS SJCE. On one caps of the amgaincant hay that indudm Marseilles and her harbors, andoverlooldngtheman from to hflL stands the Chateau of the Pharos, fdvmg nm mm, ip J t BSl g walk between quays, fortresses aad lighthouse, fa its sbgance aad quiet se clusion. Tbe palace b closed now, aad stands m peacefully into extensive aad well kept park as if it were miles away from the busy dty a haadsome Itoaab ance edifice, far mora attractive than many mora famous royal rmidancaa. It belonged to the Emmas after the faU of the empire Lto$e aaal ner co tae ocv or lMueva-tt baa -act .yet it b not now fa ass. It for a hospital, fa such aa open, healthy location: it would baahawatworwwhfla to be afcfik fa order to recover fa such a pleasant spot TBE oi'asJt-auux It was whib we were at Hyena that we beard of the Chateau cfStEublb. Attracted by the poetical name we re solved to visit it, although it was repre sented as rather too distant for a walk. But with such aa object fa view wa would take the best part of the day, start early, and give up our lunch. Fol lowing tfo directions given, we proceeded down the beautiful vallsy of Hveras, between the summits of Costa Bellaand the mountains of the Moors, the Utter name so suggestive of the times when aU thb land waa racked by piratical incursions of those savage marauders. Crossing the rapid little Gapand river after two or three miles walk, and fol lowing its banks, we looked in all direc tions for the stately edifice we expected to show its towers above the yellow sycamores, but fa vain. Finally, being directed by the most polite of French cavaliers, whom we fortunately met and who might have ridden directly out of the middle ages, we turned down a muddy lane ana found a ranch! A ranch, though nobody in thb effete country knows enough to call it so. There were a number of long, low atone buildings, scattered among huge old olive trees, peach orchards, groves of mulberries and grass fields; there were great ricks of hay, an old mill, wide barns and tribes of chickens, but no handsome central mansion worthy of tbe noble family that formerly inhabited it The only reminders of the ancient times when 1 suppose princes used to visit here were a dilapidated avenue of lofty trees that once formed the approaches to the chateau, and a singular old tower. This tower must have been built as a re fuse for the family and dependents when the pirate galleys were anchored fa the harbor and the alarm was spread from one estate to another; a tell, round tower, pierced only by loopholes, with a lookout on tbe summit of its bell shaped roof. Around its base were battle mented walls, now in ruins, the former moat overgrown with bushes and trav ersed by chickens, tbe only useless part of tbe farm. Amen! May all war so vanish fa peace and plenty! AX KXPEKSrVK CANAL. "Have you seen the faUs of Durance?' we were asked soon after our arrival in Marseflles. We replied fa tbe negative, wondering to what the lady could refer, whm she explained by adding: "Where the water comes into the town." In 1810 the Marseilles people, having been short of water for some centuries and having, aa it happened, no war on hand to ex haust their finances, undertook to bring fa a river to satisfy their thirsty souls. Tbe expenditure of 30,000,000 francs re sulted fa tbe canal of Roquefavour, which connects the Durance with the dty, a distance of twenty-five miles. MsrscUles slopes gently upward from its harbor to a bill directly east from that pofaVahoutamfie ana a half, the hfil being 400 feet above the sea level. On tbe top of that lull arrives tbe canaL having pansftfl through several tunneb and crossed the final valley on arches like tbe old Roman aqueducts. Mar seilles Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. "There are plenty of young men who bay them," said the girL "Some take sweet violets, othem like the candied rose leaves, and some prefer pinks done fa sugar." "What b the object of eating candied flowers?" "To perfume tbe breath. AU young society ladba carry perfumed sweets with them to the theatre and toperties, every where they go, indeed. Some of these aretfaylosenges put up in fancy viab like these." They looked like homeopathic medi cines small sugar pflb fa all colors. Then were violet bijou of a lovely lav ender color, musk mjous, pink and pretty, and a lot of other sweets for the breath. "And the price?" "Oh, thorn are cheap enough; only 10 cente a bottle. Then there are the mixed flavon for tbe bonbonnieres. the litle round boxes fastened to tbe corsage. tbe centlemen aro beginning- to them instead of cloves and coffee to sweeten the breath." Detroit Free Press. - "Ob what denominartna are da chile?" aa an old colored preacher of a young S who had brought an infant to him itbm. COU for ! r said tbe young father, evidently mA h Ilia ml AiwiaiilwHnOT The parents looked at each other fa evident confusion for a moment; then tlie father stammered out: "I I-doesn't know what yo maaa by 'deaominsfino,' amuna "Houh, yo'doat?" replied tbe preacher, ecornfufiy. "WelL dearil simplify It 'cordia'to ytfitt'sacewyo km under stand it: Are de chib a boy or a gal caUer Youth's who could "Da 70a I wiuti Brown Sea here, teamster, I doat 70a totvmg gravel aad cwvaaa howlaars to All ap this lawn with. Tmamtar TThsl th'dkfceas doesyer waat, thea? nrown Oa,notttac. oalj the earth. Taakee Blade. Hew (wlwMeatertaJning Miss is a baaatMul the QtwiBaaranllj)-Yea; it hi calei the "Bar's , Franca b fall of nlilim r mmar name are ammdai a great variety bundmaa aa area thai wham vou annoa to caBsd yew nonet at foreign bad. tenorance. ao laxed Twwsdbdam by specbl order, aad it was aoaamU aha coakl aevur gat H around hsr wrist We have had it three years, havaaavar fbamt anyone outyoa wear it" b 0Mr wan, I ike." Jsweabrr-Weekly. of Casoatnr-Taat jea lmvaaa.Oanldiaa. sssms . to quite new. Mhw Bmsaj aawwGeuoafa alette, sswe.twT . K dear! leaves. saeaActabsaoer; BWatotWO aaVernvteml 4am1 and some readme aaamsr on tae other, aaa I waated to aave both." said a young lady recently, yho was pasting scraps into a book. "Well, you caa aave both." said her Why.howcaaldothatr are two ways of spotting a One b toby the sheet of paper oa a niece off rteaa. aook it thoroughly with water ami then press b amnrmiy all over the ghar. Wkhalit tta care the upper half of the sheet can be peeled off, leaving the under half on thoebm. Let thb dry and it wfll come off the glass easily; of course the glass mast be perfectly clean. The second way ba better one, but it requires some ecod practice. Paste a piece of cloth or sarong paper on each aide of the sheet to be split When it has thoroughly dried paU tbe two pieces of cloth apart sud denly aad violently. Tbe paste can thea ba softened with water aad the two halves of the sheet easily taken off the cloths." New York Mail and Express. A KlaafaXi The most gorgeously dressed woman at the court of Spain b the young king's nurse. She always wears a dress of rich black velvet with broad bands of gold round tbe skirt, an apron of blue velvet also trimmed with gold, and & black vet vet bodice fastened with silver buttons. Thb bodice b open fa front over a che mise of fine lawn. Bound her neck sLe has five or six rows of coral beads, aad upon her dark hair b arranged a hand kerchbfof rich silk. Her long earrings are also coral. London life. Hep Deferred. "Go to bed. sir. m the clswet there." said an enraged father to a win who had given him just cause of offense; "won' it not that these gentlemen are present I would give you a sound whipping, hut you shall have it liefore breakfast to morrow, certain." Tlie HttU nM went to hb crib with a heavy heart, and the enjoyments of the party continued until a late hour. Just when the (tarty was about to break up; the r!:srt door wax quietly pulled back and the young of fender put out hb head. rt:rrt!n;j that the sentence might lx put i:: i.-:ivut:;)u "Father, would ye just gie im my lifcn thb night for I cnnt:a sltfp without them? London TH-:r:.h. la Leve With His Wife. "What can I do to regain my hus band's love?" writes Mrs. Carrie R of Toronto. 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