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rilE DEATH or THE rAITHriJfc
IHH- JACK.
BT BET. OLITFR OBih'K, . .
7 biu seated in my study,
Brain is thick and thoutfUt is muddy,.
Every nerve i* on the rack;
Fain would I write glib and gladly*
But we all arc fooling badly,
We are mourning aore and nadly,
Mourning over faithful Jack.
Jack la dead I the good old fellow,
Grizzled, red and white and yellow.
Foe to foe* and friend to friends;
True, he had a trick of snooping,
Nosing round, and sometimes swooping
Down araoug the bens, then stooping,
Grouching meek to make amends.
Jt was .Sunday he v. • taken.
All day loug he looked fors&keu,
Bcarcdy uttering a sound;
Vet ail right we l-ard him barking.
Though It teemed n'>t worth remarking,
Foaalb j aomedog huh larking- •
Marking sly or jrowliug round.
But the dog was Hiclt and dying.
W next morning found h m lying,
Brenthuig quick un<l heavily;
B >me sod he wa- mad and shunned him,
r. that one had struck and htunnod him.
Hut there 'ay dog and sunned him--
Sunned huu, but in agony.
Wliad I rpolie he er med to know me,
L-o: e l uud ti led ho ha:d to show me
That ho recognized me still,
Thu? I could not he p but pity,
Y-11 knew, in all the city,
Not a person, wise or witty,
Court arviat w ith drug or pill.
Quivered he an aspen quiver*,
Or as boy half-lro/en Hliivera.
With the fleet full in his face:
Ilf was p ioned, none could rtoufot it;.
None who f-aw him writhe would aeont U,
lint I did not want to flout it.
For what man could be so bao7
But the dog was growing weaker,
With a piteous, kinder, inenkor
J,ook which cauuot l>e forgot;
Yet. as now he last w up falling,
And aa hope wa unavailing,
lliough it csus<ml n hoc ret quailing,
I, reluctant, had him shot.
So he died, and consequently - -
For We could not keep him gently
lie was buried with regret;
Done and **d the coachman wheeled mm,
For unwheeled so man could wield him,
And where waving oaV trees shield him
There was buiied Jack, tbs pet.
Do you wonder we are. lonely?
Whore be kenneled now Is only
Hileuce. imdlsturb'tl and deep;
Me was alwMye glud b* gr'et ufi,
Always waiting round b> meet us.
And, when racing, sure to best iui—
Boat us and ahead would keep.
But no more will Jack attend uk,
Watchfully no m-.ro defend us,
Day smt night iroin tr.;nip and thief;
Done is now the barn and stable -
Always tlu'.re when he wa* able,
\ i MHU'd from hia maatei s table
lie is gone and vve in grief.
Farewell Jack, who uw attendoti,
Farewell now, thy days arc ended.
Now with ul! tin- w.u Id at imace;
There no pest will ti er infect time,
’fhere no 100 will e'er molest thee,
There In'peaceful eluuibor rest thee.
Till eternal gca ■ !
Doubtful Acquaintances.
“It is very remarkable,” said my
uncle, as Mr. Gregory left the room.
“It is very mysterious," said Lily,
with strong emphasis on the ndverl).
“To me,” observed an elderly lady
boarder, “it appears to be something
worse than mysterious; and, without
fnaking any assertions, 1 would at least
6aution you, my dear, against any closer
intimacy with one who seems so often to
be possessed of information in a manner
of which there is no conceivable natural
explanation.”
“It reminds me most,” said the Rev.
Mr. Briggs, “of certain eases, un
doubtodly well authenticated, in which
the existence of the so-called ‘ second
sight' lias been demonstrated in a very
singular manner.’
“And,” added iny uncle, “although
many of the professors of Spiritualism
have been proved impostors, it by no
means follows that all ”
“Yes, yes,” broke in our Indy friend,
“but we all know that people once lmu
dealings with familiar spirits, and I novgr
could find any proof that tins kind of
thing lev- ever ceil tod, aim therefore, as
I haul before, 1 very strongly caution
you -
“ Hush !” cried several voices, 11 Hero
ho comes.”
My uncle, my Cousin Lily and I wore
staying at a hoarding-house at the sea
ride, and among a somewhat numerous
coiunauy was a certain Mr. Gregory,
We had made his acquaintance oil the
night of our arrival m a rather conical
manner. He was passing our room just
as Lily was calling to me in a tone of
woful despair that site had broken the
key in the lock and could not get out.
Tlirough the key-hole hehad voluuteored
his services as an amateur lock-picker,
and released us from our imprisonment.
This introduction had served quite as
well as a much more formal one would
have done to inaugurate what promised
to boa pleasant seaside acquaintance.
Now on first sight he certainly present
ed very little appearance of being a sus
picion- or dangerous character. Ho was
a young man of some 25 years of age,
with a bright, frank expression and a
gleam of mischief in his eyes. Ho was
exceedingly intelligent and well in
formed, and, though rather retiring in
tile mixed company ot our establish
ment, could, we discovered, sing well,
rend well and talk well. Without in
truding himself iqmu ns, he had made
hituself very agreeable to us two girls ;
and wo had surmised that no was a
young professional man suffering from
over-work, who had come down to re
cruit his health. But wo are often
warned against judging from appear
ances, and he had during the past few
days manifested a very remarkable
l<ower of clairvoyance or second sight,
u ‘ -whatever else you like to coll it,
which had ceootod , sensation
among ns.
On tho previous day, for instance, my
rncle ha-1 met a gentleman at the sta
tion and had brought him home to din
ner. We saw them walking slowly up
the garden together in conversation, and
Lily had exclaimed:
" Who on earth is this?”
Mr. Gregory looked and said ?
“ His name is Smith, and lie is return
ing to town by the midnight train.”
“ You know himf’
“ Never saw him in nay life before,”
was the answer.
Sure enough his name proved to l>e
Smith, and he returned to town that
night after a long private interview w itli
my uncle ; nor had he, he told us in
answer to our inquiries, ever soon or
heard of Mr. Gregory before.
On Saturday morning, als<\ the Rev.
Mr. taking a walk on Uiv lsvieh,
meditating on his Sunday text, had en
countered Mr. Gregory, who volunteered
information as to the said text, with
chapter and verse all correct, t-s tle
petrifaction of the reverend gentlemen.
On another occasion, when our elder
ly lady friend mentioned tii.it she had
been out making a small purchase, Mr.
Gregory informed us foMo c** that a
bottle of hairwash constituted the pur
chase in question. Thi- ♦"lupumioation
was very unfortunately overhea'xL Its
correctness ws> not at tin- time definite-
S established, but it war shortly hi h r
ia that she first propounded her own
{'articular theory on the subject, which
the put forward with renewed confidence
in the conversation given above, after a
fresh display of the unholy phenomenon
is she called it This whs the occasion
thereof. Mr. Briggs had lieoa seen
coming up the walk in great glee witty a
parcel under his arm.
“ What has ho got there ?” said sc me
one.
“All the works of Josephus for Jlen
peuce,” replied Mr. Gregory. i
Immediately afterward Mi. Brij'gs 1]
entered the room and said to the cc m
pany:
“ What do you think I have -just
bought?” to which the general response /
was:
“ All Josephus for tenpence.” .
It turned out that he had just fer- J
reted it out from a second-hand book- 11
stall.
When questioned about his mysterion* ! ;
powers, Mr. Gregory always became
very serious, and gave no information,
lad changed the subject as soon m pos-
Bible. *’l
In consequence of all this, interest, .
curiosity, uneasiness, and even alarm, j
were iu varying degree* excited in thm i
breasts of the several metrel>ors of our t
company. .Most of the ladies declared
that they were daily expecting some
thing serious to happen. That those
•xpeetatious were not altogether unftil- .
tilled will now lie made plain.
There were two new arrivals on thrv t
.lay on which our story opens. Our
company hud hitherto been pleasant and
select, but the lady and gentleman who- '
now came among us, and who wore,
named Mr. and Mrs. Grice, wore excep
tions to this. Hhowily dressed, anil loud. '
in their conversation, they made great
efforts to mix with ease in our company
and for some inscrutable reason seemed .
to make special endeavors to become
intimate with our own party; Mr. Grice y
attacking my uncle, arid las wife devot- :
ing herself to ns.
We were at, no pains to conceal our'!
aversion to their ill-mannered and offen
sive intrusion, but they accused deter
mined to accept uf) rebuff. Lily said that
we had met here the most pleasant and.
tiu; most unpleasant jiersons whom we.
had evt.l seen in our travels. The
former class, I presnuae, mainly
embraced Mr. Gregory.
Ever since Mr. Hmith's visit on the*
previous day, my uncle had seemed to>
lie on usually worried and anxious..
Bomething had happened at the office,
it appeared, widen caused him very
groat uneasiness, and he kept a constant
watch for the post. Lily and I wero
troubled about it, but wero hardly pre
pared for his sudden aiinounoonient at
luncli next day, upon receiving a letter
from towii, that we must pack p t at
once and return by the first morning
train.
Wo hud no obfeotion to escape firom
♦be Grices, but, innpite of Mr. Gregory’*
ill-repute for his mysterious arts, tore
were very sorry to leave him, to iiay
nothing of the abrupt and unexpected
termination of our holiday.
The Grices were sitting next to us..
when my Uncle made this announce
ment, and 1 saw a peculiar look of Big- •
nifinance pass between them. Mr. ;
Gregory was sitting at the other end of
u long dining-talde, and quite out of
ear-shot, but ho came up immediately
after we rose from the table, and said:
“Avery sad thing, this sudden depart
ure of yours ! ”
“Mr. Gregory,” I replied, “you are
perhaps aware tiiat you are under gruvo
suspicions of being in league with the
powers of darkness, and thin is another
proof. How could you jiossildy know?”
“ Oh, ill news travel# fast,” he said*
laughing. “But it is a very hot after
noon, what do you say to a little rend- I
ing?”
Lily here squeezed my arm vigorously,
but 1 answered, “ 1 fear my uucle wilt
not lei ns go out of bis sight. Ho feels '
it bis duty to keep special guard over us
wliilo we are in such dangerous com
pany."
“ Never mind,” he said, “ I will road
to him as well.”
We were now in (he corner of the
drawing-room, uear a window looking
out on to a covered balcony which over
looked the garden. My unde ciuuo npuud
returned Mr. Gregory’s courteous greet
ing in a maimer which was, 1 fear, not
very gracious.
“ May I tremble you for the paper
after you, sir? ” lie said,
“Certainly,” was the answer. “Hut
may we not enjoy it all together? With
your permission 1 will road aloud to the
company.”
My uncle looked considerably aston
ished at this unusual proposal. Lily
looked up with opou eyes and curious
expression, this living not exactly the
kind of rending she had intended. But
the offer was seriously made and re
pented, and my uncle, who doorly liked
being read to, gave a dubious consent.
Miss Lily, with filial affection, made
him particularly comfortable in an arm
chair, and Mr. Gregory commenced
reading a long, prosy article on French
politics. He read with anything but his
usual spirit, and in a soft, low, monoto
nous voice. The consequence was—as
hail possibly been not wholly unforeseen
-that my uncle wo# soon enjoying his
accustomed afternoon siesta, The read
ing, having become gradually slower and
softer, now ceased, ami the reader, look
ing up, suggested by a slight gesture an
adjournment to the garden.
Lily and T tried to smother our laugh
ter and look shocked, but we adopted
tin' suggestion. A book of poetry was
quickly produced, and I found that
there is a difference between hearing
French politics read iu a stuffy drawing
room to a middle-aged gentleman, and
hearing “ Enoch Anton ’read in a cool,
shady alcove, to a pretty, dark-eyed,
lovable maiden, with tender bosom lieav
>n in sympathy with poor Enoch's sor
rows, especially wneu tm ,odot in a
handsome young bachelor, with an ex
quisitely-modulated voice, able to do
lull justice to the harmonious numbers of
the Laureate.
At the end of half an hour I was
startled by au exclamation from Lily.
Looking up, I saw iu the garden below,
•itting on a scat under the trees with
their faces toward us, oar dear friend*,
Mr. and Mrs. Grice.
The gentleman woe keeping up, ap
parently, a desultory conversation with
his wife. They waved their hands on
witching ear eye, and beckoned to us
to come and join them, which we did not
do.
Mr. Gregory, instead of going on with
Uis reading, continued to regard them
intently, and asked us whether we knew
them.
We said, “No,"
"But they seem to know yon," he
.aid.
We explained how ;hey had favored
ns with their attention* To our disap
pointment, he oould not be induced to
goon with his reading, but he cot iqmad
to star,' at the tijd fori' ’.til* ; and
whim at last'thef strolled offinauTi rent
directions, he said tliat he must apolo
gize for hurts# nu ppnjg4ttepit, tndtt)
.it vs rihriiptly. ""A s’tenge y-iif)g
man, indeed! ’’ we thought, and wo w,nv
:Ft! tnoro surprised when in about an
hour he ri-turued, and asked my uncle
■ hi allowed a short private oou\ ensa
w.tk him. My unde s<*cinid
• ‘..rt'ed a: this request (and so, by the !
mu 1 , did Jiily) but after a short pause he
u and the way into an a'joining ajtart
-1 ue conversation which ensued, as we j
subsequently learned, was as follow* ;
“Ism about, sir,” said Mr. Gregory,
‘ * to refer to your private affairs to an ex
tent which will surprise you, but 1 hop*
(to bo aide to render you a service which
will be an ample excuse for my intrusion.
You are. I believe, returning to town to
morrow?"
“Yes.”
“ Tho cause of your return is, I be
lieve, connected with the forgery of a
certain check in your name. ”
“ Sir, how can you i*>ssibly know
that?”
“ That check was brought to you for
i your Inspection three days ago by ouo
| of the clerk# from ttie bank, a Mr. Huntli,
and it is now in your riossession.”
My uncle was speeclik-s#.
“ Hear me further. The accuracy ot
: my statements hitherto may claim cre
dence for what I nm ateiut to atlinu.
| Unless I am greatly mistaken, there are
now in this establishment two persons
who have been employed to regain pos
i session, at ail c >sts, of that forged paper.
They suspect that you have it, and al
ready your room and your daughter and
niece’s room have been searched, and it
only remains to seurehyour person.”
My uncle turned pale.
“It is known that you are leaving to
morrow morning, anil the attempt will
be made between now and then. Will
you allow me to offer you my advice ?”
I will not attempt to describe my re
spected uncle’s condition of body and
mind at this part of the interview. Suf
fice it to say that the proffered advice
was ultimately adopted.
On that evening my uncle declined to
accompany us when, an hour after din
ner, the house emptied on to the prom
enade. Mr. Gregory also was missing,
and had not. appeared at dinner. The
ltov. Mr. Briggs took us under his care.
My unde was already nodding in his
clmir as we went out. Twenty minutes
afterward two of the company softly re
entered the room. This 1 hod from an
eye-witness. Their names were Mr. and
Mrs. Grice, Mrs. Grice stood at the
door ami her husband advance*! gently
across the floor to where my uncle lay
back in his chair, snoring audibly, his
handkerchief over his head, liis coat
thrown opou, and a pocket-book just
showing in his breast-pocket.
Mr. Grice crept up to him, abstracted
tho book with a practiced hand, put it
into his own pocket, and turned to go.
Now, as he re-crossed the room, he had
to lyiss before a large lounge, with long
bangings in front, and ho was, per-
Iraris, somewhat surmised to find his
■ankles seized in the firm grip of a pair
of hands thrust out suddenly from un
der tho lounge. As he full, his amiable
partner turned round—into the arms ol
a detectivo officer. At the same mo
ment, Mr. Gregory entered through the
window from the balcony.
“This is your pooket-liook, sir," said
one of the detective*.
“Thank you,” said my uncle. “It
has nothing iu it, but I um glad to have
it buck again.”
Mr. and Mrs. Grice were removed at
once to another public establishment In
tho neighborhood, where the company
was very select, tho hour# very regular,
and manitonunoe very cheap —a style of
•stablisnniont which it wa* subsequent
ly proved they had frequented in more
than one part of tlie country.
Auiid considerable excitement we
promenaded late that night. My unole
said
“ You have rendered me a service, sir,
which lays me under the deepest obliga
tion to you. I have no doubt tbatf'the
original delinquents, of whom these
creatures are only the tools, will be
brought to justice. Finding that we
are on their track, they have made this
effort to destroy their guilt, and provont
us from submitting it to experts.
Tlmuks to you, they have failed. I cun
only say how welcome will be any op
portunity of making any return to you,
however alight.”
“ I shall certainly take you at your
word, sir,” was the answer.
“And now, Mr. Gregory,” continued
my unole, “will yon nardou our curiosity
if wo teg you ti) toll us the menus by
which you were able to divine the in
tentions of onr departed friends ?’’
“Oh, Mr. Gregory," cried Lily, “you
must toll us. We arc ou thorns to know,
and will do anything in the world you
like to mention if you will toll us."
“Ou those terms I consent,” said he,
with a curious look at Lily, which made
her suddeuly blush very much, as I
could see oven in the moonlight.
“You may have noticed,” begau Mr.
Gregory, “that I am somowhat deaf,
and I have teen much more so. In
couauqnenco of this I have acquired the
art, which I believe almost auy oue can
aequiro, of reading the movements of
tho lips iu the same way that the deaf
and dumb are taught to do,, so that I
can always understand what people say
if only tliey are within seeing distance;
and my soeiug is very acute. I need
hardly say that 1 avoid over-seeing con
versation, if you w ill allow the expres
sion, as much as I would over-hearing
it ; but I frequently see people fqieak a
few words on accidentally glnuoing at
them. I think that what has puzzled
you will uow be plain. Perhaps 1 ought
"to contest that I have yielded a little to
tlio temptation of mystifying ttie com
pany during the last week, especially in
tho case ol Mr. Briggs, who has, like
many people who have lived a good deal
alone, a habit of talking to himself as
he goes along, w liieli he is scarcely aw are
of. This afternoon, however, V watched
ttie Urlvu in good earnest. I was very
much astonished at wUat f smv. Your
sudden departure lmd disarranged their
plans, mid they had a full discussion of
past and future operations. It was not
at all a bad idea to hold their delitera
tious before your very eyes, so as to
keep up their watch ou your movements
aud disarm suspicion, blit they hail taken
no precautions against being overseeu.
The rest you know.”
•'Du- how about the purchase of the
hair-wash, that sad proof of occult art?”
1 said.
“Oh, that had nothing to do with it.
I was in the shop, licing shaved, and I
saw the transaction in a looking-glass.”
Later still, when m.v uncle had gone
in, I heard him quietly say; “So you
will do whatever I like to mention?”
But those wools were not addressed to
me, and I judged it best to fall into the
rear, anil, having no gifts of clairvoy
ance myself, I cannot tell you
the rest of the conversation. I
eau only add that our re
turn was postponed, and that shortly
after these events NTr. Gregory* 7t gain
requested a private conversation with
my uncle; that he had again souis
revelations to make concerning a oon
spiru _y of two, male ;.ad to mule, in
tins case also; and that shortly after
tho first tour of conspirators had lieou
“ sent need for life ’ by one of her
Majesty’s Judges, a similar sentence
was pronounced upm the other pour
by the Rev. Mr. Bi gg<,
Tun Philadelphia .Y< believes that
death lurks iu boiled cabbage. Bake
’em U you want to be sate.
GLASS ROUSES.
rW Britt]* BfilMUw.es> R*tl*r iter Manil
las Pnrram lluta *■.
[Pitukarg Diipfiich.)
Perliajis not on builder or contractor
in ten, if told that the common grade#
of glass mode at the glass factories in
this city have a crushing strength nearly
four times as great a* that credited by
experienced engineer* to the strongest
quality of granite, would accept the
statement as true. Yet it is a fact, and
being so, tho query as to why glass has
not received more attention from archi
tects a* a structural material naturally
suggest* itself. A rejiortor had a talk
with several prominent glass manufac
turers on the subject, and in answer to
an interrogatory as to whether blocks of
glass could lie made in suitable lengths
and sizes and so annealed as to be util
ized in the construction of a building in
place of stone, they raid it could be
done. Said oue of these gentlemen :
“ This question has been consider-d by
myself a number of times, and, although
l do not want to advocate the absolute
rI lolition of brick and stone, yet iu the
erection of art galleries, memorial build
ings, etc., a structure composed of
blocks of glass in prismatic colors would
be a unique, beautiful and lasting
structure. With the numerous inven
tions which have come into use of late
years in connection with the production
of glass, the cost has teen gradually
going down, while tho quality of the
fabric ia steadily becoming better.
“ One objection which would be raised
to the durability of a glass house, in the
literal sense of the word*, might be that
the blocks would not take a bind, or ad
here together with common mortar.
This objection can be readily set aside
by the use of a good cement, aud when
completed the structure wiil stand for
ages, barring extraordinary accidents.
As to the cost of a gluss house, it eon he
kept down to a small percentage above
the price of our cut granite. In build
ing with stone you have to pay the stone
masons, and when it cornea to elaborate
examples of carving in Corinthian pil
lars, collars, capitals, etc., why the work
is rather costly as compared with glass,
when the latter can be molded into any
•shape or form, and the work accom
plished in much less time. I am con
vinced that the time will come when we
will eeo such a building erectod. Scarcely
a day passe* but what the sphere of glass
as an article of use becomes widened.
In parts of Germany and on one lino in
England glass ties are being used ou
railroads, and thus far have given satis
faction, combining all of the requisites
of wooden ties with the virtue of being
susceptible to usage at least twenty-five
per cent, longer than wood. Then by
tho Hastra process glass articles are now
being made for common use which can
he thrown on the floor and will rebound
like a rubber ball. Progress is also
being made towards rendering glass,
which has ever been characterized as the
brittle fabric, ductile, and to-day threads
of glass can be made that can be tied in
knots and woven into cloth. Were one
disposed to give play to fancy and fuse
it into fact, a house entirely composed
of glass could be built with walls and
roof and floors fashioned from melted
sand. Carpets of glass could cover the
floors. The most ultra esthete, sit! ing
ou glass chairs or reclining on glass
couches, arrayed in glass garments, eat
ing and drinking from glass dishes, such
a oue could realize that the age of glass
hod come. Yet nearly all of this fifty
yearn ago would have been classed with
the then impossible telephone aud elec
tric light, aud this statement would have
likely found its in the ‘Catalogue
Expnrgatoros.’ ”
riIEAP LIVING IN GERMANY.
Uft- U llurri. but There Are <oiu(tion>.
(rll Mail Oftz4tt.J
I woe spending some months in an ani
mated, prosperous, and learned little
town where I could with difficulty uuder
dand the general com{ilaiuts as to the
increased cost of liviug Riuee the war.
Many things were fabulously cheap.
The difference in the market value of
labor, whether manual or intellectual,
between Germany, France and England,
is enormous. Here we come to the gist
jf the matter, the real grievance of Ger
man life, the pinching of the sliov from
one end of the Vaterhuid to the other.
Lessons, not only in music, but in lan
guages, arts, and science, cost in the
town I mention Is. fid. or 2s. an hour,
and yet the teachers are proressors of
credit and respectable position in society;
in foot, their position is an acknowledged
one, which can hardly he said of certifi
cated teachers of botli sexes in England
receiving three times as much. The pro
fessorial fee in Germany is so low for the
simple reason that nobody can afford to
•pay a higher one; but no one dreams of
looking down on the professor in Gotise
queneo. Again, take the newspaper de
livered at your door daily for 6d. a
month, a respectable litile paper too,
containing the most important telegrams
from all parts of the world, a good deal
of local information, and a really excel
lent literary supplement on Sundays.
Where is the profit in such a transac
tion? How can priming, papier, and
manual, not to speak of editorial, labor,
bo remunerated at such a rate? I will
here cite an incident I can vouch for
which would seem to show that authors
in Germany must have n bad time of it.
An English writer of established reputa
tion had undertaken to write a pajior on
George Eliot for one of the most popu
lar and best conducted German periodi
cals. At the eleventh hour, however,
tin* arrangement fell through, the pro
prietors informing the English corres
pondent that, in spite of a circulation of
upward of 100,000 copies, the profits
were too small to pay tlieir authors—at
least, all ! When you come to manual
labor we find the scale of payment ex
traordinary low. The cost of day labor
w two shillings, whereas in French agri
cultural districts it is four, with tbe ad
dition of wine. Call in a carpenter to
do repairs, send your trunk to be
mended, yonr boots to be soled, you will
find the scale of charge* in each ease
about half whi :it is with us. Of course
it is easy to understand crfcv an economi
cal style of liviug should Vie obligatory
on all classes throughout Germany, and
why so many workers in all fields seek
their fortunes elsewhere. Work, ill re
munerated as it is, ciin often not be had;
large families abound, and the excessive
taxation presses on the poorest. Even
the 1-eggar who pays for a weekly lodg-*
ing, and has a certain whereabouts, con
tributes his rnife to the dreaded
“Stoner, ” or tax, no more to be escaped
than the even more dreaded military pro
bstion. Ye*, life is hard in Germany—
hard alike to learned and simple, to those
who labor in the fields or pent up in
office; but there aie consolations. All
who live among German folks must be
struck Tit the manly dignity and resigna
tion with which these daily problems are
met.
Wk take lessons in art literature—a
thousand tilings; but that high sense of
honor, man’s obligation to man, is for
gotten.
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
A ttakt Tale.
Rh ffu waiting at the tattle*,
Wber* tho tnowy-plpme<i clematla
Translated *cr her gratis
What the breeze* sung and sighed;
Arid the dainty tenderneaeee
Of the sunbeam* on her traasi *
I.eft her traced in the care**e*
Of the golden morning tida.
The linnet* were a-oooing,
And the and rap per bee* a- Wooing,
And the dew* wera intenrtawlnf
All tha flower covered t^a;
While lightly from the dingle
The zephyr, lone and single,
Game up to intermingle
m the leaf-entangled maze.
Bhe wait* another coming,
Ifer heart it* riches tumming,
Till suddenly a drumming
From the gravel walk arose.
A hope triumphant filled her,
And clear the word* that thrilled her;
*• Look here, you Jane Matilder—
Come and knuckle them ar olothee l ”
Women Who If allow Ue Honnd*.
Many French ladies are exceedingly
fond of the hunt. The Duchess d’Uzes
keeps a pack of hound* and follows them
fearlessly. The Com teas l'Agle is an
intrepid horsewoman, and has not
missed, save on rare occasions, being iu
at tho death of the stag, and Madame
Benoit Champy one day, in the absence
of her husband from their chateau,
mounted on horseback and conducted
the pack of boar hounds to the meet.
She gave the huntsman orders to lay the
hounds on, and followed the hunt from
the start to the finish, being present
when the wild boar was brought to bay
and killed by a bullet by the head keep
er.
Women us Auudlord*.
It in well that no occasion should be
lost of testing the commonplace that men
are harder than women. Irish tenants
are said to have found that the reverse
of this is nearer the truth. Speaking of
the cases settled at Ballina, the Times
correspondent says that they were ex
treme cases, and the fact that the land
bus been in the possession of a lady did
did not diminish the risk of rack-rent
ing. On the contrary, it may be said,
without any disparagement of the gen
tler sex, that, in many instances, they
have been found the most severe and
exacting of all proprietors, who enforce
their claims with uncompromising strict
ness.
A Hcaulil'ul Hnnil,
A beautiful band is au excellent tiling
in wornaD; it is a charm that never fails,
it is a means of fascination that never
disappears. Women carry a beautiful
hand with them to the grave when a
beautiful face has long since vanished
or ceased to enchant. The expression
of the hand, too, is inexhaustible; and
when the eyes we may have worshiped
no longer flush or sparkle, the ringlet*
With which we have played are covered
with a cap, or, worse, a turban, and the
symmt trical presence which, in our son
nets, lias reminded us so often of ante
lopes and wild gazelles, have all, all
vanished, tho hand, the immortal hand,
defying alike time and care, still van
quishes aud still triumphs; and small,soft
and fair, by au airy attitude, a gentle
pressure, or a uow ring, renews with
untiring grace the spell tiiat bound our
enamored and adoring youth.— Disraeli.
Wmlern Women,
Perhaps the most striking character
istic of the women of the West is the
even undue importance they place on
the intellectual life. It is a natural re
sult of the early deprivations of the
parents who, in going to anew country,
relinquished the educational privileges
of the East, and to whoso receding
visions the opportunities of schools,
libraries, art galleries and social culture
were blessings that brightened as they
took their flight. As an almost invari
able sequence, thoir children were
reared to consider these the very essen
tials of life. The mother might neces
sarily be confined to a life limited in its
realizations but infinite iu its aspira
tions, and out of this grew the feeling
that the daughter should enjoy thoso
privileges denied to herself. Thus tire
present generations of the women of the
West are the ones who recruit the intel
lectual ranks. —Boston 'lVavetter.
Woman's Sclf-Macritice.
“Oh, no, he never beats me,” said
Julia Connors, trying to look the Judge
straight in the face. “ Martin gets fussy
and noisy sometimes, and perhaps he
pushes me around a little, but never any
assault, sir.”
“The officer says he saw your hus
band strike you on the shoulder, and
then you struck him in the face with
your fist."
The woman dropped her eyes, lingered
her shawl nervously for a moment and
then looked up, fixed her black eves
calmly upou the court and said : “The
officer is mistaken. Martin put his hand
upon my arm and spoke to me a little
cross about something, and then I pushed
him away. I might have struck him,
but lie did not strike me. He never
strikes me. I plead guilty, but he has
not done anything. He is only a bit
fussy once in a while, but I don't charge
him with assault,”
This was the wife’s story. She pleaded
guiltv io save her husband, while he
pleaded not guilty and 1 t her take upon
herself all the blame without saying a
word for her. The woman is ever ready
to sacrifice herself to save the mau, and
the more she is abused the closer she
clingit to him. The mau stands before
the Judge aud says as plainly by his si
lence as Adam did by his words : “ The
woman is the guilty one, she tempted
me," and the woman shares his punish
ment.
The court found Julia and Martin
Connors guilty of mutual assault, and
fined the woman $1 without costs and
the man $lO with costa. The woman
paid her fine, spoke an encouraging
word to the man, and went out from the
court roam. She went home, drew forth
the little store she had put by for coal
bills for tho winter, took (ierhp.ps nearly
all her earnings, and came back quickly
to pay his fine and take him out of the
dock. It is the way of women, and men
will let them have their way .—Boston
Globe.
The I.ady traitress.
A correspondent who has been to
Mount Washington discourses as follows
of the lady waitress:
A scornful young person thrust the hill
of fare before ns, and stood in a protest
ing self-conscious way to receive our
orders. She was a “lady waitrets.” a
school-teacher from Bangor. Fortia in
eonie way, being native to this sort of
thing, made her answer questions ; but
she did so always in the same high and
mighty manner.
“ Are there many lady waitresses
here?” asked Portia.
“Yea; there are ton school-teachers
in the dining-room, twenty student
chambermaids, and the head laundress
and under-housekeeper are Boston doc
tresses.”
Think of having one’s disgust at slop
py coffee or an overdone steak observed
critically bv the light of German philos
ophy and (Week culture ! Think of ask
ing a creature who may be a contributor
to the Atlantic Monthly to bring yon
the toothpick*! I couldn't do it. The
scornful young person, who leisurely
carried in our breakfast by such easy
loads that no two viands were eatable at
the same moment, received no command
from my lips. The coffee went down
without milk or sugar ; the butter went
down in a pellet, all by itself; the su
perior one had forgotten to bring the
bread, and as for flshballs instead of
stoak, why I swallowed them without a
murmur.
After a while an Englishman saun
tered in, took a seat near mine, and
called out to our Hebe: “ Heah! Ah, I
say, waiter.” You should have seen the
Scornful. She sniffed the air, she
bounced, she flounced and flushed and
bit her lips; the angry tears were in her
eyes, aud she banged down a bill of fare
before the offensive stranger as if it were
a barrel of lead. The astonished man
Sirtly and sharply gave his order, and
ebe sauntered down the room, and
was evidently agitating her wrongs with
the rest of the culture that posed about
the pantry door.
“ I’m afraid you have offended that
young person, sir,” said our professor to
the Englishman.
“ Offended the servant ? How ?” the
dull creature asked.
“ Why, by oalling her ‘waiter.’”
“Oh! beg pardon; should it be
‘waitress?’”
“ Neither, sir.”
“ Well, and what should she be called,
then?”
Even the professor couldn’t answer
tiiat. The funny man suggested “high
toned youthful individual ” as a name
that might go trippingly on the tongue.
But how the lady wait ress is really to be
addressed remains for Congress, or pos
terity, or some other great but irrespon
sible power to determine.
SOMEBODY’S MOTHER-IN-LAW.
A Trageti.r in the Kirei of Pari*. nu<t
■low il AffcrtfU a Uumorou* fluokiunn.
A Paris cabman was brought before
the oorrectional tribunal charged with
assault and battery. • His account of the
affair, given in all seriousness, is worth
reproducing.
“You see, this is liow it came about.
I had had an old lady in my carnage,
driving her about for some four hours,
and said Ito myself, ‘ I’m in for a good
tip,’ for she wore jewelry aud diamonds
and all that. Well, and so at the corner
of rue Aboukir the old lady was getting
out when—vlan ! up comes au omnibus,
knocks her down aud kills my fare dead
as a herring. I tell you, it’ll make you
laugh.”
The Court—“lt is rather ludicrous,
perhaps.”
Jarvey— “ Not yet, but it will be bv
and-by. Well, and so I jumped down ;
a crowd gathered and I gathered with it,
and says Ito myself, ‘ J his is all very
well, but who’s going to pay me for four
hours?’ At that minute a gentleman
comes running up (it’ll make you
laugh) aud looks at the corpse and
cries : ‘ Great heavens, it’s my mother
in-law !’ and says I to myself, ‘That
makes my four hours all safe,’ aud so I
told the gentleman that it was I who had
been driving the old lady. All right;
we put her into the carriage and took
her home, and I helped him to carry her
upstairs, and then I hung round the
room, for says Ito myself, ‘ The son-in
law’ll settle with mo, and as he com< s in
for the property he won’t bo apt to beat
me down.’ Well, and so be began to
say, ‘ How on earth am I going to break
this to my wife when she comes in ?’
and thon 1. withdrew into the ante-room,
not wishing to intrude the subject of
the faro on him at that moment. Just
then iu comes the servant-girl scream
ing, ‘ She’s coming !’—(it’ll make you
laugh)—and said I to myself, ‘This is
all very well, but if they’d pay me I’d
just as soon go.’ Still I thought the
time I waited would be charged for.
And so then she comes iu, his wife does,
and when she sees the long faces she
screams out, ‘ What's the mutter ?
What’s the matter V Oh, it’s ma !
Where is she?’ Her husband says,
‘She’s on the sofa ia tho sitting-room!’
and she runs in, and he follows her, anil
I follow him, and she —it’ll unite you
laugh !—she flops right down along side
of the dead woman, and shrieks, ‘ Why,
it isn’t ma at all!’ If you had only seen
her husband’s face—he didn’t come into
the property—and mine—l was out my
four hours. Naturally, because, as it
wasn’t hi* mother-in-law, lie didn’t owe
me any tiling.”
The Court —“Well, if he didn’t owe
you anything, why did you insist that
lie should pay you ?”
Jarvey—“Well, you see, I wanted
him to pay rue for the time after he put
his fake mother-in-law in my carriage,
and for the time I had been waiting at
his house. Thereupon he gets mad and
asks me who had told me to wait?
Thereupon I tell him that 1 had been
unwilling to ask him for my fare iu his
hour of bereavement. Thereupon he
abuses me, and offers mo thirty sous.
Thereupon I ask him what he is giving
me—besides, we charge more for a
corpse than for a living passenger.
Thereupon he says, ‘ What do T want of
that body here ? Take it to the police
station and I’ll give yon forty sous.’
Thereupon I wouldn’t and so—”
The Court instructed the prisoner that
he should have cited the complainant
before th ojuge dt: paix, aud not to have
struck him, aud sent him fojnil for three
day*.
Covering Boilers with Stlk.
It is well known that silk is an excel
lent non-conductor of heat, and some
recent experiments in Germany would
seem to indicate that it might pay to
incase boilers in this costly material.
Iu one trial three boilers of the same
size and make were ranged in order, one
covered with the ordinary felt, another
with a coaling of silk only five-eighths
of the thiekuess of the felt, while the
third was left altogether uncovered.
They were all filled with water having a
temperature of 100 degrees Centigrade,
and examined at intervals. After the
lapse of three hours it was found that
the unprotected boiler had lo3t twelve
degrees of heat, and the other two each
two degrees. After a further lapse of
thirty-three hours, the felt-covered boiler
had lost thirteen and a halt degrees, and
that covered with silk only fourteen, so
that there was no appreciable difference
between the protective powers of the silk
and those of a casing of felt nearly twice
its thickness. With regard to the cost
of the material, it is said that in all siik
man ufactorit s there are waste scraps
which it would be difficult or impossible
to utilize in the trade. These can, it is
asserted, be made up into bands and
rolls, costing comparatively little, and
sold at a profit to the makers and users
of boilers. As to the lasting and wear
ing powers of silk as compared with felt,
nothing is said, aDd there has not, per
haps, been time to apply an adequate
test; but it is, at the least, possible that
in this respect the finer substance may
possess great advantages Over the coarser
and cheaper.
Poer Bays Who Have Become Pies
♦ - - ' L' ! idents.
Tho second President of tho United
States, John Adams, wa# tho son of *
farmer of moderate means, who was
compelled to work constantly lor the
support of his family. When at the
age of twenty-one, the son graduated at
Harvard College, his education \vus his
own capital for his start in life.
Andrew Jackson was born in a log hut
in extreme poverty. He grew up iu the
woods of North Carolina, living in the
home of a relative, where his mother
worked to support herself and her three
children.
James K. Polk, the eleventh President,
spent his early years on anew farm
in the wilderness of North Carolina.
His father placed him in a store, with
the intention that lie should enter mer
cantile life : hut his dislike for busings
was so great that, at the age of eighteen,
he was sent to the Murfreesborough
Academy to fit for college.
Millard Fillmore was the son of a New
York farmer, and his home was an hum
ble one. When he was fourteen years
old he was sent away from home to learn
the business of a clothier. But live
years latter lie entered a law oflice, and
at the ago of twenty-three he was admit
ted to the larr.
James Buchanan was horn in a small
town of the Alleghany Mountains. His
father was poor, and by Iris own ax built
his home in the wilderness. When
James was eight years old ho was placed
at school, and six years latter, entered
Dickinson College where he graduated
with the highest honors.
It is well known that Abraham Lin
coln was the son of parents who were
the poorest of the poor. Till he wsts
more than twenty-one his home was a
log cabin. His attendance at school
was limited to a few months. From
early life he was compelled to depend;
on himself not only for his living, but
also for his success in his business and
his profession.
At the ago of ten Andrew Johnson
was apprenticed to a tailor. Previously
his mother lrad supported him by her
own labor. He was never able, it is said,
10 attend school. His education he
gained by his own efforts at night, after
working all day at his trade, and bv the
' Help of his wife.
The early home of General Grant,
also on the banks of the Ohio, more than
fifty years ago, was without many of the
comforts of civilized life. Till lie was
seventeen, when he was sent to West
Point, he lived the life of a common boy
in a common home.
James A. Garfield, like so many of
his predecessors, was born in a log hut.
When he had hardly entered his teens
he was doing a man’s work in the har
vest field. He learned the carpenter’s
trade. He worked on the Ohio Canal.
He was determined, however, to have
an education, and, leaving his plane and
scythe, he worked his way through the
preparatory school, and, with some help
from friends, was able to graduate at
Williams College.
The lives of many of tho Presidents
prove that no boy is so poor but that he
may hope to attain the highest honors
which the American nc nlocan give.
A Dare-Devil of the (leorgin Mountains.
Tliero are few moil in Georgia, proba
bly, who have given the oliicers more
trouble than Jack Pugh, and we doubt
if any one lias been more successful in
eluding them. Catch him aud surround
him as they would, li" always managed
to slide out from under .their thumbs.
Long, lank, lean, and wiry, and possess
ed of unusual activity for one of his
build, he has kept up liis dare-devil
career with the fearlessness of a border
ruffian. Pngh will fight a circular saw,
and has never been afraid to meet ttie
best armed officers, always buitig ready
and on the alert. Hi# wife, too, is a.
tough customer when on her muscle.
Some time ago ono Bawls said eorac
tliiug t her about Jack at the lions ■,
when she took up a board and with true
Amazonian courage cleaned him com
pletely up, making him bite the dust, in
u jiffy Pugh says he hasn't slept inside
of a "house in three years. If all his
exploits in evading the law and swindling
the government were dished up in dime
novel style, it would make the hair of
the average boy stand wildly on end.
Being au illicit,"distiller of the ardent is
not hia only reputation. He is said to
he a clever counterfeiter.— Griffin ( Ga.(
News.
a ear-signteUßOss.
Education may create discomforts as
well as secure great advantages. The
German nation is threatened with a pe
culiar trouble of the eyes, as a penalty
for reading badly printed books and for
unwise methods of study. A careful in
vestigation of the schools by competent
physicians has revealed the unpleasant
fact that near-sightedness is growing
common, and may tecouie universal.
In children of five years and under, it
was rarely found ; the vision was quite
perfect. In the lower schools, from fif
teen to twenty per cent, of the scholars
were effected ; iu the higher schools,
from forty to fifty per cent. In the
theological depart ment of the University,
seventy per cent, of the students were
troubled ; and in the medical department
the misfortune was almost universal,
only five per cent, not being thus
afflicted.
The physicians ascribe the difficulty
to the practice of holding the 1 rooks too
near the eyes, and the practice is due in
a large measure to the poor print of
cheap books.
The trouble is increasing in our own
country, and it might be wise to have a
similar examination of our own schools
by skillful physicians, iu order to caU
public retention to the evil.—Morgan
town Press.
An exchange has these trutliful word,
to boys : “ The boy who spends an hour
of each evening lounging idly on the
stredt comers is wasting, in the cours*
of the year, 365 preseious hours, which,
if applied to study,'would familiariz;
him with the rudiments of almost an;
of the familiar sciences, If, ia addition
to spending an hour each evening, In
wastes ten cents for a cigar, whioh i?
usually tne ca3o. this worse than wasted
money would pay for ten of the leading
periodicals of the country. The grab
fication afforded by the lounge on th;
corner and the cigar is nut only temper
ary but positively hurtful. You cannot
indulge in them without hurting your
selves. You acquire idle and waste!
habits which cling to you writh eact
succeeding year.”
Titty organized a debating society in
D. atwool. The feet that the Pr -ident
was i* d.cJ shot, and sat with two re
volver-. iu hand, kept the society iu coffi
paia’.ivo quiet while the qut--.ti jiu :
“Oui.T a flush royal to beu‘ four
aees ? ’and “Is it wicked to lyu- Mex
icans on Sunday ? ” were aebttid. but
when t-ie.v tackled the question ; “Qught
you to fire when a mau reaches for l;js
nil .wicker, or are you bound to wait fill
you -et whether it’s a revolver or whisk?
ttie's drawing?” the President
c- uld'i’t control them, and five funeral*
was the result