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Thought Odors.
Not whit we do, not wbat we say, speaks
for us
To flue souls here, or to the Throne of
Light,
Tho words and nets bo fair, gods will abhor
us
And men distrust, if our hearts are not
right.
Our secret aim, our hidden wish or longing.
Our silent thoughts of men or worlds
above—
Tluwo are the frdl-talo forces that come
thronging
To point to ns as on s to loathe or love.
Our thoughts nro od rs, aud wo cannot seal
them,
Bo close with actions but they will creep
out;
And delicately fashion*! souls will feel,
t hem.
And know thorn swoet or vile, beyond a
doubt.
Good do -ds full dead if sclfi-h cau'es guide
th< in,
flood words fall flat that but from lips
Imve birth;
And eloquent and nob! • seems, beside them,
The sil •ihm or inaction of true worlh.
— f.'l/a Wheeler Wilcox.
Withdrawn Correspondence.
I1Y O. M. ft A II'IKH.
Morton Fiazicr belonged to the staff
of one of those ambitious w jstcrn sheets
—tho Garten Ih bj Gazette. To be
sure, lie was only the Dobbvillc corres¬
pondent of the paper, but he was ns
proud of even that slight connection
with its pages ns though ho had a snug
place iu the editorial chair.
Morton's *• >mmuuicitious were always
headed by the editor (who was also
proof-reader, busincn manager, and
local rustler) “Dobbvillc Dots, from our
special correspondent.”
Morton had hard work to keep from
crying with admiration over that al¬
literative heading, the first time it
adorned his 1 torary effort; but at last ho
became used to it and it did not worry
him or unduly olnto his susceptible heart
and brain. His signature was “Wander¬
ing Mac,’’a id he was known by that
title aim ist us well as by his own name,
for he hal acted as tho Gazette's
“»| ocial correspondent” for many years.
He wont around to tho littlo rural parties
and pleasure meetings with a wondrously
wise and knowiug look upon his face,
as thnigh the destinies of tho nation do
pended upon his beck and call.
The editor of the Qasstte hal im
pressed it upon him that the paper
must have tuo nows. “Everything,”
ho had remarked, in stentorian touos,
when ono day Morton hal tremblingly
entered tho stuffy littlo sanctum at Gar¬
ten. “Everything hinges upon getting
the new*, nnd getting it quick.”
This admonnhmout so impressed the
young aspirant for j uraalistic fame,
that a week aftor thj visit he mdlcd a
touching obituary of a scrim ly ill
child, not expected to dive an hour,
to tho paper, trusting that* the in¬
fant would dio bef ro tho paper wa*
issued. The child however, recovered,
nnd is alive today, a roistering lad who
delights to show that tender tribute to
his memory (and it is a touching one)
ending: “Tho bereaved parents have
the sympathy of their score* of friends
in this their great sorrow, but of such
is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The way
the editor of the Gazette unbent him¬
self to rail at M >rton after that “break”
niado him more caroful thereafter.
Fourth of July in Dobbville, iu 1878,
was an occasion that still live* in tho
memory of those who were fortunate
enough to be citizen* of the town at
that eventful |>eriod. N >t ouly was the
Nation’s birthday anniversary properly
celebrated, but a circui held forth upon
tho prairie north of the Montezuma Ho¬
tel. When two such great events coin¬
cide, it is enough to turn tho hoads of
any people.
It would have been hard to find a
happier man that day than “Wandering
Mac.” lie hid been graciously present¬
ed with two “comp*” for the circus by
the manager, who had soon found out
what Morton was, anil when at seven
o'clock he stepped into the parlor of
his betrothed, 31:*** Marion Roncal, it
was with a perfectly self-sat is fled air.
Marion added to the jierfection of the
state of lus mind by allowing him to
kiss her de icately-bludtiug chcok—zes,
she did more; she kissed him in return,
aud what more could a young man ask?
This particular youig mm m ght
have asked for a repetition of tho per¬
formance had it not been that R >y, the
scapegrace brother, came tearing into
the room just at that moment, wi.h all
bis 16-year-old vehemence.
• Oh, sav, sis,” he cried excitedly.
“Where’s my collar and clean shirt!”
“I don’t know. Up stairs I guess,”
was the impatient reply and then the
aisled added:
“I don’t know what aila Rqr, today.
He has been getting everything of bii
together in hi* room. It’s tho Fourth,
too. ”
8he looked inquiringly at her lover,
but he was a 1 miring her face, and not
thinking of romping brothers, so there
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was no answer there. Twice daring
the evening did she speak of Roy’s
queer actions; once while the clown wa»
perpe!rnting some of his hideous jokes,
and once while she aud 3lortoa were
sitting on tho piazza with arms en¬
twined.
The first lime she had apparently not
been heard and the second she had been
answered with a kiss, so she was no
wiser than before.
Morton Fiazicr thought of it though,
the next day, for the events of the night
were such as to bring the circumstance
vividly to his mind.
About 3 o’clock on the morning of
the 5th, a fire broke out in the great
Rockwell block. More than $50,000
went up in sm tkc. The whole town
was out to sec the sight, and to help¬
lessly mourn the event. Tnc Rockwell
block had been built m the “boom’’
das, two years before, and though it
was out of all proportion to tho town,
everybody was sorry to see it deUroycd.
* * Wandering Mac” was among the
first on the groun I, and as soon as he
had seen tho fire will under w.iy he had
roused up the telegraph operator and
sent this message, which appeared as a
“special ’ in the morning’s Gazette:
Dobbvuxe, July 5th.—A terrible fire
took place her* this morning. It start© 1 in
Rockwell's store an 1 burned into Fry's gro¬
cery ; then into the insurance company’s
office. The flame* leapad 40 or 50 feet in
height. Everything is excitement
Tho next morning revealed several
things worthy of mention in this narra¬
tion. Tho smoking ruin* were sur¬
rounded by scores of men and boys,
busy discussing the cause of the fire.
And they told of tlic probability that it
was an act of incendiarism; that it
started in an out-of-the-way place; that
but one theory was held regarding the
firebugs; aud their conversation always
came round to tho mysteriou* word—
“Spearmen. ”
Then somebody would explain that
tho Spearmen wa? a bnly of rough boys
and young men who gathered in un
canny places at night to piau deeds of
mischief and meanness. Another
would add that tho Bpearmcn had a
particular spito against Rockwell for
having them arrested once for a trivial
offence. A third had heard R>y Roncal
boast that he would “get even.” A
fourth had just found that Roy had not
been homo the night before, and was
yet missing, though h.s widowed mother
and his sister wero searching every¬
where.
All these scraps of information were
united iuto a complete history, and the
news went over town that R >y Rencal
had set fire to the Rockwell block to
“get even” with tho proprietor for ar¬
resting tho Spearmen, ami had Hod tho
country.
Mortou Fraz er wa* in despair, At
ten o’cl>ck he wa* m:t on the street by
the Western Union messenger boy, who
handed him a dispatch. He tried not
t> look self-con-cious as he re id it, but
the effort was a fai.ure. It said:
Garten*, July 5.
Morton Frazier, Dobbville:—S mil full
account of tirv by mail at u >ou. Insurance!
loss, cause an 1 everything. Gazette.
I say Frazier was in despair. He had,
of course, heard the reports in circula¬
tion regarding his brothcr-to-bs R *y,
and yet how c >uld he blast the boy’s
good name by sending the rumor to the
Uazett:. 11.* mud dee.de quickly, for
the on y mail train tint coa.d get his
letter to the paper in time for its next
issui ief. at noon, and no .v it wa* pait
eleven.
W.iilo he sat in hi* office, pondering
over the matter, there was a great bat¬
tle fought between his great love for
news and his great love for Marion.
Added to the first was the stentorian,
“We want the news and all the news,*
of theelitor, and to tho second, the
fair features of his sweetheart. Which
shou 1 1 lie obey, Cupid or Mammon?
He reflected that the Daily Hazard , the
Gazettes riva', would “scoop” its
competitor, unless he furnished the re¬
quired information, and resolutely put
his pen to paper, and ground out a
heart-rending accoui: of the conflagra.
tion and of the ugly rumors that were
reportc l arouud tho city. The noon
train carried tho correspondence to Gar¬
ten. ' ”
When the train had gone, he sat in
lus office studying over the matter.’
Had he done right? Perhaps the boy
was really innocent. If so, he had done
the worst thing lie could have to harm
him; he had committed the sin that lies
at the door of every newspaper writer’s
sanctum, the shattering of a fellow
being’s peace of mind and perhaps repu¬
tation, by a careless word or phrase or a
bit of uusub-tantial rumor, glowingly
written up.
As he pored over the matter there was
a tap at the door, and upon opening it
he was greeted by M srion, her face
wreathed with smile*, ani such evi¬
dently kissablc lip* that he hai no
hesitancy in—well, it is not necessary
to go into details.
“Oh, Mort,” she gasped, after a
moment, “where have you been today
I wanted to ace you so much.’’
Frazier remembered that he had not
been to the home of his betrothed, and
knew that it was because he doubted
her brother’s innocence.
“You don’t know,” she rattled on,
without giving him time to respond,
“how worried mother and I have oeen.
Roy was not to be found, and that hor¬
rid old maid, Miss Semert, came over
with the most awful twaddle about his
beiDg suspected of setting the Rockwell
block on fire, and all that.” (Her lis¬
tener felt his cheeks grow pale, but
Marion did not notice it.) “Of course
we knew he was all right, and, su e
enough, he came in at dinner time. He
went home with Uncle Rudolph out in
the country after the show last night
and only just got back. He took all
his clothes, for he’s going to work for
Uncle Rudolph to earn some money. I
was down town, and thought I’d tell
you so that you could say so to tho
men.” There was a wistful look in the
girl s eyes that told how thoughtful she
was for her brother s reputation, and
how much she depended upon her lover
to set things right.
As she took her ueparture, Morton
realized that he must do some quick
work. First, he must,kill that cor¬
respondence, which was by this time in
the Gazette's forms ready to go to press.
Second, he mu*t have some good excuse
to give the editor for doing so.
From what he knew of the Gazette's
publication hour, he judged that he had
half an hour for investigation. Like a
madman he tore around the streets—an
animated interrogation point—asking
every man he mat what had been heard
of the incendiaries. All started out
with the old story about “They say the
Spearmen-but they were shut off
with, “That’s all a lie,” and rushed on.
It was no use. .He must simply with¬
draw the correspondence, When he
had but ten minutes more he stepped
into the telegraph office and sent these
words:
Dobbville, July 5.
Gazelle, Garten.—Don t publish Dobbvilla
correspondence. Roy R meal is innocent.
M. Frazier.
Tho editor of the Gazette was too
good a newspaper man not to obey such
a summons even with the chance of get¬
ting “scooped. ” The correspondence
did not appear nor did the Hazard have
a word regarding the matter.
Two months after, a q iiet wedding
took placo at Dobbville and “Wander¬
ing Mac” and Marioa were chief par¬
ticipants in the ceremony. In the same
issue of the Gazette that contained the
very flowery account of their marriage
(Morton wrote it) there appeared the
confession of a tramp arrested in a
neighboring city. He was dying, nnl
before breathing his last owned up to
having set on fire the Rockwell block,
having accompanied the circus.
Morton read the confession to his
bride on the second day of the honey¬
moon, and told her the story of his
withdrawn correspondence.
I < Oh, M* rton,” said the lady, re¬
proachfully, “if that had been published
I would never have married you.”
“I knew it, dear,” returned he, plac¬
idly, and I think the Gaz tie editor de¬
serves a picco of wedding cake for kill¬
ing it, don't you?’’
She did; and the G<izette force ad¬
journed for fifteen minutes the next day
to munch fruit cake, macaroons and an¬
gel food.— Yankee Blade.
The Pueblo-Indians.
There are in existence nineteen
“tribes” of Pueblo Indians, and all live
iu the northern half of Now Mexico ex¬
cept the Mcquis, who arc just over the
line in northeast Arizona—400 miles
east of Fort Yuma. Pueblo is a tribe
name as much a* Ute, and is never ap¬
plied to any other tribe. There i* not
in the whole southwest an ignoramus so
monumental as to class Navajoes,
Apaches or Yu nas. as of the Pueblos.
No Pueblo ever dwelt in a wooden hut
or “tepee.” They dwell in adobe or
stone bouses, and very neat, wholesome,
and con* fort able ones. They are the
• only Indians in the country who do.
They have not abanloned any social
laws. No American c immuaity in ex¬
istence is so well governed a* a Pueblo
town. There is no such thing among
them—nor ever has been—as a chief.
They elect their officoK by ballot yearly.
The Pueblos are not paupers in a land
of wealth, but are invariably in com¬
fortable circumstances. The population
of the villages runs from 100 to 1,500
and each village owns from 15,000 to
150,000 acres of land, the arable part
being held in severalty. Under the
aacred pledges of the treaty of Guada¬
lupe Hidalgo these people are entitled
to full citiz*nship. They are the beet
class of people in the territory. They
are short, as a rule, but almost invaria¬
bly of superb physique, and, a* for
brains, the average tourist certainly
does not oversize them. They are al¬
ways modestly and picturesquely
clothed and a more modest ra~~y^| ►
nek dwell ia the :wo
THE BIRCH TREE.
The Various Substances That
Are Derived From It.
Distilling Therefrom the Fra¬
grant Oil of Wintergreen.
A casual glance at the surroundings
of any timber country, notably along
the creeks and ravine*, reveals the fact
that at least some bi ch twigs have
withstood* tho onslaught of country
pedagogues, who from times remote
have been identified with the legend of
birch oil and elbow grease as an accelera¬
tor to the sluggish school boy as he
stumbles along over tho obstacles on
the side of science hill. Many twigs
remain, and outside their legeudary his¬
toric value suggested in tho foregoing,
the twigs and bark of the common
birch (Betula alba) have really an in¬
trinsic value not second to mauy of tho
most valuable plants.
Even the lctfves and jroung shoots
secrete a resinous substance, having an
acid reaction, which, under the long
legged names of the pi armacist, is sold
as a medicinal preparation for as high
as $ 16 per fluid ounco. The inner bark
secretes a bitterish alkaloid not unlike
cinchona in its nature, and is used
largely as an adulterant for quinine in
many parts of Europe. The so-called
“Cinchona Mixture” has been found by
analysts to consist, in many instances,
of the alkaloid found in the inner bark
of the humble bi rch tree.
The outer bark, subjected to dry dis¬
tillation, yields a peculiar empyreumatic
oil, having the peculiar odor of Russia
leather, and the secret of preparing
skins, and that, too, of the very poores
quality of skins, being taken from cat,
tie that have perished on those barrent
desolate plains, is the only obstacle,
thus far, to prevent American artisans
competing with Russia and Austria in
fine leather good*.
It is not necessary, however, to go
into chemical technicalities and details
in order to arrive at a profitable solution
of the uses of birch twigs and birch
bark, when the larger timber is being
cut away and hauled to the sawmill or
the turning lathe. When it is stated
that the oil of wintergreen (Oleum
gaulthcria), so u eful, fragrant and ex¬
pensive, is nearly always adulterated
with birch oil; much of it even is birch
oil, pure and simple, but is sold as win
tergreea oil, and is wintergreen oil to
all intents and purposes, having, when
proporly prepared and refine I, the sams
propert es, viz., specific gravity, 1.173;
boiling point, 412 degrees, and mixes
readily ovith alcohol, chloroform, etc.
The appliances nece : sary for the
preparation of this oil arc neither intri¬
cate nor costly, being simply a large
tub supplied with a coil and steam con¬
nection. Of course wc are not expected
to go into all tho details of manufac¬
ture. Only brief outlines can bo given.
The birch limbs, twigs, bark and
even the leaves, if a more commercial
oil is to be made, are gathered and
placed in this large tub containing the
coil for steam heating and as fast as the
mass accumulates it is kept covered
with water, and tho tub, being sup¬
plied with a tight-fitting lid or man¬
hole, should bo opened as lit¬
tle as possible. After becoming nearly
full, steam is turnel on, and the batch
kept about blood warm for 24 hours.
This will dissolve nearly all the oil and
resinous matters, which, being precipi¬
tated, causes the mass to assumo a verv
sticky consistency. S earn may now be
turned on, and the mass brought to a
boil for a momeut or two. With a
wooden connection, with a small barrel
or keg, the tank is made tight and
brought to a boil; tho steam, having
previously dissolved the oils, etc., will
now vaporize them, and will condense
in the last-named keg. After a few
hours the jib is done, the keg is bunged
or corked up. and is ready for shipment
as commercial wintergreen oil, though
made from birch refuse continually in
the way.— Lumber Trade Journal.
Americans in China.
Charles Don by, who represents the
United States at Pekiag, reports offi¬
cially a compilation of the reports of
Am rican consuls in China showing the
number and, partially, the occupation
of Americans resident in China. The
total is lut 1022, as against probably
100,000 Chmamea in the United States.
M >re than half the Americans in China
are missionaries—only twenty-three arc
merchants.
The Beards Oar Ancestors Wore.
Our Saxon ancestors delighted in
wearing long, forked beard*; the Nor¬
mans, on the contrary, at the period of
the conquest, not only shaved their
chins but also the back of
heads. They had
longes tahiisbedfld
Borrowed a Convict to Open a Vault.
Tho lock on the vault of tho Farmers
and Merchants’ Bank at Clay Centre,
Kan., became deranged last November
and the officials were compelled to
undergo a temporary suspension until
they could get some one to open the
lock. All the locksmiths in the town
aud the bank-lock experts of Kansas
City tried their skill on the refractory
door in vain, and the bankers were go¬
ing to seud to New York for an expert,
when Henry Carton, a prisoner in the
County Jail and an acknowledged ex¬
pert in the manipulation of locks, told
the Sheriff to offer his services, as ho
thought he could open the vault. Ho
had given Sterling such good reason to
believe in his power that the Sheriff had
no hesitancy in telling the bankers that
he had a man who could open their
safe for them. Carton was escorted to
the bank, and in the presence of tho
Sheriff and bank officials went to work.
In half an hour he swung the door
open, and then examined the lock and
adjusted the park which had given the
trouble. After receiving the thanks of
the bankers ho was taken back to his
cell.
When the District Court convened tho
Judgifounda very largo docket, and
the remit was that Carton’s case had
to be postponed until the August term.
All Spring and Summer Carton was al¬
lowed to come aud go as he pleased,
taking regular nightly excursions, and
the matter became so common that tho
Sheriff began to lose his fear of an es¬
cape. A few days ago, however, Car¬
ton's cell door was open and the prisoner
was not sitting on the jail steps. On a
stand in the cell was a note to S crliug,
thanking him for his kindness and slat¬
ing that pressing business further West
necessitated his hasty departure.
This was startling, but when Mr. John
A. Moss, cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants’ Bank, opened the desk that
morning ho found a note from Carton
stating that he had taken $200 from the
safe in tho vault to pay his travelling
expenses, and that he considered this as
a fair payment for his services in fixing
the vault, for which ho had never re¬
ceived pay.
Moss rushed to tho vault, and in tho
safe on a pile of money found a receipt
for $200, signed “Henry Carton.” An
examination showed that this was all
that was taken from the thousands of
dollars that were at hand. Not a clue
has been found that would lead to the
discovery of the man, and Sheriff Sterl¬
ing firmly believes that he has had
charge of somo supernatural being.—
Chicago Times.
Fort Mountain.
In Murray County, Georgia, some
twenty miles straight cast from Dalton,
there is a lofty mountain forming the
southern extremity of the Cohutta Range
and affording a magnificent prospect of
the surrounding hill-country of three
different Spates. On the broad plateau
in the summit legions of that mountain,
a space of four or five acres has been
fortified on one side by a bulwark of
rough bowlders—tho precipitous cliffs
of the mountain itself making the camp
inaccessible from all other points. The
rock rampart is evidently the work of
human hiuds, aid local tradition sticks
to the explanation that a force of
Spanish soldiers were here encamped for
several weeks, skirmishing with tho
hostile Indians, and alternating their
fights by a search for precious metals.
The time of that event is said to ante¬
date the earliest permanent settlement
of English- speaking colonists, aud it is
barely possible that a detachment of
De Soto’s expedition strayed thus far
north on their march in quest of a
Western Eldorado.
The World’s Production of Sugar.
The world's production of sugar is
estimated at about 4,000,000 ton3 in¬
cluding about*2,500, 000 of beet sugar,
comprising 600,uOO tons in Germany,
400,000 tons in France, 460,000 tons in
Austria-Hungary, 125,000 tons in Hol¬
land and 125 000 ton* in Belgium. The
beet sugar crop of 1880-90 in these
countries is es:imated at 2 910, 000 tons
against 2,735,000 tons in 18S3T9 and
2,219,973 tonsin 1835-86 Of the cane
sugar producing countries, Cuba takes
the lead with 623,617 tons in 1888 and
a five years’ average of 638,455 ton3.—
New York Graphic.
Bud and Bugs.
“Look at that beautiful young rose,
bud with a lot of old bug3 swarming
around her,” remarked Brown, as sever¬
al old boys were flirting with a youag
lady at a bail.
“Ye*, but those are gold bugs, so the
rosebud don’t mind it,” said Jones.
Her Cruel Fate.
“Yes,” si
VILL B. GRAHAM, Editor and MaotAtr.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Telegraph poles in India are made of
iron, on account of tho destruction of
wooden ones by the white antsi, *
At the end of five weeks typhoid
bacilli may reach a depth of 16 to 20
iuches below tho earth’s surface.
The role assigned by Pasteur to earth
worms of bringing bacteria to tho sur
fac3 has received support from recent
ob ervations of Bollinger.
The light chloric chromium elements
used for propelling small vessels are
made to-weigh only half as much as ac¬
cumulators used for tho same purpose.
The electric fountain at tho Paris Ex¬
position is composed of thirty-three
vertical jets and fourteen parabolic jets,
comprising nearly three hundred spouts.
The new alternate current motor lato
ly experimented with at Bula-Pesth
shows an electrical tffi:icncy of 92 per
cent, and a commercial efficiency of 80
per cent.
The Capo dc la Ilcve lighthouse, in
Fiance, is being lighted experimentally
by the curreut from accumulators kept
charged by two dynamos driven by a
windmill.
Professor Ilcnsen, with a deep-sea ex¬
ploration party, has sailed from Kiel for
the Greenland coa?t, where a series of
submarine soundings aud investigations
will bo carried out.
Experiments in welding wire rope by
the electrical process show that tho
strength of tho finished welding is
within eighteen per cent, of the normal
strength of the cable.
Pieces of roe’e crystal heated iu a
platinum tube and dropped into water
lly all to pieces but a drop of molted
crystal if allowed to fall into water then
though there is a great commotion, it
does not break, but remains clear.
Machinery has been patented for the
purpose of making ship boats from a
singlo sheet of steel. They will bo of
v.irious dimensions. It is obvious that
there must bo great economy in this
mode of making boats in assorted
sizes.
A process has been invented by means
of which photographs can bo printed
almost as fast as a newspaper, and with¬
out dependence on sun or light. They
are said to be of tho first quality. That
of course would make photographs much
cheaper.
The practical result* of the applica¬
tion of electricity to tempering steel are
said to bo very satisfactory, both in re¬
gard to tho cost and also uniformity of
the product, as well as its application
to tempering lower grades of steel into
good spring steel.
An English inventor lays claim to an
electric railway lamp—not controlled by
clockwork—which is lighted by the
dropping of a penny into the apparatus,
and continues to shine for a period of
from two minutes to several hours, ac¬
cording to adjustment.
An elaborate article on the cost of
steam and water power, based on actual
work at a woolen mill on the Merrimac
River, may be condensed into the state¬
ment that the steam power gave a total
cost per horse power of $52.50, against
$19 24 for the water power.
Dundee, Scotland, has become the
seat of a new industry—tho making and
dyeing of floor cloth at a very cheap
rate by means of a German invention.
Works are to be started at once and a
large number of unemployed people are
eagerly looking forward to it.
In the machine hall of the Paris Ex¬
position is a casting weighing 10 tons.
This piece de founderie is not intended
to serve any useful purpose, but .merely
intended to show what can be accom¬
plished by pattern makers, molder and
founder. As regards intricacy of de¬
tail, it has never been surpassed.
Now that consumption is regarded as
a contagious disease, people are begin¬
ning to ask how it is to be prevented.
Dr. Cornet of Berlin strongly advises
that phthisical patients should use their
own spoons, glasses, etc., and should
avoid kissing their friends. If death
occurs, the room occupied by the dead
person should be rubbed with new
bread, and all furniture, bedding, etc.,
should be carefully disinfected.
The Wife of Colnmbns.
While at Lisbon, Columbus was ac¬
customed to attend service, says Wash¬
ington Irving, at the chapel of the con¬
vent of All Saints. There he became
acquainted with a lady of rank named
Dona Felipa, who resided at the con¬
vent. She was the daughter of Bar¬
tolommeo MoDis de Pallestrello, or Per
estrello, an Italian cavalier, lately r .
ceased, who had been one of the : __
distinguished navigators under Prince
Henry ot Portugal, and had colonized
and governed the Island of Porto Santp.
|^^|cmuintaoc iteiu.. 2 soon ripoaec^^g^B jail
A True Lover.
Go forth Into the world again,
Searching for one as fair and sweet?
ljeave you, who are my dream complete!
Leave you, and let the great sun wanes
Shrouding my life in darkness? Oh,
Love, oh my love, l cannot go!
They say that love is but a show
Some wizard casts before our eyes ;
They soy that as a fading flower
Rapture will loso its magic power
To turn to heaven this earth of woo:
But I say, “Love, I cannot gof'
To touch your heart with jwrfect faith,
To win with ardor your rare life,
So full of beauty, charm and praise,
So full of bliss to light my days
From now to death, svere you my wife—
I take your trembling answer so,
And love, my love, I cannot go!
—Hose Hawthorne Lathrop in Harper's.
HUMOROUS.
It is said there is no color to tho re¬
port about a paint truit.
When yovi can got a horse at a bar¬
gain, drive your bargain.
A Bootless Attempt—To got upstairs
without being heard by your wife.
The last chapter in the history of *
a
young woman's love is chap. won.
If you want to find out all about wo-'
men and their wnys ask somo young
man who has never been married.
“Thcso aro tho husks that tho swine
didn’t eat,” as tin man said as lio
swept away tho peanut shells from be¬
fore his store.
Ted—“IIow is it that old fellow is
considered the bjst music teacher in tho
city?” Ned—“Because ho charges
more than any one else.”
Mrs. Brown—You shouldn’t aslc for
more cake, Johnnie. Now, how much
do you really think you shou! I have?
Littlo Johnnie — ’Null to n in** %
sick. *
“Is this swarm cnoTlfh for you?”
buzzed the queen of tho new colony
sarcastically. And the queen of tho
parent hive made a slinging rejoinder,
as tho remark deserved.
A gentleman mooting ono of his
friends who was insolvent expressed
great concern for his embarrassment.
“You are mistaken, my dear sir,” was
tho reply, “’tis not I, *tis my creditors
who aro embarrassed.”
Mrs. Frcshpork (back to Chicago
from honeymooning in Europe)—Do
you remember that gorge up in the
mountains, Arthur? Wasn’t it just
lovely? Mr. F.—You bet I I nevor
ate a squarer moal.
Littlo Tommy—“Can I cat another
piece of pie?” Mamma (who is some¬
thing of a purist)—“I suppose you
can.” Tommy (seeing tho point)—•
“Well, may I?” Mamma—“No, dear,
you may not.” Tommy—“I’lague
grammar, anyway.”
A Painted Diamond.
There is ono pawnbroker in Washing¬
ton who has lost all faith in human hon¬
esty. Several months ago a nicely
dressed man entered his shop and dis¬
played a pair of diamond earrings upon
which he desired to secure a loan. Tho
stones had that peculiar bluish-wliita
color so highly prized among loveiz of
diamonds, and the pawnbroker iCulily
advanced him $250 on them. Tho
stranger departed, and in due courso of
time the pawnbroker tried to dispose of
them. He exhibited tho diamonds to a
well-known dealer, who said if they
would stand a test they were easily
worth $1500. The stones were re¬
moved from, their settings and placed
in a bottle of alcohol. Then they were
shaken for about five minutes, taken
out and carefully cleaned. From tho
beautiful bluish whito they ha l become
as yellow as the Chinese flag, and were
not worth over $75. The expert said
afterwards: “Thcso stone* were paint¬
ed. Toe process is a very simple ono.
A small piece of indelible pencil is dis¬
solved in a teacupful of water. Tho
yellow diamond is then painted with a
fine camel’s-hair brush dipped in tho
preparation, and the stoner is allowed to
dry. The p lint will wear off in time,
but nothing will remove it quickly but
alcohol. No reputable dealer will have
anything to do with such stones, but wo
have to keep a pretty sharp look-out for
just i uch tricks as that one I exposed a
few moments ago.”— Boston, Traveller.
A Newspaper Back.
For this rack two boards are required, „
the one forming the back a size larger
than the other. The smaller one should
be larger than a medium-sized newspa¬
per, folded as bought. Cover one side
of each board with satin or plush of any
shade liked, and work on smaller board
some pretty design. Line with a con
trasting shade of satine. Put brass
headed tacks or small rings at equal
distance apart, in at the sides, and
fasten the boards together by narrow
ribbon laced back and forth. Suspend
^ith a strong gilt cord attached to a
^ky-ing fastened at cord raeh upper be used cor
liked, a gilt may
>. instead of the ribbon.—
\ J&lad*.
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