Love ana Tint.
arober boy wsoi form one day,
HserthooU, toward Ik aorta, they say,
Though hm say south, mm sast.sosa ik
Few know the points ha nkss Um best
But very likely twin b found
tor tookthe wide world ta hia round,
Where'er he tut 'twas all Um mom,
Ear th waa bit covert ftUed with game
Male hearts, mart May to be got at,
And feenalee, eager to bo ibot at.
Of all Um day la Um year, Um day
We rpoak of wm Um Ant of May.
. -.. wwu uscura, wna reesou,
Tbo opening of Love's aborting season,
When every blainj thing of Ufa
And ntni'i heart with joy la rife;
Bo there wm nothing aba to do,
But tboot ahead the whole day throng b,
sud bag the spoil of Love's battoe.
Batoning home from hie excursion, y
Pleased with hie opening day'e drverstso
Lotd mw an old man paea Lbe way
Who ob a path refnaed to atay;
TwaaTtme. who never stops bis flight
For gods or men, by day or night;
At nun the boy let fly a abaft,
The bat of all bii quiver left,
Which the old scythe-man deftly parried
With the well-tempered blade ha carried.
Crying out, Bad boy, yon do not know
The difference 'twizt friend tnd foe;
Yon seem to know bat neaght ebon., me,
How ill me er you'd do without me.
Without Time'e aid too soon you'd find
Lot weak! be hooted by ..xn
Your foUin ii txpoaed by reason,
J" trrtn yont flckleaeM and treseocn
Add Mm, vain fool, 'that hare below
The tears t ial from your Tietims flow
Are, a the. drop frra sorrow's enp,
By rime, the comforter, dried upl'
JOHNNY'S WISH.
a rAjar tory for the hii.ohkn.
A flaim-haired, freckle-faced bov was
Jol.unv. with blue eyes and lips like
npecherries. He was the grandson of
a email farmer, his own father and
rn- ur being dead and gone, and laid
in Ood's acre. Grandfather was an old
man, you may be sure, and perhaps he
was a little cross. Johnny thought bo
at all e vents, and fancied that his own
life wim very hard.
When Johnny was taking care of the
few ahn p that belonged to bis grand
father, be would sometimes see the youtg
lord of the manor tide by on his milk
white pony, with a servant-mau in green
and old riding behind him ou a chest
nut cob. Then Johnny would pout his
cherry lips and the tears would come
into his eyes, and he would say to him
self: 'Why was not I born to hare a
milk-white pony and a servabt in green
nnd gold? I am quits as gfcod as he is ;
I am bigger and stronger and just as
R1-looking; who is he, to ride, when I
I.jto to walk? Ab, I wish'
And there Johnny stopped and fell
into a ;-verie which is sometimts as
i vl as : ailing into a mill-pond.
Johnny had often heard talk of the
-me, tne eood little DeoDle. heht aa
ie, the
ti..bt;vdown and beantifnl as innocence,
twolhng in the bell-flowers, drinking
lew nectar, and happy, aye. as ha dot
as the moonlight night was long.
One night Johnny made up his mind
that be would look ont for the fairies.
7 Bo, in not the best of tempers and
the very lowest of spirit, Johnny came
to look ont for the fairies. He lay down
on int: t -u-i and kept very quiet till the
. ejailsav-- niufe sralBassai T siiilawi e fsansst I .
TKXaf(7 unsst JH UOsL IUT-U 3o
heard a r untie and a bustle and voices
not go loud as the bus of the blne-bot-.
tie, and laughter cenreely so distinct as
'the -fcirp of the cricket but he knew
it .8 the fairies, and his heart went
t.'iuiuplthnmpl thump!
1'rewntly he ventured to look rontid
hie. Tho moon was shining brightly,
and by its light he saw the gayest corn
pa: y of miniature beings you can ;oc
ei! ly imagine, dancing merrily. Time
w- ulJ fail to tell you how beautiful they
all were, bow gsyly dressed, how oonr-
ns to each other, and how graceful in
ev, ry motion. Johnnyrubbed Lis eyes and
t . cred he was dreaming; he stretehed
' his I nd and ran it into a lot of net-
, und that quite conriccfd him he
-ride awake. The smart sting made
hie cry out, and instantly the ball be
'v i rout. The fairies fled in mad
lusU1, tome hiding tnemselves under
the leaves, some burying themselves in
bell-flowers, all escaping except one,
and he got hia feet entangled in a spi
der's web, and could do nothing but
wriggle and cry out.
Johnny eame to his reteoe, but oe
fore releasing him begged a boon.
'What will yon have! ' said the little
ftiiiy. 'Speak quickly, and get me ont
of this horrible wtb.'
'I want to be as well ofl as the little
lord ot the manor.'
'Tuch,' quoth the fairy, 'you
are bet- !
i
ter off.
'If yui say that you know nothing
about it,' said Johnny 'and you may
atop in the web till the spider finds yon.
Why, hr has a white pony and a servant
in green and gold, and I'
'You are a healthy little shepherd boy,
without a care. '
'I am worn out with care,' said John
ny. 'My grandfather is cross; the blaok
bread is hard and not too much of it;
my jacket is patched, my shoes almost
worn out; the sheep contrary, and the
dog obstinate. Come, what will you do
for mef
'Would you change places with the
bey jtm eovyf
'Tea, of coane I would.'
'Beit bo lift me out of the web.'
When Johnny disentangled him from
the mesh, the fairy uttered some strange
words which Johnny could never re
member, and the field of fairies all faded
awsy, and he was sleeping on a soft
eoaoh. fie woke with a start a nd looked
round him m surprve. The gray light
of the morning was stealing into the
room, and he saw thai the apartment
was richly tarnished. A dock struck
Are.
At thaw aaeanent the door opened and
a man in striped jacket came in, and
gave him good morning. After this he
lifted him into a cold bath. It was in
vain that Johnny protested be was not
used to it, and did not like it. The
man only ahook his head Terr gravely,
and went on Dhansnnar him till he was
satisfied; then he rubbed him dry with
rough towel After this he helped hiss
to dTtss, and Johnny had never bad so
much trouble before. . It occupied
nearly an hour, and when it was over
there eame a tap at the door, sod a mes
sage to say that Mr. Sterne was expect
ing Sir Charles in the study.
'Who is her said Johnny.
'Tour tutor, sir, of ooorae.'
What, ha want with mer
To prepare you for the day's ezer-
'I ean gat exercise enough without
hta, Jaet too get me some milk and
bread, asd 111 have a run in Um fields.'
The man in the atriped jaeket held up
hie hands in dismay. He ass und John
ny the thing wwLuTjwasBDM, and mth-
out further narlw li k; .
2' V, into a ehamber
n books bUtha, JcWS
posed leouM Lm bwsnStte
printed in the ovl4. wm or
. Mr. Sterna, a stifi-looking twUemu
mesuitof hUgntJSiSan.
mg with mmeh solemnity, and then be
gan to scold him for being late. There
were Latin, English, ana maUbemati
cal exerc ses to be mh thnm.k a
! they would occupy much time, with
laumg neart Johnny took up his book
and looked at the page. Strangely
enough to himself he could read it,
and when his tutor took the book and
questioned him about it, he could repeat
it but it made his held ache, and he
felt sick and weary.
'If you please, may I hare a little
milk?' he asked; 'or a little waterf
'Certainly not. It is time, however,
that you took your tonic'
In answer to Mr. Sterne's summons,
the man in the striped jacket appeared
with a wineglesefnl of oh suck nasty
stuff I and Johnny was obliged to take
it, every drop. Feeling very much the
worse for his draught, the poor boy went
on with his lemons till half past aeven,
wnen Mr. Rtc-rne, in a tembly fngicf
way, said : 'Sir Charles, it is the hour
for your constitutional promenade.'
Johnny at first thought he was going
to have a dose of something more nasty
than he had had before, but he soon
learned t hat Mr. (Sterne meant that they
were to go into the gardens, which he
was very glad of. But when he got in
to the gardens, and they were grand,
beautiful gardens I can tell yon that1
and would have taken a sharp run, be
was rebuked by Mr. Sterne for his 'vul
garity,' and forced to walk as solemnly
as a mute at a funeral. Johnny began
to co upoee himself with the idea, when
be heard the breakfast bell ringing, that
he should have come wonderfully nice
things to eat. Visions of cold partridge
and pigeon pie, and ham and eggs and
fried salmon, flitted before him; but
alas! how mistaken was he. All these
things, and more, were on the table,
but not for him. He bad a bowl of
bread and milk, nrl nothing else, on
accouct f his weak digestion. After
breakfast there were more leusons hard,
dry, drtary lessons, accompanied with
much rebuke. Ther- was a French
master, and a daicug- master, and a
writing mauler, and a fencing master;
there was a musio master also, and I
don't know how many besides. Poor
Johnny's head was very, very bad be
fore dinner time; it seemed to him to
bo ruade uu of plates of red-hot iron
welded together with boibng lead,
Dinner! OqIv one disn roast mutton
a pitcooi stele I read and a glass ot
water! Oh how Johnny yearned for a
hunk of bread and cheese and a slice of
onion. There were more lessons after
dinner, and after that the pony, lint
by this time Johnny was so sick and
wtary he begged bard that he might be
allowed to go to bed. Mr. Sterne oould
cot hear of it. Sj he mounted th.'
wLiite pony, caw a little girl, as tired as
himaelf, on a cream-colored pony, was
esoorted by fcervants in goli and colorx,
and felt most miserable.
At Johnny rode by the pastures where
1 se w wont uke re 01 Uie "ep,
i be MW ni" own yeI7 lookiug, oh
so happy, among the sheep, with old
'Brownie' that wb the dog full f
his gambols. Wlmt would he not have
given to jump off the pony's back and be
himself again, bnt he could not do ill
As he rode on he began t say to him
self, 'Why should I be shut up in a big
house, and made to do this and tnat ana
tfce .ctfiff thy ail, I mishi' "Md
then he fell into a reverie.
When the ride was over he went back
ti the great house, and with the little
lady who bad ridden with him, was ush
ered into a state room, where a lot of
gentlemen in white waistcoats were eat
ing fruit and drinking wine. He! had
to stop tbtre for almost half an hoar
without i-peaking a word, and was re
galed with one small bunch of grapes.
At the end of the halt hoar he was taken
away by Mr. Sterne, in whose presence
be partook of i cup of milk and water
with a piece of dry toast Then he
was sent to bed, as miserable a boy as
oould have been found within the four
seas.
In his sleep came the fairy to him.
'Mortal child are you pleased with,the
change?'
'Oh no, good fairy let me be my own
very self agaiD. Brownie is a good dog.
I love the dear old sheep, and 1 so long
to be with grandfather.'
'But what of the white pony?'
'I don't want the white pony. I like
to be myself ; I will never envy any
body again. Good, kind fairy, take me
home.'
And when Johnny awoke he was at
home; and did not, he enjoy his break
fast! and i he went after the sheep,
with Brownie up to all manner of tricks,
did he not sav to himself, ' with (ah!
that sounds dangerous, but it was not)
Twith I may never irith to change my
lot again.'
I Tennjsos and the Qoeen.
-Speaking of Tennyson's hospitality,
a recent anecdote runs thus: Her ms
jestv the queen announced it to be her
I good pleasure to honor her poet laureate
I with a visit. Unfortunately she did
l tint mv nreeiselv what Jay she would
r- . . . A. . . ,
irrtTn in intv nouna me wnoiv ui
ily were put into their beet 'bib and
tucker.' The children agonised in their
bst rig and were rigorously "pent'
indoors; Mrs. Tennyson was bedecked
with her state raiment, and the great
awtiuw himself waawotten up to nerfee
lion .nd in thelalest invention of bis
tailor. Foot or five days went by in
the same atvosphere of expectation and
mntMf. buL no royal guest eame
(Trivinflr SB. At last it became nnbear-
hU Ordinarv manners were pro
claimed; everybody sighed with relief
and flung asrae too violent etiquette
with too belaoed and ben b boned attire.
The children resumed their mtimae.es
rith mod oies and rocking horses. Mrs.
Tennvson besan to enjoy a novel and a
wraoDcr. and casting aside romanoe,
Mr. Tennyson took up s boe snd began
to weed bis garden, and with glowing
cheeks and animated eyes tried to make
two blades of crass rtow where before
there was only one.' Of course when
everything was jogging along in this
oosy and homelike way the queen and
her woort arrived. At first there was
a general flatter of fright and excite
ment Everybody was embarrassed and
ill at earn Bat the grand old fellow,
coming up to the bouse with soiled
hands and sweat drops on his krfty brew,
made it all right in a few words. 'My
sovereign, we expected yon lor several
days, and were prepared to receive you
as should become those honored by sbeir
queen; be J to-day we did not know of
your intention, and are therefore only
so far prepared as loyalty and love ou
nekeua.' It is needless tossy that the
visit wusb very plenmnt affair, and, we
doubt not, far better enjoyed by so
sensible a woman as Queen Victoria than
it would have been bad it been attended
w eourtly formality and state.
Xse resent rrrnmiaest ease oi
PpropriesioB in Chicago has stirred up
the an mist ass and debatinc s-Trrirfrins all
orer the country, and society to enriched
with many eurioue stories of experience
teres to stoMBsesmons.
An Ameriout ii seism visiting Eng.
land some time ago, aoaoopaniedhu
friends to hear a London pulpit celeb
rity. At the close of the service they
asked him, triumphantly : 'Did youster
bear anything like tnat in America Y
The next morning he returned from an
early walk to the breakfast table and
answered the question by reading a
portion of a sermon by Dr. Oreenwood.
the famous minister of the Stone Chapel
in Boston.
The EvangelUt teUsa good one: 'A
Universal ist clergymen, now in high
standing, is said to hare entertained his
people ou oneoocasion by delivering one
of Dr. Disk's astronomical lectures, and
on another by repeating the substance
of one of Dr. Chasm s eloquent dis
courses. A few years ago a Boston ag
gregation was astonished at the learning
displayed in the sermons of a youthful
candidate, to whom they were about to
give s cell, when a schoolboy told bis
tatnor that a part of the preacher s ser
mon was a pit os which he bad learned
is order to declaim, and sure enough
the congregation had been edified by
one of Frederick W. Robertson's dis
courses.
Tne Methodist has picked up several
pleasant incidents on the practice of
'borrowing:' 'A minister coaupying a
prominent pulpit recently preached a
sermon which greatly pleased his audi
ence. One of his parishioners, with
great self -gratulation, eulogized the ser
mon in the presence of another minis
ter; a few questions were asked, snd
the next day the minister gave the eulo
gist a paper containing in fnll tho ser
mon with which he was so greatly
pleased, but his pastor was not the au
thor. A minister already invited to one
of the leading pulpits of the church is
reputed to quote liberally without giving
due credit. Upon an important cca
aiou he delivered a sermon of remark
able beauty and power, all the material
of which was obtained from a ohapterin
a book to be found in very many minis
ters' libraries. An (x-presiding elder
and doctor of divinity at a conference
session preached with great unction a
sermon taken bodily from a volume of
sermons which was in the library of
more than one of his hearers. A
preso'ier now occupying a metropolitan
pulpit, upon exchange with a brother
minister, produced a profound impres
sion by delivering in a masterly manner
a sermon which his deceased father be
fore him had been wont to preach with
remarkable power, and which was pub
liahed in a memorial volume with other
of his father's productions.'
The editor of tLe BaptUt Weekly bas
been abroad, with open eyes and ears.
He heard a visitor preach before a Bap
tist association in Sew Jersey a splendid
sermon. A venerable paetor expressed
his willingness to give twenty -five oents
for a copy of it. Another pastor sug
gested, privately, it oould be had for
less, being a sermon of Dr. Ha we',
published in the eld 'National Pulpit.'
At an installation in New Jersey a Bap
tist minister gave the audience a sermon
ou the d ffioulties of the ministry, which
was a slavish following out of one in the
'Homilist. In New fork one evening he
heard a pastor give one which the same
book supplied. He farther says that in
New Jersey a Presbyteriau pastor gave
to the press a temperance lecture of Dr.
Cnyler s as his own. He adds that he
t i i wn r jii 'i ' i afi'
a TTeAbyTfriaiTpaBlor in sow
Tork city, now deceased, whose nearly
every sermon was taken bodily from
Toplady, Guthrie, the 'Homilist,' or
any volume of sermons he could lay
hands on.
A Man who has Lost His Identity.
A very Bingular case of loss of person
al identity has been discovered at Bell
aire, Ohio, and has attracted much at
tention from mediaal men, who all admit
that nothing just like it has ever before
come under their immediate observation.
Some nine months ago, a man, apparent
ly about fifty, rather slender, of good
address, and neatly attired, found him
self standing on the platform of the
railway station at that town, a little
money in his pocket, and a valiee in his
hand, oontaimng nnderclotes hand toilet
articles. Wuo he might be, where he
had been, to whom he belonged, or
where he was going, he could not tell.
He had no idea of his name, and nothing
furnished any clue to it except the one
word 'Ralph,' written on a nightshirt.
For two or three hoars he tried to trace
some connection between himself and
the past, but without avail. Everything
was blank previous to the moment
when he seemed to have awak
ened from a long, oblivious sleep.
He went to the nearest inn; informed its
keeper of bis peculiar mental condition,
and retired early to bed, persuaded that
his memory would soon be restored. The
next dsy s temperance lecturer came to
the house, and, getting acquainted with
Ralph, invited him to hear his discourse
in the evening. Balph was present, and
while listening attentively was seised
with an uncontrollable desire to run out
doors and break the windows of snadja
cent groggery. This brought ont a
number of its patrons, including the
bar-keeper, who, after falling upon him
and beating him very badly, otused his
arrest Several prominent citisens be
eame interested in him, and labored in
vain to learn something of his anteoe
eVevks. The pbysiemn of the County
(Belmoat)nfirmary made hia acquaint
ance, and after a while, seeing that he
was very intelligent, quick-witted, and
trustworthy, appointed him his assist
ant He baa far more than average
eapscity, has a good knowledge of busi
nets, and is a very expert penman. His
recollection of general events snd of his
duties is, strange to say, excellent and
BBifarm. He is mentally sound in every
thing except personal identity. Many
people thought him feigning at first, but
nine months of oiose observation have
convtpoed them of his absolute sincerity,
and Dr. Heweter, of the infirmary, has
reported the strange ease in full to the
Hotpital Gaette.
A aether Dec Stery.
A reliable exohaage relates a marvel
ous dog story. Not long ago a Phila
delphia lady, while doing her marketing
otoe morning, received the gift of a
chicken from a friend whom she met.
On returning home she took the fowl
from her basket
eook. remarking, 'I wish I had another
ehieksn; it takes at least two to mane a
dinner.' Thereupon the family dog,
vhioh htsd been atretohed upon the
window-sill, jumped oat of the window s
If something bad attracted him. The
doer staid away about half an hour, and
!!Lrwfr -Tth a imieken in his mouth.
Uid the burden down, and twtrmUedto
bis unal seat on the window-sill. Tbs
ehieksn was ywt warm, ougn
dog had lfejs J1 :L7
not known whose poritry-yard bad snf-
nrtUa tBc&at af the Peace
AJter 'tefthad4aed to mJormtbs
mmtBSlUUSM What Indiana had laa
concerned the Yhite river msessore.
Indiana retired to Ouray's house to
dfbate what einase to purs-ae. No In
PPred at the ageney tall Satur
day; bat Ifcey seem to have been engag
ed at Ouray's in epndneting the wildest
desMMe, and in 'eiric fiery speeches.
A map was sent from the agency to
Ouray's with food for the hones of the
Indians, snd discovered from the noise
on the Inside thai the Indians were
a-reetly excited. XWhat he mw of them
were bedecked rWeethers and war paint
and hs was so frightened that he turned
back, and did sot deliver the hay.
On Saturday at soon the Utes came
into the agency, snd took seats inside
the agency buiMing Jack.Oolorow and
twelve other White BiveT Utes, snd, of
course, Ouray (hawing been among the
Indians) were present When the In
diana and the oomjaissioners had taken
seats, General Hatch addressed the
Indians, setting forth the full demands
of the commissioners, their right to
make the demands and the patience
already exeroised with the Utes. 'To
day,' he said, 'is your last ehanoe. We
will wait no longer; we vjant your final
answer, and we want no evasions.' The
list ol the Utes charged by the agency
women with taking part in the massacre
was then read, and tLe question put by
General Hatch, 'Will you surrender the
men whose names are on this paper to
be tried andilty punished, if in
nocent soquitted?' The question waa
put twioe and. after a consultation,
evasive answers were returned both
times. When the qnestion was repeated
the third time Ouray replied, without
oomiulting the other Utes, 'How do we
know that these Indians you name were
at White river at the time of the mums
ere? or, even if they were there, we do
not knov they were oonoerned in it
These wemen mentioned names which
came flnt to their lips, whether they
knew thtm to have been present or not;
we oan ot depend on wbst they say.'
'That is what we depend on,' said
Gen. Hatch.
Gen. Adams then addressed the In
dians, making a speech of over an hour's
duratio, saying among other things,
that the commissioners did not want to
punish Oolorow, Jack and others who
took part in the Thornburgh fight, bnt
the cowardly dogs who participated in
the massacre of the unarmed men at tho
agency, closing by saying, 'We want
those TJtee, and we will have them.'
The Indians held a council then in a
low tone of voice among themselves, but
did not seem inclined to reply st all,
when G-n. Hatch again rose and asked
if the gtilty Indians were to be sur
rendered, saying Le had made the last
appeal.
No one moved or spoke for a few mo
ments, wien Oolorow lighted abigpipe,
the pipe of peace.'
Eich Itdian present drew his knife
and laid it jii his knees, the enestion of
peace or w being the one pending
Oolorow than passed the pipe to the
next man vituout smoking it, snd it
went around the circle. When the cir
cle was finisked, he jumped to his feet,
straightened np to bis full height, pulled
his belt aronid until the knife sheath
was in front, and snatching the knife
out, throw it quivering and ringing upon
the floor. II was a vote for war.
Instantly evtry Indian present laid
his hand upon his knife or pir
tol, the whites following their example,
Tne two parties stood froDtingand defy
IBg IU1 tLl'f'frmff-nBnU, each"
waiting for the oflfcr to make a forward
move, mere wen out six white
men
in the room, wuite tue Indians
bered twenty-five, though there
nuru
were fifteen soldiers in an a'ioLniuir roam.
Finally Ouray pke: 'We can not de
liver np these Indians unless they are
tried in Washington. They mmut not be
tried in Colorado. The Colorado people
are all onr encmiei; and to give them
up to be tried in this state would be to
surrender them tc a mob who would
hang them. We will bring those twelve
men here for yon b see, and those whom
you decide guilty shall be taken to
Washington and tie President shall de -tormine
their Rqilt or innocenoe.
Douglass will bavn to go. We know he
was in the White river troubles, and
you shall decide who else. Upon this
oondition and no ofierwill we surrender
the twelve men.' The chief spoke with
great arrogance aid boldness. On ray
added that it wotld require about a
week to bring the men in. General
Hatch told him be accepted the propo
sition as far as bringing the men in was
concerned, but as for taking them to
Washington he would bsve first to tel
egrapu Secretary Schuri to get permis
sion to do so before he could agroe to
take the Indians Etat
Conundrum on the Rail,
The fat passenfer, who has been
puffing and pantiig ever ainee we left
Boston, trying U fit himself into s
Wagner chair, ha at last sighed him
self into oontentmint, and remarked:
'This New York express reminds me
of our modern Aromcan life.'
'Whs' for?' asked the cross passenger.
'Constant strain,' replied the fat pas
senger, in the tone of s Bstisfied man.
Everybody looked amssed, but no
body told anything, and presently the
silence became oppressive. The fst
passenger locked uneasily at his audi
ence. 'Ob, no,' he said, suddenly, 'Oh, no;
a fast strain, tbaejU.faet strain, fast
train.'
The cross passeug grunted.
The tall, thin passenger said it was
more like the knot in the hangman's
rope. We all looked "Why ?' at him,
and he committed himself as follows:
'Because it's the last strain.'
'But this isn't the last train,' said the
cross passenger; 'Uvve's two more trains
this afternoon.'
'It's like a Leghorn chioken, then,
said the passenger with the sandy
a . S a. t s
goatee; it s tne oes sfnun.
'And it's like ft ton dial,' said the fat
passenger; 'bemase it gets through by
daylight'
Audit's like cross dog,' observed
the sad passenger; 'because it starti at
one.'
Tec,' said the talL thin pasaenger:
but the train goes liter it starts, and
the wsofldogdaV
'No.' observed th passenger with the
andy gostee; bt i man he starts st
In 1848 tho etty of Philadelphia aub
scribed l000, to the Pennsyrvanis
railroad, taking 100,000 shares. This
investment hg j been dosed by
the sale of th g$hM1?
acejunt shows that fEtty has received
Send. S8.7A .nd for the MW
t7 707.100 msinffg.wsPMi w vu,oo,
Si idtW the teigteal cost nd
a .as s mm it IbbsibTsm srt ill mmwmMamm m
tM mi aJriw.. e s as s
bajanoa of 6,18SkCV-1 a profit, to
ineoy. jj
Grisderpest' U a, Vrj
name for the toottAn.
ppvopriate
to Ton or toiJ.
VrWt th aft mail radar Illlwi, Mrtt
he Oi
It is a big pile of money! a big pile
of asoney !' said a eterk of a prominent
New Tork bank, who was passing
through Pittsburg to a reporter at
the Union depot, where they met by
ehanoe, they having been friends to
gether in the metropolis in former
years.
'How do you oome to know so mum
about the matter?' queried the reporter.
'Jay Gould keeps one of his accounts
our bank,- Veing on intimate terms with
onr eiahier and other employee about
the bank. We bear many items of
nnanoiai gossip.
He tola m that Russell Bace. who.
with Sidney D Hod, are Gould's eloseet
business associates, bad Drat called one
evening at Commodore C. K. Garrison's
private residt noe in reUtion to the pro
posed purobase of his (Garrison's) jilir
Bouri Pc;fio railroad stock. Although
the investment was a good cue, and bad
paid G irrison handsomely, he was will
ing to sell providing he got his price
for it.
Tne (1 irrison Brothers bad purchased
a three fourths interest in the stock of
the road some six years before for n600,
000, and had in addition purchased a
large proportion of its bonded debt at
prices ranging from thirty-eight to fifty
cent on the dollar. The property was
universally admitted to be a fine one,
and capable of developing an enormous
business, but its msnsgemenrhad fallen
into the hands of St. Louis politicians,
and the inevitable result followed.
Everything was st sixes and sevens; the
revenues were dissipated, the road wa?
unable to meet its floating indebtedness
snd bad also defaulted on its bonds.
At this crisis the Garrisons bought,
and, once in control, the commodore
placed his brother in charge of the St.
Louis t fries, and he himself took charge
of the fiscal offloe in New York. The
same wonderful business talent be dis
played in the management of the
Chioago gas speculation, where he la'd
the foundation stone of bis colossal for
tune, he brought to bear on the affair
of the Missouri Pacific railroad, and the
result was speedily apparent Its affairs
were judiciously, carefully and eoonomi
eUly managed; its business was given
free opportunity to expand ; its earnings
were safely garnered and honestly ap
plied to the payment of its operating
expenses.
Gould having several lines competing
with this to Kansas City and for the
general trade of tho West, ran the Mis
souri Pacific very close at times and
even went to the exteot of putting rates
so low as to compel all lines to lose
monev. It is not an even fight Gould
afterward explaioed, beciuse, said he,
while Garrison only has to lose money
on one line I have to lose on fouror
five. It is cheaper for me to buy biin
out, evon if I have to pay him a high
price.
'I will sell yon our slock in Missouri
Paciflo, Mr. Sage, for $3,300,000,' said
the oommoiore.
'Preposterous! The prioe is beyond
all reason; why you only gave $600,000
for that stock six years ago,' said Russell
Sage, who, by the way, is so mean and
avaricious that he will not buy his fam
ily decent marketing, notwithstanding
the fact that he is worth his millions.
'It makes little difference to you. Mr.
8age, what I gave for that stock,' said
tho commodore, rather nettled at his
tone, 'my prioe is three millions three
never be able to buy it for any letu; but
wbcu tbat door closes after you to-night ,
the proposition will be cut by it and my
price will advance a half million dol
lars. ' Russell Sage asked Mr. G irrisou
to give him a tweuty-four hour option,
in view of the magnitude of the transac
tion, which was reluctantly granted.
Thinking to scare the oommodore into
eubmission, 8age foolishly allowed the
twenty-four hours to expire. Gould,
returning borne from a short visit at this
time, was told of the matter by Sage.
He hastily drove to the commodore's
bouse snd endf nvi.red to secure the
stock at the offer, as the twenty-fonr
hours had then only expired s short
time.
Mr. Oarrison was inexorable!
That option is as a tale that is told,
Mr. Gould. It is like the summer flow
ers tbat have faded and passed away.
Ton can never buy that stock as cheaply
again, but if you want a new proposi
tion from me I will give you ono. Ton
may have onr htock for 83,800,000!'
Gould said: 'Hang it, commodore, I
don't want you to jump another half
million on uu, so I'll take it!'
He at oici handed him a certified
check on our bank, and wrote out
another on ns, then and there, for eight
hundred thousand dollar?, which he
passed over to the commodore.
Neit morning, when we were notified
of the transaction, snd the checks were
presented for payment, we were in a
terrible splutter, I can tell you.
'Why?' asked the reporter.
'We had no greenbacks on htnd, and
of course had to transfer gold coin,
which involved the labor of counting it!
It took our force that wts put on the
job five days to count the money.
'Ton astound mel' said the reporter.
I never realised that $3,800,000 re
quired so mnch labor to handle.'
'Well, if you will calculate its weight
you will find that it amounts to about
ten tons of gold, or equal to ten dray
loads!'
Commodore Garrison got that amount
of gold for his stock alone, and he still
holds the bonds, or: which the interest
is paid regularly, and thev are worth
over pari'
Hew Method or Exeewtloei Demanded,
Dr. Park Benjamin, of New Tork, who
is one of the most earnest advocates of
electricity as s substitute for the hang -
umi awn iu vmmcm in cmpitai pun ISO -
meat eays an appiratus powerful enough
to kill at a srsgle sbosk more men than
were ever executed together on one
suaffold, eould be packed away in a
moderate-si sed trunk, so arranged that
nothing bat the connecting wires and the
discharging batton should protrude. A
the time and place fixed for the execu
tion all the sheriff would have to do
would be to attach the wires to the base
of the brain, or eaeh aide of the spine,
and press the button. The victim would
literally never know what hurt him ; for
as it requires one-tenth of a second for
the nerves to transmit a asrjanUon to
tha brain, and electricity travels ten
thousand tunes faster than human sen
antion, it is clear the man would be dead
before tha aerres could register any
pain. Mr. Beaysmia mentions, in con
firmation of this statement, thai the
Stevens institute, at Eobokan, N. J.,
has an aleetrie coil which yields sparks
tweuty-one inches long that will pene
amta gmsa Monk, three inches thick; and
feat one ia the poaieswion of the Royal
Polyteahnifl institute, in Londoe. pro
duies EgfctaJng lashes twenty-nine ineh
Mu aangth.
A aUilwsy giserisnee.
Burdette, the humoroas leeturer of
the Burlingteu Hmtekeye, narrates this
little episode as oeonxxtng to him while
Journeying up in Mssanehasetts:
At South Acton a man got on the train,
walked down the air It until be same to;
me, and then he passed and glared at
a valise on the floor.
'Take away that valise,' he said gruff
ly, ' or 111 put my feet on it'
'Pat your feet on it if you wish,' I
said, it won't hurt your feet, I dont
reckon.'
Down he went into the seat beside
me and np went his feet on the valise.
Presently the mud snd snow on his arc
tics began to melt and run down the
as oi tne vane. ,n ugiy uie stress.
a a i . a i.nt vl
xne man irom rn Acxonjwemea 10
take s savage delight in scraping his i
feet around and
making the havoc ss ;
treat as possible.
Tollable nice valise,' he presently :
growled; 'should think ye'd rather put
it away than havs it tramped onto.'
'Good Und.' I said, a little testily, 'I
can't take charge of all the baggage in
the oar. It's all I oan do to look after
The man from South Acton stared at ; 6' " V"'u-
me with s changing countenance as he E An Engl woman, now in this eoan
helf lifted bis feet Ltrj. fcas ordered from a New Tork jew-
Ye ain't goin' to tell me this ain't eUr a baoje bracelet which to h t
your valise, be ye?" he asked, anxiously. ,ihe oo inferable turn of $40,000. X is
. .a
Ul course it wasn t, 1 said; "would 1
let any body ruin my valise in that
way?
'Well, then,' he wanted to know,
'whose in thunder waa it?'
'Belonged to a gentleman who bad
gone forward into the smoking oar,' I
said.
'And if he doesn't thump you when
he oomes ont,' said the fat passenger,
cheerfnlly, 'I'm most swfnlly fooled.'
The South Acton man took his feet
off the valine and looked at it ruefully.
'Who is he?' he asked with visible
acnety.
'College chap,' said the tall,
thin !
passenger.
Boss kicker in the Harvard football
team,' sail the sad passenger; 'has a leg
like a boom derrick.'
'I know him,' said the passenger with
the sandy goatee; 'he's s raging tornado
of wrath when he's waked up.'
had man,' said the fat passenger; 'I
don't want no business with him.'
The man from Sooth Acton looked at
the vulise with glances of oonoern snd
apprehension, and then turned on me
somewhat indignantly.
'Gaul dumye,' he said, with a snb
dued sniffle, "while he took out his
handkerchief and began repairs on the
valine, 'gaul durn ye, why didn't ye tell
me this tout was occupied.?'
Noft possessing the physical powers
of the Harvard chap, I meekly said,
'BeoutiKP no didn't ask me. Ha only
said if 1 didn't take away that valise he
would put his feet on it nd I told him
I d'dnt care, and I didn t
He growled and whirled alternately 1
while he ruined every handkerchief he Uikes.
oould find in his pockets, cleansing and The depression of business in Berlin
polishing that valise, snd every time .'continues general, and is daily beoom
the oar door opened, he started nervons-iug more severe. At the banks there is
ly and looked np to see if the 'kicker' glittle doing, and in mercantile circles
was onminff in. Br and-bye. when the ii)ir ia almost boneless stagnation. Of
wr a I i l .1 ir.a M.fnM In ill Afimitin nwl. f
ness, the fat passenger laughed a chuck
ling, smothered kind of a laugh. I
bout over my tablet and scribbled swsy
Ike mad. The passenger with the
sandy goate", said, 'Oh dear, oh dear.'
The tall, thin passenger whistled a bar
from The babies on our block,' and the
sad paeBger looked ont of the window
and sighed as though his heart would
bjvwki - - .
The, man from South Acton glared
around the car, and a light dawned in
Ins face.
'By gol,' he said, 'you fellers hesbeeu
lyin' to me, and I know it'
And then the genial bowl went np a)l
aloug the line, reaching the climax as
tlie unn from South Acton gave a sav
agt kick at my mnooeut vauee, anil
slamnud th door after bim like a fit of
woodtm rofanity as ho got off the can
at Waltham.
Masculine and Feminine Morality.
I could never understand the oppositeraliyi
system of weights and measures which enters
have bteu established for gauging
amy umong men and among women. T
ine strictest among us allow that a
young man should sow hia wild oats;
but who ever admitted the same neces
sity in tue case of girb? We say that
man should have his amusement his
clubs, cigars, horse-racett, flirtations and
liquor ngs; but suppose onr women and
girls came to us reeking of tobacoo?
Supposing they addicted themselves
openly to nips of grog and absinthe
when their spirits were tout Supposing
they sat down to quiet rubbers ot whist
oreuarte, gambling away their house
hold money just to while off dull hours,
We demand so muoh exoellmoe of our
women that the worst of them are still
better than the average man. ditcaud take back ballast, now ocms
I have known some women who were : lad' with ssnd, ss baltaat, and return
social outcasts, and who, in point'of;wit our prod nets. Oo. reaching this
heart, conduct and general moral recti- , pot they give the aaad to any one who
tads, might have furnished stuff for the ; wd haul it swsy.
making oi very upnght gentlemen in
deed. 1 hey had fallen onoe, it is true.
trai wind a leaitol penalty they had Dees
mads to pay lor one alip, while, by com
parison, the kindred penalties of men
are so slight If s young man gets mixed
up in some disgraceful entanglement j
d reals a nesrt, and throws s young girl
npon the streets after having ruined hef
me, people say of bim, compassionate
ly, by-and bye: 'He was so yeusg when
he did it, and now be has turned over s
new leaf;' but if an experienced girl,
a mere child of sixteen or seventeen,
cjmes to harm through a moment's
weakness, born of too much love and
over-confidence in her betrayer, who
ever thinks of pleading her youth as an
excuse? Who ever urges seriously that
a k rl 'bas turned over a new leaff
Worn Journal.
ftesEance Is the Pswtal Herrie.
A rural postmaster, directed to invev
tigate a charge that certain letters ha,.
not been delivered, reported to th)
postal authorities as follows: 'Respect'
fully retiirned, with the information
that 1 yesterday called upon Mirs
O'Leary, and it is a aoaewhat 'i
fact tbat she informed me that she had
received all three of the letters. I would!
state further that I was invited by the
hvly to asy to tea, which laviUdoa 1
accepted and had a very fine time, as
Miss OT-ary ia s very fine young lady
and the very beat of company.' The
eomp lainant in the above ease was a
dejected lover whose letters the lady
had received with silent contempt The
sequel of the affair waa the marriage of
the gallant postmaster snd the young
bkiv about loir moo tha ago.
The bell-panek register has coma to
be regarded in Texas as a mere fares,
Ia Houston one leading saloon wtnab
registered over 1.800 ou the malt register
for October shows only 19 glasses of bear
sold during Novnatber.
itus of cmauL nrrcREST.
CaL Clayton, of AahevflU, N. a, has
h suit ex President Johnson ones made
him.
Eugenie is rUy going to Zululand
to visit the place where hex em
- The biggest almou in the world WM
brought into Victoria, Vancouver Is
land, British.' America. It weighed
ninety-eight elands, and waa five-and-a-half
feet long., '
Jackson, Misa., is building a new
opera honse, capable of s ting nine
hundred ieople, ar-. it is aaj. that when
completed it w dl be one ot the prettiest
theaters iu the death.
- . d ... Bavard
QrBt eleetedto,tnt, Unifcsd States Senate,
. - ,.,, . u
. ;, . the onlv in
stance of the kind in the History ot tne
; country.
: Odd dsys for fshionabIe weddings is
the wrinkle, Mondays and Saturdays
sre now substituted for Wednesdays snd
' Thursdays, SLd if people talk about the
oddity of thu thing the bride and bride-
irsuvm strA rrnitiHAil
jnaoe use e oaugiew 1
beaten gol
jewel. . m
A dispa Oh from Fairplay, Oolotwdo
reports th -discovery of ursninm in toe
Sacrament) mining dwtris. The f
eral is fonfld in Bohemia, but nevat be
fore in thi oounbry. as far as known.--The
ore runs sixty per cent, and arani
um is worth $1,000 per too.
The annual report of the amee super
intendent of education of South Caroli
na shows that the total achool attend
once for the year 1878-79 was 113, MX,
. Af .kih KM AAA were white DUpil. SAd
64,095 colored, an exoeas of 5,727 OOlor-
" ed pupils.
Tli Kw Orlnana PieavuM think. It
would be a wise investment for the peo
ple of Louisiana tD esUblish in that eity
s free hotel for the reception end enter
tainment of emigrants for s time suf
ficient to enabie them t find homes and
employers-.
The Toronto corsetmakcrs are on a
strike. 'Their employers nave pulled
the strings too tight for them, and the
girls wdhH be solaced, but have insti
tuted a stay of proceedings, dcolaring
they wcai't waist their time and of cor
sets too mnob to expect that they will
bone dpwn to work without proper pay.
Abort tins time the twelve-year old
lad, wbi- was eicluded from his older
sister's swell party, gets revenge by
tesohirtft the innocent, lisping baby to
ask her, iu the presence of the family,
why sb kissed, in the obeervasory, nr.
5-HUrt. a vonuir man whom she ana ail
the family, esjvecially .her papa, cus-
C7 - ,
hW1 Unl..nn;..n. , .ti.tf -
7U0 houses belonging to building'!
oiatious. not mcro than one-third
are
'occupied.
In Chicago, the first week in Decem
ber, &e sales of prmMons were unpre
cedented 806,000 bsrrels of meta pork,
126,000 tierces ol lard ana SO,UW,WV
pounds of meat haviug been disposed
of. These faiea sre equivalent to 386,
000 000 oounds of oroduoe, valued a!
$,000,000.
Of him tbat hopes to be forgiven, itt
is indispensably required that he for
give. It is thtrefore superfluous tO
urge any other motive. On this ; great
duty eternity is suspended; and to him
that refuses to practice it, the throne of
mercy is inaccessible, snd the Savior
r . . i . i i i , i :
- "
' By a fire which threatened the total
destruction of tho Wesleyan chapel, in
? theDity road, (London, the main obapel
nas greatly injured, and the historic
baifcliUf , Wesley's morning chapel, was
fruUl. Wesley s pulpit was saved.
The I toantiful frescoed ceiling is irrep-
iiijiirru, and great aonois are
Ik. .nnl . .f IK.
mor-fBtructnre can be restored.
Mrt. Jane Grry Swisshelm has ascer
tained from Buckle, a good authority,
that for t-very twenty girls there are
twenty-one boys born; and, consequent
ly, tkd infers that every woman ought
to have a husband, and every twenty
families a good commonstock old bach -elor
occle who will buy drums for the
boys, dolls for the girls and take the
you tig ladies to the opera.
Itfs a fact that the Baltimore pavers
of streets nse sand from England and
Fratee cheaper tnan tbey oan get Mary
land sand. Oar exports so largely ex-
:-oec -our imports that vessels from
J Eu"pa which used to bring meroben-
4 tnons several curious habits of tha
woodcock, its practice of carrying its
yoog is perhaps the most interesting,
The testimony of many oompoteat wit
nesses is otted to corroborate the attte -metit
The late L. Lloyd, wrote: " 'If.
in tluoti"g, you meet with a brood of
woodoocka, and the young can not if,
the old bird takes them sepaiatelj be
tween her feet, sod flies from tha dog.
with s tuosn ng cry.' r - or- '
For some time past Chinos, aroasatie
smoke rods bsve been used for perfanv
fag rooms. Tbey are grayish browa
ticks, which are easily kindled and
burn slowly with a bright glow, leaving
aJruddy ash behind and diffusing a
pbaeent aroma on tha air. They are
f&rmed of powdered oases rills Dark,
from which the bitter principle has been
btitled out, leaving the aromatic resin.
Toase grounds are knead sd into a soft
mass with trsgaeanth gum and than
molded into rods.
The Cincinnati Prict Otrrmt print,
returns ot the bog crop from 800 rjointa
m the West, which indicates a consid
erable deficiency in the number of bogs
ia Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, but
Illinois and Iowa are peeted to fall
Bttla if any below last year's supply,
and Missouri, Kansas and Nsbrsaka
are expected to make ap tha deficiency
this side of tha Missisiippl. The pack
ing to date is about 1.000,000 more hogs
than at any tune hast year.
4 shocking ease of neglect has Just
Pms to light in Hall, Ontario, A youth
seventeen years of age was taken
4wu with smallpox and his family da
ftfted him. The neighbor., hearing of
went to tha boose whereas waa stop
t kg with a bowl of soup. On aaaarmg
Ira room they found the youth cower sd
V fth blood and almost at the point of
t'mfa, Tha soap being placed to km
Imj, ha ravenously swallowed it An
lamination showed that ha bad eaten
t sab from on of hia arms ia his efy
ij hangar. He died s few minates aftar
(1 arrival of the asAgfabors.
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