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Lost Lina; "OB,- | THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. BY MRS. NIK A LAWSOIf. CHAFTER XXXV?Continued. In one week a .littlo, slim figure, dressed in deep mc^rning, stepped od the train as it stoppad at Chicago, and left the depot in search of some reasonably quiet boarding-house; this little woman was Lenoi a, and her heart was as sad as ever. She had coaxed Mrs. Bassett to promise never to say anything to anyone about her beinpr at her housJ so long, and before sli3 went awav she paid Mrs. Bassett for all her trouble out of the hundred and fifty dollars she had when she left the Bristol man* lion. The beautiful little woman in blacli had no difficulty in securing a good boarding-pla -e, and tlie next day she started ior tha Noll cottage. It took every particle of strength she had to go there, but sli3 thought perhaps Gertana might be there, and would treat her kindly. She hoped to get all the information from her that she wanted concerning Noll, and Lenora believed that her old friend would tell her everything?just where Noll was, and whether it was he that had caused her all the trouble of tbe past two months. It was no small effort for the lone, heart-broken wife to go to the very house where all her trouble began and ring for ndmittanco there. The door was opened by a male servant, but not Henry, who was there when she was a prisoner. . How she trembled as the door opened; her face | was closely veiled, or the servant would have been startled at its ghastly whiteness and at the misery in those great, dark, dreamy eyes. "Is your mistress at home?" she asked, timidly, but the voice was so low and sweet that the servant an wered kindly. "Yes; please come in, and she will ee you." Lenora walked into the hall she knew . io well. The servant took her to the drawing-room, and everything there was much as it was two years ago. How her poor little heart fluttered as she sat there waiting. By and by she heard the rustle of silk, and a faint flush dyed her cheek at the thought of seeing her old friend once more. As the lady in the rustling silk entered the room Lenora raised her veil that Gertana might know her, but .?oVi t miinltlv tlio f?li?ek t>aled Mid bow her heart leaped around as sire saw in the door a tall, queenly looking ] middle-aged woman, with a few silver | threads among the black heavy waves. "I thought M-idam Girindani still lived h^re, but you are not her," said Lenova, in a str:;nge, frightened voica. "No. that is not my name, fortunately. Are you a stranger here V" "Yes," gasp;d the little visitor, now took weak and frightened to raise her voice much above a whisper, for tho voice that answered her was not kind, and there was rathor a colli, unfriendly look in the woman's eye; but tho pale, frightened fa-je of the little visitor, all in deep mourning, somehow brought ? more kindly look to thosa large, strange eyes. "You seem weak, and look as if you were not feeling well. Is there anything I can do for you? The people that lived in this house have been gone for a year." "Can you tell me where ?" "I know but little about them, but 3 think that the man that owned it then \s dead." "Dead?" "Yes. He was shot, I think, over a year ago."' "Oh!" gasped Lenora. "Why ? "Was he a relative of yours ?" ' "No; he was nothing to me, but Madame Girindani was my very dear friend; where* is she?" "I do not know." Lenora sat a few moments, gxzing ill the face of the lady who had told her snch bad news. "You look as it yon scarcely credited just what I have said." "Oh, I have no reason to doubt you. I must go now." ?he r<-S3 to go, but before she reached the hall door she found that she rr.s ioo weak to walk farther, an.I gark wearily down in a largo plush chair. "Ah! I S3e you are toow^ak to walk. Let me send for some wine for you," "If you please. I thought I was Btronger, but it all has been so sad, and I have been very sick la'elv." The present mistress of the cottagf rang for a servant and ordered the wine: it was soon brought. and Lenora drank it. It stimulated her a little, and she tfoon felt able to walk, and then left the house, not knowing what to do. She had intended to find out from Gertana, if possible, whether it was Noll that lia;l killed her husband, yet she knew that Gertana would not know anything about it, but perhaps she knew where he had been and what he was doing. If she had not been so disappointed, End hft.l found Noll there, she was going to put the whole affair in the Lands of a lawyer, and see that Noll was punished for his crime: but, al all her plans were or no use: she was consequently baffled, and all was now a greater mysterv to her than ever. In some way slie succeeded in reaching her boarding-house, where she remained for a month, seldom leaving Ihfe house, and doing all that she conld to regain her strength. Hei little roll of bills was growing smaller every week, and she soon would be compelled to seek employment of some kind, but where and what, she did not know. CHAPTER XXXYL Tho month passed, but it had been 1rtn<r ? the lanalv. heartbroken o * ' wife. ~?.he misery this world does give t<3 3>oot, lone creatures like me! I wish ten ihousand tim^s that I were out oi it, and to-day I could spend in paradise with my darling. "Oh, Father in heaven, why have yon forgotten me, and when will this | life of min9 cease? I shall soon be jpenmie-s, ana tnen i cannot nave a iiome even in a common lodging-house. I must get work of some kind, but J never can stay in this oity. No, noj the thought of baing here would bring top the past too vividly, and now I must - : .< i,; try ana rorget as mucn 01 it as pos- ' sible. How I should love to go to mi j dear old home in the valley! But no; I would starve now rather than gc there, with my life blighted and dark- [ ened as it is. I will leave this place, and get as faraway from it as possible; there will he something for me to dc iu New Yoik.and I will <ro there. Such a large, busy city as that certainly has room and employment for one more, and I ill go." A few days after she decided to leave Chicago she took a train for New York, hoping that uhe could find work, and in that way perhaps she would forget her troubles. Poor, inexperienced little wifft! Silo liacl nover soujrht for em j ployment before, and knew but little I how to manage, She had secured t j little room on tlie fourth floor of at old house, i!i a not very enticing street. She could afford no better, for hei money would soon be all gone, and sht did not know where she would be able j to get work. There was an advertisement in one j of the daily papers for a governess, in good family, to teach in English an^> French. Lenora answered it immediately, ami gave her name, Mrs. Bristol. The family that wanted the governess wanted c recommendation of course. "Have you your recommendatior with you? and where were you before? and how long have you been governess ? and how old are you? and are yom parents li\ing? and how long has youi husband been dead ? and what did he do while living?" etc. This great volley of questions frightened Lenora, and she felt more like crying than answering. Of course she had no recommendation, no parents, and had never been governess, and as for telling anything about h?r lost darling, that she would not and could not do. Of course, as she could answer none of those questions, she was dismissed and compelled to return to her lone, diugy room, sadly discouraged. She went in answer to a great many advertisements, but could not secure a position, because she could furnish dc recommendation and had never worked before. A month had gone by, and she had not found anything to do as yet; she did not think of putting that sweet voice of hers to use in a theater, or oj applying in a factory for employment. ! SiliQ liorl /i<Voiv>r1 fn rln Vinnspwnrlf but | her little, soft, white hands did not seem to suit, and she was turned away everywhere. Two weeks more passed, and most of the time now was spent in crying; her clothes were getting shabby, and she was behind two weeks in her room-rent, and then had ec.ircely enough money to keep her from starving. "Oh, what Bhall I?what can I do5 I wish I was dead. Everybody is sc cold and cruel, and I cannot get employment. I have but ton cents left^ j and no way to get any more." Just then there came a rap on the door, and she hastily dried her tears and opened it. Her landlady stood there, with a cross, ugly face. "Come in, please." The big, fat, ooarse woman walked in and shut the door, placed her broad back against it, and then looked Lenora straight in the face. "This room must be vacated to-night unless the rent is paid before six. 11 is a great mystery to mo that a woman can wear tine diamond rings and not pay a little room-rent. Yes, if you do not hand me the money before six you must go. Do you understand ?" "Yes, I understand you quite plainly; but I would not tell a falsehood, and when I say I have not tho money I speak the truth. As for my diamond rii:gs, they were presents to me and 1 would not like to part with them." Lenora was now quite pale, and trembling, and the cunning old landlady saw it. She believed that Lenora had money, but wanted to cheat her out of the rent. "I can take one of the ring3 as security uutil you pay "what you owe me. "Who gave 'em to you, anyway ?" "One was my mother's and the other was given me by my husband." "Eh! It's a pity if you had such wealthy people and can't pay two or three weeks' board; a pretty how-dedo, I tell you." Lenor.i was growing so nervous ever the old woman's talking that she was afraid she would faint. an?l in order to get ria or ner in some way sne saio she would try and get the money and hand it to her before six. The old lady then left the room, mumbling something about fine folks, but as Lenora did not care to hear, she did not listen. . After sitting there for some time, she did not know how long, she drew hoi watch from her pocket to see what time it was. "Half-past four, and yet I have not the money; oh, what shall I do? 3 can't walk the street all night, or lie owt in tha cold, and I won't give up either of tlus^i rings, or my watch, cither, for poor darling gave me that. No, no; I can never part with them. ] have but one dress besides this that ] have on. but perhaps I shall be able to got work somewhere before tins lswors out, ami then I c.in get another. I shall have to either pawn that or sleei: in some alley to-night, and ] fear pool darling would see me irom his home on high, and surely it would make him feel sad. Yes, I will pawn my dress and pay the rent." The diess was black silk, worth about fifty dollars, but she knew that she could not pet near that much foi it, but sha would do the bt st she could. She had not had any thine to eat since morning, and as she went down the long stairway to tho street she felt so weak that it was almost impossible for her to walk. It was a fearfully cold night, and the wind was so strong that it almost blew Lenora off the pavement. On she went, in search of a pawnshop, with her bundle under her arm. She did not know where to find one, but would ask the first policeman sh2 saw. They all seemed off duty, for she could not see one. On she went, still looking for the three balls hanging out, but every step she took now seemed that it must be her last. She was numb with the cold and faint from hunger. The little feet moved over the icy pavement very slowly now, and nnaily tney stopped entirely, anci the little form swayed from side to side, as if she were drunk. The next moment nnftr iirmrnrl little Tvifo Ihtt c^riaa ""? * Jf""*) '"J"'1-" ""J less in the streets of New York. (XO BE CONTINUED.] A machine has been invented foi drilling square, oblong or hexagonal holes, heretofore found impossible. WORDS OF WISDOM. All men die poor. Instinct is the nose of the mind. -- ^1- iL (jnaruy is i>ue siuoum \\a.y <jx mc fur. Eternity lies between to-day and tomorrow. Some people live by their wit3 who haven't any. Merit is the only virtue which Iraws a steady salary. A man's brains vary inversely as the size of his mouth. . The fire of anger oftcu costs as much as that of hard coal. Opportunity is a horse that must be mounted on the jump. In examining the faults of our neighbors nearly all of us use a microscope. Irresolute people let their soup get cold between the plate and the mouth. The people who hate us talk too much and those who like us say too little. If people could cover up their sins by lying we could seldom meet the truth. Wit should be used as a shield for defense, rather than a sword to wound others. The man who speak3 before he thinks is in a position to do lots of thinking afterwards. Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. The greatest event of a hen's life is made up of an egg and a cackle. But eagles never cackle. In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrival and departure of pleasure. To sum it up in one sentence, preserve the courtesy of the beginning if you wish to keep your friendship to the end. A pompous man when lie smiles at a jest, takes more credit to himself for his appreciation of the joke than he allows to the wit for uttering it. Clear thoughts patiently worked out and freely interchanged before action is called for arc the only means of making that action wise, permanent and effective. Industry i3 essentially social. No man can improve either himself or his neighbor without neighborly help; and to better the world is to set the world to work together. Origin of a Familiar ({notation. James Connor Roach, the Irish comedian, who was for many years a popular actor in Australia, gives the following as the origin of tho quotation, "He left his country for his country's good 'In a little graveyard, close beside a town called Parramatta, in Australia, rests the mortal remains of George Barrington, the once notorious London pickpocket. Ho might have been called the eritable king of tho craft, and his deeds of thievery were for a long time the talk of London, until finally the strong arm of the law was laid upon him. He was^ transported from England about 100 years ago, and after having served a term of years, was released on a ticket of leave and became chief constable of the town, where he now sleeps the sleep that has given him a ticket of leave forever. "It is evident that the love of tfic ' K~ 1 ? l^im onrl LLLUl rUjJUlLB liUVUUU a.1 uuuvl UILU, uuvi when he became a comparatively free man he seems to have remembered the hours he spent in the theatre during the reckless days of London life. In fact, he was the first to organize a theatrical entertainment in the 'land of the kangaroo.' His company was composed of men like himself; they were all ticketof-leave men, but, from the accounts that have been handed down, they seem to have been more than clever actors. "The prologue, written by himself, and spoken at the first performance, has passed into the history of the Australian stage and contains the disputed quotation. It ran as follows : Ladies and gentlemen: From distant climes o'er widespread ssas we come, Tho' not with much eclat or beat of drumTrue patriots we, for be it understood, We left cur country for our country's good, No private views disposed our generous zeal, What urged our hearts was our country's weal, And without further fear of turnkey's lockets, Tho' in an honest way, we'll pick your pocket3. ? Timcs-Democrat. A Delightful Treat. A curious scene was witnessed in a well-known restaurant near the Halles at an early hour this morniug. A gcutleman, who said his name was Adalbert, and is reported to belong to a good family,, invited two men whom he met on the street to supper. They supped in a most luxurious manner, consuming along with their meat several bottles of champagne. At last Adalbert knocked on the table with his stick and shouted, "Bring the bill! Quick! I am like Louis XIV., I don't like to be kept wait ing." Tlic proprietor orougnt xue reckoning, which amounted to 6-10, and the representative of Louis XIV. tossed it to his companions, remarking, "Pay that if you liic! As for me I have only got forty-one cents in ray pocket, and I intend to keep them there!" "But," expostulated his companions, "it was you who invited us to supper!" "Very likely," was the reply; "I invited you to supper, and you have supped; now I invite you to pay, therefore pay! That's my character." The result of the altercation was that all three were taken before ]M. Lejeune, Inspector of Police, who soon found out that the gentleman calling himself Adalbert was in reality a lunatic and had already boon in St. Anne's Asylum for mental vargaries of a similar kind. He was sent to the infirmary of the Central Police Station for further iuqufrv into the state of his mind. The other men were liberated on promising to pay the landlord when they had money enough.?London Telegraph. Tlie.Warm Water Care. To drink a cup of warm water of a morning on getting out of bed lias long been knowh to be a very salutary pruc Ti ftAmonl^ O n fl Cpf Q UUC. It SlMJMJCd l Li V, siPWuiavu I??JW ww?~ the bowels working. Some doctor, in the course of ail interview with a newspaper reporter, made this statement and a hot water craze was the result. People drank it by gallons at home, and at all the drug stores a hot water attachment to the soda water fountain was necessary. Some persons went in for hot soda, thinlcI ing it better, although, as a matter of | fact, the heating of soda water expels the gas and renders it no more than plain hot ' water anyhow.?Jftto Tori News. __ irCk'.JC*. V ' ' . L ODD VAGRANTS. UTILIZING ANIMALS TO EARN A LIVING IN NEW YORK. An Odd Scene in aCourtiRoom?How Bears are Trained?A HurdyGurdy Monkey and Fortune Tellinff Birds. COMMENTING on the curious ways in which j Bi\ma fnrnirrnpra ftt- I f<3l/*uis *V?V?QMWW W- . tempt to earn their | ' bread in the streets of I New York, a writer in ' the Commercial Advsr- j User says: The writer well remembers a scene in the Jefferson Market Police Court, New York city, one Sunday morning. The benches were filled, as usual, with the friends of the 't slatternly and unS kempt prisoners who filed out from the stone cells to answer the same old charges of intoxication, disorderly conduct, assault and battery, etc. Fines were settled and outcast offenders were sent back to serve a day in durance vile for every dollar unpaid. Still the court room did not thin out. Everybody was waiting to see what disposition was to be made of a case foreign to his experience. The prisoners?there was a whole tribe of them ?made a picturesque group. There were three well built, sturdy men,dressed in rough corduroy and wearing long boots. Each had a shock of black hair, blunt, vacuou3 features and a woolen comforter tied around his neck. Then there was as many olivc-cheekcd, sloeeyed women, with squat figures and large feet, shod with coarse boots. They 1 jUl! A LOVING PAIS. wore bright-hucd shawls over their head9 and massive gold ornanents on their ears. Four of the five open-eyed children, who were small editions of their fathers in features and dress, completed this motley party. The magistrate surveyed them with an amused smile, and, turning to an officer, asked him what was the charge against these people. "Leading bea*3 through the slreet9 without a permit, your honor," was the reply, and everybody tittered at the enor mity of the offence. "Don't you know," asked the justice, with an affectation of sternness of the oldest of the racD, "that you have no business to turn the streets of this town into a circus?" The prisoner addresied?he was a Savoyard?shook his head and then poured forth a torrent of patois, gesticulating wildly as he told the story of his wrongs in free America. Then there was a loud demand for an interpreter, and while ono was being found the se?dy lawyer, who had invited himself to defend the prisoners, told the magistrate that the Savoy- [ ards, who had dropped into ths city no one knew how, were attempting to give a performance with their bears on a West Etreet dock when arrested. Not one of them could speak English. The lawyer said their ignorance of the customs of the country was a sufficient defense, and he asked that tV.ey be allowed to go their way without tiae. By the time an interpreter had been found in the person of a ragpicker, whose features still showed traces of a night's debauch, for which he had paid into the city treasury the sum of $5 dollars a3 the price of his entertainment on the flagstones of a cell. With many a vernacular struggle he drew from the oldest Sa voyard the story ot the Dana, rney uau come over in the steerage of an Italian FOREIGN PAUPER LABORERS, steamer from Genoa, bringing the bears with them. Previously they had heard dazzling tales of the fortunes to be made in America by exhibitions of performing bears, and how the natives, having more money than they knew what to do with, showered gold upon those who amused them. The Savoyards had no sooner Innrlnrl fhon flwTr rnvmnrpfl tn nrnfhop thn first fruits of their harvest The three bears, after standing on their heads in a row, had just begun to dance a clumsy jig to the wild shouts of the natives, when a man in a blue coat a id waving a heavy stick gave the party to understand, bears and all, thae they must come with him. The tin cups had not even been passed around for the money, "Are tha Ixf.rs in court?" asked tho magistrate, with mock solemuitv. At this the?e was a general io?.r of lniirrhtpr nnd toViMi it gubs-.dcd the offi 0-"v*J ?~ 9 cer said the bears had been put ifito a stable on Barrow street, pending disposition of the case. The old Savoyard, in his grating patois, began to exclaim agaiDst the outrage of taking away his bears and locking the party up in cold cells all night. He thought it was a free country, where the foreigner met with kindness. As it wasn't, they would all go elsewhere if the judge would give them the bears. His honor said that unless the Savoyards had money sufficient for their present wants he would be obliged to ship them back to Italy, to-' -- y. .* -_ ? >. ; ""'j- _ ?-;? t- -i gether "with their animals. One of the prisoners produced a bundle. It was a knotted bandanna, and when he untied it a store of silver coins was disclosed. The magistrate thereupon decided that they must pay for the first experience in a free country the sum of $5, and he directed the policeman to see the men, women, children and bear3 over the Harlem River, at which the officer made a very wry face. Five dollars to these oldworld vagrants sounded like a fiue of ?a onrl flmv/j wnrn tonrfnl UI UVJI jpiVjpWlbiwuoj wwvtv - v.w and excruciating lamentations bsfore they paid it. Tl'Jl lxT-0?* ir^nlnn ? - ?1-1 for bread is usually of the cinnamon variety, found in tbo Pyrenees or Vosges Mountains. Not being essentially a xar| nivorous animal?tliat is to say, feeding on fruit, honey, vegetables and smaller animals?ho is easily managed, and if taken young learns a few simple tricks, such as climbing a pole at the word, j footing a measure to the strains of an ac; cordeon, counting up to ten with a movement of his paw, marching with a stick for a gun, caching a pole and making a salaam. He is by no means an intellectual animal, and it is only by a great expenditure of patience and constant prodding with an iron shod staff that he acquires the tricks which so amuse the children. Old bears are not in demand for show purposes. In their natural state they serve to guide the mountaineer to the cave where their cubs are housed. It becomes an easy affair to capture the little fellows after the big ones are trapped. The cost of a culi is trifling to the French or Itallian stroller. A few dollars will buy one in almost any town in the Mediterranean districts. In America the dealers make you pay dearly for the privilege of possessing a cinnamon bear. Out of curiosity the writer asked a well known Park Row dealer in wild animals what the market price of a young cinnamon .bear was. "It will co3t you 8300," he said, "and you can't get one cheaper in this country." The common black boar of America Is somctiibes curried around the country by the French Canadians. They cross the line in the spring and exhibit through the New England and New York country places, working their way to the factory towns, where they have compatriots. In the wilderness the black bear is almost as timid as a wild duck. You may hear him breaking through the brush in a lumbering run as you approach, and he will never face you unless he is come upon suddenly, or is rendered desperate by hunger. The dam, if her young are in the vicinity, is apt to show her teeth to the intruder? she has forty-two of them. In confinement the American bear?like a truo lover of liberty?often grows morose and vicious. It does not prove so tractable *3 the brown bear of Europe. Not long ago a sinewy French Canadian was earning a pretty penny by giving wrestling exhibitions with his bear, an unusually big black one. Of course the bouts were a farce. The animal had been trained to stamp around on his hind legs, take hold of his master gingerly and do a backward fall at the right moment. Occasionally the man would go down and bruin would paw the earth around him, the while emitting a grumbling growl. One day Jean had beaten the bear savagely, or it had not had it* fill of cabbage and roota, and the pupil got his instructor down and clawed and rended him until he bled to death on the spot, 1 11 - 1 nPAim/1 ana tuc UUIUJJKius yav ucicu uwwu were too seared to interfere. No one, of course, has ever attempted to train and exhibit the grizzly, "coward of heroic size," though Bret Hartc has called him. One of them has been known to carry the carcass of a steer weighing 1000 pounds several mile3 to his lair in the boulders. "Wrestling would be a sorry business with this moal ster, aucl to teach him tricks even when an infant would be fraught with toD much excitement for a daily pursuit. Next to the hear the monkey is the animal which man finds most useful as a bread winner in a nomadic life. The little ape, in greatest demand, comes from Brazil. He has a most whimsical cast of countenance, and is as harmless as he fe ugly. He can soon be taught to wear a scarlet uniform?in fact, he is as vaiu of personal adornment as a dude? und struts arouud in a feathered cap without the irresistible desire of most pet auij mals to tear it from his head. Monkeys | are comparatively cheap. For from $30 i to sou you can buy at the regular <Iepot9 ! a diminutive ape whose hideousness is a I perpetual study. At the waterside J in New York along jSouth and | THE POLICEMAN'S CAPTURE. | West street, they can be purchased at n much lower figure from vessels trading in South American products. The skipper of an Italian bark that ran between the tropics, New York and Castellamnre, used to do a lively business in hurdygurdy monkeys with the New York manipulators of the barrel organ. As soon as they received notice that the Cavalieri Cavour or the Santa Teresa was in, they were down at the quay to strike bargains with the captain. He sold the monkeys right off the reel at cut prices, and it was a common thing for the ape to pay its way the first month after it j landed here. Togged out in a tunic and { forage cap, it was soon taught to climb j into the second-stery windows, proffer | the tiu cup and take off his cap to ac j knowledge a gratuity. But it never gets used to picking up a red hot copper thrown out by an agonized listener tj "Little Annie Roonev" or "Grandfather's Clock." That is a device of malignity which should he uusparingly condemned. Birds that can tell one's fortune have made their nppfearance in recent years, and the geutle creatures bid fair to eclipse the popularity of the monkeys. They are usually the property of a calmeyed philosopher who has long ago awakened to the folly of shouldering his way through the hurly-burly to snatch an existence. With his infinite patience he teaches hi3 little pets?they ure canaries or small green parroquets?to hop off a perch on which they sit unconfined together, and, flying to a little cabinet, to select an envelope. Returning to their perch they allow the fortune-seeker to J take the fajteful degree from their bills/ According as you are a gentleman or lady?that is what the bird proprietor calls you?these cunning creatures pick out a missive relating to good luck in worldly affairs or to matrimony. Henry Ward Beecher's "Widow. Mr3. Eunice Beecher, widow of the great pastor of Plymouth Church-, Brooklyn, is living diagonally across the way from tho church her husband's eloquence made famous. Her residence is a neat, tasteful, well-kept house, where in every nook and corner is some reminder of the great dead. Over her desk in tho front parlor where she writes is a life-size picture of Mr. Beecher taken over thirty r-anra arm nn/1 in TrimdlTPrtiftn tllG JVU.W, W --- ? eye turns, east, west, north or south, from the walls of these rooms look down life-size pictures of him in familiar attitudes in which he is remembered. Flowers and birds are features also. The. windows are bright with blossoms, and the small yard is a bower of bloom. Boxe3 supported by brackets around the 3IHS. HENRY WARD BEECHER. fence are filled with plants in blossom, and these brighten up the whole place. Mrs. Beecher is by no means a gloomy woman; there is no black or mourning ' visible. Women many years younger might covet the delicate bloom still on her cheeks and the cheery light iD her eyes and the pleasant words 'with which she greets her friends. Only in moments of depression from physical suffering, with moist eye3, she has been heard to snv! "I do so miss Mr. Beecher." One of his views on death had been as he expressed it: "If yoa have lost companions, children, friends, you have not lost them. They followed the Pilot. They went through the airy channels unknown and unsearchable, and they are with the Lord; and you are going to Him, too." Perhaps it is this aud kindred thoughts that enable her to hold her way serenely as she does, that leave with h?r a spirit so bright, so sweetly sympathetic, that the people of Plymouth Churoh regard her wit'u reverential affection as "all that is left them of Mr. Beecher."?Chicago Post. IIott to Tako Caro of tl?c Brain. The brain stands most abuse of any organ in the body. Its best tonic and stimulant is success. The worst and most depressing thing to it is failure. The most injurious effects come by using stimulants in early life. Young people should never use liquors, tea or coffee. The latter two may not exactly do harm, but they are conducive of no good. They act mostly on the brain and injure its grown very materially. Abundance of sleep is necessary. Eight hours is not more than enough. Sleep is the time of relatively lowered expenditure and increased repair.?Ladies' Home Journal. A Rising Youug Artist, I ?Lift. Cherrapoonji, India, has the well-dcservcd reputation of being the wettest place in the world. Last year the aggre?foil tViom tr-oc ilSd inches, and ! J^aic vuww , it was a comparatively dry season. In j wet ones it averages between 500 and j COO inches. In one day thirty-seven ' inchcs fell. A lady of Warsaw advertised in the j papers that she was willing to aecepl proposals for marriage, and. giving a description of herself, she also enumerated the qualifications she required in her suitor. Among those qualifications sho mentioned that he must be the owner of real estate. She received j many letters in reply, but one of them j was strictly original. The writer said i that he possessed all that the lady dej sirod in her future husband. He was good-looking, he held a responsible position, had many friecds and was received in good society, and could support a family comfortably. As to real estate, he had that, too; he was owner of a plot of ground in a cemetery which was large enough to accommodate him, a wife and six children. The lady selected the writer of this letter from the ?i-.i ? cii'+svra Shf> nninpfl "vvuuie i-iuLuuci m ouiwiu. ?l that a young man of his position who had thought of acquiring graves fox himself and a large family before he was married was surely worthy of ilhe endowment of her hand and heart. John Brown, 6on of John Brown 01 ! Harper's Ferry fame, lives quietly at j Put-in Bay, 0., where he cultivates a j email vineyard and fruit farm. He is an old man now, having been one of i the prominent persons in the stirring ! period in which his father figured. He I is much annoyed by tourists, who insist uj:oi lriTiting him up and discussing the exciting events around Harper's Ferry just jjrior to the war. Some ono has invented an electric j mouse-trap. It consists of an electrid cage containing cheese. The mice naturally approach it for purposes of investigation, but the instant they touch the wires an electric current strikes i themdeacL as .:-v? TEMPERANCE. CHARGE OF THE DRINK ERIGADB. Through the land, through the land* ? Many leagues onward, Into the valley of death MaVched not six hundred: Thousands took up their cry? Theirs not to reason why, Theira but to make reply; Ye3! we will drink and die, Iuto the valley of death Marched many a hundred. Ruin to the right of them, Ruin to the left of thorn, Ruin in front of them, From all good suuderol Not in the field they fell. Fighting life's battle well, But in the jaws of death, Up to the mouth of hell Marchcd many a hundred. See all tha husbands there, And while their eyeball? glare, Pity those children fair, Hear their crias rand tho airWhile tho world wondered. See, too, those wretched wives, Once good and pure their lives; Now each like demon strives Into those poisoned hives, Still to march ouward. Honor ths good and brav?, Who from a drunkard's grave Those weak ones tried to save, To death marching onward. Many a home shall tell How long they fought, anil well, To save from death and hell ?i More than six hundred. ?National Temperance Advocate. MUST THKKATZNINQ, ~ I At the Social Science Congress held fa Saratoga, a paper entitled "Social Science Problem in Inebriety" was read by Dr. T?, 0. Crothers, Superintendent of the Walnut Lodge Hospital, of Hartford, Conn. He said:' that notwithstanding all the advances dt civilization and intelligence, and the increase ing temperance agitation and effort, the1 drink evfl or inebriety is most threatening and omninons tr> snnifll nr'nirpss nnrt rlArplnn.! ment to-day. In 1889 over 500,000 persons were arrested in this country charged with' being drunk and disorderly. Nearly twenty* per cent, committed crime of petty character' while under the influence of spirits. Thd great question of to-day is not so much thrf cure of this army, or tlie chocking of its moN talify, but of prevention, ????? "THE DEVIL'S MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE." No matter how earnest Chinese mission- 1arics to heathen lands may bo, their effort? arc often neutralized by the condftct of nominal Christians. Here, for instance, if the Bombay Guardian, speaking as follow^ about what is called "the devil's missionary, euterpiseAll vessels bound for West ana; South Africa, coming from all ports in Europe and America, stop at Madeira. Here' ? is the list of spirituous liquors which passecj, through in ono week; it is taken from the' daily returns posted in Liverpool: 930,000 eases of gin ?240,000. 24,000 butts of rum 240,000 30,000 cases of brandy 90,000 28.000 cases of Irish whisky 56,000 800,000 demijohns of rum 240,000 36.000 barrels of rum v. 73,000 80,000 cases old torn ... 60,000 15,000 barrels of absinthe 45,000 40,000 cases of vermonth 3,000 THE 8IK OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Intoxicating drinks are not necessities, writes George W. Bungay in <ha National Advocate. we can live in health and work at the most exhausting employments without them. Tbey are expansive in contrast witB food, and have no nutritivo qualities wortlj speaking of; in fact, there is more nourish? ment in a baker's cracker than can be found in a gallon of beer. These liquors poison afad weaken tho mind. They are oneaiiQ3 in ffit mouth that steal away tho brain3. They stain the character, create a false appetite^ _ kindle the baser passions, and hfirry the vie* tim, soiled with sin, to moral bankruptcy and shame. Therefore they should not be offered for sale. V-'-li The use of intoxicating drinks peoples thfl receptacles of vice and crime, Alls tho instittg tions of charity and mercy with the halt, thj sick, tho blind, the insane, and the idiotfej augments the misery of the drinkers andtheil unoffending victims, and adds heavily to th< burdens of taxation. Therefore their sala cVinnlrt nnt. ha nnthnrl7.?1 hr law. In frhfl name of reasoD, of humanity, of justice, ol mercy, of piety, is it right to wipe out the image of God from the human face dlvinf and write beast upon it? Is it rigbt to sell 4 poison which strikes at the citadel of thl mind and soul? If it be right to license ft man to sell disease and crimo and sin, ana "distilled damnation," why limit the number to a few? If it be right for ono, it cannot bi wrong for another. If it bo wrong, wht should any license be permitted? If itM right, why should any man bo forbidden? If it is safe business and honorable, why fence it about with penalties? If the traffic work* personal evil, how can it promote the public welfare? Will the results of drunkenness be modified and the widows and orphans suffer less under the sanction of law! will a license . make your town moro respectable an 1 prosperous? The sale of intoxicating drinks should be prohibited, because it assails tho mind of man and deprives him of his intellectual vigorj because it encourages gambling, idleness^ profanity, and every phase of im morality J because it hinders the advancement of thrift, of education and religion ;because it destroys tho peace and welfare and happincs3 oi home; bscausc it reduces many wives ana children to pauperism and want; because it tempts men to trample on their good resolutions and prevents the reform of the drunkard; because it burdens tho non-drinker and others with oppressive taxation; because it is a gross insult to a sober community; because the best people desire the temptation to drink removed; because drunkards not a few would abstain if the invitation to drink was out of tho way; because tho idle and the vicious are fired by tho rum they drink, to become noisy, quarrelsome and combative; because nature, experience, history and the Scriptures utter their protest against leading . 'rtwir.fn4{An< KnrtonfKfl olfl rtf I iiicu law tcm^iiavivu^ vcvituoo M(W Ultlv wliquor degrades and debanchos tbo liquor* I soilcr; becausa license builds up au aristocracy of rum, favoring a few at the cost ofi many; because liceuso fails to restrain the sale of liquors; because it protects the traffic in ram and insults earth aud heaven. TFJIPERAXCE NEWS AND NOTES. A "Temperauce Day" was one of tbo featires of the Edinburgh exposition. Chicago has one saloon for every forty rotors, and a policeman for every two hunIrad voters. Comptroller Onahan, of Chicago, says that teventy par cent, of the license fees of the 1033 saloons of Chicago are paid by brewers. Jersey City has a law under which fine3 of . JlOO each are to be imposed upon persons delected drinking malt or alcoholic liquors in ler new parks. There will be a grand temperance rally in connection with the corn palace fair at Sioux City, Iowa, at which leading temperluca speakers have baen invited to speak. From recant statistics we learn that of the mo hundred an:l odd comities in Kansas birty-seven havo empty iails, fifteen have >nly one prisoner cacb, a'au forty-four have 10 paupers. At the temperance congress liald at Chri* i.ina, Norway, preliminary steps were taken o form an international league against the 136of alcoholic drinks. The headquarters of be leaguo will be Zurich, Switzerland. A kidy of Atlanta. Ga., finding tfiat a saoon was to be established near her residence'. lecided to prepare and circulate a protesi or signatures. Her efforts were so succesa-, ul that her would-be neighbor was obliged o seek other quarters. A saloonkeeper who paid $1209 for license o sell liquors tea days within the Sonoma bounty, California, fair grounds met a nnrmeif.inn in two barrels of pure cold rater presided over by of tbe county; Voman's Christian Temparance Union. Newfoundland will soon b3 added to tho , npidly increasing list of auxiliaries to tbeJ ivorlasw. C. T. V. At a preliminary! V nesting held in St. John, fifty-si^ ladies.] rere present, forty-three of whom enrolled J hemselves for membership and fixed a dat?; then permanent organization will be com*" jleted. . jjj Davis Dalton, the American whg rwam across the English channel, sayj that he found the temperature of thg water to change six time3 on his wuy across, and this added to the cause od the extreme eihaufltiofi..he .suffered. _ J,. - ;n TT i- 1 _j