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mm. rem VOL. LIY. NO. 11 BRATTLEJ30R0, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1887. 3w TUK VERMONT PIKENIX, i iniuasr RKcwm ami pihsm! nnitrtl Stay , hHl,i I I H.I-MIM) MntY KIllllAV IIV Kit KXCll As S'l'UDJIAX, IIHATTI.HIIUUU, VT. TKItMS- Jl .viper jcur In mliance; If 111.t11.1l1l nlthiii lln')rar, film, 1 Hitch or Ativxini-iMi furnished on nmillmllun lllillis. HimIIih. anil MitnktKm publish,! f,w nliltii.ul Ni'tii'i-s, I'tihlsof Thanks, t-lo.,riVi-tH in-r iik-Ii ".r 12 lines or less. I Kiitcnnl nt the UrnttlfUim lVrt onliv iwwwn.l .i.ish nniil miiHrr. II I, l-IIK.MH ), 11, Ml HUMAN. Business (5nrts. jHHIt.llAlY A JIINNK, Hernial iisnrmirr and Ileal Ktitale Amenta, It. in litlug Companies whose assets uu- uvit SJII(),(IO(l,()(M). TKNKMKKTH TO 1.1IT. Ai;elllH lor llAIK'is'K Fill KXTlSOl HIIKKH I min- III New Illuck, cor. Main A Kllk.l Sin. llltATTUlUOliO, VT. v.Vl'FK.IIAN A- M.VIITIIV. A'lTl III VV'VU l'l' t l it ' UllTll, HI.Hk, llllUl,-l.,.. 't i i. .nii.i,i:it, .n. i., j. 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S'ntMONKY. piinT'12 Kioiit 1'ehCent Intkuest fir llvt'enrs, wet lit U liy First Moitiratfcn tin HaUotu ftirmt worth Ihrv t ten tiaitH the 11 11 h mnt of loin. Twflve I'eu i'im iNTEiiLMrfw-ounsl hy Fltst Mtirtpijjt' IVr--Miml 1'rojit'tty woith fnmi thrtt; to twthc tinu-H nit amount of lun Intint pruinptly ut llu-huitit ol It'inli-r in Vi'itiiout Vermont ivftT ciifi" hen Corn -iMiiuieiRi twilii-ltinl A.ltfrt-ivs, I't M. l'AHKi:iE, Atiqiinev at Iaw. KtlemUlt, iMkutn. UaflroaU Stcamsljtp Ctcftcts. Western Tickets ' Vm AM, I'lIINX'll'AI UN'ES: ilaf,'HK'- rlttxk m thnni,;li: hltfiifiii: car lnrths smirtl. Tickets by Cunard and Allan Lines Tn Hint ftoni nil Kui'o'hmii imiiIk ltuirs ala s haw rtiUuntiiir of l.iwot ratin I tit fuitlit'i-Information upplyto i:. 1'. ItltOOKtt, Acriil, Tirkft Otllt ItufltoniMution. Urnttl Niro Special ValueL t In two lots of 1 Underwear At 25c and 50c. Night Gowns, Chemise, Draw ers, Corset Covers, Skirts nnd Slips in each lot. Also n full line of higher eost goods of HATHAWAYS Celebrated Make, The sale of which is confined in tills scet ion to TO ADVERTISERS! ! Porn L-htH'h of $Jil in- ulll print a ten-Hue adter Its, tin-lit In One Million IsMierf of leading Ameri- an Nem.imii. rH Thin i "it the rat of unly oiu lillli of u cent a line, for 11X0 clnulatiou. Tim ud v ilUelnent will l- lilnivd before One .Million ill. . i I.iiuiiiu j-it Vliit Allllliill T ' I HI IWW SI Ml T IHH ll " . ... ..... .. li'iitlHih Ten lluert will accoinmoilate aiMut S 01 M ini anivnth for Hook ol ITU IKlKea. lltO. P. ItOWELI.Jt I'D , 10 Spruce Kt , New oil t (ll.NTH WAKTKII to mil "ltKMINISOKN 71 KWofKlVPAltSinthe NATIONAL MK TltDPDLlS, By BEN PERLEY POORE. WiiHW AUillVn4 HIlUUCOpj oi u. cimi llliMratliik' the Wit, lliiiiiorund Kei-i-nlriclllea of MiTP.it rin.p.imrrim ltii'in.v ii.i.ys- 'I ItA'f Kit tn ut or inner Mieicly liUtoiy. from "' olden tlltl. to the lU'dillllKOI t'lelt'Ulld on-it'-i fully IMllll, li i'-lll i i 'Jiorl I'Ulil.l wlleB Ad ilr. for .11,'illir uul t- tlii III IIIIAUII IlltOS,, Puhllslier.i. Hunt in Mr.au ina J If HP tti w m Lqchbs Cotton Hawley. flHNSONS l.ung. ltoarone- nu.i,- - ..coni.iiiinii ...v.. t.-ry. Chronic Dl a a BBt fi AT B LpBmatlon or v.ry urrhcaa, Kidney M WL fj WW srt value, Ev. and mm mkm .rybody Uplnal DU.ases. MW WM M0 ve tbl. W. will .end free. IMIB W III F and tboae bo to all ATS I wJH M ffl d for 11 wl" who .end their ONB ffl .v.r after tbank an Ilia- fkV W tbelr lucky atara. tr.ua Pamphlet" TT,,.., i. .hall r.oclfe a oertlO-iate that the money abaU All who buy or order direct from u., and rnqueet J,'' " ta.oo. Epr.. prepaid t. .";r.d:ribriu.rBrar0r cada"-r a vounson co p. a 8.0-- the iiiiiir'iiT MOST WONDERFUL FAMILY REMEDY EVER KNOWN. Absolutely Pure. ThU puwilcr lifter .iiiiH. iimrcl ..r miit. HttvtiKtli mill w mli -.ni.fiii'Kv M"it- ciiiiioniii'iii llmiittuM'i.ltiKUi l 11 i iihIi uumtli. M1iim 'om lk'tflluii with in iiiiltitii.l. -i It u i st -,linrt uiinlit nhni . 1 ihi -tjiii itf hh. .tt-rs ,M tmttf lit .v U.I'klM. I. WDKHI n . Ni'W vlk m BEST THING KNOWN WASHINGASSBLEAOHING IN HARD OR SOFT, HOT OR COLO WATCR. BA.VUS I.AI!OIt, TIME anil SOAP AMAZ. INOI.Y, anil gives unlTPrsui ntlif.ictloii. So family, rich or poor should bo without It. So'.dbT all Grocorj. UUWAItUot Imltatlona iroll di-jlitneiUo mUlead. 1'KAIILINK Is the ONLY UAFn labor savlni? compound, unC ahrnri bears the above svmbol, and nnmo of ' JAMHS PVLK, NEW YOIIK. CURE Sick Ht'atlaclif um) tfltevo all the (roulilp liieMeiit to a billoiiH stat'' of the hjkUmi,, mh-Ii um Jtlzziiii-K-. Nausea, lruwsiin-Ki, ILstnss an-r rating. I'uin In tin' Slile, tc AVhiln thrir tuo.t ivinurkalilr sue cn has Nth hhow ri in rurlng SICK Ileailachr, ji-t radri a Uttlf Liver PitUiuvwpml ly alnal'le in t'oiisliotitioii, t-ut iiiaiul preventing thin aiintiiug oiiiiUfnt while they aN. rurnri all tlisonh'Pt of the htoiiuieh, stimulate the liver utnl rtvtilate the ItoueK Kven If thej mily riiml HEAD Ache ttiev would le almost orkvltfW In thow nlio I siirTer fnnii thi- ilisttTKtinic complaint, hut fortu j nately their Kootlmut i1h-h mt t'lul here, anl those ; uhixiniv tty them u ill flii'l tliev little pills vnlu I a tile In no many wajM that they will not Im lllmg to tin without tliftii Hut ufter all sick heat) ACHE Is the Utne of so many lii- that lit re U here we make our gitai IknisL Our pilN inre it uhiln others du Dot L'atttrw Little I .Her Tills uie very small a in I irry easy to take One or two pills make a tluse They an' Kit k tit exetahl- ami tlu nut gripe or purt , hut tr their irntle action please nit who use t hem. In vials ut liTt rents, live furSl SoM hy tlniKftj rvt r v. heir, or wnt hy mail. CARTER MEDICINE CO., NEW YORK CITY. ON MARKET DAYS One li.-ki t to each customer hut i Mir .VI vtoilh of our gotxis at the lime 'I wonMer what they kerpv" For oter Mi eaiM ur stoiv has Utii hrailniiitn for HARDWARE, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, BUILDING MATERIALS, Nails, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Hair, IRON AND STEEL, CRASS SEEDS, AgriculturalTooIs,&c.&c. Kerosene Oil, voryhcst,15 cents. We aie wle Agent, for E. PRANK COE'S SUPERPHOSPHATE The Kiiiif of peltiliA'lu. IukvihI A No. 1 for over i-ijeain. jMH-l-t.iii. The larurat Hardiiuiv Ktoro in Koiltlieni Ver; mont inn- motto- II. jllianUot Ijiviiwt Prices, for mail or approved i-U'.lit. Come and we iw Market liaj-B. or any oilier day C.F. COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, TJJE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY For IJver. IlllC IlldnjiMlou, He Pill; 'rfn1??r cury i contain, only Pure Vew table Ii.ijie.ll.nu. AgVut V. N.fUPrTllNTOji, Nrw urU. FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNALDSE. . n hflumatlaro. Bleeding at tb ftillMfar FEaroNE lUArvlLKol LiNimu. i CDIUIENT AFFAIRS. mil m:i:vjtf:its fvxehai. I'lriiioiilli C'limrli TliroiiRcil nuil Hrrrtr nl Ovrrltair Mrrtlrr Ilrlil AN AHL'NIIANCK tK FLOWKKH, HUT NO SION OK MIltMlNIMI KUIKltBH llV tUHNNUU tSlf Kl Ct.KimVMKN TIIK HUHIAU riyinoutli clitirili was pnckt'tl nlinost to BulTooation lant KrUny moriiin w lion tin puhlic funeral wrvirw of ltev. Henry Wnnl Hwcher wero held. Mrs. lieeelier nml Iter wet'o not present. Thus. K. ami I'M ward lioeclier, tiruthcrn of tlio dead iirciu h ur, nnd several niecuK Mit lit tlio puna Jut mediately In front of and liehind tlio pat torH pew, wliich wa filled with rod and white rosoH. There were tm enihlciut tf mourning, hut the church twix made l-right with roset and liliiJtud other lltiwcrs. ltev. Dr. Hall of the Church of the Holy Trinity I'unduetcd the servicett and delivered an eu logy which closed with the relation ut thi touching incident ; "On hi.s last Siittilay evening in ttiu place, two weeks ao, nfter the congregation had re 1 1 ret I from it, the organist aihl one ir two I others were practicing the h) mu, '1 hoard j the voice of Jet tin way.' Mr. l.eecher, dotihtless with that tire that follows a pas torV Sunday work, remained und listened. Two street urchitiH wandered in, ami one! of thein wa htaiidinis', potliap, in the hwi. 1 tion of the hoy whom Itaphael has itnumr talizcd, gain up at the organ. The old man, laving hi Imnds on the loy4H heud, ' turiieil Uh fuce upward and k.MKed liiui,niid with hit aiiiH alrout the two, left this wene of hi tiiumpht, hit t Halt and Ium succetMos forever. It was a lilting clo-.e to a grand' life the old man of geiiiim ntd fameHliield iiig the little ignorant wanderer, lecogtil ing that the humhlest and jMNuest were hit hi others, and pushing out into the night with the little iiamcIcKH wiiifn " Overflow services were held in live other Hrookl n chui che4,all of w hh h w ere throng ed to their utmost ea'-oeiU . The Iwnly lay in t-tate in the church after the funeral and until the hurial on Satur day Many thousands of people pushed hy to take a lart kmk at the great pieaeher's face. On Satin day morning the Imdy was taken from the chinch and curried to O teen wood cemetery and placed in a receiving vault, where it will remain until the family select a lot fur the final hurial. Along the whole route to the cemetery the streets were liuetl with eopIe. and mum followed the cortege to the cemetery. On Sunda morning Hev I Jr. Ionian Ah- l 1-ott delivered an addres on Mr. lteechcr's life and wotk in Plymouth chinch hefure an audience which filled every availuhle part of the nioui. Mr. lteecher's wishes in re ganl U the decoration of the church were ran full) respected, und theie was not uny where a sign of mourning, hut on the con trary it never presented a more joyous ap pearance, leing bright with freshly-eut roses, lilies, smilnx, ferns, ami other similar decorations. In many prominent churches all over the country eulogies to Mr. lteecher's memory weio paid at the Sunday morning services. Mr. lloecher's will makes his thtee wins and hit sou indaw executors and trustees, and directs them to invest the amount of Ins life insurance, $HH),I)!H). for the U-m-fit uf his wife, and pay its proceeds to her in equal quarterly pa meats All the test of his projH'rty is lelt to his children and their issue. Mr. Keecher was u man of tireless indus try, and if ho had saved all the money that was paid him he would have been a very rich man. The New York Herald figures up the amount received hy him for his work, as follows : lhiring the forty years he was jtastor of Plymouth church he was paid in salaries, $.V0,OI)0. He received during the name time for copyrights $10, 000, for lectures $.170.lHH), for editorial work $lo0,000, in wedding fees $10,000. in profits on I nx.Wh $2r,(HH), ami for miscella neous work nliout cd0."i.(HJ0- -a total of 1,- The news of the death of her brother was re'eiveil with comjHiMire hy Mrs. Har riet Iteecher Stowe at her home in Hart ford, Conn. She is a yenr older than Mr. Iteecher, ami is ?o feeble that she was una hie to attend the funeral. iHiiiug Mr. lteecher's last visit to hit sister, last au tumu. he is said to have expiettusl hi- Ik1 lief in hit approaching death, and that it would Ire by uoplexv. A Ht't ei A rriiiuiiitii'iil of ihr Ilrma rriilic l.fiuU'r. In Cougtrewaj. More than '.'.OO'J.tHHteitueiis of the fnitisl Stat e, a laige iHutloii of whouiaiu voteis, petitioned the t'oiigiess which clo-ttl hist Kriilay for the passage of the National Kd ucation hill Over 1h),o00 of these re quests were over autograph signatures, while others have len pi esentel collec tively frtnu national luwH-iations, societies, churches, etc. The Washington National Itepuhlicau in a "Hreakfast Table Letter to the President, just before the adjourn ment said . "Mr. President : The Houe of Representative- of the forty-ninth C'ongiess in its closing hours presents to the people a sad spectacle, indeed. H is not a delibera i ttvebody : it has simply reduced itself into a cabal to gag legislation and thereby de j feat the will of the people. Thu chief cou i spirators are t'arli'lel IJandull and Morri son. The lilair hill, a wise and patriotic measure, founded on the principle of pro moting the general welfare by fieo educa tion, which is the cornerstone of republi can institutions, is now being deliberately strangled to death by the three Democrats mimed, all leaders in the Deium-ratio party." The following from the Charleston, S. C, News and Courier is of interest as showing how thu South receives this condition of things. The News ami Courier appropriately heads the article "A Heavy Responsibility:" 'The imiortaiice of the Blair education al bill to every southern state has Inren ton clearly shown and is too fully understood to require to ho argued anew. Recent re -jMirts from Imisiium give the unpleasant information that over one-half of the vot ers of that state cannot lead or write, and that the number of illiterates is increasing from jeur to year rather than diminishing. Expenditure for educational purposes have reached high-water mark, it is believed, in nearly every southern state, if not in all, ami federal aid must lie obtained or u great number uf children, white and black, will grow up in hopeless ignorance. "The supposed constitutional objections to the D'air bill have been overcome, or, at uny rate, thu hill has been shown to bo as constitutional as many other less deserving measures that have been passed without any objection, It is of supremo conse quence, if it is of any consequence at all, that the people shall be educated. U in telligence, in fehort, is an element of value in the exercise of tliesulfruge if it is nee essary for the hiiccess of free institutions und of a government of and by the peonle, that they whocontioltho government hhall have trull led minds, or at least enough ed ucation to enable them to read ami write then is this hill of more importunco than even tlio bills for n construction of a navy, or of fortifications, or for any other pur pose. lThere is always, moreover, the special and most urgent reason in favor of the particular hill in fpiefition. that where illit eracy is most glaring and most dangerous, that is in the fcouth, it has been made an el ement of peril to the south and to the w hole country, by the action of the nation in ini jioslug the suffrage on a race of jveoplo who were utterly unprepared and unfit for it, und who are hopelessly unable to educate themselves. No evidence or reason what ever is given or can bo given, wo believe, to justify the expectation that the southern states can hiirce.fully ileal villi, the press ing problem of educating thisclas of their illiterate citizens, und those wlmaie boon to become citizens. "These, are tho general facts, A reason able and proper bill which would give the needed aid, imd would correct hi every re spect tho condition of tiling to which ft re late, has passed the Senate hy uu over w helming vole, but is now tied up hi a exun-f Why did the Women of this country use over thirteen million cakes of Procter 8c Gamble's Lenox Sop in 1886? Buy a cake of Kcnox and you will soon understand why. mittoo of tho House of Rcpre-ientative. with no prospect that It w ill Iks allowed to beoted iqHtn. The supporters of the bill would tnoko no objection if It were fairly voted down. Hut they ennnot get a chanco to have a vote taken. Only by the action of tho committee on rules, nt this stag of tho session, can the bill bo taken up nnd put upon it passage, but the majority of the committee Speaker Carlisle, Mr. Mor rison and Mr. Randall constituting that ma jority have bo far flatly refused or have failed Ut allow it Ui come lieforc tho House. "It is computed that not more than 70 members of tho House are opposed to tho bill in nny of its essential features. The majority of the House, therefore, nro situ pl gftfTrs"1! hy a majority of tho commit tee on rules ; and, in tho last analysis of the situation, hundreds of thousands of white and black children are Iwing deprived of the benefits and advantages of an edu cation because of theahuseof an arbitrary parliamentary rule by one or two men. Tlit forms and restraints which wero in tended and devised for the protection of the rights of u minority in the House are thus mode the means of mur.zlin und shackling the majority, and of inflicting an irreparable injury uikui the children, the future citizens, of the country. It is a cu rious state of things to I rein with, audit is a dangeious, undemocratic and altogeth er wrong condition of things to content plate in its course and assured couse quel ices, Such an article iir this would in any case form a scathing arraignment of the men who are resjMMisible for the condition of things described, but its force nnd xignifl ennce are many times increased, coining as it does from one of the two leading Demo cratic newspapers uf the South. The gist of the whole matter, as vigorously stated by the News and Courier, it that tho oople of the country, andesieciallv of the South where it it most needed, are anxious by an overwhelming majority to have the bill passed ; tho Senate passed it by a strong majority, und not over TO members of the House were opposed to it, and yet it was kept tied up in committee and finally smoth ered to death to suit the MrHonal purjwes of the Democratic leader. Carlisle, Mor rison and Randall ' llitllroitri CoiinnUaionriV Ilrporu The Isiard of rail in Mid commissioners have investigate! and made rerts on two rail road accident which have occurred since the White River disaster. The first of these was on the death of Kdw. W. South worth, a freight conductor on the Pa-stump sic road, who fell from his train and hit Imdy was cut in two nt White River June tion isi the O'ld of February. The finding of the commissioners it that the accident "wo the result of some loss of grip upon tho ladder, as Conductor Southworth was going down to, or climbing up from a coal car, or by slipping upon the snow or ice ut one end of it, whereby he fell between the cars, was Jrawn under the wheels and kill ed. There is no fault attributable to any one for the fatal accident." Tho other investigation and rejort is on 1 the matter uf the collision on the Central i Vermont road, Keb. IS, between Northfield and Montpelier Junction. The trains were ' passenger No. oS bound north and freight 1 No. -i bound south. Tho accident occurred because Engineer Ward of the freight train ' left MontjK-lier Junction without orders and j went on Hoiith, leaving his conductor at the station, and running on time which belonged j to the passenger train coming in the oppo site direction. This collision caused thu wieck of tho two locomotives and a lig t gnge car, broke in the end of one pastenger I car, wrecked a freight car and load of live I hogs killing six or eight of thein, and iu- jured, though uot seriously. Ruggage master Henry C. Moody. The essentia) part of the finding of the 1 board in this matter is the following : There can Ik no question as to where the blame rests in this case. , I. Engineer Ward is clearly guilty of negligence and conduct wholly regardless of duty and rules well understood by hint. He probably did not know that he was leav ing his train conductor at Montpelier June tion, but he did know that he had no right to go forward on thu trunk line without a w ritteu order to that effect from the train despateher at St. Albans. He know that Itascnger train No, 1W had the right of the road and that it had not arrived, though ft was overdue. He testifies In1 fore the hourd to all this and says- It was lacAUse I left MontK?lier Junction on the time of No. X, mid it it due to the fact that I entirely forgot aUuit No. ,Vs,M His honesty in the full confession of his fearful error is coin mendahle, but tho forgetfuluess is without excuse. The accident wa.s the natural re suit of heedless disoledieiico of well under stood rules, in respect to which forgetful nes wus the grossest negligence. 2. His fireman and forward brake man weie in thu engine with him. They are not blameless. They should have reminded Ium of his dangerous blunder. They did not do so. The rules of the railroad ad mitted to bo understood by them, inculpate thein as blameworthy next to the engineer. This accident came altout with fearful dan Ker to the lives und limbs of many pa-eu geis and trainmen, lecuuso inuii of tried capacity violated well defined and under stood rules of duty. The Iroard takes tins occasion to quote for the consideration of men liaviug the 1 lives of the travelling public and their as sociate employes in their keeping the follow ing statute law, the enforcement of -tvluch is likely to be lecommeuded tu the officers of tho law for future negligence of this character on the part of train operators : "When nn engineer, fireman or other agent of u railroad conjuration i guilty of i negligence, or carelessness, whereby au in jury is done to a person or coris-ration, he I shall be punished by imprisonment not more than one veur, or by a fine not more than ; .HXJ0. 'By order of the Board, ALKUEIl K. WATSON, Clerk. MIXOU XOTKS. The New Mexico legislature has made the attempt to wreck a railroad train u capital crime. Ituruett V. Tit Tuny, a Mm of Charles h, TilTuny, head of the well-known Now York jewelry firm, has startled his parents by marrying Miss Emma N. Pierson of Morris town, Jf. J., u respectable young woman two years his senior, who earned her living by sewing. Mis Piersou comes from u good old Kuickeilsx'ker fumily, but thu Uiy'ii father refuses to receive tho young couple. Col. Roliert (1. Ingersoll, who has been tumbled with a throat disease similar to that which carried off Gen. (Jrant, says he is rapidly recovering, ami that his physi cian assures him that the cure will hj com plete and permanent. Tho Rhtslo Island legislature has submit ted u constitutional amendment to the jho plo for granting woman suffrage. The vote hi the House was 52 to 7, and in the Senate 20 to H, The people will vote April 7, liutiui threo-flfthsare necessary to carry it, there is not much probability uf its suc cess this time. It is the first move of the kind in tho New England states, The Vermont Conference KejKrter to he issue.) during the annual conference to be held at St. Johiishury, beginning April 21st, promises to le of even more than usual in terest. Besides reports of the sermons, and speeches ileliveied in the conference, .twill contain a jioeu. by Rev. A. J. Hough, un historical sketch entitled ''The Eirst Metho dist Itinerant to Vermont," an account of how far ubove the -'Million Dollars for Mis sions" the Vermont conference has gone, etc. Tho price is 15 cents for the five is sues, und names and money may be handed to the preacher in charge or sent to W. J. Johnson, St. Albans, Vt., at once. In llir tlriHtrimrnl nl Viihhifloii VKIUKVINO Ml'TltaATKIl t'l'llltl'NCV Dim-HT INO COL'NTKHFKIT MONK "AN KNt'VWll- I-EDIA OK IlKI'OltTK" HlOM A tHIVKHN- MKNT UmCK TO TIIK IIOMB OK ItMVAl.T IlEPAHTMHNT CLKIIKH IN HOC1KT . . (Pinni Mrs, (leu. .folm A. lagan's aitlcte in Man li rhautauijiiaii In almost every branch of the civil set vice women have been employed. Mauyof them hecomo experts in thu ih-paitmenU to which they belong. This is especially true of them as rapid nnd accurate counters, as counterfeit detectors, ami as lestorers of mutilated curreilcy. The redemption and counting division Is one of the most inter estiug in tho treasury department. Heie, worn and mutilated bank notes that uio no longer hi service are counted pluvious to being destroyed. The women who do the counting acquire great skill and seldom make a mistake in manipulating the dilupi dated packages. A great deal of delicate work is done in verifying currency which has been partially destioyed by fho or oth er causes, ami which has I -ecu nont to the treasury to bo exchanged for new notes. Tho women whoaie expert in this business take the ium of burned or other w iso injur od currency, after unpacking it from the raw cotton in which it traveled, and with long, thin knives ami Ntwerful magnifying glasses slow y ami cautiously sepaiute the pieces and decide tho value and nit tire of each note in the collection. Sometimes the entire amount has thus Ik-cii verified, but usually there is a loss of from ten to thirty percent. Such is the record of these wom en that they have Iroeil allowed to go long distances to restore burnt money U longing to the Adams express company, because it was known that there was no one else in the land who could peifoiiu this service. Mrs. Rosenberg of the treasury depart ment it considered one of the very liest de tectors of counterfeit money in the world . hundreds and thousands of dollars have been thrown out by her remaikable nklll after the had been passed by less lututc detectors. Miss Mary Van Wrunken, u graduate from Miss Potter's school nt Ear miugtou, Conn., it considered one of the very lest law cleiks iu the interna) revenue depaitiuent. A lawyer of high standing sayt that she will take a case, make up a brief, and state the case more i-orrectly and in less time than am one else he ever saw. Miss Iauura Mt-hau, daughter .Mr.SjH,ITord's piedccosyor as librarian of Congiess, has occupied a position in the comptroller's of flee for many years, acting frequently as deputy comptroller During Mr Delano's service us comptroller, she once filled hit place for six months when he was alneut Her perfect knowledge of everything in this office bus made her an authority whose decisions are never reversed by her superi or o flicer. Probably no other lfody of women woik ers in the html cmU-dies so much culture and intelligence. Slany of them are re markable for literary and scientific attain ments, and the departments are better for having them there, while women all over the land uie reaping tho benefit of the les sons learned of what women can do in these departments. Socially their jsisition has ever len exactly what it was Iteforo they entrtnl tho department, I tarring the fact that women of eminent social standing have not the time to devote to society that they had under sunnier skies , but they hold their places just the same whenever they have tho time to take them. Miss Julian dales, daughter of Joseph dales, formerly editor and proprietor of the National Intelligencer, once u lielle in steie ty, has beeti for many jears a clerk iu the state department, commanding by her elli cieiicy and refinement the confidence and highest esteem of all who know her official ly and sK'iaUy. The distinguished name she Wars is in no degree compromised by her work, though her duties debar her from larticiiatiug in society as was her wont when fortune was kinder. Mrs. Surah Ma gruder, widow of Ma) or Magnider, filled a lH'sitiou iu the treasuier's office with such ability and fidelity that she added lustre to the fame of the Magruders. Miss N. B Cummiugs, now the librarian of the de-tart ment of justice, is a daughter of a former justice of the sup! cute court of Pennsyl vania, and is regnrded as one of the lest authorities on law I-ooks in the country. She is literully an cneydopnslia of rc)orts. rendering invaluable aid to the lawyers who use the extensive library of that depait iuent. One of the brightest ami initst at tractive young ladies in Washington society. Miss May B. Morse, daughter of ex-Congressman Morse of leouisiana, is also a depart ment clerk. Must icople, unacquainted with the work of the deiartments and its requirements mental and physical, think that a clerkship in tho departments means u sinecure for any man or woman who is fortunate enough to get an appointment. That unworthy and inefficient men and women have sometimes found employment here for a time isdoubt lesstruo; but by far the greuter numl-or are honest, capable nnd faithful workers, w ho earn every dollar they receive from the treasury. As a rule Brother Jonathan, with his puritanical notions of thrift, exacts an equivalent in service forevery one of his dollars. At nine oVlock his servants must bo in their places ami apply themselves con stantly till four o'clock, often with greut numliers in illy-ventilated room and many with the fear of discharge hanging over them like the sword of Damocles. Many ladies have stepped from the de paitments into the portion of honored wives, luxurious homes, and places of high social standing. Miss Camilla Webb, daugh ter of u former Itauker in Washington and one of the greatest beauties in tho city, was a clerk In the office of the comptroller of currency for some years. She married Bar on von Haire, ambassador from the Nether lands, and is now of tho Queen's household. Mrs. B. II. Brewster, the daughter of Rob ert J. Wulker, formerly seeretury of the treasury, filled a .Msitiou in the treasury for a long time when tho shallow of adversity came upon heraged father. Mr. Brewster, visiting the department on business, saw this beautiful and accomplished woman, sought au introduction, ami offered her his hand nml heart. During President Arthurs administration she returned to Washington as the wife of tho uttorney-genernl, and no lady uf the cabinet wus more beloved or filled her station with more graciousness and dignity than did Airs. Brewster, und no laxly ever left behind her truer friends or more admirers. Her death a few months ago brought tears to the eyes of many who mourned her us a Itejiefactress, Early hi the days of woman's employment In tho departments, a young and beautiful girl sought u position that she might aid her father in the support of the family. Daily she despatched the duties assigned her, und out of office hours applied herself diligently to tho acquisition of knowledge, mustering almost unaided French, Italian und other studies. Ere long a distinguished head of a bureau of one of the departments wooed ami won her. For a lung time during Pres ident 0 rant's administration she was prom inent in society. After a while her husband died, und she removed to a great metropo lis. But her beauty and accomplishments wero not destined to bo forever cloistered with grief. One even higher on the roll of official position sought her out, and today she is tho much-admired and lovely wife of au o-ssociato justice of the supreme court. And here in tho samo city where, when but u lass in her teens, she curved out her for tune, aided only by her own genius and bruins, she is destined to reign a u queen to whom all will be proud to pay homage. The w idow of a. governor of a western state has occupied a position iu the treasury for the past fifteen years, rearing und tdu at ing her family, ever malntnluitig her post tion with dignity and grace. Many more instances might be given, for there are innumerable interesting women j among the hundreds that nscend the steps1 of the departments and take their places nt the stroke of nine o'clock, to make a repu- ' tnlion for promptness nnd efficiency. Such i women have elevated the standard and dem onstrated that women, even when hedged I in hy adversity, can coik? w'ith tho stronger i sex and keep pace with him Iu the ruco of life without losing her womanly graces or forfeiting man's respect and tenderness to wards her. VOnPOIlA 77 OA TASKS'. Thr A11101111U I'll III lulu ihr Mlnl Tien 11 rr In 1NSO A llnml-oiitr liirrrnse Home littri-railug rlgiirr Mr. Forbes of the Boston Journal has ; compiled, from figures furnished by State i Tieusurer Dul l lis and Tax (Wumsinnei Dillingham, statistics showing the result of the operation of the corporation tax law for th year iNMfi. This law Wnme opera tive iu 188.1, since which time the cor-sira-tious as-esFH'd havo paid tnxos annually us follows : ihM . 5l-.iil.W-HM 1 issf, ViMVn.TU m ., 1 I; . . sir.oiij.oi It will thus le seen that the amount of taxes paid by the corjMirutinns into tho state treasury last ear exceeds by M3,000 tho tax payment hi any previous year, and that it is $17,000 more than was received from the same sou ice in lM-Vi. This increu comes almost wholly from the railroad. ThP amount of taxflU paid by tho several classes of corporations in sh inas follows : Hallroo-U ... Slut.lW; Havings tutuks ntnl inist couiikihIc. Ttn rnreljtn lirefiiiiraii(Hcotij-.nii' s,ts KoiflKH lire Insurance isHiiKiiilet 7,1'Jt National ear comMU) . . Wti lIoiMi- fire tiiHitraiiee companies Mom- life jnsum.iv companies a,iA Ti lftltotie OftllitUnjefi hhi Telagratli comiiaiiies 54.1 StenmoftHt contiwulist t.l'O Hcrp(s '-ntiimtfn JVt sii-fft rallvvity ft)7 Total v0,Wit The tax commissioner leports the num ber of imluM of railroad within the state, as tho Iwds for as-e,King taxes on grots earn ings of the roads, to Ik? !HI. The follow ing tabulated statement show- the gross earn ings of railroads as re tonus! to the tax com. missioner, and the amount of taxes paid on their mileage in the state in IKIt : N'nine uf timtt ami flnws earning In No of utile 't Milijert lo Amount in Vermont. taxation tax Jsw; t'elit Vt . .1i inllet 4 ii,'.int V $tri),fl .W Iuimip-lr, llOnifli YT7,!1 -d 1 1,7 I Ui St .1 A J. 1; , J to ton ,1 lioweli, I) mile . :ii:,,i..Ki Ml i.-j Vermont valley 1711 nr., Vt I, tin 1 1 llemitnirtonJt ftutntml IHtSAti 4S (.aiMfcv Ultuid Ti link, m juile I.VMWl II 7 1H. a, HihI m miles 115,1141 si vt.w; OU Montimlier.Y Wells River HU,I7?iir.' ,;h t Hurllnfrton X Mmoille tVs, 1; OM.'iT .souibeutrn. 3(1 miles 40.61!. sa sKi MIskIhouoI II. 1 Ml Hi nti'.n Trov X. Itontou.O miles 7VJI H , II T it W . 0 mu BI.WUM -i.011 in WWUtoek 173l II CM CUri'iiiion .V I'ltUforU m-eiasl since June lj, 1,'iomo -wuO Total . . . Sl,ny.l,.Vl $ltJl.l.vru The total gross warnings of the railroads for IbhO was more than $,000,(NNl a larg er amount than during' any previous year since the coi poratiou tax law took effect. Tho railro-ids pa nenrlv one-half of the tuxes avsesM-d against ct)rtoratioiii, their contribution in l-Ni excelling $100,000. The gn-ss earnings of the Central Vermont 111 lWimi their Will miles of road m the state show a bund some increase, their earn ings exceeding those uf the year 1SS5 hy a quarter of a million dollars. The taxes paid by the Central into the state treasury last ) ear were more than 110,00'). leing JIO.IKH) more than 111 1HH5. The increase. I earnings of other roads in IkstJ over 18.i5 are rerorteI a.s follows : Vermont division of the Boston Iowell. i-lO.fMMi ; Passump ic, .(NHJ; Vermont Valley. $i:t,(NK). 'I he Rutland ami Burliugtoii stieet rail roads, two new corisirations, have paid tiix es the past year, the founer on grtrss earn ings of .-?PJ,;iliand the latter on gross earn ings of 5UU. Miniluunry 'utri. Often in the winter there may Ie seen in tho gas region, far up m the skv at night, one or more faint w bite streaksix or eight feet long. They look like comets, and the one first seen was quite generally mistaken for a comet. Each one of these is caused by a burning gas-well. The light of the well slimes u-mn the small ice crystals which quite often are floating iu the uir, far uliovo us. and is by them reflected, or thrown down again, ho that we may see it, though the gas well mav l many miles f i'uin us. Every well furnishes but one "comet" as we mav call it, for want of a better name which alwavs appears in the same place. When the lower air alo is filled with ice-crystals, wo see not the comets, but greut, fiery streaks, the com plete reflections, that reach from tho points where the comets were, down across tho sky to the horizon at the (stint where wo see the glare of the distant K'ttS wells. They stand out against the daik back ground, like great, fiery rods, a central bright streak, or spine, running through thein, which shades off into a beautiful glowing led on each side. They are icgu lur' In shajH', apparently nUmt twenty inches wide, the sides straight, the toji slightly rounded, ami the Isittom fading away, as it reaches the flume, in the glare of the well. No description or pictures of these com ets ami fiery columns can give a true idea of their strange beauty, which doei not 1-e-conio commonplace by reason of a regular, every lay or rather, every night appear ance, as these phenomena are visible only under certain favorable conditions. Those still, dully nights, when the sky has a hazy npiK'nrniice, when a few scattering flakes of crip, dry snow may lie fluttering down, are the nights upon which the finest displays are seen : and several nights may intervene In-tw ecu these curious and lieau tiful exhibitions. Sometimes the comets will appear directly overhead, ami the fiery columns often reach to a great height, de IH'iidiug, of course, on the distance of the observer from source of illumination. Re cently tho top of one of these reflections was estimated Ut Ite six ami u half miles ulmvo the burning well. St. Xichota.i, X Dutch Cure fur Hvilrophobin M. Pasteur may well Itn.k to his laurels if the story of the wondeiful remedy uguhist hydrophobia is true which 11 Dutch family at Peize, In Holland, is said to have iu its possession. For over a century the secret of tho drug has been kept, ami tho Nieuwo Rotterdanischo Courant hus only heard of it through tho garrulity of uu old man from tho ueighWhood of Peize, who af firms that for 70 years he has never known a single case of death from hydrophobia. Besides u large number uf human beings, uu army of dogs, cats, sheep, and .cattle have beeu cured by tlio mysterious remedy, about which nothing more is known than that it has a calming influence on raving luuatics of any kind, und that it is harm less tu such a degree that iu a case where a double dose had been administered to a man bitten hy a mad dog the witient fell into a profound sleep, and on awaking ev ery symptom of thu disease had disappear ed forever. -oh- Mall (fazette. Ik the Sloop Maykujwku crosses the At lantic to sail against the fast British yachts, as it is now contemplated that sho shall do, her owners wilt make a very pleasing an swer to the cavils of the English critics of the Puritan und Muy flower, who alleged that both liouts were loosely built and uu sea worthy, making fspeed ill safe wuteis by their very capacity tut strain and give un der tho stress of sail, und that contests on this side with such I stats were unequal, be cause English craft had to bo built to sail across. People who know tho Mayflower havo little doubt of her ability to cross the ocean safely ; and once there, few Amer icans would havo serious misgivings us to her uhility to outsail tho Irex or any other fast cutter whoso speed has yet leon tested, Jioxton Ttnnitvvtpt. Snow is deep in Minnesota. Snow drifts twenty-five feet deep und packed hard and in some place six feet uhove tho tops of telegraph poles are said to be features of thu country this season. A New Vork shop-kwner makes a spe cialty of "Iami ten hoisery. The stockings ure woven thicker ut the knees than else where, presumably to stand the wear ami tear of prayers. Iu a Liverp-xd cigar factory, where u thousand girls ure employed, a fire brigade composed of the operatives has I teen organ ized. The girls are weU officered and drill ed, and at a leceut bluze iu tho factory did t (Uncut service tu miUIuiuk the flames AIISCELLANY. A tilty t'oilll.hli. Tin tiroi.-r i!.ur fur iviirtltij?, My tin' iMnrj l.mkir rt'iitirtltiR, NfKilmi Innr nr liifailow imtlmHy nut uf .Iffl.t nf ton 11, With IIim gwpi'tiiH l.t.mliiK nti-r Kriiiii tlif fiiMi4 uf luium utul t'l.ivrr, AihIIIm' k-liiilc ilropiiiiifc iiiflivaril it. Hi'" win (tnB tlow II. Hut rii'lni-t tny llttlf (tally At tin 111011II1 of Haupon'N alley, Alul lli.'vi' ttalkinl nlolit; tift'tliil toirant. tin iIiiiiip nf St l'anl, Mlil tin Justly i-i-iiml Uiat imJWfM '.N'rtith the rimlni' laiuMainl rhwr, Anil therilioiitlnxuf tlieilliu-l-n, ami Uielii'imlHi'V vail. And till' Illy of the tnltey 'I hut 1 irate my llttlf Hally Wa, I lie fa.lt-U irenliy lioiiiiiet that a flower-Kill M-1U; She never wen one Krow iliR, Ah Hh eaiiy tn be .howlni?. Tor It. hiithlihu-e U the ilreamluiiil thut'n lieinuil Hun Ih-ll. Oli: ft iiatu. me In imr uulklni; -All tliemllh-tnli.l Hlirtmeriil tulkliiff, An.l the fulkH that hi-nth her ikamhiK, mul the kIhiuv 1miI, Hut tleniith I'lil thhiK mity lunch hi-r, They ran lieli-r hurl nor hiiiuIi h her, Knr ulie tiirii the illit to am.-tliiw, iw the lloirer the inolil. Nay, II'b not hi tiiiiutiy iilati), Mlil the flel,l-i ami nllnjile fiii.-e, Dill of KtKht alul simiihI of eill. that n mre healt KroHH: It In here In 1inili.ll cit , In the fIii utul ahaine nti.t illy: For the pure hiit ihaHH Mm )nii-eiiiiei from the wioiik (t knou. When my Sally'H. Hweetnees fouiKl me I aim like the men arontul tne; 1 a an owii-w alul low ami te-IIUh, an the lieast that .ll.ti : Hut her Kmee bewail to -win me. Ami iu le-ait vium eliaiiKe.1 uithlu me, A11.I I leiirueil tn ituy fiiuii Ktizfiilf In my ilalliiiK'a e)e. 77ie Sjxrttltor. I'lusvn.i.A Snow rryntal. were lillinj; the nir. HiiiLe, fi'tiet., nml trti'R were losing their fleuriieK'i nf outline lit the rlini;inf. white. The lirniMi of tlie rowK tlie stiir KpikeH of frozen uraii, n(l the withereil Ktemi of Iu.,t suiimier's flowers still nhnweil the lleecy whiteneMn. Ah the whitiih ilarknei.H prew an hour tiefore tlie Hun-setting of 11 clearer ilav, it hemuieil in a one stoneil, gftlile-rfHifeil, Kew Knlniitl himsii. hhoum na the ilarkiies ileejieued, a yellow liht flashing forth nt luoiiientH from one of iin high-net, tunny iiiiiihI winiloMH. The light rnrne from tho Mazing logK in an olil-fushionncl ohmi tire place, hriek-lineil antj black. 1!i-oh anil trotm, jiolihlieil to the lat ilegree of bright ness, Hung hack ami forth the cheery flush ing light. Now the logs fall together an.! the Maze springi higher, revealing more fully the ijuuint oM rt-Hiui ami Murv AMeu bitting be fore a iiinuiiig-w heel. &he is daughter of John utul I'riscilla, hut they are a John nml I'ri-cilla of later ilate than tlie puritan John and the lutigliing Priscilla who haiil . "Wliv ilont you sieak fur yourself, John f" 1 don't know how John Alden'i I'rifocilla looked, but this 1'ris , Mary, I mean i a girl with a iiuish of golden hair, which to-night han hlinpleil from its coil ami fallen down her liank. Her eyes at e blue. They are the uyen of a w oinan w ho can love. They have just liegun to have troubled light), within their deptlin aince the new minister come. Her nkin is of the warm w lute of some roses, deejieniiig the cheeks to the delicutu hlubh at the heart of the rofce. Her lips take tender curves. She leans slightly forward from her high backed chair. Her fiMit is on the treadle ; her hand is yet uplifU-d holding tho yam. Hut her foot forgets to move and the wheels to fly round us she gazes lieyond the spin ning wheel ut things we cannot see in the heurt of the lire. The shifting light leaps high, then low ; now golden, now ruddy w ith w armth ; non dropping for a moment to darkness only to light up again, reveuling more fully the quaint old room with low ceiling and white boarded floor ; the brown, time-durkencd spinning-wheel, und surely this girl in the old-fashioned dress of blue home-spun, deep, stilT linen cults and neckerchief scarce whiter thun tho Isisoui it crosses, ft Pris cilla The dreaming I'riscillu ! 'Uie puritan maiden I'riscilla ! Through the silence of the snow comes at times a sound so common that I'riscilla does not heed it the rushing of many wa ters, nnd we know that not for away is tho restless, mighty ocean. We ure on that strangely shaped bit of New Kngliiml which runs out und curls around iu the ocean in such a curious way and w hose real name has such a flavor of flsher-folk Cape Cod. We have chanced, t(N), 011 one of those old-fashioned houses where the fires are yet lit from the pine needles of the wood liehind. Suddenly a stamping of feet is heard ut the door, u hand is on the hitch, and Alary springs from her dreams to meet a rush of cold air, n gust of snow-flakes, nnd a big, rough-conted iiuin with n voice tn mutch in bigness, and roughness and warmth. "Mary ' my girl !' And I'riscilla jumps into his anus with u half articulate cry of delight, never mind ing the suowv coat. "Oh, father! Oh, father !" is all she suys; hut he is satisfied us she pulls him to the lire and takes otT his lint and brushes away the glistening drois the snow has turned into on nuistnche and w hiskers. He is used to having her fbabv, him, and he likes it, this rough, weather-beaten sea-captain. And the man who is king on the "Miles Staudish :" who says to this sailor, "f!o !" audhegoes; andtothatboatswaiu, Conle,,, and he comes, this man sits meekly down in the big arm-chair she orders him into, and oliedienth pulls off the snow-soaked Iwots and puts on the wool-lined slippers she brings. There is a delicious sense of ease in slipping off his nuthotity and oliey ing the orders of Am little captain, though there is no knowing, if he lie in a merry or a tender humor, but that at anv moment he may snatch her up to perch hor on his shoulder, as if she were a child again ; or else pull her down to his knee which is the later fashion. The two captains have gay times togeth er on the precious days the big one is at home. She is his only one. He has lieen her only one until now. And she doesn't acknowledge that last yet, even in her dreams. When the overcoat has been hung away and the big captain has poked up the logs to a brighter blaze, Mary hangs the black ened kettle on the crane ; anil hy the time the water is hot, the little, round, oaken ta ble is covered with a snowy cloth and old fashioned blue-and-w hite china. Then the coffee is made and u steak broiled when the coals are red and there is no smoke. Real cream for the coffee and delicious golden butter for the bread, and a supper fit for a king or two captains is ready. Tlie captain swallows all tho colTeo with out compunction, for Mary drinks only milk or hot water. Perhaps that is one se cret of her tea-rose complexion, together with tho exercise she gets ill the housework, for she is a callable little housew ife, and can do anything about thu house. Not that the housework depends entirely on her. They havo a handmaiden of alxmt fifty years, liouy and muscular, and crahlied und faithful, who has beeu their maid of all work ever since Mary's mother died seven years ago. It would have been pretty lonely fur the young I'riscillu without the companionship of this elderly maiden during tho long ab sences of Captain Atdeu. Grim and home ly the 0110 j gentle and lovely tho other tlie two uro fust friends. Mary humors tho whims of Rachel, and Rachel in return scolds and watches over and privately wor ships Pris Mary. Mischief Is iu the captain's eyes as he sw allows his coffee and masticates his becf steuk. He waits, however, until the table is cleared, then Mary lluds herself set sud denly us oil a pedestal w hero lately the sup lier dishes had beeu, uud thu captain is walking around the table thinking he nev er saw such a pretty bit of living statuary. A moment later tin) mischief fudes from his eyea us he sees the strong likeness to unother young girl he knew vars ago. He catches her on to his shoulder, (hence dow n into his nrnis, with a kiss hiding the flush of tears iu his eyes. "Now tell 1110 all ulsiut it," he suys, "What ineuns this Puritan rig and Grand mother Aldeu's spinning wheel i" "It's for an old folks' entertainment at the church," says Mary, "and I mil to lie I'riscillu, the Puritan maiden ; und Jacob lirowne is to Iki John Alden, uud oh, fa ther ! couldn't you bo Miles StnliiU-.li I You'd lie a splendid Miles Stundish I" "And have you reject uie (" savs the cap tain. "I couldn't stand that ! I'd act w orse than Miles Staudish ten times over. "I think it was John Alden thut acted badly !" says Mary. "I hate him ! 1 don't think I could ever have forgiven him I" "Why so I" said her father. "Oh, for inuking me pop tho imestion. I should feel so humiliated that I should for ever after hute the inuu who made me do it hui-h a coward' Making u girl say sho loved him, and then not even telling her ho loved her. I never could have been Priscilla I" "How does tho new minister get along? What's his name ?" j Mary has stisipcd to lay n new log on tho , flic. She does not answer for a moment. , '1 hen, with a little reserve in her tone, or . something which innkes the words come n little stiffly : "Pisiplo like him. Ills name Is Kndl- isitte. People do like the new minister. Tlio very shuke of his liund warm them t the heart. IJuarrels, enmities, jealousies, the small hutreds of little hoartR, cannot livo iu suuh an atmosphere as he creates. The church has prospered since ho came. He Is a man with stirring New Kngland blood In his veins. Tho gwsl old deacons, while shaking their heads at some of his advanced thoughts nnd methods for church work, are yet glad to have this young, sinewy strength to pull them up out of the slough of Desjiond in which they, like Christian, had almost stuck fust. Now a library is to bo formed, and the "Old Polks" is" tho means by which tho money is to lie raised. If the full of snow is heavy there will Iw splendid sleighing, and. as the affair has been advertised in all tlie neighlHiriug vil lages, they may exiiect n crowd. The young will come for the sleigh-ride : tho old fur the plensuru of seeing tho young. John Knilicotto is unmarried, and all tho gossips have lieen trying to pick him out a w ife. Hut he smiles on nil and turns from all. Girl faces, sweet as flowers, gladden nt his smile; faces growing withered, with crows feet gathering at the eyes, and care w rinkles beginning to show on the forehead, grow strangely young as he talks j Imys and gills, young and old, gather around, all but one, w ith a face like a rose blossom. She is never near for mora than a moment, though John Endicotte feels through every fibre of his frame when she enters the room, and hns n consciousness nf her pres ence w herever she is, even though he may not see her. That Sunday evening, when ho preached his first sermon, her eyes looked up into his and his looked down into hers, and their souls met, it seemed. It had never hap pened again. Something hail come be tween. When she looked at him, her eyes hsjked, but her soul was hidden. He had looked ut her and watched the color rise iu her face and ebb away to rush back again, and ebb and flow and ebb and flow, w hile she sat motionless, looking up nt the ten commandments emblazoned on the wall. Kven in the very midst of his sermon, when he, like the Isirn orator he was, was Injuring out his very soul to this iwople, he was ismscious of her eyes looking up to him, her fuce now lighting, now falling, now flushing with color, catching quick breaths ut some passage, settling into rest ut unother. Only at such times did her heart and soul stund revealed, and he he was the minister of God sjieaking his word to this people with his whole heart and soul; he could not divide himself from that to watch her then, onlv he had a supreme, happy consciousness that one heart received every word he said. However far away and distant she was at other times, she was always near him then. The night for the sociable came, and Mary w as there iu her blue homespun, deep stifl linen cuffs, and white neckerchief. John Endicotte caught his bieuth at sight of her. A resolution formed itself in his heurt thut moment which cuused the blood to mu w ith n w ild pnssionate thrill through his veins, then stand still with a shiver of fear and doubt, only to cause his lips to tuke a more determined line as he looked over to Priscilla. Mary trembled at tliat look, und half lost her self-possession, then she bent her at tention on Jncob IIrowne,who evidently im ngiueil himself u typical John Alden. A strunge, nervous desiie to laugh uhuost shook her f runic us she liNjked up nt the red face nml heavy fiame of the "stripling, Juhu Aldeu." Not Captain Aldeu, but a lank, lean fa vored uud decidedly meek looking man, represented the staunch little Puritan cap tain, Miles Stamlish. However, the jsjem went along without hitches, and ever) Ixsly was interested and not inclined to lw critical, until there came the scene iu the cottage. As John Alden poured fourth the praises of the captuin who hail uu time to woo, and drew down the sharp, wounded replies of the maiden, Mary felt a pair of dark eyes searching her face, und just as she uttered the words, "Why don't you sjieak for yourself, John l" some jsjwer which seemed to be beyond her con trol lifted her eyes to the minister's face. He wus looking through her eyes and down into her heart. He held her gaze. She could not withdraw it, while her eyes said to him : "1 know you love me now you luive said it." His uanio was John. Then suddenly the color flashed like a flame to the girl s forehead and over her throat and bosom. She faltered. All eyes were ujion her. Then her color left her white us snow. She trembled visibly and Isjwed her head. She lifted it, bit her lips. A hot red plnce came in her cheeks. John Alden had rushed wildly away, when Jlimm ! lioum ! Boom '. came resounding sullenly on the air, a sound they knew too w ell. Every man sprang to his feet. "A ship iu distress !" cried a voice like thunder. "Man the life-boat ! Man the life liont !" There were rapid rollings nnd a rush from the church and down the village street tow ard the shore. Oh, the sullen roar of the waters I Oh 1 the blinding of the snow ! Oh, the gun's booming signal of distress 1 Mary, rushing dow n the street, found a heavy coat thrown around her. Then she bethought her of her unaccustomed open throatod dress. Oh, the sullen roar of merciless w aters I Oh, the thought of human creatures iu peril of life iu the snowy blank and blackness of waters lieyond I And yet the girl's heart was hot within her as she dashed through the snow ; mad w ith joy for that look which hail said, "I love you" ; yet wildly angry that ho should hove compelled her eyes to his just as sho said those words. Sho felt the hot blood rush up to her forehead with shame at the thought, even in the cold and the snow and the wind : "I will never forgive him ! Never I never I never !" And then her heart smote her for thought of self ut such a time, and she ran yet more swiftly toward Uie shore. The steps of a man were follow ing, though she heard them not iu tho snow, lie wore no overcoat to save him from the cold. On shore men were already lighting lon fires to throw out light upon tho water ; and lanterns, like stars, were moving here and there. Matches were applied to the heaps of straw and driftwood and tar and sea weed, and the flumes sprang up to throw strange lights and shallow s on the falling snow, and sullen black waters which rose and broke iu w hite foam. Now the life-lioat is launched. Who will man her ( How the wiud blows ! How the snow blinds and deceives I Who will ven tuie life for life ! A dozen stalwart men leap in. The min ister is with them. He takes u hand at tho oars, nnd pulls with the skill acquired in college racing clubs and made more practi cal on many a day off shore. What a weird scene it is I A dozen (Ires throw up n lurid glare, nnd snow falls hiss ing on the flames. Here ure women wrap ped in the first thing which come to hand. Ono wears u man's coat immensely too large. They shield their eyes from tho glare of the fires with their hands and peer anxiously into the darkness, trying to fol low the life-liout ; trying to see the strug gling ship. Thinking of brothers, husbands, lovers, lost at sea, they send up silent, agonizing prayers to the Eternal Father w ho liouiids thu restless waves. They know the perils of those who go down to sea in ships, A faint "halloo 1" from the impenetrable white darkness tells them the lioat has reached the ship. Then silent suspense and lU'i-jvor prayers, till the boat appears again, toiling in row ing. Ah, what wild cheers arise as she comes to shore, and seven men, half dead with cold, are given up to the wuiting hands which shall take them to warm firesides, and mix for them hot drinks and turn them into comfortable beds. Then the Imut is pushed out again and disappears ill the whity darkness to return liye-aiul-byo with nnother half dead freight. And so they continue many hours, for the siiikimr shin holds many souls, until oh I joy ! the last Isiat load is neariug shore. Meanwhile the storm lias grown wuuer, nnd tho snow blows more blindliigly. The waves break higher and higher. Will the life-lioat live this time, or will she, with her hei-o-crew, I engulfed in yon mighty, roll ing wave I Ah 1 It is on her ! It breaks ! Sho Is lost 1 No She rights ' She is dash ed on shore ' Men rush into the waters with n rope tied from w nlst to w olt nnd cntch them from tho return wnve. They" are saved ' Hurrah! hurrah! hur rah I Hut whtilt Man iiifs.iiiH' Tho minister I Oar snapped I Worked like n tiger ! A girl is rushing nlong the shore ill tho weird firelight, reaching out arms townrd some object in the wnters. It is going out ! It is tossed bnck on the next high wnve. God only knows how she saved it with what superhuman energy she dashed nt the wnves nnd saved it from their grasp. Gisl only know'B how luve's instinct led her with love's sharp eyes, to see that one jsiint nt the one instant w-hen it wns M)ssible to save ! She drags him up from the seething wn ters beyond their reach on shore. She slips oft th heavy coat she is wearing and wraps it about him. She places her hand on bis heart, her face to his face. They find her there nnd curry him to her fnther s house, nnd lay him dow n on the warm hearthstone lieforo the blazing wood flro in the room whero yesternight the spin-ning-wheol stood, and Mary smiled dreami ly as she listened to its hum. Tho girl iu her blue dress clinging wet aliout her, kneels by his side. She has torn the whito kerchief from her throat to wipo tho wnter from his fnce. Her golden hnlr hangs straggling nnd wet nnd stringy over her shoulders. Sho bends over him nnd n bit of her hair touches his cheek. They sec her lips movo, they cannot hear her words, "John I" she whispers. He opens his eyes, and looks up into her face. "Priscilla I" he breathes. Her father leads her away ; he has read her secret in the white cheelcs, w Inch forget to blush, though all in the room may rend the beseeching of her eyes. He is safe. She lies down in her cham ber with a deep prayer of thankfulness. She is too unstrung to Bleep for many hours, and when at last she does, it is to start up with a wild, gasping cry, as she sees u wave-washed lsjdy tossed from billow to billow. In the morning nil meet at the breakfast table, the minister looking well and hearty as ever, and with something vibrating in his voice and glancing in his eyes which has not been there before. Mary, pale and rather proud-looking, with dark lines un der her eyes, but very lovely in her cardin al morning dress, with plain linen collar and cults. The captain is bluff and gruff and cheery, trying by his talk to hide his daughter's si lentness. Men have a real, rnre delicacy, as well as women. Three men are there also from the wreck. Rachel stalks about grimly, doing the hon ors of the table, while inwardly she Is troubled at Mary's white face, and de termines to dose her with catnip tea and send her back to lied. One of the men tells the story of the wreck, and Mary is thankful that thus she is saved from having to talk to the minis ter. She cannot and she w-ill not meet his eye, for if she does she knows the tell-tale blood will leap to her face. Outwardly she is pale and calm and haughty. After breakfast she escapes to the kitch en, and meekly takes the catnip tea rather than struggle with Rachel, whose grim sternness and firmness she knows of old; and she is curiously willing to slip oft to lied. Not that sho means to sleep, out the minister will lie gone when she goes down stairs again. She w akes up in the middle of the after noon from a refreshing sleep, to find Rachel hy the lnsl with a delicious omelet and toast and tea. Then she dresses and slips down into the little sitting-room ; a similar room to the kitchen, only carjieted and with crimson curtains for the firelight to fall uion. She know s the men are all gone, for she hears her father out in the yard piling up wood in the shed, and the house is perfectly still, but for the quick stepping of Rachel across the kitchen floor. So she stands secure before the fire, w ith huuds spread out to the blaze. Aguin she is n picture in her close-fitting brown dress, only relieved at wrist nnd throut hy white luce und the group of sweet-scented gerani um leaves she loves to wear ; for back ground the warm crimson of the draperies. Tlie sun has dropped down lieyond the woods, and only the fire flashes light the room. What a contrast and comfort this evening to the storm and terror of lust night I Her face pales and she catches her breath. Suddenly two hands drop on her shoul ders, and n masterful, happy face is Iwnt aliove her. Sho is turned gently but firmly around, and in her surprise looks up in the minister's face, and a teazing smile is there. "I'riscilla I" Oh, how tlie name sounds from his lips ! "Priscilla, I am John Aldeu. Now say your lines again as you did last night, and look in my face nnd nieun them for me !" "I will not I nnd I halt you, John (lieforo she knows the word hns slipjied out) Endi cotte ! I'll never, never, never forgive you !" But the touch of those hands is thrilling her through and through, and she is not quite muster of herself. "Why! Ion sum! my life?' "You have humiliated me lieyond for giveness." "But you irH forgivo !" His hand is slipped under her chin, and her face lifted up so he can read all its menning. Haughtily she gathers up all her energies to resist him ; but she cannot slip from those detaining hands. Her face is pale nnd desperate. Her lips part. "You do foraire f" Some strong vibration in the voice and the words sound half strangled in the throat makes her glance up to a face un naturally calm. His grasp is wounding her. A quivering of hor lips, a flood of tender ness sweeping all her face, a yielding of the whole tense form, then womanlike, "Yes John 1" lloston llomt Journal, A Frnlrrnnl Tribute. llrother Ked Is home from college, Ami his head Sjo full of know ltslge Is, that really 'tis an effort to adjust hisllelhy hat. Full of boating, full of racing, I'lil! of Iwseball, steeple-chasuiff, ltoxiog, football, hare and hounds. Putting up the monstrous tiell weighing many, many pounds, And all that. He con leap And be can tumble; Iu bis sleep He talks of "fumble," "HalMiack," "touch-down," "cushion caroms," "set-to," "Rolng out on strike," "Umpire's ruling," "even Innings," Kke his Coney Island winnings. And he's followed by a pup That at any time can go against its weight and do It up, If It like? Such Is Ned, My cultured brother, College bred, There's sure none other Call compete with him lu classics such as wild Olyinplau games. He's a boxer, he's a runner. He's a short-stop, he's a stunner, Ala-ays leading, never led. Is my short-haired, noseless, earless, brokeii-lln-gered brother Neil. Ho Is Fame's. Onwha Woiltl. flood Advice. A lady wns once lamenting the ill luck which attended her aftuirs. when a friend, wishing to console her, bade her "look ujhui the bright side," "Oh I" she sighed, "there seems to lie n 1 ight side." "Then isilish up the dark on ' was the reply. Ilrllrr Ibnu No llxcu.r, From the New Vork Siui.J Lady, at theatre (who has left her hat outbide) Where are you going, my dear 1 Husliand (at the end of of first act) I am going out to see if your hat is all right. Minister (to boy who is digging for worms)! "Little boy, don't you know thut it is wrong to work on Sunday, except in cases of necessity I" Boy (going on with his digging) i "Thin is a case of necessity. A feller can't go lishin' 'thout bait." They tell of au oysterman who kept a sa loon at Lewiston, Me., and who was the slowest man in tho state. One day he died, and soon after a citizen said to Krostus, the oystenuan's son i "Krostus, your father died rather sudden, didn't lie " "Well, yes," said Erastus, "sudden fur him." Ill the hotel parlor, 1 1 r. u. "Have vou anv idea what time it is I" he asked, after hg liad tulked her to sleep three or four times and waked her up as i often hy laughing boisterously at his im n I brilliant ebullitions of wit, humor and bur lesque. "lteally, I haven't," she replied wearily, "It certainly must be time I was going home," lie continued, as he made u move iu the right direction. "Oh, I am sure it is very much later than that," she Bald, sweetly and innocent ly, and then he went away with a hideous suspicion in his manly liosom. IIWh'iiu ..... iur.. j llSf. I. I IIIV. ! The liopuhir blooil-puriflvr, Hood's Harsajuu Ilia, Is hat Ing a tremendous sale this season, .Seal ly 1 ever) body takes it Try it yourself