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ni iit^mmm The editor's sanctum is silent and bare, A sadness hangs over his quaint oaken chair His old leaden inkstand is empty and dry, And his porcupine quill slumbers idly by. His porcupine quill! Ah, what language would slip From the long slender tube with its ivory ti p' What a leader the old fellow used to turn out, \Vr the aid of the Times and a pint of brown stout! He would M'rite his own Letters from Londonthe rogue' And would pad them with scandala plan much vogue Like a charger, the battle he'd scent from afar, By writing a "special" direct from the war. When matter was short and he wanted a "hit," He would take up his pen and a murder commit! He as good at a burglary, smart at a ball, Hut at writing up "ads" he'd no rival at all' He was ne'er at a loss, with all branches he'd cope And could handle the tar brush or wield the soft soap But now he's departed this valley of woe, And has gone to the land where good editors go. Well, then, peace to his soul! It is under the eye Of the spirit's Great Editor, up in the sky Let's hope it will join the cherubical ranks, And not bo 'declined," but "accepted with thanks." kindly no longer And we'll speak of him on earth Will this rubicund countenance mirth .'I has gone far away from the world's busy hum, And we'll write as his epitaph, "Scissors and Gum'" flavor our THE LEGENDARY SKIP. A Tale of the Early Days of New Haven Colony. A unexpected and very profitable growth of business made the immedi ate purchase of a piece of land neces sary. partners requested me to ne gotiatejor a few acres in the vicinity of Sew Haydn, and I at once began to do so. A annoying delay occurred owing to the illegibility of a record making it impossible to obtain a perfect title. I ^vas about to abandon the attempt to mj\ the property, when I was remind that a gentleman well known to me might be able to give the information hat could not be deciphered from the record. This person was a professor in the college, a man of wide repute as a scholai, and an ardent student of the colonial i"poc of the town. 1 found him in his library and-he, %Hhout tn} hesitation, gave me the information which I sought, and add xae whe r* I should find such lega 1 proofs of cle ar title as I desired. I was impressed with the accuracy of his learning and the readiness with which it responded to his demands, and I ven tured to say to him that the acquisition of such a mass of names and dates must have cost him great labor. Tqu my surprise he replied that I was mis taken, the truth being that he mastered such incidents with ease. His great mental efforts, he said, were required by the process es of analysis and com parison which were necessary to sepa-* rale truth from the rubbish and chaff of tradition and reecord, and by the reasoning necessary accurately to trace causes to those results which, when graped^constitutad trustworthy history. "For instance," said he. I have here a document which will cost me the most severe applicati on before I am through wi th it." I had observed that there lay upon the table a roll of manuscript. The table was littered with pamphlets, doc uments, aged and wormeaten books, and I do not know why my attention was specially fixed upon this particular l-oll ol paper. It- was plainly an aged manuscript. The paper was ribbed and unruled, like that in use a century or more agoan if it once was white, the years had faded it to a dull, buff, leathery hue, while the care with which he afterward handled it indicated that it had little tenacity of fibre. I knew that he referred to this old roll of manuscript, and, as I expected, he took it up. I have here," he continued, a remarkable historical narrative, which I found among some refuse in a garret, where it has lain for more than a hundred years. I is an account of a strange, unnatural occurrence, of which I have heard by tradition, and which is even casually mentioned in 'Mather's Magnalia.' I have, however, always regarded it as unworthy of serious consideration, believing that there was either no foundation for the tradition or else that it could be traeed to the hallucinations of a disordered brain. I now, however, have an account of it which I cannot ignore. I was written by a clergyman of the most godly character, a man who could not, even in jest, speak false hoods, and he asserts that he was him self an eyewitness of what he describes. How, then, can I refuse to accept this record? I gives all that a historian requires to satisfy him of the- authen- ticity of any alleged occurrence. I is the genuine manuscript of a man whom I know to have lived, %&& it is not a hearsay account. If we are to to put faith in any of the records of the past, we must aeept this one. I do not know of an established fact of his tory jhat has any better basis than this document gives to substantiate the wonderful phenomenon!.* which it record's. I confess," Ci%uedthe Professor I with some, animation* .of spleen, "that 1 such problem a is preheated by this .-SE&auseripthas never before* }er uriyea to me tosfttve. A a B*atoriaai*1l am compelled to accept as true what I jfrere' read, while as a physicist I must regard the record as the wildest and most iiai ^probable of romances. Were it base on the testimony of one person it oouldt ^nail-^Un Triar.i art nan -vHcririn oi nlHMmfciMfl: easily be rejected as a vision or aliesattoj* ifietf fey the cold, and the vessel could be of mind, to which the austerity of the Puritans see ms to have rendered some of them peculiarly liable. I am con fronted, however, with the assertion of this writer, as well as with the inherent proof of the assertion, that he was one of many witnesses. I is, indee d, an interesting problem, and the difficulty of reconciling an account that must be accepted as truthful histo ry with the fact that it must be denied as a physi cal possibility makes the task fascina ting. Doubtless Prof. observ ed that he had awakened a pleasing intere st in me. Indeed,I took no pains-to conceal it, and told him that I would glndly hear the story that had so puzzled him. at once unroll ed the manuscript. "This appears,'' said he, "to have been written by the Rev. Dr. Prentice, and in the year 1680. I judge it was a letter to a friend, although the ravages of time have made the first few sen tences illegible. I have other manu scripts of this clergyman, a few ser mons, and having thus been enabled to make comparisons, I find the handwrit ing of all to be identical. I will not read it in full, and will paraphrase some of the text, for it is Written in the still, formal manner of that day, many of the words found in it being now obsolete. 'There had come, began the Pro fessor, upon the tradesmen and tho se engaged in commcre a season of adver sity in the year 1646 ,such as they had not known even in the earliest days of the settlement of the New Haven colony. The vessels lay idle in the harbor, trade with the other colonies languished, and and as the New Haven colonists were familiar with commerce rather than agriculture, they were embarrassed even for the necessaries of life. But for the energy and determination of some of the men of character, the .colony must have found its existence imper illed, for many had determined to depart, some even making arrange ments to emigrate to Ireland. A less courageous and tenacious race must have succumbed. I was determined as a last resort to build a ship large enough to cross the ocean, freight her, and send her to England in the hope that the disheartening losses would be retrieved by the development of com merce with the mother country. Over coming great obstacles they built a ship in Rhode Island colony. The frost had closed the smaller streams, and the ground was whitened with snow when the ship entered New Haven harbor. There was great re joicing at the sig ht of her, and her size, being fully loO tons measurement, was a cause for wonder, for such a monster had never been seen before in that har bor. With her sails all set and her colors abroad, she came up to her anchoring place wi th such grace and speed as greatly delighted -the people who had assembled at^he" water's edge to greet her. Coinage was revived by the sig ht of-her, and the people paid, 'N'/M? we shall again have plenty and add to our possessions, if God be willing.' "Tho master of the ship, Lamber ton, was found to be somewhat gloomy, and Dr. Prentice records that Lamber ton told him in confidence that, though the ship was of fine model and a fast sailer, yet she was so wiltymeaning thereby of such disposition to roll in rough waterthat he feared she would prove the grave of all who sailed in her. However, he breather his suspicions to no one else. The ship was laden and ready for departure early January. 1647. "The cold that prevailed for five days and nights before the time fixed for clearing for London was such as the people had never before known. I must have remained many degrees be low zero, for the salt water was frozen far down the harbor, and the ship was rivited by the ice as firmly as though by many anchors. There was no lazy bones among the people, and with prodigious industry the men out a canal through the ice forty feet wide and five miles long to the never-freezing waters of the Sound. The vessel was frozen in with her bow pointing toward the shore, and itwes necessary to propel her to cle ar water stern foremost. This was an unlucky omen- Capt. Lamberton avowed that the sea and the conflicti powers that struggled for its mastf ware controlled by whims andieaks, which would be sure to be exctid by such an insult as that of a ship entering the water stern first. A old sailor, too, informed them all that a ship that sailed stern first always returned stei*n first, meaning by that she never came back to the harbor from which she thus departed. "You will observe," said the Professor putting down the manuscript for a moment, "that in these gloomy fore bodings are to be detected traces of the mythological conception of the mystery of the sea, with which all sailors, even to the present tim, are more or less tincture d. I am especially impressed with the manner in which these colon ists acted. Believing in predestination in spiritual matters, their lives in wordly affairs conformed more or less thereto. So, in spits of these omens, there was no thought of delay. They had fixed the time for sailing, and they meant to sail. S godly a man as the Rev. Mr. Davenport expressed this feel ing in his prayer, as reported by this writer: Mr. 'Davenport, as the ship began slowly to move, used the se words: Lord, if it be Thy pleasure to bury these our friends in the bottom of the sea, they are Thine* Save them! 1 "Men less completely under the dom ination of their religious belief would never have gone to sea without exor cising in some way the evil influences which the se omens seemed to indicate would prevai l. There had gathered on the ice all the people of the colo ny ex ce pt the sick and feeble, perhaps 800 or 1,000 souls. O the departing vessel were some of their friends and kin. The farewells were sa id with the ex pi-essions neither of grief nor of joy. Restraint, the subjugation, even the quenching of all emotions, was the rule of life with the se peopl e, and I gather from one or two expressions in this account that never was there more* formal, less demonstrative leave taking. When the vessel reached deep water, and just as one of the great sails was beginning to belly with the wind, the people with one accord fell on their kiSfees on the ice and prayed. The ship #afc*iive miles away. The air was elar- April, May, and even June, brought no woi'd of her arrival. Their suspense could be relieved only in one way. I ^hould have asserted, even had I no evidence of it, that the colonists sought the relief they always thought they found in prayer. I shou ld also have unhesitatingly said that they id not, in their prav ers, ask that the inevitable be averted, but simp ly prayed that they might be prepared to receive with submission whatever was in store for them to know. I should have been justified in so afserting, as I find by reference to their manuscript. The account has it"here the Professor again read from the manuscript -The failure to learn what was the fate of their ship did put the godly people in much prayer, both public and private, and they prayed that the Lord would, if it was His pleasure, let them hear what had done with their dear friends, an* prepare them for a suitable submission to His holy will. distinctly seen, and as the people prayed as were to be given them. Suddenly, with open eyes that were fixed upon and when she seemed right upon them[ the distant and receding ship, she sud- her maintop was blown over, noiseless- denly disappeared, vanished as quickly ly as the parting of a cloud, and was as though her bottom had fallen out left hanging in the shrouds. Then the and she had sunk on the instant. 'Yes,' mizzentop went over, making great says this writer, 'more suddenly, for destruction, and nex t, as though where as at one moment the eyes of all by the fiercest hurricane, all the masts of us were fixed upon he r, at the next went by the beard, being twisted as by as in the wink of the eye. she was not. the wrenchings of a wind that blew in W rose gazed fixedly "into the vacant resistless circles. The sails were torn space where we last saw her and then in narrow ribbons, whirling round and with wonder turned to each other. Yet round in the air, while the ropes snap- in another moment she was disclosed to pedand were unraveled into shreds, us as she was before, and we watched her and beat with noiseless force upon th until she disappeared behind the neck decks. So on after her hull began to of land that bound the harbor _to the caree n, and at last, being lifted a east. So we dispersed, wondering at mighty wave, it dived into the water, this strange manifestation, whose mean- Then a smoky cloud fell in that par- ing was hidden from us. Some there ticular place, as though a curtain had were who were convinced that it be- dropped down from heaven, and when tokened that even as she had disappear- in a moment, it vanished, the sea was on ly to be seen again so we would smooth, and nothing was to be seen again behold her after her voyage, there. The people believed that thus But there were many Avho were im- the Almighty had told them of the pressed that though 'we should again tragic end of their ship, and they re- see her the sight would be but a partial newed their thanks to Him that had one. With reverent submition to the answered their prayer. The Rev. r. will of God. The people repaired to Davenport, in public, declared 'that their homes.' ot had condescended for the quieting "You see," said the Professor, again an be explained by natural and staple* J?^ science teaches me that the laws ot causes, not so the* 'phenomena -BS&felif$^taaBfflsfol% as much so now afterward described. 1 "In all the accounts that we have of prayer," said the Professor.***"I know of nothing equal to that. I contains volumes of histor y. With that simple text the ethnologist and histori an might conshict the history of a people. Observe the human nature of it, that is the intolerable burden of suspense, and see the religious faith of it, both of submission and the trust that the prayer would be answered: "These people seem to have rested with the convie&on that this remark able supplication would be effecthe. Dr. Prentice continues his narrative, after quoting the prayer, with an account of what happened, as though it wex-e the expected answer. writes, too, with the vividness and accuracy of detail to be expected of the eyewitness, an inherent proof of the truth of his narration. I infer that within* a day or two after the prayer the manifestation was received. There aro se a great thunder storm from the northwest, such a tempest of fury as sometimes follows elemental disturb ances from that quarter. I see ms to have been accepted as the presage of the manifestation that followed. After it passed away it left the atmosphere unusually clear, but it affected the people with a solemn spirit. A hour before sunset the reward of their faith came. Far off, where the shores of Long Island are just dimly visible, a ship was discovered by a man who IT^ Tu \h made haste to tell all the colon ste oc It is our vessel,' they cried. God be praised, for has heard and answered our prayer.' "Yet while the}'- saw her straining with the wind, and seemingly speedT wiiu me wiuu, nuu seemingly speed- I observ ed that she made no progress Thus she continued to appear to them for half an hour. While they were still astounded by the mystery, they saw that she had of a sudden approach edd, most reckless and foolhardy speed, for most reckless and foolhardy speed for she was in the channel, which is nar- mit the passage of a vessel of her size with skilfull handling. The children uaiiBn UBBU^J xne naroor lies in a southerly direction, and the channel "The people awaited^with sober resignation such further manifestations th rhiladclphia Pre**,l] 3 struck afflicted spirits this extraord^ he5 putting down the manuscript, "in all oary account of His sovereign disposal this that inexplicable commingling of hope and fatalism which was, I imagine one of the inevitable con ditions of mind of this austere and as^he carelully laid the manuscript intensely religious people. The mere away, "what an extraordinary problem fact of the sudden disappearance and is here presented tome. If 1 accept renewed sig ht of the ship may perhaps of tho se for whom so many ferve nt prayers wei-e continually made.' "You will see," said the Professor, record evidence, I must accept this as-ever'Whatfi the^truth?" "In the natural order 6$eiSeitfc&t&e, colonists would have had Afeme UdMgs Everything." of their ship after three He i ea1 passed. None came, how^v^^^^pft *$*) frequently made when a scholarly that sailed from England in March, mani v**Ything," is a re- undeV(fiem^ron. How absurd such a statement is will appear when the fact is mentioned that in the Con gressional library at Washington there are over 600,000 volumes. If they were placed side by side thev would fill a shelf fifty miles lon g. If a man started to read this collection at the rate of one volume a day it would take him 1,650 years to get through. And while the man wonld be at work on this vast library the printers would be turning out more than 5,000 new books a year. From the se figures it will be seen that it is idle to think of i-eading everything, or even to read all the best book s. The greatest readers among our distin guished men have had their favorite books, which they read and reread. Certain books in our language are called classics. They are models of style and full of ideas and illustrations. Modern writers go to these old authors and get lumps of solid gold which they proceed to beat out very thin. Why should we take the gold leaf arti cle when we can go to the original mines and get solid nuggets? The old novels are the best. The.old poets have not been equaled. Too" many of our new books are written hastily to sell. They are of an inferior qtiality and cannot profit us in any way. A man therefore need not be ashamed to say that he has not read the last new book. When for ty new books appear every day it is impossible to read them all.[Atlantic Constitution. Strange Bodies in Timber. Cornelius Smith ha the contract for sawing into lumber a large number of logs cut from trees standing on the fields of Antietam at the time of the battle fight. says that all sorts of missiles, from cannon balls to buck shot, are almost daily met with in the timber, and that it is really dangerous to stand near the saws in his mill when such lumber is being cut a, num ber of saws having been snapped into fragments, when running at a high rate of speed by striking iron shot embedded in the logs. A large, angular fragment of a shell was struck by a saw a few days ag o, and a perfect shower of sparks rained about the mill from the contact of the metals,the saw being finally snap ped in sevr ael piecesa.s I another iony ae ance f?* wcut through a ae Thev s-athered on the short 3Zvileade bullets, which offer little or no vessel f\m^^^ resistance to the aw bTtf ^^W$$XZ SdXhi^ side by reason of the strain upon the masa nr the spewi tihn whihth breeze carried her. sidset eason of heed straun surface P ie br ^euspe rieS of the missile. Mrny Cr0' sU a rbe reveaed in Ts [Cmer]a nl S HI flfc Astronomer Procter's Ideas on Tight X.acing. N one can reasonably hope that those women who are foolish enough to compre sost their wais ti a ing with such rapidity as should brino- set-wearig) wilsl oveir bh persuad eld her to them in an hour, they also tl ine cnan A luin out uau i suuuen approache *vm. UMU wug amci Liiey nave and was coming with what seemed assec leas ea 0 she was in the channel, which is nar- large row and of sufficient depth only to per- i i lacin ople were filled with aimrehen sion lest she shou ld go upon the shoa ls or be dashed upon the shore. They thereupon made warning gestures, although they could see no one upon the deck. "At last they observed something, of which in their excitement they had taken heed.Th harbor lies in a fail ue "-3 -9 by tight lacing hhere speakng merely of cor i waits, tey can hep it woman of this sftrt will" nni. A woman of this sort will not give up tight lacing until she has given up all idea of attracting the attention of men, and few women of this sort gi ve up their idea until long after they have hfe time when it can make the difference wheth ev therwaiss dif adanta gi whi ct lar gee. or small.. xld gw ta So fai\as I can omauo nti\as can onl rea or is likely to derive from tight resides in the circumstances that inui i nanuimg. xne children """*"& i.u^auiuuiuDiauucs tu tla There's a brave ship,' but the ^g ^s lacin v,uuuu killingwhn it kil 1 thwomn it tends to kil necessiteven foolish,e and offspringi,s and as the woman who ntl lace her offspring is likely to inherit her folly, there is a cause here steadily at work to remove the more foolish sort, and so relatively to increase the wisdom of the world. There is always a germ of comforfcneirceveT in things evilth "=u ux wimg eucn ei tea itself runs due north and south. The their own eliminntion. vessel was making toward them with great speed, every sail curved stiff with the force of the wind that seemed to come in a gale from the south, and yet the wind was actually blowing with great power directly from the north. Thus holding her course due north, they saw her sailing directly against the wind. Then they knew that they were witnessing a mysterious manifestation. A she approached so near that some imagined they could hurl a stone aboard her, ftiey jjou ld see the smaller details, the rivets the anchor and its chains, the flapping of the smaller ropes, and the rhythmic quivering of the ribbon-li ke pennant that was flying in the face of the wind. Yet they saw no man aboard of her. their own eliminatio n. vsA tV eeey evilness tv caus The Conceit of Cooks. The most precious sauce, for a young cook is impudence. Boast away and never be tired of it. A modest cook must be looked on as a contradiction in nature. If he be qui et and modest, he will be held as a pitiful cook. I is related of a famous cook that he prepared fish so exquisitely that they returned him admiring and grateful looks from the frying pan. I was doubtless the same cook who declared that he had discovered the principle of immortality, and that the odor of his dishes would recall life into the nostrils of the very dead. I was Bechamel who sa id that, with the sauce he had invented, a man would experience nothing but delight in eating his own grandfather. 3,' ^rX&^&^xf' 1 WHEN THE BOATS COME HOME., There's light upon the sea to-day And gladness on the strand Ah! well know that hearts are ay When sails draw nigh the land. W followed them with thoughts and tears Far, far across the foam! Dear Lord, it seems a thousand years Until the boats come home. W tend the children, live our life, And toil and mend the nets But is there ever maid or wife Whose faithful heart forgets? W know what cruel dangers lie Beneath that shining foam And watch the changes in the sky Until the boats come home. There's glory on the sea to-day. Tho sun&et gold is bright Me thought I heard a grandshire say, "At eve it shall be light'" O'er waves of crystal touched with fire And flakes of pearly foam W gazeand see our heart's desire The boats are coming home. Sarah Doudney PHANTOMS O THE MIND. The Imagery and Forshadowin^s of Death. What is psychology? A science as yet^unknown, sa ve that it is connected intimately with the human soul, the half-awakened latent consciousness of a dual existence which we have all experienced in tho se brief and momen tary flashes of abnormal intelligence, which are extinguished by the investig ation of reason, leaving us in greater darkness than before. what cohe sion of occult forces are we compelled to think of a long-forgotten friend, to wonder and specula te as to the pos sibility that he is yet alive, to recall accurately his features, tone of voice and other distinguishing characteris tics, to dwell upon the fact of this mental resurrection, as something strange and foreboding, a presenti ment that, like Banquo's ghost, will not down, and then to learn, a few days later, that at that particular date the friend in question had died hundreds of miles distant. Th is has occured to so many people of intelligence and veracity that4t has almost ceased to be a matter of surprise. Sometimes the memorv thrust upon us does not mean death but life. W meet the person face to face, and, after'a hearty hand shake, lecount our promonition as a strange coincidence. But it is not possible that the friend coming to us had sent out a messenger dovea thought, a wish, an intangible, unseen grappling-iron ot memory that in some way touched a kindred chord in us a vibration of the mental atmosphere in which the soul dwells? There must be certain conditio ns to emolve the the phenomena, a keenness of psych ic intelligence, an abnormally acute state of the senses as if all the "windows of the soul were opened and the key-note of celestial telegraphy sounded. I is not given unto all men to see or hear the supernatural. There must be a psychophysical relati on established in the individual before any indications of that sensitive message can reach the consciouness. W can believe with the poet that isolated souls can tell us: "I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away I hear a voice ou cannot hear, Which says I must not stay." The realm of fiction has set science aside and given s, realistic detail, the strange circumstance of vocal and vis ual clairvoyance. When, in "Jane Eyre," tho blind Rochester calls in des pair, "Jane! Jane! where are yon?" the wind wafts him back an answer: "Wait for me. I am coming. How many readers of this paper have heard a voicefaV distantper haj silent in the gravering in its old cheery tones in the ears that had long since ceased to listen for its tones. The majority of people are not willing to talk about the se things. They put the experience aside as something unaccountable, or cred it it to the imag ination. I may therefore be of some value to the reader to read a statement of facts, which are supported by li\ ino witnesses well known, who stand far abo ve the dogmas of superstition, and whose education gives them the right to instruct others by their experience. The first of these is related by Dr. T. A. McGraw, one of the most distinguish ed surgeon-physicians in the state of Mich igan. MIND-READING. Of all abnormal nervous manifesta tions," says the Doctor, in his paper on mind-reading, "the most curious arc those rare cases of intense perceptive power of the brain which is called second sight. They are indeed so rare as to be rejected by most physicia ns as unrealan yet there arejeases so well authenticated as to make it impossible to deny its possibility. I have myself met with one instance which seemed to be indisputable. A young lady was seized with inflammation of the spinal cord, in the course of which she became sensitive to an extraodinary degree. A she lay in a room in the second story, with every door and window closed, she could hear distinctly what passed in the rooms below, even to a whisper communication. One day about noon she sa id to her father that she saw her uncle and aunt getting off the cars. These relatives were not expected, and did not know that she was ill, and the remark therefore passed as one of delir ium. Half an hour afterward, how ever, they were driven up to the house in a carriage, and on inquiry it was found that they had actually got off the cars at the time named. "There were, in the course of her illness, one or two other such mani festations of unusual, and by our ordi nary experience, inexplicable perceptive power. When questioned in relation to the matter she could only say that she actually saw what she described. "This unnatural exaltation of nervous sensibility and clairvoyant power, if such it was, disappeared completely as the patient grew better. I do not pre tend to account for the phenomena, but have to remark that they were morbid in an intense degree, nor do I believe that such phenomena can oecnr in perfectly healthy persons." I will be se en from th is that Dr. McGraw does not allow bis appreciation of the marvelous to run away with his reasonbu I had it from his own lips that the manifestation is nnaccountable, since, even though it were the result of a diseased and disorganized brain, it was also an actual revelation of clair voyance or second sight. Almost a similar instance occurred to ex-Postmaster-General Jewell on his death-bed. awakened from a sleep and told his family that something had happened in "Henry's family," rela tives who lived at a distance. The kinsman he named was dead, but he had not been informed. By what subtle, mysterious intelligence was the sense of misfortune conveyed to the dying man? Who can answer? A VOICE FROM THE DEAD. A circumstance of recent origin, which is vouched for by men of Christian char acter and high social standing, confirms this strange theory of biological condi tions. A couple "of years ago Willie Lord, a young man well known and well liked in Pontiac and Detroit, lost his life in Washington. There was no preliminary sickness as his death was caused by drowning. A the time he died, a lady, the member of a family who were all intimate friends of the young man, was living in New Mexico. She was formerly Miss Virginia Palmer, of Pontiac, and is now, I think, Mr. Andei-son. Th is lady who, in common with her family, regarded Willie as a dear friend, was sitting in her room in New Mexico with open indows, when she heard a well known whistlea snatch from a bar of music wi th which young Lord always announced his eom ming. Her first thought was one of mingled pleasure and surprise pleasure at seeing her friend and surprise that he shou ld be in that far distant part of the country. But there was no mistaking the repeated strain of the signal whistle. She ran to the windows he was not ther e. the door N one had seen any person. The event so im pressed her that she sat down and wrote to Mrs. Lord, and the bereaved mother answered that at that time her son was dead. Was it then the music of the spheres that had been conveying an un intelligible message to eartfi-bound ears? A MOTIIEK1S FOREKNOWLEDGE. Among those who have been visited by this rare intelligence is a saintly woman in our midst who was the life long friend of such men z.-, Bryant and Longfellow and such woman as Lucretia Mott I allude to Mrs. Eliza Leggett, who is ever ready, out of her own sources or experience to give that which may benefit humanity. When that beloved son, Percy, who^e pictu re hangs in his boyhood' home draped with the uniform he honored and the ilaghedied to defend, went into the army it needed no advance courier to tell his" mother of his death. When the soldier who had been detailed to bear her the ne^s approached, cap in hand, his face im mobile, as if he simp ly brought an ordi nary message, the mother said calmly: "Thee need not tell me "They said he was ching," stam mered the soldier, whose discipline was not proof against a mother's, grief. And Aunt Eli za said wi th that faini, sweet smile of hers, and the tears well ing to her fond eyes: "Not dying, good soldier, but dead!" Risi ng from her sleep one day ?he remarked to her family, "Something has happened to our "boys." These boys were friends and comrades of Percy, Dick Whitehead and Phil. Mothersill' and in a few hours the word came, that one had gone "into the silent land." These illustrations I have given iu this paper are not the dreams of the l-omanticist. They are not the A ague manifestations of the spiritualist ncr'are they used to found a hope or a religion upon. A actual realities they lia\e been received almost in the spirit of agnosticism. W do not know, we cannot explain the untranslatable lan guage of a nrystic literature. A finer, rarer, more subtle brain-power may jet give us some direct clue to that missing link of intelligence, which we now con ceive to be will-power, or mind-reading, or in its best and highest sense, that which we call clairvoyanc e, M. it. Momento of Garfield. Some time ago Mrs. Garfield gave R. B. Hayes a momento of her dead hus band,'which is kept with zealous care in Hayes, Fremont house. I is a small brass calendar, with the months, days, and years on little e\ linders, to be turn ed as time go es on. This was always on Garfield's desk, and he used it for years in his Washington library. took it to the White House, and made it a rule to turn it each morning, thus reminding himself of the right date be fore beginning the day's work. O the morning of July 3 he turned the cylin ders and finished some business, before going to his death at the depot. The little calendar was never regulated from that day, and remains now as he left it on that fatal morning, markino "Saturday, July 3, 1881. Chicago Times. The First Chinese School in America. The first Chinese separate school in America was opened in San Francisco the other day. The attendance at the opening was smal l, consisting only of Mamie Tape and her little 6-year-old brother, but in the afternoon four Chi ne se boys appeared, two of whom could read well and were sufficiently ad vanced to enter the grammar grade. I is thought that if the Chinese merchants can get over their repugnance to vacci nation, they will send their children to the school. A it is. they patronize the mission schools, where the vaccination requirement is not in force. The new departure in education will be watched with much interest by the small num ber who, in the face of popular preju dice, believe that it is their iuty to train up the young Chinese in Christian ways and give them the advantages of a good education^ "What is this man charged with?" asked the judge. "With whiskey, yer honor," replied the sententio us police man. "%-ssfr