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Literary Ambition. Stage-struck young men and women are well-understood incidents of modern society. They are impressible young people who have acquired a fondness for the theater. and perhaps cherish a belief that they resemble some popular actor. Nowadays it is Booth whose style is most afi'ected. You may have seen several young men who, it might be said, look more like Booth than he does himself, es »cially since he has been wearing his flair shorter. Or perhaps the stage-mani ac is the ‘product of private theatricals, or of the eclamation class, or of the de bating society. These amiable youths sometimes hire a hall or a rovincial the ater, and come out as Hamlet, for one night only. Sometimes they go on the ‘ regular stage in a subordinate capacity, , and soon become disillusionized, as it is called. ' The stage-struck youth is more easily cured of his folly than the youth who is, as you may say. stage-struck for litera ture or for painting. I wonder whether leading actors are not more frank with amateur aspirants for theatrical honors than leading anthers are with amateur aspirants for literary honors. This may ‘ partly arise from the fact that so many notable mistakes have been made in the 1 case of budding authors. Nobody wants ‘ to go down to history, as the man told young Longfellow he would never make a poet. Young people, who desire to be “ iterary,“ are moreover easily deceived as to their abilities by the ease with which a certain sort of notoriety may be obtained. In the case of young painters, the fact that a boy is called an “artist“ the moment he takes a brush in his hand is itself enough to turn one’s head. The youth stage-struck or paint-struck or pen-struck is sometimes a ridiculous, sometimes a pathetic, sometimes a tragic object; he is generally amiable, always interesting, and occasionally it transpires that he is in the first phases of a genuine artistic career. As before remarked, the imitative Booth is apt to find his level be fore a great while. The youth who has taken up painting merely because he thinks it would be a line thing to paint, either puts it aside early, or makes a‘ painful failure later on, or persists till he ; acquires dexterity enough to paint badl and popular pictures. The youth whol has taken up literature merely because he ‘ thinks it would be a fine thing to be a 1 writer, either oes at something else, or. becomes a drugge or a conscious failure; or he makes himself, after a while, an ob ject neither of pity or of interest; wins a cheap notoriety by getting his pieces printed where little or nothing is paid for them; assails editors of periodicals with bewailings and importunities; but as a writer, no matter how much dexter ity he may acquire, or how many pieces he may give away or worry into (print, he never gets beyond imitation an empti ness. “ Why do you not help moi Have you no sympathy with struggling merit? Remember that you yourself. 0 great and mighty editor, was once at the bottom of the ladder!" It is hard to reply to such an appeal, “ My dear fellow, it you were even sincere, though without ability, I would not do one thing to wound you. But youhave been at this business now for years; you have not shown one parti cle of talent; your literature is all echo, your ambition is for notoriety, not for recognition. I would cut off my right hsn rather than be unjust to you. If I should help you up the ladder I should be unjust to you, for every step in the di rection you desire to goisafalse step; and the position you really wish to attain is a false position."—B¢rt‘bnor‘s Monthly. “Tné‘ifiii- of til-gfles." A young man, whom attire was clean and neat, and whose general aprarnhce was rather pre ossessing, stoo before the bar of a polfize court. By his side stood a young man of about the name age, with a coal-black face and woolly hair, and who was dressed with all the gorwousneas of a. “swell." “ hat’u your nnme, white man!” asked the court. - “McF‘innigan, sir." . “And yours, my man and brother!" “le3o Wuhin'ton Jones, nah." “Whnt was the matter, George Wuh ingtoni” “Ssh, I'll tell yo‘ do truf, uh. Iwas I goln‘ up do Its-eat, uh, lu’ night, when {not din mun un‘ I ktne’ of joutlod agin ’xm, uh, nn‘ he turn’ right roun’, uh. nn’ fetch me u clip on do nose, uh; den I cull: In oflin‘ un’ had dot man arrested, In‘ dots I" do truf." “How wu it, McFinnigtni" “Shun. yer Oner, an' it was the nug ger‘l (salt. I WM 1 comin’ down t e av‘nie, quiet as a lam‘, nor, nyin' nothin' to nobody, whin that Iphalpeon cnme fornimt me, nor. wid his elbow, on’ I up m‘hit ’im 13 n the Ilel’ “he momint”— "No, all}; hit me on de nose, uh!" “0n the Ipur s the momint”— "0!: do nose. uh." . “Never mind line diltinctions," aid NI honor.“it mu 3 man 310 in thin court to hit I man, whether it be upon the upur of the moment or upon the n 0... 000 Wuhingeon, you are dim chugod."—r§;m York World. Devon!) “(cunt—lt is stated tlilt 3 8”“ number of Rue-ion lodiee In St. Pe hnblrfi In pledged themselves mutu ‘l'! nether to want silk nor ntin nor °°'“¥ ornlmenta, nor to give bolls, nor winduigo in other iumiee dnnng the PM.“ In; but to devote the money 'hich the, would otherwise hue spent "PM Inch objects. to the mming of the “‘35 Ind wounded of their country. This " .im whet u good many women did in WI country dntin our mu, md whet Vomen have donefin all countries under linilu conditions. An Oriental Night. It is impossible for those who have never visited the glowing East, to form an adequate idea of the exceeding beauty of the Oriental night. The sky, which bends enamored over clusters of graceful palm-trees fringing some slow-moving stream, or groves of dark. motionless cy presses rising up like Gothic spires from the midst of white, flat-roofed villages—— is one of the deepest, darkest purple, un stained by the faintest film of vapor, un dimmed by a single fleecy cloud. It is the very image of purity and peace, ideal izing the dull earth with its beauty, ele vatingsense into the sphere of soul, and suggesting thoughts and yearning too tender and ethereal to be invested in human language. Through its transparent depths the eyes wander dreamily upward until it loses itself on thethreshold of other worlds.. Over the :dark mountain ranges the lonely moon walks in brightness, clothing the land iscape with the pale glories of a mimic day; while the zodiacal light, far more distinct and vivid than ibis ever seen in this country, difl‘uses a mild pyramidal radiance above the horizon, like the after glow of sunset. ' Constellations, tremulous with excess of brightness, sparkle in the heavens, as sociated with classical myths and legends, which are a mental inheritance to_ every educated man from his earliest years. There the ship Arago sails over the track less upper ocean in search of the golden fleece of Colchis; there Perseus return jing from the conquest'of the Gorgons, holds inhis hands the terrible, head of Medusa; there the virgin Andromede, chained naked to the rock, awaits in agony the approachot' the devouring monster; there the luxuriant yellow hair of Berenice hangs suspended, as a votive oifering to Venus; while the dim, misty track formed by the milk that dropped from Juno’s breast, and which, as it fell upon the earth, changing the lilies from purple to a snowy whiteness, extends across the'heavens like the ghost of a rainbow. Conspicuous among them all, far up towards the zenith, old Orion, with his blazing belt, meets the admir ing eye, suggestive of gentle memories and kind thoughts of home; while im ‘mediately beyond it is seen the familiar .clustor of the l’leiades or Seven Stars, glittering and quivering with radiance in the amethystine ether, like a breast ‘plate of jewels-the Urim and Thumim 101' the Eternal. PINNED Rreu'r Down—A grocer do ing business on Michigan Grand avenue was yesterday asked to trust a colored man one day for a quart of strawberries. “Can‘t. do it—you‘d never pay,” he replied. “I‘ll pay de money afore 8 o‘clock in de mewnin," earnestly continued the colored men. “Perhaps you might, but I don‘t be- Have it. If you have no money now, how will you have any then?” “Don‘t ask me boss—l‘ll have de cash suah. Ize just perspiring to death for do want of strawberries. “Does any owe you?” asked the grocer. “No, sali.” “Then how do you expect to get any money?" ~ “oh, do pay will be all right." “I guess not. You’ll have to try some one else." “Boss, ou hez pinned me right down to cold zoom,” said the customer. “I wants strawberries, an‘ dey hez got to come. an’, derefore, let me say do.” wasn’t going out to—nlght to steal chick ens an’ sell em to get money." “Ah, you wasn’t ” ' “No, sab, ‘cause [dun pulled ’em in last night, an‘ dey’ll be sold to a butcher dis evening. Dat's (10 cold feet, mister, an’ new wrap up dem strawberries an’ doan' abuse my confidence."——D¢troit Free Frau. Bunvmo A Foam—Quite an original method of taking a fort is described in Blaclgwood's Magazine. In 1896 a large Russ an army besieged the Turkish fort of Azof. which was situated on a plain strongly fortified, and had asmall but well disciplined garrison. No common approaches could be made to it, an the urkish cannon swept the level with iron hail. In this case the engineering skill of the Russians was bafiie , but General Patrick Gordon, the rifiht hand man of Peter the Great, and t e only one for whose death it is said he ever shed atear, being determined to take the place at any cost proposed to bury it wit earth by gradual approaches. He had a large army; the soil of the plain was light and deep, and he set twelve thousand men to work with spades, throwing up a high circumvallation of earth wall before them in advance. The men were keptin gangs, working day and night, the earth being thrown from one to another like the steps of aetair, the top gaug taking the lowest place every ha I hour in succes aion. In five weeks the huge earth wall In carried forward nearly one mile, un til it rose to and above the highest ram parts, and the earth began to roll over them. This caused the Turkiah Governor to hang out the white liege and give in. Had he not done so neral Gordon would have buried the fortress. MUCH has been written against the mordoon, but the first evening Ifter a oung man whoarractiaed on one moved into the wcond our of a house on Union meet, a smile lit up the face of the aged citizen who hi in nickneu on the floor shove. Be an d that he was now recon. ciled to death. _ .. Tun: lum total of the jubilee offering: to the Pope in estimated, on good authority, at. nearly $3,000,000. A London Club for Women. The Orleans Club on the Thames is not calculated to improve the morale of the upper ten. Themames are before me of the ladies who were present at a private party [given there by the Prince of Wales. ' hey Were all married ladies, and their husbands were not invited, and had not. the courage to resent the insult thus of-i fered to their wives. I regret to say that the ladies in question are members of an amateur dramatic society which has re cently added large sums to charitable :treasuries. The ladies were entertained by his Royal Highness so merrily that the men in the regular club dining-room jhad to complain of the noise. One of the Igueats was specially invited by the Prince Won account of her clever conversation." lThe fair guests smoked cigarettes in the ‘drawing-room after dinner, and one of .them set upon two chairs in the most ap iprovcd masculine style. The other day a divorced member of the club took down to idinner a divorced lady, at which some of ‘the leading members were greatly scan ‘dalized. “The Orleans Club” is never ‘theless one of the “fastest establishments :in town, or rather out of town, for it is ‘beautifully situated on the Thames, its lvelvet lawn and its drooping trees being iobjects of admiration to boating parties liloating by on these pleasant summer ‘ days. The house is furnished in the most luxurious style, with sleeping apartments ‘ for bachelors and rooms for married peo lpie. The Prince of Wales has cast his lpatronizing eye upon a new lady, Mrs. aH-———---d, who is just. now the talk, if not the envy, of several of the distin ; uishsd la'dy uests who dine at the Dr feans Club. ff there is a Count Gram mont about making notes, our children lwill have a spicy book for their edifica tion when time has Kat back- the present 1 generation and scan al is dignified by he ; coming historical. WE must measure a man’s strength by the ower of the feelings he subdues, not by the power of those which subdue him. And hence, composure is often the high est result of strength. Did we ever see a man receive a flagrant injury, and then reply calmly? This is a man spiritually strong. Or did we ever see a man in an‘ guish, stand as if carved out of solid rock, as if mastering himself? 01' one bearing a hopeless daily trial remain silent, and never tell the world what cankered his home peace? That is strength. We too often mistake strong feelings for strong character. A man who bears all before him, before whose frown domestics trem ble, and whose bursts of fury make the children of the household quake because he has his way in all things. we call him a strong man. The truth is, that he is a weak man; it is his passions that are strong—he,mastered by them, is weak. A PHYSICIAN recently took a couple of little girls to ride with him. They visited one of thecemeteriea, and while looking at the various monuments the Doctor remarked that he knew one per son buried in a lot. very well, be having been one of his patients. One of the little girls, looking round, waved her band toward the other monuments, and innocently inquired, “And were those your patients, tool” AT :1 picture exhibition the other day, a Teutonic connoisseur, after a long study of afumous painting, was heard to mutter: “It ish a very hentsome frame." The Channels of Exit From the human system beer the same rela tion to it as sewers do to a city. They carry elf the waste. the refuse which It is eesentisl to remove in order to prevent disease. One of the most salutary effects of Hostetter’s Stom ach Bitters is to renew activity oi the bowels when these orfisns are derelict in their duty. The bilious en dyspeptic symftoms which accompany const potion are a so remedied by this sterling elterative. Ite gently cather- ‘ tic action has the efiect of removing impuri ties which would otherwise poison the sys tem and ite tonic influence is exhibited in an increase in vital power. It renews appetite, soothes and invigorates the nerves, prevents and remedies mniariai fever, end is s first. rate remedy for despondency. ———o— Purchasing Agency. Ladies who are desirous of having goods purchased for them in- San Francisco can do so by addressing Mrs. W. H. Ashley, who will send samples of éoods for their nspec tion and aerroul. ould say that lam an experience dress-maker and have the ad vantage of buying at wholesale. and would give my patrons t e beneilt of same. Goods purchased and sent. 0. O. D. Send for Cir cular. Any information II regard to styles cheerfully given. Would add that I have a iirst-clsss establishment for Dress-making, and em prepared to execute country orders with dispatch. Address Mas. W. Runner, 1260 Suiwr street. Room 51. San Francisco. Pavsxcuxa of high standing unhasitaiinz -3 give their indorsement to t a use of the raefenbarx-Marshali‘a Cathoiicon for all fe male complaints. The weak and debilitated find wonderiui relief from a constant use of this valuable remedy. Sold by all druxgiau. 81.50 per bottle. -——-¢o——— A Mann-n) Succum—Marbuni’s Seal of North Carolina is fast. proving use {the lead ing Smoking Tobacco oi the age. ~———o.—-—— Uu Butnlmn's Abietine tor rheumatism and neuralgia. Sund- for (Irons. Whlch you'll be lure to be— It your wife don't. let her chlldron Lenrn to real this A B C. —l'o 64 mums“. 5". III‘MII'C IV!“ "I IEIEDIEI ONE!“ 0! SWII‘I‘ TAB DROPS (on! moo as C and Hour-anon. SWEET TAR TRO‘aflflyfior new“ or lrrlmlon In the llama wndlnl w coulh. BWIE TAB BAHAM. to be In connection wu: the Drop or Tracks. moor-11w the mum of the :2”mama?g-amww We; no u m u: m 3mg“: mnln‘dlu mun; the Luna and" hiking lo Couumpuoa. in. Bln hun'u rem-tn on the treatment nad can of Throat n'nd Lou Compulnu. churned utter In u rlenoo of may you! In fonnocflon with her Sweet “I Win. an boobe- nod ouny drufm hoe o! cum. m 1 Imp-“ Nubia Ind mm norm-tion. W 31‘ TAB REMEDIES Ire mum nomo re n asal-unwanted by the hl‘lv . vr. 21m: “mm-51.5.“: Ire Inn in thelr aflecu 101- what they no recom. mended. RIDINOTON I 00.. Sm Fund-00. I SEND FOR THE ILLUSTRATED De sc ' t' C ' | - --(il" THE—— BY THE SAN FRANCISCO -——.-O———- A Chance for Everybody ! [V'There in no limit to the number of l‘rlm- any one penon mny rm-uivo. Nothing more in requircr than to get up the dlflorent (‘lubo Ipeciflml m the. llri‘ nul the l-lN'l‘lßl’. LIST OF PRIZES will be forwortlod to them. $5,000 A YEAR Can he made in this manner. u the Prizes can be readily sold hy the winimru. and every article Miami on 1» Present or l'remlum will be new and fresh from the nmnufuciurv-N.Mciucwll with care and mammal-ii by 1 thorn and the Publishers of the CHRONICLE. We also give Prim-n m “OLD COINJLI lieu of the valuable ; Premiums. wrnrblculnn nnd Choral-n Free. Nomi Your Addronl. A 'I‘I-IZE] “NEW” N Sewing Machine. 'l'hroo-qnnrton lou human than any other fluhlno. 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