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3~~ & few •m .iuwi! *1 .. St: to«,of ...• lkta«t,at ^•Wpfcfrs* '«m. w«ck hl»fclrfj®at would have P** aMCfttir It he had not for at a a JIWlMi W Jmd tbllni t« jBortgait hit nd Dr. hulti'i marriage with hi* tooMkMper had become an old atari, then Waa absolutely aotblog to talk about. It waa elao providential that ha aboold die Just attar pUntta* was orer and Mftoii baying WWbu, Ha «u Rtowliag fiiy datf, Uml and waa always ablftlaaa. Betif a deaeoa, -ot coarse he waa prepsred, and there was Teally «otaiueh to mourn for exevpt that miw Finely would have to take care ot and Pamely had no faculty. Ruthy Ana •eouUl go on keeping school, as she had done for ycara, aud the twins, tackHy. ware a*r vied. Pamely was the only onei that wasun provided for. Pamely waa one' of the kind that always was unprovided for—the kind that had no faculty. The farm was run out and—if it were not, Pamely wouldn't know any better than to expect to raise pumpkins on a pen vine. If ahe was a farmer's dauzbter she didn't know but what potatoes came up ot their owu ac cord, and weeded^anddug themselves. Mrs. Ichabod Badger (generally, known as Mis' Ichabod) thought it probable that she even supposed that they washed themselves and Jumped into the dinner'pot. Audit was evi dent that she set a sight more by posies than ahe did by gardeo sass. Slie was always lit tering up the house with weeds and stuff out of the woods, and she drew pictures when ahe'd better have beeu drawing candles or making soap. aftc •ni ot wroto^verses, and another painted pictures and never amounted to nnythliig. And Pamely was headstrong ahe uever aeemed to pay any attention to good advice. She was Hwaya as pleasant and amiable about it as could be, but she would go right on in her own way. That was like her father wlicu they tried to dismiss the Rev. Mr. Caldwell tor unsoundness ot doctrine, Deacou Semple be wouldn't agree to It He dld't get excited and call hard names, aa the others did, but, (hough they argued aud argued, he wouldn't ha convinced. She toolfc after the Spencers—her mother's folks. One of them waau't halt wltteil and Mis' Ichabod wasot the opinion that a com mittee of ladies ought to call upon Pamely and advise her to go and keep house for oli] Hiram Hutchinson. He had a large farm and 4wo invalid (daughthrs, one afliicted with apinal disease and the other with epilepsy ao 'twas a hard place, and of course she would keep everything at sixes and sevens, not hav ing any faculty but old Hiram was willing to take her because be was very cloie, aud ahe wouldn't expect much. Ana Mis' Hosea Blodgett added that as Hiram wis a widower, nobody knows what might happen. He was -over fifty ahd hard to gut along with, but then Paraelv couldn't be far from twenty-five and ought to be willing to make a sacrifice tor the sake of a hoine. Ben. Seavorns, who used to keep company with her bad gone off to sea five years before, and had probubly got drowned, to say nothing of being a shiftless good-for-nothing, and surely there was no man In Brimbiecom who wanted to inarry a girl without faculty. Before the meeting adjourned, Mis' Icha bod, Mis' Hosea Blodgett, and Miss Naney Perkins, the postmistress, were appoiuted a committee to labor with Paiuelv. Th»re was no doubt about the zeal of the committee. Bright and early the next morn ing—so early, In fact, that the breakfast dishes were not washed In any town except Brimblecum—tiie three ladies presented them selves at the front door of Deacon Sen pie's late residence front doors were reserved for atate occasions in Brimbiecom. The commit tee, alter consultation bad decided that this was an occasion which rendered the use of the front door appropriate. KeturaU Grant, who had been maid-of-all work iu Deacon Semple's family for half a century, hobbled to the door, and admitted -them to the sitting-room and there was Pa mela, with great hunch of weeds—butter cups and,clover and white weeds—painting, actually painting, at that time in the morn ing I Shu wore a high-necked aud' lougy sleeved apron, which was bedaubed wlAb .paint, and on her nose was a smirch ot bright yellow. The committee witb one conseng'~beaved a deep sigh. "8eein' Scripture commnn#, U9 t0 be kind to the widow aud the fathfpijg^y thought we'd come and tell that old Hiram Hutchinson wantaaMagekeeper," gu |d \j|s Ichabod, who bar%fKen chosen chief spokes man, In view of ttje "flow of language" for which she was^enowned. Pamela hgriied an innocent, puzzled face "-upon Mis'/lcliabod—a very lovely face, with a pure^pale fkln,~aiid soft, shy brown eyes, in Brimbiecom, where rosy-cheeked •^Vauties were the fashion, they "had never /hotiglit of calling it so. •'Oh, the widower! I couldn't think for the mment what you meant. Poor man! lain sorry If he. can't find one. But nobody could expect me to give up Keturali, surely! Siie is growing too old and she wouldn't leave me, .anyway." The commfttce looked at each other. Their mission seemed a somewhat difficult one to perform. Was Pumeiy so innocent as she looked? Mis' Ichabod had a dreadful suspi cion that she was deep, and she resolved not to be dauuted. "We thought vou might like the place your self, seeiu' you was left so kind of dependent," she said. "It Oh dear I I haven't the least hit of faculty, you. know and Pamely laughed .merrily. "Them that hain't anv faculty have got to try to do something, it tbev don't want to be objlcks of charity," said Mis' Ichabod.' "I don't thluk Brimbiecom will ever have to take care of me. It It does, I am such a little thing that It won't cost much." There was the suspicion of a Hush on Pa mela's cheek aud- a -tense look: about her month that the committee did not observe. They only saw her laugh, and tbey arose in hlgh.dudgeont "i^wipe jtha time won't" come when you -won't And It a'laughing matter," said Miss Hoaea Btodgett who"wa4 determined not to come away without saying anything that would be so humiliating1 to- tell of. "Oil, I hope not said Pamela, aweetly. 'Tbat wu the very worst thing about Dea con Semple—you never could make him mad," aald Miaa Nancy'Perkins, as ahe opened the -cate. And though the other members of the committee wouldn'.t acknowledge it, Pamela's craemblaiiee lo bar father ia that respect was tb« thiiuc that they bad found moat aggra Tadag laiihelr interview .with lier.1 Bdtore, they reached their homes they re padted tkei foy bad not said more, bat then In PaaMla'a manner that Uaeamao impossibility. The oommlt iteteartjr. Pamela had lafe" «afte pl«asMt had polite, tat they gg<ptNi Hswever. tbey quite wsra prsva aatt Within a week the committee waited npon the minister to hear the result of bis advice to Palmela. It was very hard to flud blm at home they tried four times before they suc ceeded. If he bad been anybody but the min ister tbey could not have avoided the painful suspicion that he slipped out the back door when he saw them coming. And when at last they did iiud him at home his report was not aitOL'ciber satisfactory. ''Miss Semple did not care to accopt the position of housekeeper to Mr. Hiram Hutch inson," he said, aa it Pamela were the great est lady in the land and could pick aud clioosc 'positions. But then he was a minister, aud ministers couidu't be expected to talk Just like common peoplo. "What is she a-golu' to do, then?" demand ed Mis' Ichabod, severely. "I don't kuow of any other chance for her." "I—I offered her a position, but she de clined that also," said the minister. The committee looked thunder-struck. "I do hope It wa'n't to keep school," said Mis' Hosea Blodgett, recovering herself sud denly, "for she hain't a mite of faculty, every body knows. Why, 1 asked her once it she understood mathamatics, aud she said she could do additton it you gave her time. My Augelia uuderstauds mathamatics, and, be sides beautiful learnlu' she's got a real facul ty for keepin' school. "Jt was not a position as school teacher," sala the minister. "She could kind of get aloug with house work, though she hain't any faculty. 1 hope the folks alu't very partickerler," said Mis' ichabod. "As she declined the position, it does not seem to matter whether they are or not," said the minister. It Mis' Ichabod bad not stood very much In awe of the minister, he would have then aud there received "a piece of her mind," as she afterward declared for if there was any thing that provoked, her bcyoud endurance, it was a close-mouthed peison." But, as he was the miulster, there was nothing to do but to take leave of luiu with a coldness and dignity which should give some token of their displeasure. As if he-couldn't tell them just as well as not who wanted"to hint Pamely to do house work! But there was one comfort—the com mittee knew there was nothing going ou iu Brimbiecom that they couldn't find out. And just after she had expressed that opinion -Mia' Ichxbod was so overcome by some suddeii thought that Bbe fuirlv gasped, and leaned for support agalust the town pump, which providentially stood in her way. "I heard that Joanna Leach wauted to go home because her sister's twins had the measles. The minister wanted Pamely to keep house for him!" she gasped. '•Well, Mis' Icbubod, if you baiu't got an understaudin'worth bavin'! And though I, never lire tliud it to a mortal before, I've hqifi my suspicions that the minister wan',V'all he'd ought to be," exclaimed Mig'Hosea Bloductt. •'I never knew a man to by.ve one white eyebrow for nothiug," said Miss Nancy Per kins, darkly. Before night the report bad spread all over Brimbiecom that thje miulster bad asked Pamela Semple to iifeop house for him. Mr. Stockbridge was Certainly the last person to be suspected j\ mi impropriety, but appear ances were,' deceitful. He surely must kuow that 'tie ought to have a housekeeper «ho ,w&a at least fifty, and It was emluently proper that she should be toothless, cross eyed, and disfigured by the smallpox, as Joanna Leach was. If Pamela were an es pecially capabii person the case would be somewhat different but to be willing to bear with a housekeeper who had no faculty he must have a personal regard for her. The oldest inhabitant could not lemember such an excitement in Brimbiecom. The Rev. Mr. Caldwell's heresy had beeu tame, aud the report that Dr. Saunders had another wife living only mildly exhilarating, in com parison. But several weeks went by before any sound of it rcacbed the minister's ears. Hap pily for him Brimbiecom bad a wholesome fear of the minister. But at length, owing mainly to the efforts of Mis' Ichabod, Mis' Hosea Blodgett aod Miss Nancy Perkins, it was decided that at the next church meeting one of the church deacons should question the miulster concerning the matter. Such a cryinir scaudai must no longer remain unin vestigated. It wus a great day for Brimbiecom. There bad not been such an attendance at a church meeting since the Rev. Mr. Caldwell's trial for heresy. Mrs. Deacon Simmons said it seemed so much like county conference that she got up at 4 o'clock and went to baking a great batch of pumpkin pies before she re membered what she was about. If the minister had any idea of what It all meant, he gave no sign, and when Deacon Simmons, with awful solemnity, and with a long preamble concerning the duty of a min ister to set an example to hts flock in right eousness, asked him if he thought It seemly aud becoming to ask the daughter of their late Deacon Epbraim Semple to become his housekeeper, the minister quietly replied that he had never done so. The committee looked at each other, and everybody else looked at tbem. Miss Nancy Perkin'e felt, as she afterward expressed it as If she "would like to go through to Cbiny but Mis' Ichabod bore up nobly, and Mis' Hoaea Blodgett relied upon Mis' Ichabod. "Didn't you tell a committee consistin' ot Mis' Ichabod Badger, Mis' Hosea Blodgett, and Miss Nancy Perkins that you had done ao!" pursued Deacou. Simmons. '"I did not," said the minister, with an air of bland and innocent surprise. This was too much of Mis' Ichabod. She arose, and shaking her foreflnger impressive ly at the .minister demanded: '•Didn't you tell us that you had offered her a situstion to keep boose! And who in this livin' world could it be that wanted a housekeeper bnt youl" "You misunderstood me," said the minis ter, with great politenesa. "I said I bad offered Miss Semple a position, and It waa not to teach achooL" ItiaP Ichabod sat down, because nothing oeeorred to her to aay, and for a time then waa alienee. Then Deacon Slmmona aroee and aaid, Uka a second Adam: 'I hope yon won't take no offenqt nor sfc ftotW' more «boat this, lfe Ctock Wdge, ltta aometbtaf that the tpanMftifnlks have got np amoogst themselves, andlgnees it don't wiMt to bM dretful little." aay fucker cnrloalty ahoat the :.vUI*- ym yjar^^bermnwi, ,„ wiys for 8ua- day, ]est aa lfwda«U wmethingthat wa'n't proper. And wbcabe aaid anything, which wa'n't for as muck as a minute, he np aud said Jest aa good as'to aay that ho dldu't cou aider 'twas any of hia business* But Mis' Ichabod, ahe lest talked and argerBed beauti ful abont how the town would have to take care of her, and, beln' her father was a dea con, the church ought to do its duty, advlsln' and laborln' witb her If sbo was headstrong and set up. and she convinced him—with a tew words that I let fall as 'twas given me to apeak—ahd be said he'd go and deal with Pamela accordiu' to the best wisdom and Judgment that was given him. When abe aees binj a-comln' she'U dowse her peak, for tbem'a nobody in Brimbiecom that ain't afraid of the minister." had Itieaaaxiilamtlon wftteh .'-a feaarft often maka In pabile—that the iweltisn which I oOarad Mies Semple, and aha IssllnsJ, waa that oi year mlaU Jai*a wife" ', ., ... Mtatad mrM JMtttMwftrftMtrf that It Mi expressed being apparantly the sentlment of all—that ahe ibonld have died In Are minutes if aha couldn't have got oat where aba could talk It over. "Don't talk to me abaut that girl 1" ex claimed Miss Naucy Perkins, with deep feeling. "There never waa a man that It took so much faculty to get as the minis ter." "And ahe wouldn't have bimf De pend upon It there's more In that than meets tbe eye. She'a deep," aaid Mis' icha bod. "What do you tbtnk Mia' Moses Gregg whispered to me Inmeetln'i" aaid Mia' Hoiea Blodgett. "She says Pamely sella tbe pict ures abe paints for money—sends 'em oil to tbe city. And, besides supporting her and Kentury, she's a-goln' to pay off tbe mort gage on tbe farm." "I hain't never been eorrv that I was brought up to work," said Mis' Ichabod. "Vanity and folly may prosper for a season, but we all know where tbe downward patb ends. If Pamely Semple hadn't been sent away to that acadtmr she might have been as likely and well-behaved as any girl iu Brimbiecom—If she hadn't any faculty." And with these remarks Mis' lchabod with drew herself from the council. On the even tenor ot her way went Pame la, working early and late with her brush, and before long a report found Its way to Brlmblocom that she was considered a re mark bltf artist,aud some things were evident to Brimbiecom senses the mortgage was be ing paid off, tbe crop* were in a prosperous condition, and old Kcturah was reuewing ber youth. Brimbiecom began to be proud ot Pamela. It almost forgot that It bad ever been afraid she would become a pauper. Nobody seemed to remember that she had been thought to have no faculty—nobody but the committee. One or two persons were actually heard to say that it was a pity she woulun't marry Mr. Stockbridge, but perhaps she had a right to look higher than the rest of tbe Brimbiecom girls. Mis' Ichabod ulways shook her head with mysterious meaning when Pamela was meut'oned, and said, grimly, "Tbem that lives longest will see most." One day triumph came to Mis' Ichabod. The committee were in the postoffice—Mis' Ichabod and Mis' Hosea Blodgett were often so kind as to assist Mis' Nancy Perkins in as* sortiug tbe mall—when in came Mrs. Deacon Simmons, who was iut and scant of breath, and In such a state of excitement that the committee had, all and severally, to fan her vigorously before her news could be extract ed. "Don't you think, as true as I'm a llvln' womau and not a corpse, as I might expect to be, hearlu' such upsettlu' things and hur ryin' so "Go ou, go on! don't lose your breath!" cried the committee, in chorus, fanning vig orously. "We'll never breathe It to a soul." "Oh, it's all over Brimbiecom. That good for-nothiug crctur, Ben Seaverns, has come back, without hardly so mueh as a cost to his back, and the rheumatic fever. Beeu cast aWay on a desert IslauU, and eat up py can-, nerbals 'most—which nobody can't^-'say wa'u't exactly like him—and iKjrtluug but skin and boues, aud tbe dotAor says most likely wou't uever be good for anything again, not to mention t^'at he uever was. And Pamely's took him ig^'and she and Ketury Is a-nussin' him up. -^And that isn't the worst of it the minister went up and married 'ein. She's took..-(bat good-for-notbin' cretur to take care,W for life—her that might 'a bad the^cdln later 1" ""They never got me to believe that she had any faculty." said Mis' Ichabod.—bophie is met, in Mail and Express! Combination. Slippers. "A combination slipper company is to organize at Lyons," says au ex change. Now we are up a stump its to tho exact object of this company. Perhaps it is a lot of mothers entering into a combination whereby they cau di ve their refractory outig ones to some centrally located place ouce a day, and have the slipper applied by a competent practitioner hired for the purpose, while tho fond mothers go back to their dislt washing and carpet sweeping, with no loss of timet or tempor. Perhaps this company pro poses to manufacture some new "com bination slipper" that is easily detach able from the maternal foot, and is so nicely adjusted on a swivel in the shank, that one sweep of the arm will produce half a dozen vigorous re sponses from both heel and toe simul taneously like a clap of thunder re verberating in a rocky glen, or like twenty bunches of firecrackers let off between the buildings. Sort of a double-back-action, top-snap, pistol grip, melai-tipped silver-mounted, ivory-handled, double-barreled, "lani' inated-repeating-spanker, such as mothers have sighed for since Cain and Abel were boys. Whether this company is a combination, or whether their slippers are to be a combination, or whether the wearers are to con stitute the combination, we can't figure out. but we'll watch this com pany with an interest born of morbid and consumiug curiosity.—Dansville preeze. Fame. Fortune and a Husband. A few days ago Miss Amelie Rives (Mrs. Chanter) said in regard to her literary work: "1 think out my plots, but I don't know what the characters will say until I lake up the pen. 'He rod and Mariamme' was written a year ago last winter. It was a month's task. I had the plot in my mind two years before, but bad not put it to paper." "Will it be put on the stage?'' "I don't know. A manager wanted me to go on the platform and read, but that was out of the question. He lias made a proposition to 'dramatize* *He rpd and Mariamne.' That is what he wrote. Perhaps he meant to reduce it to stage proportions, but hia offer waa vngne." "What will come next—a play or a novel?" "The next will be a play. Its-title is 'Ethelwold.' It ia baaed on inci dents in English history just prior to tbe reign of Henry IL The Harpers have secured it, and it will be issued about tbo first of tbe year. After tbat 1 have no fixed plans, but will, natural ly oontinuo to write."—Philadelphia Pretk -,f, License Requ!»d. "Hava you a lieenae to playf*' asked lbi )oW{ man as the (afar girl was seated at tbe organ. "Lloense to play tbe organ?" replied ah* "I never heard of such a thing" "O ye* yon must ham House to pdaL"—NUburg mh Ckmtttftt fi whle^ltis' koiea Blodifett t,(r V* •2ft I. "lteli«iTe^|S|N iBanevolent rare of THose in Trouble. There is among thieves a kindly feeling for each other which may have given rise to the saying that there's "honor'* among them. Few people are prepared, perhaps, to leurn that professional criminals are known, in mauy iustances, to exercise genuine charity towards their victims as well as towards the families of less fortun ate fellow-toilers in the_ thorny fields of crime. There are no benefit or pro tective associations among them, but they have their laws and, as a rule, abide by them. There is none more interesting to a student of human na ture than the by-law governing a "mob" of pickpockets, one of whom has been "pinched.'1 Four of these light-fingered gentry, for example, start out to see the world and make their fortunes out of other people's pockets. They tour gaily through tbe provinces, and one of them is arrested, stopped in the midst of his career per haps, at tho most profitable period, when he was about to capture a farm er's fat wallet and a wealthy "wad," His three fellow-workers can, as a rule, do no more than engage for him the best legal talent available and send him, through that source, messages of condolence and cheer. Through the lawyer, however, they lind out nt once the address of the prisoner's wife or family. To her, regularly, or to them for tbe remainder of that trip, be the foray long or short, is remitted with scrupulous regularity the one fourth of all the booty they "touch," be it much or little. The wife may in such cases fare even belter financially than if her husband were at large and working at his "trade." This particular trip comes to an end sooner or later. If the prisoned part ner is by this time at liberty well and good. If not, and another expedition into the bowels of the land and its breeches pockets is resolved on by the same partners, all the loose change, postage stamps and such individual trifles taken from their prey of port monaies is regularly put aside and dis patched to the.family of the ex-partner, no longer entitled to share equally, but still deserving, in some^degree, the sympathy aud a okfrfs fellow thieves. But burglars ,/re benevolent on a really ma*ij,'rticent scale. They are the jflrivre'es among criminals in tho ex tent of their operations as well as in the indifference with which they gath er in or throw nway great sums of money. Here are some notable in stances of burglars' generosity: THE RELIGIOUS BUHQLAK'S REPENT ANCE. In October, 1869, the Beneficial Sav ings Fund of Philadelphia was robbed of $1,300,000 wortli of securities. Frank McCoy ("B.g Frank"), now serving a ten years' sentence at New castle^ Del. "Jo Howard, doing live years, penance at present in Cold water, Mich., aud "Jimmy" Hope who is suffering: durance vile for a six year term at Auburn. N. Y., were the operators. Of the sum stolen a round half million was in unregistered 7.30 government bonds, which belonged to various Catholic beneficial institutions iu Philadelphia. Aud no sooner had the burglars beard this than, being, as they said. Catholics themselves, they returned the half million intact to its deserving owners. The Cortland National Bank, of Cortland, N.Y., was robbed in October, 1879, of some three hundred thousand dollars by "Jim" Ruins, "Rufo" Min or and Horace Hovan. In spite of their good deeds the first two of these gentlemen are now incarcerated, re spectively, at Hamburg and in Sing Sing, while "Little Horace" is doing Europe as a man of means should. Ten thousand dollars of the sum re moved from the care of the Cortland Bank was converted to current funds, but the remainder consisted of regis tered government bonds, which be longed in the main to small depositors. Among them were two poor old maid3, and when it came to tbe burg lars' ears, through their negotia tor, that these two sisters had their whole fortune invested in $16,000 worth of these securities, the bonds were mailed back to them at once. The venerable ladies were thus shared the expense and tedium of paying a reward, in the regular course of busi ness. or of an appeal to the govern ment for a duplication of the bonds. As recently as in the spring of '83 $70,000 in passenger railway securities were stolen from a Philadelphia trust company. Finding that they were not negotiable, and not wishing to worry either themselves or the trust com pany's depositors unnecessarily, the thieves immediately notified a detective who acted as a "go-between" for them that he might return the bonds at once. Hts crookedness in demanding and receiving a reward of $2,000 in no way impairs the merit of their praise worthy proffer. These negotiators, by the way, are thoroughly recognized members of a community. They have no ostensible occupation or profession. They are not lawyers, but deal through lawyers. They have officios which are well known to both thieves and the police, and they have a favorite lawyer to whom, after tbe victim of the robbery has answered their advertisement or notice by mail, they generally refer him as the "best man" to get his money baek for bim. In Deoember, 1878, a gang of repre sentative bank burglars broke into tbe Bank o! Jamestown N. Y. The mediate ringing of tbe burglar aroused the cashier of the ban! •ronsed the town and the man" was spon surrounded by a ero*& of determined eltiieu, armed with i)u manner of weapon* from a seven* shooter to tbe fUnt-toek of their fore fore father* The "ontside man's" dutr Is to staad,eonoealed. eatelds tin (MiUlsf wktab is feeing rotted, «U|» mm ated honsehoIdera, or along term of imprbdbmeijfc lti least stared at him from the mtuaels 'of a soore of wea pons. Something might at least be done for hn comrade. And so, instead of throwing up his hands or asking lor meroy, he began fraiiiioRlly toyellin iDpntliodlih mint nerand to jerk at a cord which lay along the ground from him to the bank, and whloh is known as the bur glars "telegraph line." Through these signals, the "inside men" escaped, and the benevolent burglar outside came near having the top of his head blown off. He was taken to jaU. His "part ner's" watched, and one night when they thought the deputy jailer was away and the warden alone, they marched up to the jail door. Two of tbem were dressed as police ,officers, and between them struggled a drnnken man who seemed particularly anxious to fall down. He rang the door bell, the warden came and admitted tbem very properly—as he thought—with the "prisoner." As soon as the "drunk en man" got inside ho fell over the warden and the "officers" came in and bound the warden's hands and feet and gagged him before he had time to re monstrate. Then the drunkard guard ed the warden and the officer searched for his keys. Not finding them they began with a sledge to pound at tbe inner door and had almost readied the "outside man's cell" when the deputy jailor—who was In reality up stairs in tbe jail, and not away as tlioy had supposed—fired several shots and raised an alarm which scared the would-be rescuers off But all during the 'Vtutside man's" confinement his comrades looked after the wants of his mother and his wife and children. He went to Trenton for ten years. Soon afterward he was seen one day to dive head first through what was supposed to be the barred window of one of tho shops. In a moment he reappeared, unhurt, outside the wall and ran across tbe road to a handsome coupe which stood just opposite the shop. A hand some looking man on the box—who was no other than ono of his old "pals"—drove awav at once and to such good purpose that tbe 'Vutside mnn" was never recaptured, but soon bad an opportunity of going lo work to repay his partners for their practi cal benevolence. They had during the night cut through the bars in the win dow. crawled into the shop, reversed the bolt in the look, and bribed a prison official to give the prisoner a signal when the coupe moved up. The gener osity of this gang wont even farther. They never gave this prison official away. The Smiths. The ancient excellence of steel, ill ustrated in the Demascus sword,which would cleave a floating gauze veil or helmet, and tho superiority of ancient iron armor were told. "Tho smith was a great man in Englaud," said Mr. Ham, "and in the old court of Wales, sat in tbe ball with the king and queen. His person was sacred and 8 calling placed liiui above the law." Legend and mythology were quoted as giving the highest honor to the smith. This individual gained great reputation by the excellence of his armor in the Norman invasion and hence his name has decended to more families than any other calling. The smiths finally gathered together into towns as manu facturers and great tool-making cen ters grew.—Chicigo 1'imei. Impulsive Modesty. The female models who pose for the nude have curious impulses at times of instinctive modesty. Baudry used to tell of a handsome girl who was sitting to him for the figure of his Truth be side her well. Suddenly she look np, gave a shriek, and hurried to hide her self behind a screen in one corner of tbe room. "What is the matter?" asked the astonished painter. "Oh, Monsieur!"' was tbe reply, "there's a man mending the roof on the other side of tbe street and he was looking at mo!' —Philadelphia Tele graph's Paris Letter. A Phenomenal Memory. A learned gentleman in Athene Ga., recites an instance of a wonderful memory. While at college years ago. a professor of his had often stated that he could read an article in a paper aud then repeal it verbatim. The narrtor was anxious to test him. and one dav, walking up said: "If you have no ob jection I should like to have you read this piece on Know-Nothingism and repeat it-to "me." The professor took the paper, read the articlo of a column and a halt in a few moments, and then repeated it without an error. Broken G-lass for a Razor. The Andaman Islanders shave al most the entire suriace of tbe scalp, as thoroughly as the imperfect im plements at their command will allow them. Formerly they used chips of broken flint for this purpose, but since the arrival of Europeans upon their islands, tliey can indulge in the luxu. ry of a shave with a piece of broken bottle glass. It is said that a wife takes peculiar pleasure in shaving the head of her bus band. —Hairdresser. Boston be Trifled Must not With. 'Sir Knifton, Marmalade (of Wig worth Hall, Kent England, to Boston Hotel Porter)—"Here, m' man, oall me a Hansom oatx" Boston Hotel Porter (kindly bat firmly.) '-Excuse no, sir, will call a oab for you but thai qualifying word is pronounoed Heidio In Boston."— Puck. Joomallstlo Enterprise & Georgia. It Is oar intention to make this paper an original affair, if we have \o borrow the money to do IL—BmUtoilU foj" a^iiu.ea«^b?hadts eonformftotheaiicient ing on the' imtnortals in person to s^sk for his vote. It was daHbg the suteawr,and' many of tba'ttembers had left Paris' lot their codutry seats. The poet wai obliged to tfrivel all over the country and hunt them up in their sylvan re treats. One day he arrived at tbe honse oi one of the most influential of the forty members. As he opened the gate a poodle dog of very unprepos sessing appearance rushed between his legs, jumped up on him, and gave other Indications of an affectionate disposition. De Musset bated dogs, and he felt very much inclined to ele vate he ugly brnte into the blue vault above on the toe of his boot bnt he was restrained by the thought that if he did so, he would everlastingly ruin his prospects with the owner. Instead of repressing the zeal of the affectionate animal by harsh measures, the poet advanced into the house patting the animal on the head and otherwiso ex pressing his satisfaction at having made such an agreeable acquaintance. The member of tbe academy greeted De Musset in a friendly manner, but there was a restraint in his manner that the poet could not explain. He also wondered that his host scowled so furiously at the demonstrative oa niue. After passing the compliineuts of the season, the host and the guest adjourned to the dining-room, where a eolation was set out Tbe dog con sidered himself especially invited. He enlivened the meal by vociferous barking, so as to render conversation exceedingly disagreeable. Just as the poet was liftiug the wing of a chicken to bis mouth, the dog snatched it away and proceeded to de vour it with great satisfaction. "I can't stand this sort of thing much longer," murmered De Musset to himself. Having disposed of the chicken bone, the cheerful canine suddenly placed his paws on the arm of the academic an, theroby causing bim to spill a cup of coffee on his pants. "You love dogs very much," re marked De Musset, "Loye 'em? I love to see them run through a saw mill If there is one animal in the world I detest that an imal is a dog." "Then you make your poodle here an exception?" "My poodle? That beast does not belong to me." The only reason 1 al lowed the animal to be in the room was because I supposed it to be your pet dog." I never saw the animal before. I would have fractured his spine with a chair long ago if I hadn't supposed that you would have felt badly if the brute had come to a sudden end." Both men burst out laughing, and then, much to the surprise of the dog. they made frenzied efforts to see which of them could kick the dog most fre quently before he could escape from the room. It is unnecessary to add that the poet got the vote of the academioian. There was a bond of sympathy between them. They both hatoil dogs. —Texas biflings. Nice Little Folks. "It is a fact of my observation," said a Pittsburg business man to a Diipatch reporter, "that people of small stature are far better natured than those oi large size. Did you ever see a small man who wasn't good humored and in* dined to take a rosy view of life? And did you ever know a little woman who wasn't jolly and full of fun? I've studied humanity a good deal, and 1 never yet have encountered a small person who was surly and misanthropic. Who a(e the pessimists? Lank, tali Cried Too Soon. Mr. Popinjay (reading account o. ocean collision): "Capt. Smith, re maining bravely at his post, went down with his ship." Mrs. Popinjay (be ginning to weep): '*The noble, devoted man! How few of us Mr. Popin jay (who has continued to scan tb column): "Hold on, my dear! He came up again."—Burlington Fret Press. A Distinguished Architect. Stranger (addressing an old colored bricklayer—Unole, who's building thii house? Colored Bricklayer—Mr. Hirshbug he build de house, but Queen Annlt she drawed da plan.—Harper's Baaar. The Correct Version. Mrs. H.—Norah, did Mrs. Biehly leave any message when yon told het I was not at homef Norah—Na ma* am, ahe didn't but sha looked veiy much pleated.—Ufs. Taking Advantage at .Friend ftal£ v. The avenge to barbar doMttot hesitate scrape sa W ua^Uaoe.-J*/aa firied (ind well enveloped in a linen doittar of ancient date, entered tb# Wood bridge strietatation and saidto Che thesergeant: "I just came in on the train. at me and aee If I Kidd or flttjib Row!" ,, Look I can't eee that yon do," replied the sergeant "Bat people are all looking at me and grinning. Anything wrong in my drew?" ... "Well, that—that duster ia a little off perhaps." "OK, it's the duster!" People don't wear 'em any more, eh?" "Not that style and color." "I see! I'm a little ancient!*' "A trifle." "Well, off she comes. I bought it in this town six years ago. The man warranted it to me as a combination duster, hammock, flying-jib, liver pad, bed-blanked, burglar-alarm, life preserver, and certificate of moral character, and it has pulled me through a steamboat explosion, two railroad smash ups* a hotel fire, and half a dozen free fights. Kinder hate to go back on her but style is style. If the style has chnnged then I've got to change with it." He pulled it off, rolled it into a bun dle, and laid it on a chair and said: "Give it to some poor and discon solate man—some one who hasn't a sensitive soul. It lias kept out the flieB, warded off the moths, and sav ed me from rattlesnakes and mad dogs, but the time has come when we must part. When IstrikeDetroit and hear a boy call out: 'Is that thing alive?' I know he means me and that duster. When I go up street and a man calls out: 'Schooner ahoy!' I know he means that duster and me. When I go into a car and see the women look me overandthen hitch away I know they are wonder ing which oi us is who and whether it will bite or not. I'm too sensitive by half, but I can't help it. I leave her in your hands. Good-by."— Detroit Free Press. Women Never Read a Sign, "Why sir,"an infuriated corre spondent says, "I want Co tell you a story. On one of the streets leading off Tremont street there is a large blank wall of a building and on this blank wall a neighboring photog rapher has erected a showcase. It is full of his cards, with name and ad dress on each, the entrance to this place being the next door to the east of the showcase. But of course all around the showcase is a blank wall. Well, I stopped there the other day to look at a photograph of the Harvard nine, and just then two well dressed ladies came up. 'Can you tell me, sir,' one ot them said, in a piteous sort of tone, after they had stood still a few moments 'how to get into this place?' 'What place, ma'am,'said I 'the photographer's?' 'Yes,' said she. 'Next door that way,' I said, looking aghast that any one should ask such a question. The two started for the place. Walking right by the slab which had upon it the addresses all the occupantB, including the pho- A tographer, they stepped into the back entrance to a dry goods store which is there. In a moment they came blundering out and then went into the back entrance by pure ac cident, 1 suppose, because they never stopped to look at the sign. Now, do you pretend to tell me, sir, that a creature who thinks she can get into a blank, dead brick wall and find -a photograph gallery in there some where knows enough to vote?"—Ban gor News. What Is Rattan? Every one knows the pretty, light and graceful chairs and other articles of furniture made from rattan, but raw-boned, dyspeptic individuals almost tremely tough aud flexible wood iuvariably. "Did you ever know a man of five feet six inches tbat was melan choly No, and you are not likely to. I tell you the world would be a mighty lonesome place without tbe little grown up people. They make more than half the fun there is in this vale ol. tears. "Little men are invariably good story-tellers. They are hearty laugh ers^ they are quick to see the humoroua side of any question, aud they relish a joke, even if it is at their own expense. They make the firmest friends, and adhere to those whom they like through thick and thin. They are sel dom quarrelsome and never conceited. They are often sensitive, but quick witted people generally are. Alto* gether they are the best folks in the world to get along with, whether in a business or social way." every one does not know that the ex- called rattan is that of a climbing palm-tree. This curious climber (which is more of a vine than a tree), is one of the singular characteristics of forest growth in the Celebes and other Malayan countries. Starting with a trunk as thick as a man's leg, it windB "V"# through the forests, now wrapping a tall tree in its folds, like some gigantic snake, and then de scending again to theearth and trail ing along in snake-like, curves until it can find some other stately tree to fasten and climb upon in its pursuit of light and air. The forest is so thick and jungle-like that it seems impossi ble to follow the courseof any of these serpent climbers but there is little boubt that at the lasttbe successful aspirant, which stooped and cringed so long below, will be found shooting up like a flag staff a dozen feet or more above the tree which has helped its rise. A use ot the rattan, wnich is unknown to those who have notseen it in flto native forest, is a water car rier. The thirsty traveler has at all times a tumbler of cool, refreshing water at his command by cutting off six or eight feet of the rattan and putting one of the severed ends to' his mouth, or holding it over a dish to catch the water. Mechanical •Newa..\!®V#^- ^i^ Luoretia Mott and Slavery.'1 For many years she allowed no product of slave labor to be used in her family, neither cotton nor sugar nor rice, an^ another form of protest was of almost dramatic effect. At that time colored people were not all lowed to ride inside the horse eah in Philadelphia, and ao long as this ride waa enforced Mrs. Mott rafosed to en ter thecars herself. When the con ductors seeing thla gradous lady standing ontbe platiom, wooldap proach her with the offer of a seat, aha would say: "Frfend^dow 13m» let onr colored brethren and 'MrtiMna slt in tiOaear? would bi "Ho.'1 h*r*t" ate woflU liMr nostrsaa ofwaiitewetild mm* «%. 4 5 "vii i'i •mm .• -l •l:? ••v-'V"*S8Pi j* •mf S3 aS£