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$O. |Upodtf.’ A. li. Fontain*, Editor and Prof.O GRAND RAPIDS, - WISCONSIN. CELEGKAIIS IX BRIEF. AMERICAN MATTERS. The great electric plain at Niagata Falls has begun operations. The everlasting whisky trust tight breaks out in anew spot. Tyler defeated Johnson and Sawyer in a cycle race at Toledo. The American Bar association held its convention at Detroit. Quay got control of the Pennsyl vania republican state convention. Idaho Indians drove white settlers from their homes, claiming the laud. A. B. French, member of the Min nesota legislature, died at Lake Emily. Men connected with the bull light ing at Cripple Creek, Col., are being arrested. Two South Dakota train robbers were sentenced to the penitentiary, one for life. United States Treasurer Morgan is sued an order designed to assist in moving the crops. Bones of the boy Howard Pietzel, said to have been murdered bj Holmes, were found in Indianapolis. The coroner’s jury in Minneapolis found that Mrs. Hawkins was killed by an accidental lamp explosion. A murder mystery of fourteen years’ standing is explained by the finding of a skeleton near Butte, Mont. Young Duke of Marlborough ar rived in Newport, R. 1., and is the guest of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Wisconsin Indians are war-dancing. Twenty-live thousand Kuigh’s Tem plar paraded in Boston. Edwara Brighton, a collector for the Otto Hueber brewery in Brooklyn, was sadbagged and robbed of SSOO. President Cleveland has reappointed Matt VV. Ransom United States min ister to Mexico. This is to cover an error in the original appointment. The Atlas rubber company"*of 1141 Greenwich street, New York, made an assignment. The linn is composed: of John F. Uoty and Eugene Herbert. Carlos H. Blackman, who was re ported fatally shot at Block Island, U. 1., by a boy during target practice, is a very wealthy and prominent mem ber of the Chicago board of trade. A Fargo bank clerk is said to have. taken $3,500 of the bank’s money. | North Dakota officers went to Winni peg and got the cash from the clerk,! but he was not arrested. About 0,000 cloth weavers at Phil adelphia liave asked their employers to adopt a uniform wage scale which they have drawn up. If their demand is not acceded to a general strike may ! ensue. Even Lee, a Norwegian resident of Eiau Ciaiire, is sal Lot ting contributions to a fund to take him to Norway, Where he hopes to secure a fortune 1 of SIOO,OOO which he believes was 1 left to him when a boy, and which j has been increasing ever since. When the cruiser Olympia steamed away from San Francisco for China, via Honolulu, Captain Read denied that ne intended to break the world's record between that port and the orient. Heads of wholesale and retail mer-' can tile establishments in New York city express the opinion that the com ing season will be most active and "A’ituess the return of business pros-' polity. A special dispatch by Mexican cable' reports the conviction of Colonel' Romero in the city of Mexico, where he was tried on the charge of killing 1 £seuor Verustegiu, head of the Mexican' stamp department, in a duel. It is charged that Louis Hammond,! of New York city, who committed sui cide in Boston, was an embezzler. I His wife, Kathryn, who also took her life, had contemplated suicide for some time. Johu Dane, the noted forger, who so effectually worked so many citizens in West Virginia two years ago in the counterfeiting business, was sentenced at Huntington, W. Va., to live years in the penitentiary. The president entertained his guests, Mr. Terriue and Dr. Frya c with a tishiug trip down the ty on the Esther. Mr. and Mrs. Thutoer passed through Buzzards Bay on the way to Falmouth, where they will call on Secretary and Mrs. Oluey. 11. 11. King, president of the Cash insurance company at I’ittsburg, fell down the hall stairway of his resi dence and received injuries which re sulted in death. Mr. Kir 0 was 80 years old and was one of the wealth iest men in Allegheny county. A “split” in the board of New York police commissioners in the decision of the.case of Police Captain Eakins is threatened. It is said that Com missioner Parker's sympathies, as well as those of Commissioner Grant, are on the side of the accused official. Frank Bevin, the East Hampton, Conn., bookkeeper who skipped with $2,000, is in Mexico, where he has in vested in silver mines. He has writ ten bis wife to go on there, but she has refused because of objection on the part of her family. Dr. Grenfell, superintendent of the deep sea mission at St. Johns. N. F., writes of the extreme destitution among the residents of northern Labrador, owing to the failure of the salmon fishery. He says that many persons will perish next winter unless prompt assistance is rendered. Martin Gerard, a prominent citizen of Mannington. W. Va.. was shot and almost instantly killed by James A. ’diddle, who was insanely jealous of his wife and who claimed that undue intimacy existed between the woman and Gerard. Riddle is under arrest. The petition of James Peralta Reavis, held as a prisoner at Santa Fe. N. M.. In default of $5,000 bonds for his connection with the Peralta land fraud, who sought release on a writ of habeas corpus, has been denied by the court. Clerk Kerr has sent to the printer the testimony in the contested elec tion case of Coleman vs. Buck for one of the seats from Louisiana in the next house of representatives. This is the last of the contests in which the testi mony will be printed before the con vening of congress. Only thirty-seven arrests for viola tions of the 'New York excise laws last Sunday were reported to police quarters. Acting Chief of Police Con lin made a tour of his old district and expressed himself as much gratified | by the observance of the law. In the i Bowery there was much drinking dur-| ing the early hours. Word has been received by cable at! Omaha of the death of the wealthy; merchant, Henry Pundt, at Hamburg, Germany, where he was temporarily sojourning on his way to Carlsbad in search of health. Mr. Pundt was a pioneer of Omaha, having established the first exclusive grocery business in Nebraska in 1850. Harrison P. Bridge, a young million aire of Boston, died at San Francisco. He had been enjoying good health for several months past, but the immedi ate cause of his death was a cold which he contracted at San Rafael re cently. The deceased was 32 years old and was a son of the late Hudson E. Bridge, of St. Louis, who died a num ber of years ago after accumulating a fortune of several millions in the manufacture of stoves. A wreck occurred at Pulaski, N. Y., on the Rome. Watertown and Ogdens burg railroad, resulting in the death of Walter Sisson, of Yonkers, and the serious injury of two unknown tramps. A freight train of forty-one cars broke in two pieces while going at a high rate of speed. The sections came to gether while going down a steep grade, telescoping two cars and throwing thirteen others down an em bankment. OVER THE OCEAN. Queen Victoria, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, has left Osborne for Balmoral. The Paris Figaro says it is author ized to declare that there is no ques tion of recalling the United States am bassador. James B. Eustis. The London Post announces that rhe marquis of Worcester, eldest son and heir of the duke of Beaufort, is be trothed to Baroness Carlo de Tuyll. The yield of the general taxation for .1 11I3' in Spain shows a decrease of 3,259,105 pesetas as compared with the taxation for the month of July, 1894. A dispatch from Berlin says that alarming news has been received at the chancellery in that capital respect ing the disturbed condition of Spain. Emperor William on being shown j General Munier’s letter in the Paris Figaro, charging a German official with theft during the Franco-Prussian war, indignantly called Munier a cow ardly liar. The Paris police have definitely as certained that the letter or infernal machine,which exploded in the office of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild se verely injuring his confidential clerk, M. Jodkowitz, was posted in the city. Paul Reclus, the anarchist agitator, who. though absent from France, was recently sentenced to a term of im prisonment, has informed the public prosecutor in Paris of his intention to return and surrender himself to the authorities. Information has been received at Rome that Signor Achille Faginolle, under secretary to the Italian ministry of commerce, and member of the chamber of deputies, suddenly became insane in the baths at Levico, in the Tyrol. The Paris Soleil publishes a dispatch from Ave&nes, in the department of the Nord, which says that the military authorities at Fort Boussois have ar rested a London commercial traveler named De Gouds and confined him in jail on a charge of espionage. AFTERMATH. Explorer Stanley spoke on the Egyp tian question in the commons. The Defender beat the Vigilant again in a trial heat yesterday. Judge Coke, secretary of state of North Carolina, died, aged 54 years. The American. Bar association elect ed Moorfield Story, of Massachusetts, president. The salvation army at Denver Inis organized a cavalry corps of young women for a tour in the mountain towns. They are the only mounted salvation soldiers in the world. James Beckmeister fell from the top of the New York World building and was instantly killed. In the fail he struck Johu Nicksou breaking his back and both legs. The latter will die. Ex-Minister Ransom's troubles are not ended by the reappointment by the president. The deputy auditor of the treasury .has decided he cannot draw his salary until confirmed by the senate. Mrs. Jenkins’ three little children were hunting for eggs and put them hands into a hidden nest and were bitten by a rattlesnake. Their cries caused Mrs. Jenkins to leave a baby near a well to go to their assistance. The baby fell into the well and was drowned. AMERTCA’S ODORLESS REGION. “In that country once known as the ‘Great American Desert,’ embracing a portion of Texas and Arizona, -there are no odors.” said a citizen of Dallas to a reporter. “There luscious grapes and many other fruits grow, especially near the cross timber country, but there is no perfume; wild flowers have no smell, and carcasses of dead ani mals. which in dry seasons are very plentiful, emit no odor. It was always supposed to be a treeless plain, upon which no plant could grow or breath ing thing could live, but a large part of it is now successfully cultivated, and but for the rarity of the atmos phere. causing the peculiarity I have named, and the mirages - , which are even more perfect than iu the Desert of Sahara, no one would look upon it as a barren country now. Another singular feature common to the desert land is that objects at a great distance appear greatly magnified. A few scraggy mesquite bushes will look like a noble forest: stakes driven into the ground will seem like telegraph poles.” A SUGGESTION. Why doesn’t Hosiery Ballow. Of the poetic hair, Train all his guns on Wall street And the bulls that battle there? . PLAGUE OF MODELS ARTISTS BEGINNING TO SUFFER FROM TRILBY ISM. 1 FEMALES ANXIOUS TO POSE Many Tricks Invented to Frighten Them Off—The Order to "Take Off Your Clothes” Usually Drives the Novice Out—Torture Pose also Ef fectual. The artists of the metropolis are suffering from a strange p'.ague. It’s all on account of poor, wornout, be draggled Trilby, too. By this time nearly all the rest of humanity has re covered from the storm of Trilbyism, and having passed through the tire, can laugh with glee at the writhiugs of the knights of the brush who are mainly responsible for the creation of the little girl. Briefly the plague is described in the words of an artist The Torture Pose. who is building a fine bank account by idealizing portraits of the rich men and women of the city and their chil dren. This artist said: “All summer long my studio has been besieged by an army of girls who were evidently infatuated by the life supposed to exist in studios and so pleasantly described in Trilby. I They all want to be Trilbies ana said they sought work as models. But what under heaven do I want with a lot of giggling girls, languishing women who were old enough to know better, and most of them with faces which it would be agony to paint. Sometimes as many as a dozen would call in a single day and always when the light was just right for my work. It took a little time to dispose of each one and many valuable moments were wasted. I marveled at first at the great number of models out of work and for a time attributed it to the hard times. Then I remembered that all of the boys were busy, so hard times had nothing to do with it. Fin ally, I spoke to several fellows about the plague and I found that they were all suffering from it. The next time I had one of the pests call on me I de cided to find out all about it. ‘T asked—‘Did you ever pose before?’ “ ‘No, but I think I could. I wouldn't like to pose very much—that is, with out most of my clothes on,’ she said rather diffidently. “She was a girl of not more than 18, apparently just through school and with a figure all ends and corners, no curves or soft lines anywhere. She evidently did not have to support her self, as she was nicely dressed and had the lock of a home-bred girl, so 1 asked: “ ‘Why do you want to do model work?’ “Here she became confidential and with a little giggle answered: ‘You know I’ve read Trilby and so have lots of the other girls and it must be “I Would Like to Pose, Sir.” so delightful to work iu a studio, like she did, and I wouldn’t caarge any thing for posing either.’ “I explained to her gently that T did not need any Trilbies except those who could pay S4OO for a portrait, and when she had passed away 1 went into sign painting, nailing the result of my labors in a conspicuous spot on my door. This is the tale the sign told: Ambitious Trilbies Not Wanted. Models Not Employed Here. “The sign cuied me of the plague.” An artist who has won some fame as a painter of oriental scenes in which the nude figures prominently,' when asked if he had contracted the! plague began to swear most inartisti-j rally before replying. “Have I?” he sneered. “Oh, no; itj hasn’t done anything at all to me ex- j cept drive me crazy and almost ruin my business. If Du Manner knew, what he was going to inflict upon the craft he would have strangled Trilby in her infancy. But I know how to stop it. Just you sit here awhile and the first one comes in will be made a horrible example of.” In less than half an hour two girls were ushered into the studio by a lit- tie black boy wearing a red fez. This youngster did everything from dust ing the studio to posing. He wore a massive grin, as if he knew what was about to happen. One of the girls was about 20 and the other a year or so older. They looked like shop girls and were togged out in a mass of gaudy | tinery. The elder of the two did the 1 alking. The artist put on a horrible frown and snarled out: I “Well?” “We would like to pose, sir." said the elder. “You would—well, take off your: clothes and stand on that pedestal and—” “Sir —take off my clothes. Here. 1 Jennie, let us get out of here. He is not a gentleman.” And out they went. “That’s the way to stop them. It doesn’t take much time and its gen erally effectual. The only time it failed was one day last week when a woman, I think she was a widow, called. :She was not more than five feet two in height and weighed IGO pounds, if she weighed an ounce. The first thing she said was: T want to learn to be a model. I have had no ex perience. but I’ve a good figure as you can see.’ “ ‘Yes, there is plenty of it, too,’ I observed and was on the point to growl out, ‘Well, take off your clothes and stand on the pedestal,’ when she blurted out like a blast from a cannon: “ *l*ll pose for the altogether, you know.’ “ ‘Not on your life,’ I shouted out and then we had a hot aud heavy con versation for two minutes. Little Caesar there, came to the rescue by telling her that an artist upstairs made a specialty of the altogether. Sue left saying she would call on him. If 1 had painted her it would have looked like this: If He Had Fainted Her. Another artist who has also been a victim of the piague said that he had suffered in silence for a long: time. “When a visitor appears now who is not pleased by the order to take off her clothes,” he said, “I always put her in the most wearisome pose I could manufacture. You know that the slightest weight in the hands of a model becomes as heavy as a ton of lead after she has stood in. a fixed position for any length of time. About the most difficult pose any model ever attempted and carried through successfully was that of the girl who posed for the Diana on the top of Madison square garden. To stand on one foot and hold the hands in the position of an archer is some thing awful. Of course the Diana model was aided by many little de vices like strings suspended from the ceiling for holding the hands and arms in j>osition. Neither did she have to hold the bow and arrow in her hands. But the novice I put through the paces didn’t know anything about this. I allowed her to wear some drapery although Diana herself would have cast it away. I put a heavy bow and arrow in her hand, told her to stand on a chair and explained how ehe must poise herself on one foot. 1 left ier and pretended to fumble about getting ready to paint. At the end of twenty seconds I could see that the new model was growing tired. iShe stood it bravely until a minute had passed and then said: “‘How much do I get for this?’ “ ‘Forty cents an hour,’ I replied. “ “Heavens,’ was all she said, but courageously kept on posing for an other minute. Then she gave it up. Her face looked as if she had passed through the tortures of the inquisi tion. “ T have had enough,’ was all she could gasp,’ and then dashed into the dressing room. Later when she again appeared gowned and ready to leave she said: ‘Was I up there half an hour?’ “ ‘You posed for twc minutes.’ I said. • “ ‘Heavens.’ she said and left.” MBS. THEODORE THOMAS. A Potent Factor in the Success of Her Husband. One of the most potent factors in the success of Mr. Theodore Thomas in Chicago was. doubtless, the fact of his having marriea a Chicago woman, writes Mrs. Hamilton Mott in the August Ladies’ Home Journal. Mrs. Thomas, although not a Chicagoan by birth, had resided in that city for so long a time before her marriage that| the people there had come to feel a sense of proprietorship in her. Mrs. Thomas,'" whose maiden name was Rose Fay, was born in 1852. ini the parish of St. Alban’s, Vermont,' where her father, the Rev. Charles Fay, of Boston, a clergyman of the; Episcopal church, was at that time acting as rector. His wife. Miss Emily Hopkins, was the daughter of the pre siding bishop in the house of bishops, i and it may be readily imagined, there-, fore, that Mrs. Thomas is. by choice as by inheritance, an Episcopalian. In appearance Mrs. Thomas is tall and slight, of fair, complexion, with gray eyes and brown hair. Her face betokens much of the intellectuality of the cultivated Bostonian. She dresses in quiet and excellent taste, preferring the darker shades of brown for street wear, and reds or heliotropes fer evening, Turkish troops attack Armenian lages. WISCONSIN APPLES — BEST VARIETIES FOR BADGERS TO GROW. A VALUABLE INVESTIGATION Prof. Goff’s Bulletin for the Informa tion of Farmers and Others—The Oldenburg Variety a Great Favor ite with Wealthy a Close Seeond— Faith in Apple Culture. Bulletin No. 45 of the Wisconsin ex-; periment station, by Prof. 14off, deals | with apple culture in Wisconsin. It; was compiled from information fur-i uished by 172 apple growers residing! in different parts of the state, chiefly I in Waupaca. Rock, Walworth. La Fayette, Kewaunee. Door and Outa gamie counties. From this bulletin it appears that the Oldenburg or Duchess variety leads in the number of bearing trees in the orchards reported, about IS per cent, of the whole uumber being of this sort. Next comes the Wealthy, which includes 15 per cent, of the whole number, followed by the Fameuse or Snow with 7 per cent., and the Longtield and McMahan with 6 per cent. each. Whitney No. 20 constitutes 5 per cent, of all, Haas or Fall Queen 4 per cent., Talman’s Sweet and Tetofsky 3 per cent, each and Golden Russet, Northwestern Greening, Walbridge and Wolf Rivet 2 per cent. each. The remainder of Che varieties reported is made up of some 200 sorts, including very many of the old names familiar in the orchards of New York and New Eng land. This long list of varieties forms an instructive object lesson of the tragic history of apple culture in Wis consiu. The pioneers, with pardonable | iguorauc ; of the severe climatic con ditions. planted freely of the varieties I they had learned to love in the milder | climate of the east, but these first | orchards have been swept away with ( the exception of here and there a tree j or group of trees that chanced to be ! planted in a sheltered location. | In ability to endure cold, the follow j ing varieties are rated in the order I named: Oldenburg, Tetofsky, Talman’s j Sweet, Haas, Fameuse, McMahan, j Golden Russet, Red Astrachan, ; Wealthy, Pewaukee and Alexander, j The Northwestern Greening and Long field, of which comparatively few 1 trees are as yet bearing, also promise : well in this respect. In productive ness, the Oldenburgh, Longtield, Wealthy, Fameuse, Haas, Yellow j Transparent, Tetofsky, Wolf River and McMahan are rated in the order named. The. Oldenburgh, Fameuse. Wealthy, Haas and McMahan were re ported as among the more salable va rieties. The Fameuse appears most subject to apple scab with Walbridge second and Talman’s Sweet third. Al exander was reported most subject to blight followed by Wealthy second, Talman’s Sweet third and Yellow Transparent fourth. The Fameuse is regarded as most liable to sun-scald, followed by .Walbridge, Wealthy, Bon Davis and Talman's Sweet. The majority of the more successful Wisconsin orchards are planted on clay loam with a clay sul>soil overly ing limestone rock. Most of them are located above adjacent land and the greater number slope to the uorth or east. The great majority of those that have practised spraying apple trees re port beneficial results. A few of the correspondents use some protection for the trunks of their apple trees, mainly lath screens woven together with wire. The correspondents are about equally divided between keeping the soil of the orchard constantly cultivated and seeding it down to grass after the trees are of bearing age. The major ity favor planting apple trees not less than thirty feet apart each way. Ft would appear that Wisconsin orchard- I ists are nearly unanimous hi prefer ( ring home-grown trees to those pro i duced east or south. One hundred and two of the 172 cor respondents sell more or less apples and of these the greater part find market without shipping. The north ern aud northwestern markets are pre i ferred by the great majority of shippers. It appears that good winter apples bring on the average not less than one dollar per bushel aud that the culture of crabs is profitable in some parts of Wisconsin, notably I Waupaca county. i Among the varieties recommended' Iby the correspondents for planting in Wisconsin, the Oldenburgh, Wealthy, j Haas, Fameuse, Northwestern Green ing, Wolf River, Talman’s Sweet and : Hibernal are suggested by many cor-| respondents in about the order named.' In some parts of the state other va rieties are given preference. Thus in La Fayette and Green counties Fa-i meuse is placed first, Oldenburgh sec ond, Pewaukee third, followed by Ro-j man Stem, Saint Lawrence, Wealthy' Willow Twig, Haas and Longueld; in Richland and Sauk counties McMahan is placed second and Newell fourth while in La Crosse county Avista is given the fourth place. The testimonies indicate that Wis consin orchards yield at least a fair crop of apples not less than eight sea sons out of ten, and about four seasons out of ten they yield a fall crop. It is doubtful if any state in the union can offer a better showing. From the testimony presented in this bulletin it appears that in the south ern and eastern parts of Wisconsin j <=nd in Waupaca, Richland, Sauk and La Crosse counties apple culture is in a fairly healthful and growing condi tion. While the orchards are for the most part quite small, a few are of considerable magnitude. The bearing trees are probably as productive as in any state in the anion and the prices received for fruit offered for sale are. generally good. A considerable num ber of young orchards is being planted, and creditable enterprise is being shown in the willingness to test new varieties. The great majority of the correspc-ndents have abundant faith in the future of apple culture in Wiscon sin in the parts of the state, and in lo cations best adapted to the culture of this fruit. This bulletin ■which gives much in formation not here noted, will be sent free by application to Prof. W. A. Henry, experiment station. Madison. NAPOLEON AND WASHINGTON. America’s First President Honored at the Tuileries. Simultaneously with these events the most careful preparation was made tor a step which might redound to, Bonaparte’s credit if properly taken, but could easily be detrimental to the complete success* of his schemes. Un der the new constitution every de partment of government had an as signed dwelling-place. That of the consuls was to be the Tuileries. How could an absolute dictator Install his peuates in the sometime home of ab solute royalty without inspiring gener al distrust? The first step was to re cliristeu the pile as “the palace of the government,” the next to consecrate it to glory. From far and near the stat ues of the great were gathered to adorn its halls. The choice of these displayed in significant confusion the generals and statesmen of all times jin all places. Alexander, Caesar, Fred erick; Cato, Cicero, Brums; Mira beau, j Marceau and Jon beet; and many other's of lesser note, wore assembled in effigy. But highest of all was set the image of Washington, the news of whose death had just reached Eu rope. His example was to be held up as the real inspiration of the new ruler. In order both to arouse the j imagination of the people and to con | vince their understanding, the army j was put into mourning for the great American, and a festival was insti tuted in his honor. To honor the typi cal and ideal republican of the age was a conspicuously effective idea, j sauce it accorded thoroughly with the approved traditions of the Revolution. The celebration was set for Febru ary 9, 1800, and proved a great suc cess. It had already been decided to reawaken public enthusiasm by insti tuting great military ceremonies to accompany Che final deposit of the captured standards from Aboukir in the hospital of the Invalided. These and the Washington festival were in ! terwoven with consummate art, and j while the first consul’s victories were 1 recalled in the imposing parade, the ' simple and impressive words of an ! able orator, M. de Fontanes, remind ! ed the nation that the immortal Wash ington had shown as a general more strength than brilliancy, and had awakened little enthusiasm, but great confidence; that he was one of the men inspired to rule who appear from time to time in the world; that he was neither partisan nor demagogue; and that when peace had once been signed he had laid down his arms to become ! the wisest of constructive legislators. | “Yes, Washington; thy counsels shall \ be heard—thou warrior, legislator, ad ministrator! He who in youth sur passed thee in battle, like thee shall close with conquering hands the wounds of his country.” Minds less quick than those of the Parisians would have discovered the moral of the address even without the perora tion. When the official journal next 1 day published the glowing w.-r ls and j described the brilliant ceremony, the j coming monarch was already lodged j under the roof of the Bourbons. Since at Leoben Bonaparte had made the j liberation of Lafayette and his family lan indispensable condition of the i treaty, it might have been expected I that his name, so long used elsewhere in a. natural juxtaposition, on such an occasion would be linked with that of Washington; but the honors of that day were to be shared with the dead foreigner, not with the living French man.—Prof. Sloane’s Life of Napoleon ! in the Century RESENTED AN INSULT. Corney Grain Entertained the Serv ants at the House of a Snob. Many are the good stories told of Mr. Corney Grain, says a London paper. He was a man of courtly dignity and no one knew better than he how to resent an impertinence, whether di rected against himself personally or against the profession to which he be longed. He was engaged on one occa sion to entertain a large party of guests at a country house. He trav eled down from town in the afternoon, as directed, by train, which landed him at his destination just as the guests were assembling for dinner.' Instead of being received in the draw-1 iug-room, however, Mr. Grain was conducted to the butler's private room,' and there, while the house party was dining upstairs, his dinner was served. Mr. Grain said nothing, but as soon as he had fortified himself against his return journey he called all the serv ants who happened to be at liberty into the butler’s room, apologized to them for the absence of a piano, and, doing the bast he could without one, lie proceeded to entertain the amazed but delighted domestics with quips and jests and songs selected at ran dom He never, perhaps, had a more appreciative audience. Then he called for his fly. As he was preparing to get into it a pompous flunkey came down to the butler’s room with the message that “dinner was hover, and would Mr. Grain now come up to the draw ing-room and give his hentertain ment? ’ To which Mr. Grain replied: “Give your master my compliments, and tell him that as I was sent to the servants’ hall I naturally concluded It was the servants I was engaged to en tertain, and am going back to town by the next train.” He did it, too. And the story was told all over the country. WOMEN IN BUSINESS. The woman who meets men in busi ness in a sensible way, thinking no evil and expecting none, in ninety cases out of a hundred will be treated respectfully and kindly; indeed,-she will find men much kinder and more considerate than women in business dealings. In the possible hundredth case where a man shows himself a beast or a puppy (by the way. I be lieve a puppy is a beast also, but we will let it go at that), it is a very wrnak woman who cannot maintain her dig nity and teach her imsulter a valu able lesson at the same time. During the years in which I was earning my living by newspaper writing 1 have been in tenements, cellars, through the slums, among chained and guarded cou\ rots and in dm wing romms, the worst place of all sometimes, my lady -and almost invariably have found men in rags, stripes or broadcloths, kind, courteous and helpful. lu threading my way through narrow by ways in search of some item of news I have stopped to ask questions of the denizens thereof, and never yet have I found a man so drunk that he did not manage to claw his hat off his head while he answered me in re spectful though somewhat tangled up language. lam not declaring that all men are salats; in business they will crowd and supplant women, which they have a perfect right to do if they use honest methods. Twice while earning my living I have been thrown out of good positions by men; not be cause they wanted or could till the place 1 had, but through business jealousy aud by underhanded meth ods that would make a horse thief blush; so 1 am prepared to admit that there are mean meu, but they are in the minority. Men are just as good, just as honorable, as generous aud as worthy of trust aud confidence as the women. It is time that this cry of working women against men be stopped. If a woman respects herself she will be respected; and this is the testimony of those gifted with beauty as well as ordinary plaiu people like yours truly. We find what we look for in this world; if we fook fur evil, we find it; if for good, our search is doubly rewarded.—Womaukiud. YACHTING GItOWING POPULAR. Boats Dot the Waters All Along the Massachusetts Coast. It was uot until after the close of the war in 1805 that yachting became a popular pastime in America, Great prosperity prevailed at the north and the spirit of adventure engendered among the young men by the excite ment of the war row sought its outlet in sports as in business enterprises. Yachting felt the influence of the new state of things, and the lakes ana rivers and harbors began to show a great increase in the number of pleas ure boats. New clubs were organized and laces arranged in all localities where boats abounded. Yachting soon became a popular pastime in all the seaports, large and small. ClulT after club was organized and private ves sels increased enormously outside of the clubs. Indeed, it is these outside boats that constitute the great body of the yachting world. The large, famous vessels represent the ex treme development of the maritime art, and they stand for the yachting world, as the mounted Held officers of a regiment itself. The great body of the pleasure fleet of America is com posed of a multitude of small sail ing boats, which swarm in and navi gate the bays, lakes, rivers and sounds of the country—moderate in size, safe in rig, low in cost and giving health ful recreation to a hundred times as many people as do the big representa tives of the fleet. Nearly 1,000 small yachts are owned along the coast of Massachusetts aloue, while there are seldom more than twenty or thirty vessels engaged in any of her regattas. And while the great racers in all America do not probably exceed 200, there are more than 1,870 in the official yachting list and several times that number of pleasure sailing boats in the whole country. The great body of practical yachtsmen own the small boats, —Douahoe’s Magazine. TRAPPER THE POSTAL OFFICIAL. A curiously complicated murder trial has just ended in southern France. A box of candy was put into the post office at Tarbes and opened by a dis honest official, who ate some of it and gave some to two other clerks. They were all stricken down with atrocious pains, and the clerk who opened the box died, undoubtedly of poisoning. The box was directed to a local politician and was traced finally to a schoolmaster in a neighboring town, a man of unblemished character and gentle manners, who had been persecuted by the politician. He was identified by the girl who sold the candy and the druggist who sold him the poison', and sent to hard Labor for seven years. He asserted that he never intended to poison his enemy, but merely to administer a strong purge as a joke. ASCENDING MOUNT BLANC. It is an expensive as well as a very tiresome undertaking to ascend Mount Blanc. It costs at least SSO per per son, for by the law of the commune of Chamouui each stranger is obliged to have two guides and a jiorter. So far as the danger is concerned it reduced to a minimum, but almost every year the mountain claims a vic tim. Bad weather is the chief thing feared by the guides, and so swiftly does it come that a cloudless sky may in fifteen minutes turn to a blinding snowstorm which beats you to the ground. Thus it was that some years ago a party of eleven persons per ished. Five were found frozen stiff in the snow; the other six lie buried in the Glacier des Boissons. Forty years is the time allowed for the glacier to yield them up In the valley below. LITIGATION IS DECLINING. The English courts are making com plaint of the decline of litigation. Cases are quickly disposed of and the number of new cases arising is not sufficient to keep some branches of the court occupied. Lord Justice A. L. Smith, an eminent member of the judiciary, in addressing a body of solicitors recently said that the judges were not to blame for the fact that few litigants sought the courts. One difficulty, he thought, was that a per son having a ca.se might go to law and be successful throughout and yet his costs would be heavy. Justice Smith believed that the losing litigant should pay all the costs, as is done in this country.