I passion he had I cover known, but solely because it I was the custom of the men of his I world to marry at that age. I Marriage, however, he found to be I a bondage, and he was bored to death I with it, when, appr >aching his for- I tleth year, he began to amuse and sol- I ace himself with the pleasures of pho tography—a solace suggested to him by the accidental winning of a prime Kodak offered as a pr ze by a certain journal of Paris to which, for years, he had subscribed. From that moment his new born passion took on a character of selfish ness. of personal indulgence in his fad that swept the money from his pockets faster than once had done the had done the necessities of his stable of racers training for the Grand Prix. New “films,” new “baths,” new “ob jectives,” or a patent “new" some thing or other every day of the week. A pungent odor of chemicals per vaded the house—turned to a labora tory—from mansard to cellar, kodacks were in the salon, tripods in the cor ridors; ma lame’s own boudoir, even seized to provide him with a dark de veloping room —a seizure for which she avenged herself by passing nearly r all her time promenading on the arm of his friend Victor, which, of course, set the tongues of the gossips wag ging, and was finally, this gossip, brought by a friend to the photogra pher's ears. “Yes,” answered he tranquilly, “it is true my wife and Victor take not the slightest interest in my experi ments. But what they do, talk of, amuse themselves with or approve of, is their own affair. Moreover, if they want to marry each other, divorce, too, is theirs, but they must first ar range to furnish me with a reasonable pretext I ask nothing better than to find myself alone again in my own house, with no one to mix up my bot tles and upset my proofs.” One day—it is always the case —the lovers committed an imprudence. Yielding to the solicitations of the maniac, they had consented to pose for him in the garden, in broad day light, arm in arm with each other. And while the husband dallied in an interminable “sighting” under his square of velvet, Victor, forgetting that he could see them through his black chamber, bent ardently forward and dropped a hasty kiss upon the tempting nape of the young wife’s milk-white throat. Ml Lil ne Ist She uttered a stifled cry, but the operator under his black square never budged. “He saw nothing, thank heaven!” murmured, relieved, the two lovers clasping tenderly each other’s hands. They were wrong; he had seen and was laughing in his sleeve at an idea that had suddenly come to him, a cap ital farce! It amused him so much that he upset his water bath and ruined his proof; but this time he didn’t care; he had other things at that moment than “proofs" in his head. That same morning at table, Vic tor, as usual, lunching with them, De Rosny said to the culprits: “In weather so beautiful as this the light is simply superb to operate in the open air. What do you say to going to-morrow to eat a fritter at Bas-Meudon?” And as the day was still young and the others willinc, he set out at once, alone, for the restaurant to select and rent a cabinet It opened upon a glass covered gallery so arranged that it formed this gallery, a huge projecting 1 window to the cabinet pro per, and overlooked a wide expanse of Bunny terrace stretching between the cabinet river. Nothing could have been better for his plan. De Rosny, delighted, demanded of the waiter: “This beautiful spot. Has no one ever attempted a photograph here? No? Eh bien, then, I’ll try it to-mor- row; the pictures of some friends of mine. But the light is not right. I must change it, it must come from above; yet if I cover the whole bay my proof will be too black. Bring me a blind, please. Eh? You have none? A curtain, then, a blue curtain preferred, like those I saw down stairs as I entered." And there, in his shirt sleeves, in the brilliant sunlight, he worked for two hours arranging and rearranging tek // lff SWW £ Afe’i age < y< s Wff' jBHSLj?’ Ow\K,a Wzf rlli (If * JiJr J uVm'(A iifii BENT ARDENTLY OVER. OMTE Philippe de Rosny.agood looking bachel or of tolerably easy fortune and morals, had taken to himself wife at 5 and 30 years; not that he wanted a wife with any particular fer- vor, for love or his curtains, whistling ana humming to himself like a worker whose heart i« in his work, his mouth full of nails and hammering away ardently. Then be had brought up from the smoking room below an old sofa. With his own hands he installed it invitingly in the corner of the bay directly fac ing the entrance to the cabinet so that it would be the first thing visible the moment the door opened. Back of the sofa he draped another blue curtain to give it the “prepared” effect of a theatrical “accessory,” stood a table in the corner, with a bracket above it, and on the bracket again a pot of flowering palm. “Capital! Capital!” he murmured admiringly, and turned his attention next to his arrangements in the corri dor, simply the chalking of the exact spot on the floor where the camera tripod must stand, proper range of focus by seating the waiter on the divan and finishing the business by giving him a louis to hold his tongue and to keep the camera safe in a closet for him until to-morrow. “Next morning, at the mo ment of taking the boat that was to carry them to Bas- Meudon, De Rosny stopped suddenly, struck his hand to his brow and said to his wife and Victor: “Heavens! I have forgotten my ac tinometre. Go on without me. I’ll run back and get it and rejoin you in an hour.” He climbed to the quay again; waited till the boat had backed from the dock and passed from sight under the bridge; then entered a neighbor ing cafe and scribbled hastily the fol lowing note: “Actinometre out of order; must stop at a shop. Lunch without me. Will reach you by 2 o’clock. The sun will still be high enough.” The mes senger bearing this note arrived just as the hungry turtle doves—for even turtle doves grow hungry if too long deprived of lunch—were growing thoroughly impatient. And the two convives fell to feast ing with hearty good will, merry and amused as two children on a lark. But pleased as they were, they were still not half so pleased as the hus band behind the door. At last came the scrape of two chairs pushed back at the same time, then steps on the floor, a low, pro testing plaint from the springs of the divan, a silence, a soft sigh. Quick as a flash de Rosney stood up, pulled off with one hand the camera cover, with the other threw back the door, shouting his usual sacramental phrase: “Be still! Don’t stir!” It was 11 o’clock the night of that same day. The lamp in the commis saire’s office was covered with a yel low paper, and with the tell-tale cam era stationed between them, the mag istrate and Phillippe de Rosny, his liberty—he thought so, at least—con quered at last, faced gravely each other. “Yes, M. le Commissaire,” said he, “I insist upon developing the slide here in your presence in order that its accuracy cannot be questioned; that no one, when I apply for my divorce, as I certainly shall do at once, can possibly accuse me of having re touched it. The idea you see, is such a new one, so thoroughly fin de siecle, perhaps, also, a trifle American. In stead of stupidly riddling the culprits with bullets from a revolver, I snap a camera at them and, voila! the thing is done.” And with infinite precautions, he drew the slide from the frame and plunged it into the reservoir. The commissaire bent to look over his shoulder; the opal of the gelatine was coloring, the image appearing But suddenly the operator tore the proof from the bath, held it between him and the lamp, gazed blankly a second and a strangled cry escaped his throat. Had they moved, had the camera not caught them, had the actinometre really refused to work? Oh, no; worse than that. The picture was perfect; the window, the bracket, the flowering palm, the big blue curtain, so carefully arranged as a background for the scene, only— the curtain, a solid blue wall, with out a wrinkle, hung now in front of the divan. If Victor was kissing again, his, De Rosny’s wife, no one was the wiser, for no one could see it Miss Fainter Shot the Cramp. Two tramps waylaid Miss Lizzie Painter of Hopewell, Pa , one even ing recently, and one of them re ceived a pistol bullet in his arm. Miss Painter, who is a music teach er. was driving from the home of one of her scholars to Hopewell, in a lonely part of the road, when a man, evidently a tramp, jumped out from the roadside and commanded her to get out of the wagon. Foran answer Miss Painter raised a revol ver and shot, and with a cry of pain the man dropped his hold on the horse, with a bullet in his wrist At this moment another man ran out to catch the horse and the young woman fired at him also, but missed. The horse became frightened and rushed down the road before the second man could stop it. Since then a dil igent search has been made for the tramps, but they have not yet been found. The Inevitable. Pia»kington—What color are you going to have your house painted? Witherby—My wife wants it painted white, but 1 favor green. Plankington—l see. So you are going to have it painted white— Judge. An Appropriate Title. “I think you do well to call your book ‘Fugitive Verses.’ ” ••I'm glad you approve.” “Yes, it’s very appropriate, 'hough I th nk it’s a great pity they don’t escape. ” —Juage. SHOOTING SEA LIONS. SPORT OFF SAM DIEGO, CALIFOR NIA. The Sea Llona Are Hard to Kill If Yon Don’t Hit Them in the Right Place— Soiuethina: About Flyiiiff Flab. Eight miles Inland from tills city the sportsman can get the finest kind of mountain lion shooting, says a corre spondent of the Chicago Tribune. Eight miles out at sea, on the rook eries of the Coronado islands, lions bask in the sun and gambol in the water by the thousands. On a clear day they can be seen from the veranda of the Hotel Florence through a powerful field-glass. It requires skill to bag this lion of the sea. On approaching the rookery occupied by a numerous herd one first hears their long, plaintive bowlings, as if in dis tress; but when near them the sounds become more varied and deafening. The old males roar so loudly as to drown the noise of the heaviest surf among the rocks and caverns, and the pups croak hoarsely or send forth sounds like the bleating of sheep or the barking of dogs. A rookery of matured animals presents a ferocious and defiant appearance, but becoming alarmed at the approach of man, in their efforts to escape to the water they roll, tumble, and sometimes make fearful leaps from high, precipitous rocks. In one instance about twenty lions were collected on the brink of a precipitous cliff at least sixty feet above the rocks which shelved from the beach below. The hunters seeking their capture thought that prising them they could drive the lions over the cliff, and that the tre mendous fall upon the sharp rocks below would kill every one of the animals. The surprise was successful. Every lion jumped to what seemed certain death, but to the chagrin of the hunters when they arrived at the foot of the cliff where they expected to find the lions either helplessly muti lated or dead, the last animal of the herd was seen plunging into the sea. The California sea lion is a tough cus tomer. To kill a sea lion the bullet must hit him in or near the ear, for a ball in any other part of the body has no more effect than it would in a grizzly bear. Sea lions can scent a man as readily as do deer, so that great cau tion is necessary when approaching within shooting distance. The profes sional lion hunter is a skilled marks man, and in emptying the sixteen shots from his rifle into a fleeing herd he can usually shoot twelve of the beasts through the head, killing them instantly. If wounded the lion reaches water and escapes. The sea lion eats fish, mollusks, and sea fowl. Their principal feathery food in northern waters is the gull, and their manner of decoying and catching these birds displays no little degree of cunning. When in pursuit the animal dives deeply under water and swims some distance from where it disappeared; then rising cautiously it exposes the tip of its nose above the surface, at the same time giving it a rotarv motion like that of a water bug at play. The unwary bird on the wing, seeing the object near by, alights to catch it, while the sea lion i settles beneath the waves and at one bound, with extended jaws, seizes its screaming prey and instantly devours it. It is estimated that a sea lion eats twenty-five to forty pounds of fish daily. He takes a large fish in his mouth, gives it a shake, bites out a large piece, drops it, ami then diving again, catches it, and rising to the surface takes another nibble, until it is consumed. At one time there were 25,000 sea lions living in one of the large California bays. They ate more fish than the fishermen caught, and an effort was made to have the legisla ture offer a bounty of $1 a skin for the hides of these lions. Instead of that a law was passed to protect the animals in the harbor of San Fran cisco, and fishing industries have suf fered in consequence. The lion can go for a month without food. Hunters use the hides of the lions for leather and glue. The bristles or whiskers are sent to China. The Mon golians use these hairs for ornaments, mounting them witli gold. Lion livers are used as medicine by the Chinese and are considered a radical cure for many acute diseases. The chief use of the great tusks of the walrus is to aid in landing upon a rocky shore and help in its clumsy locomotion. A walrus mak(*s a ter rific noise. His roar can be heard for several miles. The animal, though sav age in appearance, is harmless and in offensive. If attacked or enraged he is a terrible lighter, especially when defending the young, toward which the walrus exhibits much affection. A fair sized walrus has a girth of 10 to 14 feet and weighs 2,000 pounds, the skin alone weighing 250 to 400 pounds, and the head from 60 to 80 pounds. The walrus was the sea horse of ancient writers. Its bide, oil and tusks are all ’ n **7 x Pacific Con mt Wnlrni. Farther north the walrus thrives. Er \ Califurnin Sen Lion. , - ._ ■ -wp • 3 '-r-KT. .7 SKS by sur- that white hunters save from the huge carcass. Indians depend upon the meat for food during the winter. They make bird nets of the sinews. From the in testines water-proof clothing is made, and the soles of the flippers furnish footwear. On North Island iu this beautiful land locked Bay of San Diego the hunter flnds thousands of quail anti jack rab bits. The birds fly quicker than East ern birds and it is harder to hit them. After tiring of quail shooting the gun ner can step into a sailboat and after sailing out into the ocean for an hour California Flyinic Fish. or so reaches the haunts of the Cali fornia flying fish. It attains the length of eighteen inches and a weight of nearly two pounds, being one of the largest of the flying fishes of the world. When flushed from its watery cover by the approach of a boat it rises three or four feet and continues its flight for a quarter to half a mile. It swims rap idly, appearing to get its motive power when in the water from its powerful tail. On rising from the water the movements of the tail are continued for some seconds until the whole body is out of water. While the tail is in motion the pectoral tins vibrate rapidly and the ventral fins are folded. When the action of the tail ceas°s, the pec toral and ventral tins are spread, and, so far as one can see from the boat, are held at rest. On this plane of outstretched fin the fish seemingly sails through the air as a bird is seen to sail without perceptible movement of its wings. When the fish begins to fall the tail touches the water and the mo tion of the pectoral fins recommences, and it is enabled to resume its flight, which it finally finishes by falling into the water with a splash. When on the wing it resembles a large dragon fly. The motion is swift; at first it is in a straight line, but this becomes de flected to a curve, the pectoral fin on the inner side of the arc being bent downward. It is able to some extent to turn its course to shy off from a vessel, though the motion of the fish seems to have no reference to the direc tion of the wind. When the fish first rises is the sportsman’s opportunity to shoot, and he must shoot quickly else the finny game is soon beyond range. The dead fish is easily picked up with out tlie aid of a dog. It is a delicious table fish and makes a toothsome com panion dish for a iness of broiled quail. DrcnniN nnd Sonnil Sleep. When a student asked the great Pref. Marne if dreams were “a sign of any thing” he replied: "Yes, a sign that the dreamer was only about half asleep when some vague ideas fiitto imilar effects uro likely to follow in other branches where special fa vors have been secured. Prices have been very low and cannot be reduced, as Democrats have taught the people to expect Waiting for the expected reduction, buyers are apt to limit their purchases. This will make it all the harder for those who have to meet new foreign competition at ad valorem rates of duty. It will take at least a month or two to test the bright hopes of revival in trade which so many indulge. Treasury officials are counting up on a heavy increase of importations to raise the revenue from $179,251,- 142, which the experts calculate new duties will yield, to a somewhat higher figure. But these estimates are based on the imports of 1893, and the question is whether the peo ple, with much reduced wages, will buy or consume as much as they did in that year. Experience will have to teach the officials on that point. Treasurer Searles, of tho sugar trust, sharply corrects tho state ment of Mr. Wilson, but fails to state, as he could of course have stated had he wished, tho quantitv of sugar on hand, raw or reflnod Obviously’ tho profits which the now duty and tho higher price givo will bo realized on all the refined sugar on hand, as well as on raw sugar vet to be refined. The oilicial im ortations from March 1 to July 1 were abous 6)0, lOJ.OJO pounds more than in the same mouths last year. In July they were certainly much greater than in June, when they were 2 0,030,00) pounds, or 65 per cent greater than last year. Tho business has been so rushed in Aug ust, extra steamers being chartered in all directions, that tho imports probably exceed laat year’s by more than 20J,000,000 pounds With 1,003,000,000 pounds more raw sugar in sight than a year ago, and how much inoro rolined nobod/ knows, tho trust will pockot from a third to a half of tho revenue ex pected from tho new duty of tho first year, says the New York Trib une. This cuts off $12,003,003 to $20,030,00), and tho decreased con sumption of the people at a higher rate will cut off something more; how much Mr. Carlisle will know in time. His customs calculations are all based on imports of 189 i, while those of 1894 have thus far been of dutiable goods $156,0) 1,0)0 in value, a/ainst $215,00 >,00) in tho same seven months last year—a de crease of thirty-six per cent In stead of an increase compared with 1893, the treasury may meet a large decrease, besides tho loss of revenue duo to tho operations of tho sugar trust But in other respects the offici al anticipations are questionable. Mr Ford, chief of tho bureau of statis tics, estimates the returns from tho income tax at “something below $15,0)0,0)) for tho first fiscal year,” instead of the $30,000,000 allowad in congress. Moreover, the estimate on whisky is again basod on the consumption of 97,0)0,0)0 gallons in 1893, but the returns just made for tho fiscal year 1891 show a.consump tion of only 87,000,00 ) gallons, which an advance of twenty cents in the price is extremely likely to diminish. Moreover, the trust had extra gaug ers employed to rush whisky out of bond while tho president held tho bill. At least 2),0)0,0 *0 gallons have already been taken out of bond, it is said, so that tho receipts on whisky for the rest of tho year are likely to be materially reduced. Instead of about $40),000,0)0 ex pected, outside of postal and mis cellaneous receipts, tho treasury mry easily find itself short $50,000,- 000, besides all tho decrease that may result from imports falling be low those of 1893. A general re vival of business, under such condi tions, is most ardently to be desired, but it is not clearly provided by the action of a Democratic congress. Tbc I»cbs of American Stiitenmnniliip. Unless all signs are misleading, tho large and impulsive gentleman who organized a sympathetic strike against the senate will thunder down the ages as tho Debs of American statesmanship. His enterprise has resulted in a pile of ruins even more gioomy and picturesque than thoso BE TESTED. Hie Tiling to Be Tested. which followed tho collapse of the audacious undertaking projected by the Chicago' dictator. < rover -. In view of the Victorian method of traveling adopted by our high and mighty president I read the ac counts of his arrival at Jersey City on his way to Gray Gables in tho New York papers with an interest that 1 cannot uisguise. “As soon as he alighted from the train.” said ono, “ho was surrounded by a squad of policemen. Nobody was allowed to approach within speaking dis tance of the president.und there was no demonstration whatever in his honor." “Ten Jersey City police men," said another, “immediately surrounded the president, forming a sort of hollow square, with clubs drawn to repel tariff eranks who might not be satisfied with every thing Mr. Cleveland had done in Washington. They proceeded to tho big passenger elevator and Mr. Cleveland, Captain Evans and Dr. O’Reilly, the Jersey City policemen and three tars from tho lighthouse tender, carrying baggage, all de scended to tho ground floor of the station, where tho march was taken up for tho wharf where tho light house tender lay. A curious spec tacle tho procession made. Mr. Cleveland sought to keep us nearly in the center of tho squad of police men us possible. His precautions were absolutely unnecessary, be cause less than a dozen persons around the station, outside of his immediuto body guard, knew the president of tho United States was about. No violent persons wore to bo seen. No ono tried to molest him. Tho president wore a brown, snuff-colored suit and brown felt hat to match." This is tho first time in my knowledge of presiden tial itineraries when tiio ten of clubs was called by tho aco of hoarts of tho American people.—Philadelphia Inquirer. I atliig < row. •'And now." said General Gorman, ‘‘let's move upon their works, Kange up your biggest cannon and pulverize those Turks Brin .- forth your heavy sol,'o guns and blaze tiway with will. Your smooth bores arc not fitted to kill tho Wilson bill " 'Twas bulky Colonel Cleveland who-held Kort Saccharine. A stouter in in than Grover not often tn iv bo seen With watered bags of sutar he'd fortified the walls. And irou ora and coal lumps lie used for cannon balls. The fort hid been boles rurod for bettor tha n u year, The garrison was starvln;, and Wilson shook with fear At len th tho white flat fluttered above the postern gate And all the brivo Froo Traders behold thoir coniin fate. Said Crisp old Gro's lieutenant, ‘‘Wo’re no provision s loft Our iron ore's exhaustod, of coal wo are bereft ’’ "Be merciful, O Gorman," said Grovor with a si h, "And vivo us fair conditions. '• Thus Gor man made reply: *“Tls one of my conditions that you must eat u bird I'm lutiln ' you down easy, though really 'tis absurd Tho bird may not be e iton tho s imo as quail on toast The bird must bo a black one, and not aboil or roust " The fort it wm srrrounded, the garrison marched out In Free Trude rags and tatters, n motley rabble rout; With Gorman's dish uncovered they ranged up in u row— And Dave Hill shook with laughter when Grover ate his erow! —New York Advertiser. I’exlrlctlon Tlmt lion* Not It'-xtrlct. After all tho talk about restrictive laws now in vogue. and after a small army of high priced officers to enforce such laws has been appointed and maintained,of tho 313,756 people who knocked for admission to American privileges in the last fiscal year, but 3,3.>2 were refused, a small propor tion of the army that came. Of these 3,352 immigrants sent buck 1,527 were contract laborers and 786 pau pers. lias anybody heard anything about the ship owners who violated tho lav; by bringing these contract laborers and paupers over here, being punished? is there any one simple enough to credit tho state ment that of the multitude, number ing 313,756 people from Italy, Hun gary, tho Slavonic provinces and other European countries, only 786 were paupers? It is highly proba ble that of this vast multitudo that poured inhere in the last fiscal year, not less than seventy-five per cent are now more or less a public charge —applicants for charity wherever charity cun bo had. if the multi tude of enforced idiers could not got employmcu*- before the 313,0)0 came, what chance was there for the raw recruits?—Tiires-Star. The (owing Picnic. ••How can we face the people after indulging in such outrageous viola tions of principle?” Cleveland asked the Democrats in his letter denounc ing the tariff bill, which 'hey after ward passed. Tho answer to this pertinent and significant interrog atory will promote tho gayety of the pending campaign. •John Hall’s llro»il Grin. Tho woolen manufacturers oi Bradford. England, kept quiet during the tarftT agitation in this country, lest they might prejudice the sacred cause of free wool, but now that the bill has passed, according to tho Pall Mall Gazette, of London, “rejoicings have broken forth.” They Do I’rotent too Much. Democratic senators angrily re sent the idea that they have been the tools cf monopolists; yet they cannot discuss tho sugar schedule without confessing. as Senators Caffery aid Vest have done, that the Gorman ’ ill was framed at tho dic tation of tl.B trusts. ■A .7 k ■«dr