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Personal Paragraphs.
Vennor has a southern rival in Pro­
fessor G. R. Gather, of Alabama, who
says that the winter will be vary coll
and early, and "phenomenal tor its
paroxysmal spells ol he-it, succeeded by
intense cold over the country."
Mrs. Agnes Booth ia to play the lead
ing parts this winter at the Park
Theatre in New York. She will also
conduct the business from her late has
fomd's estate from which sue will receive
about $100,000.
Savs John L. SoUivau of his saloon:
"It cost me $2i,0()0 to lit it up. I put ii.
a stock amounting to $5000. I opened i»
on August 7, ami up to last Monday I
had taken in $25,000. That ia enough *o
pay for it. The .opening night. I took in
$2900 and the firat Saturday $2400.
Richard Francis, who hag been ap­
pointed cai'terer to the Senate, ia not the
only colored carterer who is wo-th a
large amount of money. The head wait
er at the West, End Hotel, Long Branch,
has a bank account of over $10D,0iH).
Tho champion drunkard of the world
is a woman named Jane Johnson, of
England, now eightv-four years of age.
She hus been convicted of drunkeness
in Leeds and other towns of Yorkshire
over two hundred times. Twelve months
ago she joined the ranks of tho Salva
don Army, and cmwii no small stir by
the thrilling stories she told other re­
markable career.
A pretty orphan girl with over $2,000
000 has been advertising in the German
papers for a husband. She describes her­
self as 21 years old. orphan, Catholic,
with a fortune of 12,00 ,0ui) francs. She
wantaio marry a man with a very hon­
orable name. She may be addressed us
N. 0. G. N., at the Post 0 fice, Brussels.
No agents need apply.
Mr. John B. French, formerly ser
geant-at-arms of the United States sen­
ate, in his cture, "Ten Years Among
the Senators," ranks William Pitt Fess
enden as the greater member of that
body he ever knew, but says that he
went in and out of the senate chamber
with less pretension than the man who
opened and shut the doors.
General Putman (of wolf-killing fame)
is buried in the pretty village cemetery
half a mile southwest ofPomfret, Conn.,
an inclosure of several acres, with quiet
air, green turf, sombre firs and dry san­
dy soil. In a secluded corner of the
yard, among many broken, mossy tomb­
stones, a heavy table of marble lies OH a
wall of brick that lifts it but five or six
inches from the ground. The stone is
about six feet long by two and one-hal
wide, and marks the grave of Putman.
Fully a third of it has been chipped off
by relic-hunters.
Mr. Shirk of Peru, Indiana, owns sev­
enty-three farms in In liana that are all
in a huh state of cultivation. He also
owns thousinds of acres in
Texas, Arkansas, Michigan ai-itl
Iowa, ni residences, business
blocks without-number, some of them
be ng situated iu Chicago and Indianapo­
lis' three bauks, several stores, and as
many mills, which he conducts.himself.
The remamd -r of the earth is gradually
falling into Mr. Shirk's bands, but he is
a good man, and will allow the rest of us
to rent, from him.
"I suppose the time will come," said
General Sherman in Cincinnati the oth­
er day, "when we decrepit old men will
be huuled uround in carriages and
shown as relics. It's the way of the
•world.'' Alter his retirement in Novem­
ber be will live near St. Louis, in a house
that he suyp haa been very handsomely
fixed up by Mrs.
Sherman. He looks for­
ward to the time with pleasure.
On board the Pacific Mail steamer
Australia is a rather venerable Cuina
man called John Tuck who is nearly
blind, and does only light work. Many
years ago one of the company's ships
was taking a cargo ot gold from Calllor
oia to Hong Ko-ug. A fire broke out,
the Chinese sailors were demoralized,
and this man controlled them. It was
owing to him that the crew did not seize
everything for a piratical expedition.
The company would not part with John
Tuc/K. after that.
Wli en Mr. Carnegie, late of Pittsburg,
visited the great Baird iron works at
Gartsherrie on the Clyde, his comment
was: "A nice little foundry." In in­
dignation it was asked nim where he
could find a bigger. "Why," said Mr.
Carnegie, with imperturable serenity,
"I own a bigger one myself." A bet wan
made a Gartsherrio representative
went hack with Carnegie to Pittsburg,
and the outcome of the inspection there
was that the American had won the bet.
House kefpirs^' Difficulties.
New York Letter to 8t. Albaas, (Vi) Mes­
senger.
Until recently v/e have been particu­
larly fortunate in servants, having had
two tiiris lor the past seven years. Bu
the cook was getting a htt too inde­
pendent and unw lling to be instruced
eo we concluded to make a change. But
I fear we have "jumped our, of the fry
ing-pari into the fire." We went to a
bureau for Swedish servants, and se
cured two who wore well recommended.
The waitress and chambermaid is all
that could be desired—a pleasant, hap­
py face., sweet temper able and willing.
Bui the cookl Well, she is a good cook,
and washer and ironer. But wh'ta
fright! She would make an excellent
scare-crow. Put her in a corn
field and not a crow would be seen with­
in a half mile! But her good work
makes up for her ill looks, and we are
all satisfied. She has been with U3 onlj
ten dave and to-morrow she leaves! Mj
daughter said to her: "I think yoi
make a great mistake we have but four
in family, and your labor is very light.
Are you net satisfied with your situation?
Have you not been treated well?" '"Yes,'
t?he snickered "but I am going to be
married next week, I have not seen the
man but my sister has, I was engaged
once before, but somehow it was broken
up." Hero we loso a good servant be­
cause »he expects to bo married witfhin
a week to a man she has never seenl
A Puugent Prayer.
The following spirited prayer was of­
fered by Elder Littlejohn in 1S50. Oh,
Lord, there is great wickedness and
much drunkenness in oar young and ris­
ing towns. Therefore, O Lord, we crave
thy blessing. Now, Milwaukee, just
sprung up, is bad Chicago, another
mushroom is worse. Yet do thou.Lord,
bless and improve them. Then thero is
Michigan City, a place of sand and whis­
ky, and Laporte, ot mud and wicked
wees and, indeed, they need thy bless­
ing. And there is South Bend, and also
^iles, which think themselves righteous
Vut are full of rumholes and rottenness.
Lord, they need thy blessing. And here
is Misnawaka, which boasts itself sotne
thing,bHt has nothing but teif-righteous
nees. Good Lord, open its eyes, that it
may receive thy blessing. Then we
have Eikhart and Bristol and Mottviile
—little things, bur. wicked. Do, Lord,
bless them. [Then, pausing foiv breath
said raising his voice to its*highest
pitch:] And lastlv, then. dear, good
Lord, ^even bless Constantino, where
Gov. Barry sells whisky at three cents a
g-.ass!. Amen.
GIVING AND RECEIVING.
The fiery crimson of tun stormy No­
vember sunset was staining aii the hills
with its lurid glare: the wind, murmur­
ing restlessly among the dead leaves
that lay heaped over the wood paths,
seeming to moan with almost human
voice. But the autumnal melancholy
without only served to brighten the
eheer'ulnes* of the roaring wood fire,
whose ruddy glow danced and quivered
over the rough rafters of Wood bridge's
spacious old kitchen sparkling on the
polished service of platter, ana glimmer­
ing and shedding a long stream of radi­
ance through the uncurtained windows,
out upon the darkened road.
"Yes, as I said afore," observed the
old farmer, rubbing his toil-hardened
hands together, and gazing thoughtlnlly
into the fire, "it's been a capital harvest
this year. I would ask for no better. So
wife, you just pick out some of them
yaller pippin apples, and put'em into
Jessie's basket when she calls arter it."
"Won't, the little red un's do as well?
I calculate to keep them pippins for
market. Squire Benson says they are
worth"—
"I don't keer what they're worth,"
interrupted die farmer, as his helpmate,
a spire, angular woman, with a face
ploughed With innumerable lirus of care
fingered the vedow-eheeked apole* du
oiotisiy. "1 tell you what it is, Ketgrah,
folks never lost anything bv doing a kind
tliu.g. I never could make v.tu be lieve
that, unless pay name right in hard cash.
Now here's Jessie" Morton, as likeiy a
young gal as ever breathed, teaching
school day iR and out and her marm
tsewin' to hum, earnin' a livin' bv the
hardest work, born ladies both of'em.
Don't you s'pose these apples It be
worth more to them if you'd give 'em
with a kind word, than thev would be to
that peskv tight-fisted agent up to Hard
wiclie Hill, if he gave a dollar a bushel?"
"Chantv begins to hum," said Ketu­
rah, jerking out her supper-table, with
an odd twi.-t ot the face.
"Not but what Jessie's well enough—
but you'd a plaguy sn»ht be ter be
scratchin' your pennies together to pay
up that mortgage, if y.ou don't want the
Hardwiche nient forclosing on you
And them pippins is just as good as so
much money. There may be, anyhow,
in the basket—one of your investments.
I guess."
"One of my investments, then, if you
like to catl it so, Keturah," said the
farmer with a good-humored laugh, ban­
ishing the annoying expression which
had overspread his face when she al­
luded to the mortgage. "Come 'long in
Jessie, my ual," headed cheerfully, as
a ligiit touch sounded on the door-latch.
"Here's the basket all right, and some
of them golden pippins tucked in to it.
May be they'll tempt your mother's ap­
petite."
Jessie Morton was a slender graceful
girl, of about seventeen, *ith satin
smooth bands ol chest-nut hair, parted
above a low, sunny forehead, large
liquid eyes, and cheeks which farmer
Woodbridge always declared, "set him
to thinking of the -velvet Jarsey peaches
that grew on the tree down on the south
medder." SI took up the basket with
a graceful smile that went to the flinty
heart of Mrs. Iveturah.
"O, Mr. Woodbridge, how kind you
alwavs are to us! If I were only rich—it
I could only make some return"—
'"Don't you say a word about that at e,"
said' the farmer rubbing his nose very
hard. "Just you run home iast as you
ever can tor it is getting mst
dark and -the November wind ain't
no ways healthy, as I ever heard on.
and I say, Jessie if it rains to-morrow
so you can't get to school handy, just
you stop here, and I'll give you a life in
my wa.'gin."
"Dear old Mr. Woodbridge," solilo­
quized Jessie Morton to herself, as her
light steps pattered along oa tiie fallen
leaves, "how many, many times I have
hid cause to thank his generous heart.
And to think that he should be dis­
tressed about the mortgage by the agent
at Hardwiche Hall.
She paused a moment to look up to
where the hall rose darkly outlined
against the crimson Eky. On a co,m
m.mding height, and nearly hidden in
trees, many ot which stili retained tlmir
brilliant autumn foliage.it seemed al­
most like an old baron in! castle.
"There it stands," she mused, "shut
up and silent, year after year, its mag­
nificent rooms untenanted, the flowers
blossoming uugathered in its conserva­
tories. Since Mrs. Hard wich died—twen­
ty years since, mamma says—the family
have been away, and now the other sur­
viving heir is traveling, no one knows
where. I wonder if he knows how
grasping and cruel his agent is? Oil,
dear," she added sottly, "money does not
ilways come where it is most needed.
If I were the mistress of Hardwiche
Hall!"
She started with a light scream the
next instant, as a tall figure rose up
from a mossy border by the roadside,
directly in front of her.
"Pardon me," said a voice, that in­
stantly re-aseured her, for it was to gen­
tle to come from any but a gentleman,
"but I am not certain but I have lost
my way. Is this the Eden roa i? I was
wa ting for some one to direct me?"
"This is the Eden road," said Jessie,
all unconscious that the last gleams of
the fading sung: were lightening up
her face with almost angelic beauty, as
she stood there among the fallen leaves.
"And can you tell me the shortest
foot-path to Hardwiche hall? I have not
been in this neighborhood since I was a
child, and I aai completely at fault."
Jessie hesitated a moment. "I could
show you better than tell vou, for it is
rather a complicated road," she said,
"and if you will accept my serv ce as
guide it "will not be much out of my
way."
"1 shall feel very much honored,"said
the stranger, "Meanwhile let me car­
ry your basket."
It was a wild and lovely walk, wind­
ing among moss garlanded trees
and hol­
lows, sweet with aromatic incense ol
dying leaves.t Jessie cruld not help ad­
miring the chivalrio manners and cinv
alritt courtesy of her companion, and he
was pleased with the blooming loveliness
and girlish dignity of the young guide,
A few adroit questions respecting Har
wiche hall and its neighborhood suf­
ficed to draw forth a spirited abstract
the Hardwiche agent, and the impos:
tion he was wont to practice upon t'1
tenants and neighbors, as well as
arch description of most of the "chai i
ters" thereabouts. Then he continutu
to learn all about Jessie's little school,
and her ailing motherland tie smiled to
himself in the twilight to observe the
pride of her mien, when sh® alluded to
the high position from which unforseen
reverses had compelled her mother to
.descend.
"There," she said, suddenly pausing
with a* feeling as if she had been almost
too communicative, "if we could only
cross yonder lawn, the gates are close
by, bui we-shall have to go a mile
around."
"Why?" asked the stranger.
"Mr. Talcott will not allow travelers
to cross here—he says it ia private prop
erty."
I fancy I shall dare Mr. Talcott'*
wrath," said the gentleman iausrhing, as
he pushed open the wiie gate that de­
fended the forbidden saace. "It is per­
fectly absurd to make people go a quar
ter of a mile out of their way lor a mere
whim."
They bad scarcely entered tho en­
closure when they met an utiiooked for
obstacle—Talcott himself—who was
prowling over the grounds on the qui
vive for trespassers.
"Hello, there!" growled he "just turn
back if you please. This isn't the pub­
lic thoroughfare."
The stranger held Jessie's arm under
his own a little tighter as if to repress
her evident inclination to "beat a re­
treat." He was disposed to maintain his
position.
"i don't see any reasonable cause why
we should not go ahead," he said perti­
naciously. "There was a path here, and I
supposed it was made to walk on."
-ot for you," said the agent con­
temptuously, "so go back with you as
fast as you can!"
"Is it possible that people are made
to travel a circuitous and unpleasant
route, for no other reason than your ca­
price, sir?" asked the gentleman, look­
ing down upon the little man, fram the
attitude of his six feet, with a kind ol
laughing scorn. "Did it ever occur tc
you, mv friend, that others have rights
and conveniences as well as yourself?"
"Can't help their rights—nothing to
me," snarled the agent, planting him­
self obstiuately in the path. "I forbid all
passing here!"
"But I suppose Edward Hardwiche
may have the privilege of crossing his
own land." persisted the stranger, still
preserving the half contemptuous smile
that had 'rom the beginning made the
agent so uncomfortable.
Talcott grew no* exactly pale, but yel­
low with consternation.
"Mr. Hardwiche, sir I did not—we
did not expect"
"No, 1 know you didn't my good man.
Bo so kind as to .step aside a- allow
me to pass with the young lady. Miss
Jessie, don:t fortret that I need your ser­
vices a lew moment? yet. Nay. do not
snrink away from me—are we not to be
very good friends?"
"The prettiest girl I ever saw in my
life,'' was his internal comment, as he at
length parted iroin her at the little gate
where burning ashes and dark green ivy
were trained together with ail a woman's
taste.
W ii.1 -3:- .£.
The Christmas snow lay' white and
deep on the farm-house eaves—the
Christmas logs cracked on the hearth
where Mr Woodbridge still gazed
dreamily into the glowing cinders and
Mis. Keturah's knitting needles clicked
with electric speed.
"That mortgage bothers me—it both­
ers me," he murmured, almost plain­
tively. "Well, I suppose it ain't no use
frettin' but I thought to live and die in
the old place mv father did before me.
The Lord's will be dons though. Some­
how things ain't prospering with me—I
don't seem to get along."
"You ha' got along well enough. 1
guess," responded Kerturah, who be­
longed to that class of people known aa
Job's comforter's, "if you only looked
after your p's and q's as I told you. Yon
always was too free handed, and now
you see what it's bro't you too."
"Well, well, Keturah, we never did
think alike on some things," returned
the old man. "Let's talk about a pleas
anter subject. What do you think about
our schooi-marm's marrying you.ig Mr
Hardwiche to- n».orrow? Didn't I always
tell you that Jessie Morton was born to
be a lady? I may be unlucky myself, but
how, I'm glad to hear of little Jessie's
luck/'
"i'ou'd a deal better keep your sym­
pathy for yourself," trowled Keturah.
"'What's other folks luck to you, I'd like
to know? There's some one knocking at
the door see who tis!"
It was a little note, brought by one
of the school boys under
Jessie's care. "Where's my glasses! I
can't see as I could once. Shove the
candle this way, will you, Keturah?"
And fitting his brass bowed spectacles
upon bi-s nose, the old man unfolded
the note and read, in Jessie's delicate
chirography:
"Do not let, that mortgage disturb your
Christ ma? Day to-morrow dear Father
Woodbridge. It will never haunt vour
hearthstone again. J\|r. Hardw'iche
will tend you the papeiS soon to destrov
I have not forgotten those 'golden pip
ms,' nor all the other kindnesses."
"Aha, wife!" said the old man smiling
and trying to brush away unseen the
big
tears
that would coaie, "what do
you think of my investments now?"
Keturah's replv was neither elegant,
nor. strictly grammatical, but it was
significant. She said sunply:
"Well, I never."—Home Circle.
iShe Knew Him Best.
John William Blank belonged to the
Ancient and Modern and Highly Honor­
able Sons of Guns of Detroit. If it
wasn't, that it w$s some other fraternal
order which meets every Monday night
and pays so much to the heirs of every
member who happens to die.
John William happened to die the
other month, and a committee was ap­
pointed to da'rft resolutions and present
them to his wife in person. The first
part of their duties was J'uilfilled to the
entire satisfaction of the lodge, but the
committee had some little trouble in
finding Mrs. Blank. They traced her
from one neighbor to another, and fin­
ally found her at her sister's hat and
shawl on and ready to go out.
"Resolutions ot sympathy, eh? Well,
read em."
The chairman of the committee pro­
ceeded to read that John William was a
good bus -and and a kind rather and a
citizen of unapproachable integrity,
when the Widow interrupted:
Too much taffy! We used to have a
fight every week, and as for his bein a
kind father we never had any children.
As lor his integrity he stole all the wood
we burned last winter."
The chairman gulped down something
and con inued to read that John
VVilliam was an upright brother, a man
with a heart full of sympathy for the
misfortunes of others, and that charity
and forgiveness were the beacon fires
which guided his footsteps.
"Fudge!" sneered the widow. "I
washed for the money to pay dues
to ie lodge, and all the sympathy any­
one got out of him wouldn't buy a cent's
worth of court plaster! Forgiveness!
Weil, some of you ougtit to have sat
down on his hat some time! He'd have
revenge if it cost, him a year""in State
prison. Beacon fires is pretty good con
siderin' that we never had a decent fire
in the house!"
"Madaru, your husband baa been
called hence.
"Exactly, was at the funeral and
ought to know."
"He was cut down like a flower
"Well, flowers ought to let whiskey
and saloons and plug-tobacco and old
siedge alone."
"And we trust that our loss is his
gain."
"Well, if he's any better off I'm glad
on't, but. I guess the gain is on vour
fide. Now that's all 1 want to hear.
I tan pick up a thouaand better men than
him with my eyes shut. I'm in a hurry
to go down and see a wo't'an who oflers
a fur-lined circular for $15, and if you
have any more highfalutin Shakespear
to g.it off my sister will take it in and
save it till I come bank!"
Last yeai's crop of oranges in Florida
was reckoned at 50,000 million oranges.
This j'ear it is put at 102,0J0, and at $3
per bos is worth ?1,8U0,0(X).
A
DESERT isp.
It was 10 o'clock of a July morning,
and th*» largest fraction of humanity had
been some hours earningitsdaily bread
The idlers had just risen from the break
fast table. To this latter class belonged
thG young man who leaned lazily over
the piazza railing, and looked absently
out on Lake Winnipaka. Beside him in
a huge chair, sat a little wofaian, rocking
to and fro, with an untiring movement,
and with deft fingers plying in and out
among bright silk and crewels. She waE
idle, too, in her woman's laborious way
but there was a lack of repose in her in­
dolence that made it restful to turn again
to her brother, who stood in statuesque
inaction, looking into the still water be­
low.
"What are you going to do to-day?"
the little woman asked.
"Nothing."
"There's a great deal going on, and
very nice sort of people, too. Do you
see that pretty glri down there at the
landing?"
"The one with red?"
"Yes don't you think she's pretty?"
"I hadn't thought of it
"Wed, she is—rem rkably. Wouldn't
you like to meet her? I coulu easily
manage it."
"I'm not particular. Is she worth
while?"
"Ben, you exasperate me. Do you
take an interest in anything?"
"I don't do anything else in Wall
street. I'm oft' duty now. I believe in
resting iu a philosophical sort of a wa3r.''
"Well, I suppose you are tired, poor
fellow! I know how yon feel. I am
tired myself most of the time."
"Tired! I look like it," laughed the
young man. "IM tell you how it is I
simply want my liberty. It doesn't pay
—this dancing attention on half a dozen
girls whom yo «i never see again."
"Oh, well, don't then
Ben Adams at 21 had performed his
social duties with great zest. Four
years later he was still heart whole, and
beginning to take a purely fraternal in­
terest in blushing debetantes. He
danced less and went (o the opera
alone or with his friend Rutland a con­
firmed bachelor of 28. Withentire res­
ignation young Adams acted as usher at
many fashionable beddings, and with­
out a sigh saw Catherine, Kate pnd Kit­
ty.led down t^e aisle by other men.
And so he approached his thirties and
within a year of them leaned idiv over
the piazza railing at Lake Winnipaka,
and declared to his sister that "Robin­
son Crusoe" was the lu -kiest fellow of
his acquaintance. Give me desert isle
lor a summer sojourn. What would re­
fresh a man like goin^ back to savagery!
"I don't think it would ne enough of
a change to benefit some 1 know,"
laughed her sister. "Well, Ben, all I
can say is, you are very different from
what you used to be."
In the meanwhile the boat below,
pushed off and Adams followed it with
his eyes, chiefly because it would have
been more trouble to look another way.
The young lady in the stern was Miss
Josephine Vail, avid the boy at the oars
was her 12-years-ol 1 brother. Josephine
was a young lady ol views, supported by
more or lebs logic and by what some
thought an extremely pretty face. Her
enemies—but shy had none—would
have said that while she despised conven­
tionalities no one was more annoyed
when obliged to disregard them and
while she resented the protecting limi­
tations of her sex, she was quite willing
to accept the attentions based on the
theory of their ex stence. Her father
said one day: "Nothing would take the
kinks out of our Jos ephine like settling
down with a good husband." The young
lady took it in high dudgeon, and went
away meekly to wonder if it were true.
On this particular July morning Jose­
phine accepted her brother Tom's service
as oarsmau, not because she -vas not per­
fectly well able to row herself, but be­
cause it would keep Tom out of mischief.
"Don rock the bo it. Tom. ft doesn't
frighten me, but I can't read."
There was a pause.
"Row near the bank, in the shade,
Tom."
Another long pause.
"Say. sis," said Tom at length,"now
we're off, I'll tell you where we're go­
ing."
'Where you're going? Why, you re
going to take me out for a row."
"Not much. I'm going two miles
about to see some fellows who are camp­
ing out."
"And going to take me? I think you
are mistaken, sir. Give me these oars."
"No you don't. Leave 'em alone, and
Bit Still."
"Tom turn this boat instantly, or I'll
"What'll you do? Come, now you sit
still, or I'll ».
"Tom, there's the Desert Isle just
ahead. Don't run into it. Be careful
you're going stra.ght forward to it."
"We might land there," he said,
blandly,
"To be sure we might," said his sister,
glad of anything to divert him from the
first scheme.
"All right, just as you say."
Tom turned his boat toward the grea*
rock which li ted its broad back out of
the water. It was fitly called the Desert
Isle, for its few square feet of surface
supported not so much, as a blade of
grass or a bit of moss.
"Hop out," said Tom "I've got ta see
to the boat. I guess you can climb up
to the top easy enough."
"Of course I can,"said Josephine "as
if I needed your help, you lrtle mon­
key."
In a moment she stood at the top ol
the rock and in another moment a de­
risive laugh came from below.
"Good-by, Jo I hope vou'll enjoy
yourself. I'll see you later."
Plato says: "A boy is the most vic­
ious of wild beasts" Plato and Miss
Vail were of one opinion on that point.
She looked about her and took in the
situation. She was monarch of about
twenty-five leet of rough grey roc*s,
the sides of which descended abruptly
to the water. Perched high on this
pedestal, her figure stood out against
the sky in bold relief. A book and par­
asol were her only accessories, for by
some happy inspiration she had clung to
these. The sun was high in the heav­
ens, but its hot rays were mercifully
tempered by a soft breeze on the lake.
Josephine seated herself, raised her
parasol and opened her book. She faced
the probability that at least two hcurs of
noonday solitude Ttre before her. The
philosophical course of action was to
make the best of it. But what a situation
to be discovered! She remem iered with
satisfaction that a large party had gone
on a picnic to-day, and the dowagers
le't behind were not given to boating at
high noon! She tried to think how she
should laugh it off if any body should
see her, but under the most cheerful as­
pect she seemed to herself a little ridic­
ulous spectacle. To be ridiculous in a
good cause had in it an element of he­
roism. but the present situation was one
of unmitigated absurdity, and Josephine
VniI always felt heroic rather than the
comic to be her forte. On :e tears of real
vexation started as her head began to
throb in sympathy with the hot pulsa­
tion of the air about her.
An hour had dragged its length when
Josephine suddenly lifted her head md
listened painiully. A man's yoiee sing-
ina and the splash of oars, and, yes. in
an instant, a boat swung slowly around
tne band. One man sat in it, lazily sing­
ing.
"It's that blase creatrue who watched
us off this morning," thought Josephine.
"It's a type I detest. And to think he
should see me here! Ir's really more
than I can endure." The girl looked
with envy on the tortoise which slipped
easily from the base of the rock into the
water as he heard the disturbing sound
of oars.
"I hope he'll have the good taste to
suppose I came here of my own free
will. He wouldn't think of "interfering
with me, I hope. What! I believe he's
coming straight toward me."
Josephine turned the leaves of her
book with an interest that grew every
moment more intense. But at length
decency required some recognition of
the nearing boat. The young man was
rowing now as if he hid renewed inter­
est in life. He was soon at the base of
the rock.
U1
beg your pardon," he said, as he
raised his hat: "can I be ot any servicc
to you?"
You are very kind, sir. You find
me in a very absurd condition."
"You have evidently been ship­
wrecked. Are you the sole survi /or?"
"No, not shipwrecked, but put ashore
and aband ^ned by a cruel tyrant of a
brother. To tell you the ti uth, sir, lam
the victim o- a practical joke. My little
brother has left me here while he goes
farther up the lake to visit some Iriends
who are camping there."
"I beg you will make use of my boat,
then, to return I will come up to you
in one moment."
Leaping out of his boat before Miss
Vail could say a word, he drew it up on
a low shelf of the rock and quietly
reached her side.
"Let me help you," the young man
?aid, with such a firm assurance of good
breeding, th:.t she made no resistance
or attempt at independence, bat accept
ed the proffered aid in a quiet, matter
of-course-way.
"Your boat! your boat, sir," elie sud­
denly cried, It was too late. The rt.-
sng breeze dr-'Ve the water with sucl.
force agam-it the rocU as to dislodge the
boat, ahd before Adams could grasp it,
it was tilting about, a hall a dozen yard*
away.
The two looked at each a moment and
then laughed, though both were con­
scious of its eing questionabi" taste.
Adams sobered and said: "Can you
ever forgive me, Miss—"
"Miss Vail. I am Miss Vail."
"And I am Mr. Adams. Can you be
magnanimous enouuh to forgive me?"
"That is the question I should ask
you."
"Ah, you evade mine. At any rate I
shall never forgive myself. A w« rst bit
of bungling I never saw. The truth is,
Miss Vail, I have had very little experi­
ence in rescuing fair ladies. You are the
first whose life I have tried to save. I
am no hero, as vou see."
The genuine annoyance of her com­
panion rouseu the compassion of Jose­
phine, and she began to talk to bin
with a desperate cheerfulness and ac­
ceptance of the situation.
"What a cold-blooded little villain
that brother of yours must be, Miss
Vale, to desert you in this fashion. I
suppose wre must tbrow ourselves on his
mercy when he comes back. How are
you going to account 'or me? Consider
me your man Friday."
Beneath their light t-.dk ran an under­
current of more or less bitter medita­
tion on tbe part of each. MissV.de
shuddered to think what a good story
this aaventure
Wv
_uld make to circulate
among her friends, while Adams foresaw
how it would add to the conviviality o!
his club. He began wtu the feryent
wish that he was out of this cou ounded
scrape. He ended, I am obliged to
confess, by ceasing to envy Robinson
Crusoe, his desert isle, and considering
his own far preferable. There was a
breeziness about this girl that made him
forget the mounting thermometer, she
had a wav of going to the point, and.
moreover, she had a point, two things
which Ben Adams told his sbter he ap­
preciated in a woman.
In short, by dint of making the bast of
it, Mi^s Vail and Adams were both able
to ex pi ess honest surprise when a boat
appeared in the distance and in taking
out his watch Adams found it to be 3
o'clock.
"Now!" wa3 all Josephine said, bu.
there were conflicting emotions in thy
monosyllable.
"Hul!o-o!"shoutedashrill voice across
the water.
"Hullo-o!" called Adams back.
Blank astonishment wiped all expres­
sion out of Tom's face at first, but a
broad grin finally made its appear­
ance.
"You're a great one, Jo," he muttered
"I'd like to know where you wouldn't
find a beau. Did he drop down out of
the clouds?"
"Hush, sir you have been a very
naughty bovP'
As they rowed home, Adams devoted
himself to cultivating the acquaintance
of the young scapegrace. The latter
proved reirv approachable and Adams
found no difficulty in pursnadin? him to
go fishing the next day.
When they were home at last Josep­
hine took her brother into her ruom and
turned the key.
"Tom, you've treated me verv badly
to-day. What would you give if I would
hot te 1 father? You wouldn't like to be
sent back to the military school, you
know."
"Say, sis, I'll tell you what," and the
little "wretch gave a wink of immense
satisfaction "if you won't tell on me, I
won't tell on you. Honor bright."
"Mrs. Adam's," said Mr. Ben Adams
to his wife at their wedding reception a
year after, "don't vou think we rniirht
afford to tell people how we met? I
never knew a secret kept. I nearly
ruined myself buying un that precious
brother-in-law of mine. You see, I
thought on your account I wouldn't let
bim tell. I didn't care I liked it. I had
no business to, vou say? But I liked it
nevertheless. Here "are Rutland and
his Mar)r. Let's tell them the story.
They know we're going to Lake Win­
nipaka for our honeymoon."
IN A GYPSY UAMP,
AGraphic Description of a Itoinany
From the Londoo Telegraph.
Of the younger fry there were as
many as half a dozen, four of them girls,
whose ages may have ranged from eiev
en to fourteen, and they were worse
clad even than the two women, nor,
were the growing boys better covered.
As for tho little children, whose skins,
poor little wretches, for lack of washing,
were of the color of light mahogany,
several of them were naked as they
were born, and there in the midst of an
atmosphere pungent with the odor of
onions and misty with the steam of the
stew, they were all huddiedy piggledly
on the ground some reclining at lull
length, others squatted "nose and
knees" together, discussing their supper
with an appetite only to be obtained by
a day's toil in a hop garden.
Tlie tent contained no single article of
furniture in the ordinary sense ot the
term. An empty barrel, that apparent­
ly had once contained flour, stood in the
center with aboard across the top of it,
and on this stood a shallow browa pan,
which contained what had been cooked
in the large kettle, and beside it were
several loaves of bread. Two of the
women presided. The three men
squatted cross legged, with a large zinc
washing-bowl filled with a savory me sou
the ground in their midst, and a lour
pound loaf, from which, with their
clasp-knives, thev hacked a "chunk" as
they required it. Plates ami spoons
there were none. They thrust their
wedges of bread into the -bowl, and so
extracted the br- th, and they_ helped
themselves to meat with their dirty fin­
gers, tearing it assunder with their teeth
when the piece was too large to put at
once in the month. In a gallon stone
bottle they had beer, which for conven­
ience of drinking was tilted into a yellow
pint basin.
Even less ceremony was observed by
the children in eating. The female in
charge of the bread cut a substantial
"round" from a loaf and tossed it to the
elder ones as they reclined on the
ground, and then the custodian of the
stew fished out a piece of meat and
thrust it, all hot and reeking at the end
of a fork, toward the eager hand held
out for it. and the meat was clapped atop
the -iread, and so, without the aid of a
knife, the ration was devoured. The
smaller children were served in the
same way, but less liberally. When the
men had had their bowl replenished
and the women had enough the pan,
with ihe remains of the broth and some
bread broken up in it, was placed on the
ground, and, squealing and greedily
hustling each other like so many other
little pigs, the gypsy infants made short
work of it.
An AutUcnce With Pope .Leo.
Canon Bdiry of Cashel in Ruman news­
paper.
Leo XIII is now 74 years of age. He
is tall, thin and bony. His face is of an.
ivory tint, and his oyeaand lipaari very
expres-ive and smiling. He looks very
fir n. Simeoni ys ho resembles Vol­
taire, but Leo XUI'a smile is totally dif­
ferent from Vo.taire's smile, The Pope
wears his age well and walks remarka­
bly straight. He has snow white hiiir,
and very finely marked eyebrows. His
eyes are wonder ully intelligent-locking
and his voice is extremely harmonious.
He speaks several languages as well as
any professor of languages, He never
says a foolish thing iior does a foolish
thing, like pojr Pius IX, whose policy"
was fatal to the Pope's temp pjw-ii*.
He ribes very early, and spends the htst
hours of the day in pr tyer and general­
ly i.i his bedroom. At 6 o'clock he Siyg
mass. At 8o'clock he breaks his fast with
a cup of chocolate, reading his corres­
pondence all the time. At 9 o'clock he
recieves Jacohim and those chiefs of re­
ligions societies who may demand au
ilieiice. At noon he receives those li
man patriarchs who have remained true
lo bins ari'l the ambassalors. At one
o'clock he dines, his dinner rare cost­
ing more than two fran s, or half a
liollar. Once upon a time Popes were
irreat eaters uml drinkers, and were
iriven to every kind of extravagance
but Leo Xril is nothing of aii t.-ds.
Alter d'nner he takes a litde walk in
the Vatican grounds, or lie visits the
museum, galleiries, etc. Sometimes ho
is carried in a cirnir quilted in white
r-atin. He is very fond of the garden
mid likes to play the gardener at tun -s.
He frequently receives visitors in the
•.arden and talks of flowers to them to
avoid other subjec s. The first and sec­
ond time I saw him was in the garden.
When I r/ont with the pilgrims he was
preceded by three noble guards, and at.
his side was Mtrr. Macchi, his
t-ecrec.
chamberlain, lie wore a wide brimmed
hat and a large rt-d cloak. We wee
presented to him one by one. He
looked at us and scrutinized ns we!!. 1
saw he recognized me, but he treated
me tike the others—as if he saw me a!«o
for the first time. "Are vou all Irieb?"'
be stud. "I am happy to receive the
the faithful o' that nation!" He looked
ig iin a.t us, as if he would have read into
our souls. "Your bishop," he con 'inu--d
brought me offerings from a people
pressed with poverty,'' Then seeing
me still on my knees, he otlcred m.- his
hind to raise me. "I had thought," he
continued, "tint the offerii'ms would
have decreased hut it was not so. We
live on c!iarity"(and here he smiled s«d
), "for iI we had has been taken from
us, Oh! those persecutions!" tie cried
with a loud voice. "They purify us even
when the leaven »s pure and immacu­
late." I neern to see him now. His head
looked like a relief on the blue ekv. The
-ion was setting, and he looked up"to tiie
sky. as if seeking an inspiration
there. "I have heard," he then
said, "that notwithstanding the general
-tate of anguish in Irelaud,"the churches
ire full of people. M-iy the L«rd be
praised and blessed, and may niy pray­
ers bring peace on the people! Lord
near our prayer and judge us!'' He then
blessed us.
and the audiencefwts finished
I have never seen so much power unded
to so much simplicity. At 4 o'clock th.
pope resiiLues his official audience in
thj va'.icau. At To'clock ordy he takes
a little rest, but at 8 o'clock lie returns
to work in his private rooms wheve he
remains until 10 o'clock, when he re­
lies for the night. not always to sleep,
though, for it is during the night that, h.u
reads and writes for his own pleasure,
bis favorite subject being the "Science
of *it. Thomas," and essays on the work
ol that saint, which he receives from
every part of the world.
The Greatest Iron Works ia the
World.
From the Londen News.
Herr Paul Dehn has written a short
account of the immense ironworks of
Krupp in K-isen. Krupp's works were
founded in 1810. In 18)5 the number of
his workmen rose to 693 and soon after­
ward he felt obliged to buikl dwellings
for them. The umber of his workmen
in lS8i? was 10,5WS, and the number of
houses o,2
18,
in which lived ]6,2i)Os,u!s.
The houses contain from two to five
rooms, the rent running from about
to $hr a year. One successiul exper­
iment was a boarding-house for 20)
single men, and later for odd men, pro­
viding dinner, with meat four times a
week supper, coffee and butter the
bread they must provide themselves. A
large co-opeiative store, started by F.
Krupp, has developed enormously, and
monopolized the re'ivi! trade of the dis­
trict. The sick club has existed since
185G, and in 18S2 had 11,oil members
an 1 a fund of &'i3,500. Sick eluus among
the workmen's families also exist.
There is a sanitary committee in the
works.
The works have had a fever hospital
since 1871, an infirmary since 1872. The
former was transferred to the town of
Essen in 1882 for small-pox cases. A
disinfection house and apparatus have
aiso been instituted on Dutmar's plan.
Baths were put up near the entrance of
the works in 1874. In 187G a life insur­
ance fu nil was started, and has risen to
1,525 members. A high school, with
venty class-rooms, and a private school,
•with sixteen rooms, are among Herr
Krupp's foundations, and since 18t?6 rive
technical schools have been in exist
ence, in which clashes for women in
household work, &c., are also heiH,
which are now better attended than at
first. Secondary schools, both in Essen
and Altendorf, near by, ara supported
by the firm. Work for- disabled men
and invalids has been instituted since
]87Cf such as broom making for the co
opeiative stares, basket making, fcc., in
which widows and children are aiso ^m
plovod. In one week in September,
188i, the number of people—men wom­
en and children—connected with and
dependent on Krupp's wor&swM 65,381.
PRESIDENT JACKSOX.
OldL Hickory and. His Crusade
Against the National Ba.uk.
Ben Perley Poore's fiscoiiecdous.
Fifty years since the country was con­
vulsed by the conflict between President
Jackson and the United States bank.
The bank was a corporation with a capi­
tal of «3G,iK)0,000f and it had branches in
ma»y of the states. It was the sole fis­
cal agent of the United States govern­
ment, and the public funds were de­
posited in the vaults of the ba-nk and of
its branches. Five of the directors
were appointed by the United States
government, and the others were lead­
ing Philadelphians. The president was
Nicholas Biddle, a gentleman of rare ac­
complishments and high character, and
he had fortified himself by making loans
te leading editors in different parts of
the country, and to distinguished im­
pecunious politicians. The hank was
very prosperous and its stock '.vas in de­
mand at a high premium, when l^aac
Hill, of New Hampshire, then un audi­
tor in the treasury department a Wash­
ington, became offended with Mr. Ma­
son, president of the branch bank at
»rtfiinouth, N. H., and demanded his
removal.
This was refused, and Mr. IIHi Io?t no
time in enlisting the prc-ud -nt hi a cru
sa le against the bank. O if ckory"
had just squelched nnUiOcution iu .uuth
Carolina, and he turned eagerly to
square off against a :eu foe. Guui ess
disregarding the president passed a bill
reciiartering the bank afrer t. :e expira­
tion of its charter in lS:)u .Lick-inn not
only voted tie- bid, but ho had the pub­
lic fund swithdraw?! from the tj ited
states hank and its brandies, and trans­
ferred to vario :s Slate banks. This?
iofetid Mr. Riddle to eoiUriu-t the out­
ness of the United Staieshank to the ex­
tent of the average amount of public
money held by it on
dep..sit. Agitation and alarm prey,-iiei
throughout thecountry: paralvsisseized
on every branch of trade tlie notes of
State banks depreciated sioeks fell
from if) to 40 par cent real es tie de­
clined manufactures- were su^-ended,
and large numbers of laborers rw dis­
charged without any means of sun port.
"Oid Hickory" see ued revei in the
din of the contest, and to en the
fierce .invectives heaped upon him" in all
quarters, asserting that ad tois distress
was the work of "Sick B-dd and tiie
bann." He. and his friends declared it
had dabbleu in corn ana s-to ks, that it
had made donations to roads nd canals,
that it had built houses to r«c,t and sell,
thai it had suborned the public press
and stooped to corruption, and that it
should be closed at once.
The friendsof the bank, equa ly vio­
lent, accused the president of open and
dating usurpation. After havimr, in de­
fiance of the constitution a ..d Livrs, as­
sumed the control of the exei utive and
judical branches of tlie government, of
the army and o: tlie navv, he now nought
to seize the public purse, as Johns Cie
sar had seized the public treasury at
Rome. The merchants in diiierem cities
finding themselveson th« vrze of bank­
ruptcy sent deputations to Washington
to remonstrate with the president..
One of tbe^e delegations, from the
c'y of New York, bearing a petition
signed by 6,000 merchants, went io Wash­
ington, headed by Mr, James G. King.
Vbiting tiie whitu house, thev were ad­
mitted into the president's priva.e office
whore they found him seated at a table
writing, with along ciay pipe in Ins
mouth, which he was industriouslv
smoking. After courteously greeting
them, Mr. King began in a dignified man
I ner, to state the object of the visit. He
had said but a few words when General
Jackson interrupted bun b}r saving:
"Mr. Kinn, 1 believe you area sou of
Rufns Kin^?" "I am, rfir," was the ans­
wer, Weil, sir," exclaimed the presi­
dent in an angry voice, gesth uiating
widely: "Rufui King was always a Fe
eralist, and I suppose you take a ter
him. You talk abouo
ins."!venc-.*?
Wna
do you come to me for? Go to Xicholas
Biddle. He has all the money.
He has millions of species in his
vaults at this moment ly in idle,
and yet you come to me to save the
merchants of your city from breaking. I
lell you, gentlemen, it's all polric-j, and
I do not intend to change mv position/'
The delegation retired, feeling glad, as
one of them afterwards observed, thai
he had not kicked them down suirs.
All through the summer of 18:.!:* the
tWht went on, to be continued for v
erai years. Mr. Biddle, seeking to save
himself by cotton speculations, the
entire capital of the hank, pi niging
thousands into bankruptcy. He retired
to ins riKal home, oa the banks of the
Delaware, unable to witnshmd 'he sfovtn
of obloquy that assailed him in Philadel­
phia. His bearing was calm digni­
fied us in his proudest days, v- lorn bts
was the financial autocrat of ths We-it­
em Hemisphere, and no.v ''none &<»
poor to do him reverence." Jackson
was revenged by the failure of tne state
banks, which plunged tho COUMTV into
financial ruin, but he remained th-* idd
of {lie people. He had killed the
"monster,' and he retained the grati­
tude of the people even thro igu the in­
flation ol !S)(j, the bankrupted of lK:j7,
and Hie boneless business Uepres^ioa of
the five following yea IT,.
ri mi
The Population of ParLs.
From th? Italian Ti/u^s.
An analysis of the po^ulatioa of Pai-is
just published give^ very singu­
lar statistics as to the in Habitant*
of the gayest city in .Eur :pe. Lt seems,
also for its size, to be the most industri­
ous. The proportion in which tiie work­
ing c.a-iScS exceed tho-o live on
their own incomes is the more rem a c
abie as Paris is the recognize eer-tev of
expenditure and escravai nice for ail
France, Tnere are no cities that !d
to the capital the same relative position
that Liverpool,Manchester,and l'irridng
ham occupy relatively to London More
than ha.!fa miilion ot Parisians are cm
ployed in commerce, trade and banking
operations, while of the artisan class
there are considerably more than a mil­
lion and A quarter. I'he iibeval pro
fess'ons seem to occupv but a sm.l! pro­
portion of the population, All *om
bined do not amount to 2u0,0f0,
and in the subdivisions the prominence
is quite different to what it would be
wit/i_ us. The great majority are in the
public service, which employs more
tmin medicine, law, and divinity all
combined. JB(it, after the public s-jrvic:-',
it is art that gives employment and live­
lihood to the greatest number of Paris­
ians. I'orty-twe thousand uet their in­
come from this branch of industry. The
doctors come after. Medicine, in its
branches, ot course, inciu ling chemists
and compounders and venders of medi­
cine. Then comes the law, with its 15.
000, votaries Irorn judge to ba iiif. Lit­
erature figures very low on tiie list, for,
grouped with science anil iournaiism, ii
gives employment to only H,0 oeople,
whiie aii the clergy of all the persua­
sions amount to about half tha. number.
On the whole, Paris would seem to be
more industrious, more artistic, lesi lit­
erary, and less rehg.ous tuan the ordin­
ary visitor would supuose.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was bora in
Boston and christened May Gray for an
intimate friem of her other'?, but fat the
4e*th of her mother, when io was eicbt
yeaw old, Elizabeth Stuart, her mothers
name, was given her.