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DEFIANCE. Pm a Buzzard from the Brazos, on a tear; Hear me toot! Fm a lifter of the flowing locks of hair; f Hear me hoot! I'm a Racker from the Rockies, And of ull the town the talk is, "He's a Pirate of tho Pampas, On the shoot. Those who love me call me "Little Dynamite," I'm a pet. I'm a walking, stalking Terror of the Night, You can bet. By my nickel-plated teasers, Many a rusty-featured Greaser's Sun has set. Sometimes I strike an unprotected town, Paint it red. Choke tho sheriff, turn the marshal upside down On his head. Call for the drinks for all tho party, And if chinned by any smnrty, Fay in lead. I'm a cayote of the sunset, "Prairie Dude," Hear my zip! In tho company of gentlemen I'm rude " Witii my lip. Down in front! Remove that nigger, Or I'll perforate his figure! I..am fly, I am flighter. I am flip! L LEAP-YEAR STOBY. " ["Minimum" in Inter Ocean.] I. "Pa," said Mrs. Clinton, looking a little timid and a good deal in earnest. She was knitting under tho shade of the pine trees on tne lawn of tho farm-house. Mr. Coleman was reading a stock paper with absorbing in terest, but he put it down on his knee when his wife spoke. "Well, ma, what's to pay?" She looked ;it the stout, handsome man sit ting in the great out-door chair, then glanced off' as if to take in a view of tho substantial evidences of wealth about her before she spoke. "Arthur wants to go up to Chicago this fall to tho Douglas university." "To tho Douglas university," repeated Mr. Clinton slowly, wiping his forehead thought fully, then folding his paper up into a tight roll and abstractedly giving it to a rat ter rier rolling on the grass beside him. Presently, "Art's a good boy." "And a smart one," said the mother. "So ho thinks lie hasn't got schooling enough yet V "No. Grandview academy docs not give him all he wants," said the mother proudly. At this moment tfae young man came around tho corner of the house, swinging his big straw hat and whistling. "Father, we've finished tho lower eighty," ho said, coming up; "shall we begin on the upper meadow this aftomoou?" "When does tho fall term begin?" asked the father, with a shrewd twinkle. Arthur's face colored. "Now, mother," ho protested, "you'vo been telling." "Why shouldn't she." asked tho father, with a touch of sternness. "No reason, sir, except that I hate to have you do any more for mo beforo I am of age." "And when you aro 21 you would go to tho university anyway, you boy? Sit down and let's talk it over. It seems to me you bet ter get done what you want with the book ing, now that yon are iu for it. You finished tho academy in June, and now you want to go up to Chicago?" "Yes, sir." "And learn to bo a third-class lawyer or fourth-class doctor, or fifth-class ribbon teller—something of that sort?" "No, sir." "What, then?" "I want to take the four years' course, paying particular attention to natural science in all its branches, to surveying, too, and—" "Yes, yes, but what have you an idea of being?" Arthur hesitated a moment "Speak out, my son." "Afarmer who sees tlip beauties as well as tho uses of things," he said. Mr. Clinton wiped his spectacles and gazed at his sou in mock astonishment. "You want to go up to Douglas plnc3 and learn astrology and deuteronomy and what not, and then b9 v_> farmer hero on the old placo?" 'That's what I want." "And you ain't afraid your much learning will make you mad and spoil you for running the mower or looking after your ditching and your young calves?" "Now, pa," put in Mrs. Clinton, "hasn't the boy 'tended to everything always, and when you had that poorly time last spring didn't ho work early and late to seo that the men did everything right, just when he was getting ready to graduato at tho academy, too." The great dinner bell rang and Mr. Clinton looked around for his paper. Arthur turned and walked toward the house. His mother looked up interrogatively. "It's all right," nodded Mr. Clinton, though he did not say. There was ono incident of Arthur's first col lege 3 rear which later in his life stood out vory vividly before him. It was a leap-year party to which his prettiest classmate, Miss Stella Flower, invited him at her own house. Sho really liked tlie shy, clover student, but was amazed at the ease and savoiro faire ho ex hibited in hor mother's parlor, fancying dimly that the country boy would not know as well how to manago bis hands as his brains. So, invited in half-patronizi%g kindness, Arthur found himself in tho midst of vogue impressions of delight and a sense of up-look ing on Miss Stella's part entirely unanalyzad by both, but sweetly interesting nud full of Chai m. "I didn't want to fiavo a leap-year party," she confided to him just beforo ho went away, "but somehow or other the idea seemed to haunt mo, and mother said I better give it and get the silly thing dff my mind." She added half doubtfully, "It has gone very well, but I never meau to have anything to do with leap-year again." "I wish you would," said Arthur, gallantly. "Well," sho said, gayly, "mayba I will next leap-year. I shall bo out of school then." "So shall I," said Arthur. "Now we are flirting." Stella grew serious. "I think that is sillier thau my leap-year party in school term." "But it's Saturday evening," said Arthur, excusing hor to horsolf, as ho bowed good night aud took himself to his lodging to get in an hour of neglected study before mid night. For ho was an eagerly industrious student, as aro nine-tenths of the fanr,"r lads who turn their heads to books. His splendid physical development made him a champion in athletic sports. In his secoud year, his father, proud of his boy's advancement, al lowed his anxious mother to give him a yacht, "so that he would be sure not to fail of enough exercise." Tha possession of tho white-winged Daisy made Arthur a hero with tho seniors while yot a sophomore; and a particular object of attention from the young ladies pursuing their higher edu cation in various collego classes, except Stella Flower. This young lady pur sued the oven tenor of her studious way with no apparent notice of the sturdy young coun tryman. Sho had seemed kind to him at times during their mutual freshman year. Sho had even seemed pleased in their early, sophoinoric days to let Arthur carry her books up to Vernon avenue; nor had sho seemed disagreeably surprised when on di vers autumn mornings she found him walk ing in her street at school time when she 6tarted for hor walk to Douglas place. She took his explanation of being "out for exer cise" in simple good faith, nor ever seemed to reflect that he had probably come up on thc street-cars from tho neighborhood of his boarding place in Twenty-third street. But "the light that novei* was on sea or land" seomed gradually to fade off the lake and the college campus when Arthur got his yacht' Miss Flower seemed disposed to give up all claim upon her friend since her right of dis covery of his merits was encroached upon. If otlier collego young ladies found him a charming companion on the Daisy, they wero welcome to liim with the yacht. She would not go out on the lake, and if Arthur ex hibited indications of a desire to walk home with her sho anticipated him with notice of an urgent errand in Cottage Grove avenue or "down towu," and walked off alone. II. In a solitary pull on the lake one Saturday in June, Arthur called himself sharply to account for tho persistency with which the thought and vision ot Stella were always with him. He could imagine the graceful figure opposite to him in the boat. He could see the brave, blue eyes, the plastic coil of soft brown hair, the "little ringlets round her ears," the supple hand, the smile—. Here ho jumped as if to escape an arrow. But the archery was sure, and the boy let go his oar with a dazed recognition of what had come to him. An impartial observer might have seen Cupid aiming at him for months, but Arthur had not guessed it. Ho had had his early fancies, his soveral "strikes," which his thoughtful mother had some way always kept from growing by her sympathetic raillery and gentle good sense. Now he remembered that ho had newer written her a word about Stella, nor in his vacation had mentioned Stella's name in his home. "I don't care. It's so. I love her, and I will be worthy of loving her if she never looks at me again," he said, loftily. Then ho looked around as if he feared the boys fishing on the pier a half-mile off might have heard him. Deciding that this was impossible, he pulled savagely off to the "crib" and exas perated the worthy person in charge there by a series of scientific questions on hydro statistics. Before ho went home that summer he tried in an incoherent manner to make Miss Flower understand that he had a very great admiration and respect for hor. She had consented on ono or two occasions to go clown to Music hall to a Saturday concert with him, and had asked him to stay to sup per once when her mother was absent at his call, and she had poured tea for her father and small sisters. They were together by a syringa bnsh on the college campus. Arthur pulled off a few of the white blossoms nervously and talked of their next year studies. At last, after a silence and with a tremen dous effort he said: "You axe so different from other girls." "And you from other men," said Stella shyly, then, "that is, they say you row un ; commonly well." "I wish you would think of me kindly," he stammered. "But you seem so superior." Stella looked up at him questioningly. If their eyes had met then that would have been the end of their half understandings. But for tho life of him Arthur could not look 1 at her. Ho walked around to the other side I of the syringa and pulled some more flowers ! which he dissected carefully, counting the I petals aloud. "I am sure I am your friend, Mr. Clinton," said Miss Flower aftera little, in a cold voice, "and shall be till—till we graduate." There did not seem to be anything left to say after that, and they walked back to class without trying to speak. But neither of them got on very well with tho Latin examination the next hour. They began the next year under so con spicuous a banner of friendship tiiat many of their mates pointed at them as high Pla tonic examples. They began to believe in their own reality as such, and kept up the fiction between themselves well on into their senior year. But Arthur went to call on her on St. Val entine's day. Little Nettie Flower opened the hall door for him, then the door into the parlor, where Stella sat alono at the piano. "Hero's a valentine for you, Stella," she snid, with igniting mischief, and shut them in together. Stella turned rigidly polite. She refused mentally to see him driven into all that she saw was coming. She maintained her composure admirably while Arthur poured forth tho treasures of two years' fervent lovo—nearly four years' growing attachment, hopo and fear and pleading. Sho would not lot him touch her hand, and went and stood in dignity by a little marble Psycho on a table at the arch between the parlors. '•I want an answer," said Arthur at length with immense impetuosity. Stella commenced trembling. She felt ber calmness fleeing. "An answer," she faltered. "Yes, I want to know if you could care for nie—if you will marry nie?" At these words Stella turned and fled, pull ing tho portiere together after her as if to shut him from following, and escaped to her own room, leaving Arthur to find his own angry way out of doors. Ho walked frantic ally down to tho lake with an unhealthy idea of jumping in in an unexplored corner of his consciousness. But the difficulty of cutting a hole through February ico helped to detor liim, anl be stalked back down Indiana avenuo to his room in Twent3'-third street, looking very gloomy and tragical. Ho and Miss Flower wero distantly formal for months thereafter. Arthur consideie 1 hiniSL'lf a flatly refused and vory badly ns td young man. Had it not been for their fast approaching graduation, matters might have been much worso with theso two. But the extra amount of study they wero urged to put in for final examinations, together with the preparation of their graduation essays, kept thoir minds tolerably well occupied and more nominally cool and temperate. Arthur's mother came up to see his gradu ation. She was tho most admiring auditor of his valedictory, the most appreciative bouquet-sender of all. At the class social she fell into conversa tion with little Nettie Flower, who had <•• tn • with her father and mother to Stella's "last day," as sho called it. Tlio child looked so bright aud seemed so interested in every thing Arthur said, when tho social ebb brought him near her, that Mrs. Clinton asked: "Do you know tho valedictorian?" "Oh, yes, ma'am," said Nettie, with pride. "His name is Mr. Arthur Clinton." Then lowering her voice to confidence, "He used to como to see my sister Stella." "Indeed," said Mrs.' Clinton, with a little start. "But ho doesn't come any more. He has'nt been there ior a long time. Not since V I o tine'sday. Stella graduated to-day, teo," added Nettie. Mra Clinton consulted her programme. "O, Sudla ," she ran down her list, "I don't seem to find her name," sho said, help lessly. Nettie looked on the paper. "Hero it is," sho said. "Miss S. L. Flower. Doesn't it look nice? Papa and mamma are so proud o£ Stella. She is just the darlingest girl. Just think, she made my new hat to surprise iim for my birthday lasD week, just when she was finishing up her graduating essay, too." Nettie turned her blonde head with a fem inine appreciation that the hat was becom ing. 'Your sister's essay was a very good one,"' said Mrs. Clinton, at length, with nn effort. She must be just to her boy, though her mother's heart ached to sympathize with whatever burden of joy or woe ho vvas bear ing. She walked out presently to the gt^tit hall floor and stood alone looking out across the June night and realized how fast her baby had grown out of her arms. It seemed such a little while since his father and she had welcomed their little heir. The house wa:; smaller then aud the purso thinner, but oh! tho happiness. A gleam of white muslin, a turn of a dark form and sho saw in the moon light Arthur standing with Stella out by thy syringa bush on the campus. A boy in tho uniform of tho telegraph service came by them, walking rapidly up the graveled path. He paused in the doorway beside Mrs. Clinton, looking about him in indecision. "Do you want to find somebody?" she asked, looking at the telegram in k;s hand, with the awe with which these printed envel opes inspire in most women. "Yes, mum. They said at his boardin' place that I'd likely find him up here. Ar- Arthur Clinton." Tho boy spelled out tho name. Mrs. Clinton seized it and tore the envel ope across. The boy touched his cap: "Can't allow that, mum," he said with oflicial dig nity. "Wait," she said sharply. "I am his mother," reading as she spoke, and turning so white that tho boy forbore to speak, and waited. "Your father died at noon. Heart diseasa The Lord sustain you." The message was signod by the village pastor. The thought flashed througli her mind: "He sent it to Arthur that he might let me hear it gently," then, woman-like—"I can make it easier for my boy." She walked down the steps and across the grass to the syringa bush. Arthur and Stella were on the other side now, and she heard thoir voices as sho came up to them, Stella's tremulous, Arthur's fiercely culm. THE ST. PAUL SUNDAY GLOBE, SUNDAY, MORNING, APRIL 13, 1884. "Do not reproach me," Stella was saying. "I am not reproaching you. But it is use less for you to talk of friendship between us. If you won't let me write to you as your lover wo had better not write at alL" They heard Mrs. Clinton's step and turned. Arthur's face crimsoned angrily seeing her. "Mother!" he cried. His manner overcame her thought of giv ing him the news in fragments. She held out her hands in pleading for his kindness. "O, Artie, Artie, father's dead, he's dead," she moaned, and burst into tears. He put his.arms around her and held her silently a moment. Stella stood motionless. Even after they had gone she stood still look ing into the heart of the syringa bloom she held When she dragged herself back to the college she met them coming hastily, ready for their carriage. Arthur saw her and stopped. "Good-bye," said Stella, meaning all the "God bless you," of the word and her full heart. But Arthur only heard a formal faro well and went on without a word, half carry ing his mother. m. After the funeral the days went on samely at the farm. Mother and son came to bo nearer and dearer to each other than ever be fore. They were much together, driving over the farm and to the village, together in the summer mornings and Sunday readings, at table, and through quiet winter evenings later on, but no mention was ever made by either of Stella or tho evident burden the young man was carrying. They talked often of the husband and father gone before, they planned to do tho things that he had planned for the coming years, and though Arthur felt his mother's lovo and sympathy he did not understand it, though he guarded her and comforted her with alf ectionate devotion. She had been asking him to help her in re planting some geraniums in her window gar den in February, and he came into her sit ting-room on Valentine's morning with a cheery, "Now, mother, let's look after your flowers." They walked together for awhila. By and by tho mother said, "Do you know this is Valentino's day, Arthur?" "Yes." "His tone seomed to forbid anything more, but Mrs. Clinton said lightly, not looking at him: "I'm going to make a valentine for you to send off. Some of these scarlet and white geraniums pressed with ivy leaves will be so pretty. Any girl would bo glad to get them." "Nonsense, mother," said Arthur, but he did not object to hor making it. He watched her with a curious sort of interest. "Now, good luck to you," said his mother, finishing her dainty arranging on a largo card. "Faint heart never won fair lady, aud stupid pride is always blind." "You are, a -very romantic old lady," he said, "I don't know what I shall do with you. I have no uso for your geraniums^' But ho took thom and went up to his room* He opened a locked drawer of his desk and took out ono of his class photographs which had never found a place in his album which lay on Mrs. Clinton's parlor table. It was of a graceful young girl in a white dress, with a cluster of geraniums at her belt. It was with great foreboding that ho took out an envel ope, enclosed his mother's blossoms, and ad dressed tho package: "Miss S. L. Flower, No. —,Vernon avenue, Chicago." After ho had written tho name, hope camo pulsing through his veins quite as if he had not believed for over half a year that bo was quite hopeless. He felt that the Valentino must somehow say for him what words had failed to express. When Arthur weut out to give it to tho mail-carrier, who daily passed the farm with post-bags from an off railway villago beyond, his heart nearly faile i him. Tho man who usually carried tho mails was ill, his son said, and the lad held the reins with an air of importance as ho stopped to receive Arthur's missive. With tho ab surdity of young persons in bis condition of heart, he fancied that tho boy would suspect a valentine in the plain business-liko envel ope reluctantly given him. "It's jolly sleighing," observing the lad, not glancing at tho letter as fio stowed it away and touched up his horses. Arthur fell to watching for that boy's com ing i'or days thereafter with painful assidu ousness. But though the jingling sleigh bells heralded plenty of papers and maga zines, and now and then a letter for tho farm house, tho days seemed unusually useless and weary to tho young man. He kept on watch ing without expecting, until one morning, a day or two into March, he felt an instinctive certainty that something was to happen. He did not say even to himself that ho expected any sign from Stella. He so far assured him self that he was expecting nothing that ho refused to let himself go for the mail when he hoard tho lad's sleigh-bells, but betook himself to tho granary below tho garden. From his corn-shoveling he saw his mother go out a:ul reet ivo a handful of letters and papers. "Anything forme?" he shouted. He saw her shako hor head, and with a sick heaviness of hoat't felta wild sense of folly at having let his memory of last Valentino's day so far overcome him. "1 onght not to have sent her that. It will only make hor despise mo. And I said I would not write." He threw his scoop down on the pile of golden corn in d frenzy of self-reproach and wretchedness aud started to walk, ho scarcely know where. He throw himself over the garden fence not minding the gate, and out ofi to tin; snowy road. By a sort of impulse toward perfect loneliness ho strode rapidly up thc little hill toward a wood pasture where he had been fond of going alone with his bouk on Sunday afternoon when ho \va3 a boy—a boy. That time seemed so long 0go. Life was so rich and worth livin.; then. Now a letter with settled side upward caught his eye, lying almost at his t'e^t. "That stupid boy lost it when he was talcing out the mail for mother before he stopped. I'll have to report his carelessness at the posteffice." Such was the thought that darted through his mind as he stooped to pick it up. Ho turned it ovei. The white prairies seemed to shin • around him. Tho clear air tingled through his veins as, breathing fast, ho tore open that letter. O, that handwriting! Tlio snowbirds on the willows seemed all to bo fl-.itoering their wings and whispering, "Stella, Stella, Stella!" among themselves, lt was not snow-blind ness that maJo Arthur an incredible ten minutes reading that letter, for it was dated "Leap-Year Day," and began, very bravely, "My dearest." ThT.. wasn't much els3 in it that was very tender or vory explicit, but that was quite enough. She snid that sho had received his valentine, ahd thanked him very much. It was very pretty. Her father and mother wero quite well, but she had heard that one of their old professors was ilL Sho hoped he was well. She had wanted to write and tell him how sorry she was after his father died. "But I was afraid you would thiuk I wanted to gjt yoa back," sho said, in closing, "and now I am so afraid you won't understand that I do. that I write you on the 29th of February, so there won't be any mistake. I have never forgiven iny foolishness in having a lea;>-year party four years ago. But tins is still more dreadful ou my part. My only excuse is that I—" here a word was crossed out, and the sentence ended rather lamely— "have regard for you." Love helped Arthur interpret the obscured word, and his face was shining as he turned homeward. "Bless her! she takes the mak ing up all on herself, and blames herself too. How like a woman! I'm a sworn champion of leap-year henceforth, forever." "What inthe world, Arthur!" cried Mr3. Clinton as hor son rushed into her presence a few moments after. "I'm going to Chicago on the evening pas senger. I've got an answer to your geranium valentine." "Arthur!" "My beloved mother." "Is, oh is it Stella?" He stared at her a second, wondering help lessly how women could find out everything. Then he put his arm across her shoulders and kissed her cheek. "It is Stella," he said. The mother reached up and patted her boy's bright young faca She stood silent for a second, a tender retrospect in hsr eyea "You are just the age your father was when he and I were first engaged. How fast you have got to be a man," sighing and laughing a little. "Tho Lord bless you!" Then, "Deary me! If you're bound te go all that 203 miles to-night I must go tell Sarah to get your sup per and put yotj up alimch while I nackyour valise." EASTER HYMN. Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day; Who died once upon the cross Suffers to redeem our loss. Alleluia 1 Hymns of praise then let us sing Unto Christ, our heavenly King, Who endured the cross and grave, Sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia But the pains which He endured Our salvation have procured; Xow above the sky He's King, Where the angels ever sing, Alleluia! — Latin Hymn; Tr. 1730. THE ROBIN. A purple flush is beaming low, And slowly rising o'er the sky; But ere it gains a brighter glow We hear the robbin's tuneful cry. Perched upon his waving spray, lie sounds his morning reveilie, And earth is bathed in crimson light, Earliest herald of the dawn! Earliest bird upon the lawn! Sing thy matins loud and elear, And wake the hosts to join thy cheer. — Wilton. Fiagg. A SECRET, I told my secret to the sweet wild roses, Heavy with dew, new-waking in the morn, And they had breathed it to a thousand others, Before another day was slowly born. "Oh, fickle roses!" eaid I; "you shall perish!" So plucked them for my lady sweet to wear In the pure Eilence of her maiden bosom, The curled luxuriance of her chestnut hair. I told the secret to a bird new building Her nest at peace within tho Spreading tree, And ere her children had begun to chatter She told it o'er and o'er right joyously, "Oh, traitor bird!" I whispered; "stay thy sing- ing; Thou dost not know, there in thy nest above, That secrets are not made to tell to others; That silence is the birthrignt of true love I" I told the secret to my love, my lady; Hhe held it closely to her darling bretst! Then as I clasped her came a tiny whisper: "The birds and flowers told me all the rest. Nor shouldst thou chide them that they spake the secret— The whole world is a chord of love divine, And birds and flowers but fulfill their mission In telling secrets sweet as mine and thiue 1" SUNDAY GLOJJELETS. Shakespeare : Be great in act as you have been in thought. W. K. Algeu: We give advice bythe buck et, but take it by the grain. Shakespeare: 'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are away from home. Madame Swetciiixe: The only true method of action in this world is to be in it and not of it. Sexeca: Itis the constant fault and in separable ill qualities of ambition never to 00k behind it. Young: We see time's furrows on an other's brow; how few themselves, in that just mirror, see. Zimmeumax: Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrius to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffer ing. Cicero: That wliich is usually called do tage is not the weak point of all old men,but only of such as arc distinguished by their levity. Mns. Jamesox: The presence of those whom we love is as a double life; absence its anxious longing and sense of vacuity is a foretaste of death. Haxxau Mooue: The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion; makes the thought start into action, and at once plans and per forms, resolves and executes. Wai.i'ole: Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit aud seldom draw to their full extent. Voltahie: The modesty of certain ambi tious persons consists in becoming great without too much noise: it may be said that they advance in the world on tip-toe. Laxbok: I feel I am growingold forwaut of somebody to tell me that I am looking as well as ever. Charming falsehood! There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words. IttciiTEK: Age and suffering had already marked out the first incisions for death so that it required but little effort to cut her down; for it is with men as with trees, they are notched long before felling, that their life-sap may How out. De Boxstettex : If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious iii mature age; if childhood has the memory of words, old age has that of things which im press themselves according to the clearness of the conception of the thought which we wish to retain. Bishop Doanc expects to expend $450, 000 on the Episcopal cathedral, at Albany, and the spires will be 203 feet high. Tho receipts of Dr. Talmage's tabernacle. Brooklyn, for the year ending February 1, were $26,327.69.' His salary is *12,000. The Bible is now sold at Florence, at a stand midway between the stake at wliich Savonarola was burned and the river Arno Into which his ashes were cast. It is reported of old but tough M. Do Lcsscps that he sometimes sleeps twenty-four hours on a stretch, and sometimes goes a week without so much as taking a catnap. Tite annual income of Trinity parish, New York, is$500,000. Tho total expenses of the parish arc $158,630. It has eighteen clergy men, '.'A'l Sunday school teachers and 4,521 scholars. Leatheroid is a new substance manufac tured in Maine, principally of cotton paper. It looks like leather, but is harder and very clastic, aud no amount of tossing about or hammering will break it. This susgests its use for trunks. The Chinese custom of decapitating their enemies slain In war, is explained by thc statement that thoy believe that the appear-' ance of a person in the spirit world without tt hoad is prima foot evidence of having com mitted some crime, and punishment is awarded accordingly. A young mother traveling with her infant child, writes the following letter to hor hus band at home: "We are all doing first rate, aud enjoying ourselves very muoh. We are in fine health. The hoy can crawl about on all fours; hoping that tho same maybe said of you, I remain, etc. Fanny." Mrs. Tom Thumb, says a correspondent, is a "picture of matronly dignity, seen throngh the small end of an opera giass. Little boys are permitted to come on thc stage and kiss her professionally, but woe to the person who presumes to pet her in the parlor. Her severity is sinall but intense " Homoeopathic doctors in Texas arc numer ous enough to form a state association, the first meeting of which will be held at Austin, on the 1st of May. There are seventy-five or eighty Homoeopathic practitioners in the state. They are confined to the cities and larger towns, none being found in the rural districts. According to the Japan Mail of January 5, in a lecture before the Japanese Imperial university, Mr. Mozoomdar said, "I am not a Christian, I am a Brahmin, aud I believe in the ancient, faith of my own country." The Episcopal Eecorder asks, "Will Dr. Scud der and the Independerd still regard him as a Christian brother." Forty women students have, during the present year, entered upon a course of study at the Paris hospitals. There are some Eng lish and Americans,and even a few negresses; but Russian is the nationality most numer ously represented. Three female candidates have been successful in the examination for professorships. A colored man who was summoned as a witness in an assult case in New Haven, Conn.,on Saturday, said that he believed in a supreme power, but did not believe in a su preme being. Judge Deming said such a man belonged in a lunatic asylum, and re- fused to allow him to testify. As he was the principal witness, the case was consequently nolled. A wordly father, after the style of Lord Chesterfield, is giving good advice to his son, who is about to enter society. "And above all avoid flirtations. But if you must flirt or fall in love, be sure that it is with a pretty woman. It is always safest. "Why?" "Be cause some other fellow will be sure to be at tracted and cut you out before any harm has been done. Assistant Bishop H. C. Potter, of New York, thinks that the principle of civil service reform should be applied to the management of prisons, and says that men put in charge of criminals should have hadtrainingin that work and not be mere politicians. "It should also," he says, "be insisted upon that there should be in charge of prisons a much higher standard of character and capability than has heretofore been the case." The crossings yesterday were just awful. Tawmus stood in the doorway contemplating the weather and wishing he were dead or it would clear off, when he saw a very pretty young lady about to attempt to cros3 the slush flooded street. His natural gallantry prompt ed him to tender his assistance, and stepping forward, he said: "Madam, will you permit me to observe—" "Observe if you like,' she interrupted him, "I've got rubber boots on." Cremation has become a small issue in Wales, and has won a victory. A Dr. Price, an eccentric individual who delights in call ing himself a Druid, and imitating supposed Druidical rites, was tried before the Glamor ganshire assizes for trying to cremate the body of his infant child. The man was dis charged, of course, but the affair has caused an amount of discussion which the friends of cremation in England may eventually turn to their advantage. Henry Wheeler, of Hickory Flats, Ga., is seventy-four years old has lived in the same house forty-nine years, never owed a cent, sold corn at $1 a bushel all through the war, has the first silver dollar he ever saw screwed fast to the inside of his clock, has nineteen children and grand and great grandchildren enough to run his direct posterity to 121, is hale and hearty, never chews, smokes, or drinks, and is supremely happy. There has never been a death in his family. At a benefit entertainment in New Haven one of the incidents ofthe money getting was a mock auction sale of old maids. There were thirteen of these spinsters, and the bid ding was spirited, but its result reflected on the perspicacity of the gentlemen who did the bidding: for, after the unmasking, ttie chattel who had commanded the fewesl and was knocked down at the humiliating figure of twenty-three cents, proved to be the wealthiest young woman in tho city. The nime of the Sub Dean of Westminster who, in the unavoidable absence both of Mr. Gladstone and Dean Bradley, unvafled ttie bust of Longfellow in thc abbey, has been variously rendered by contemporaries, but in no instance correctly. The Sub Dean and Canon in question was the Rev. Geoige Pro thers, a venerable gentleman known of Eng lish churchmen for the past half century as a courteous gentlemen, a polished scholar and it favorite Chaplain of Queen Victoria. "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." "Tf the prophet had bidden thee do som.- great tliinic, wotildst thou not have done it? How niuch rather, therefore, when he saith unto thee, 'Wash and be clean.'" Trinity church, Boston, of wliich the Rev. Philip Brooks is rector, has a laundry deportment. Its earnings last year wore about $4,500, of which $2,600 was paid out as wages to the worn rtl employed in the laundry. The wash tub as well as thc font, is needed in the churches, if "the great unwashed" are to be dealt with. Arrangements are being made in London for tho celebration in June next of the fif tieth year of Sir Julius Benedict's artistic life. Tbis eminent'musician and composer has been in the artistic world more than fifty years, however. He was born in Stuttirart Nov. 27, 1804, and at the age of nineteen years was engaged, on the recommendation of Weber, his teacher, to conduct ttie German operas at Vicuna. His tirst opera, "Giacinta cd Ernesto," was produced at Naples in 1827. He wont to London, whore his chief honors have been won, in is:5.~). A New England paper having said thai Washington's birthday was commemorated and freedom from a tyrant's oppression en- Joyed "by sixlj- millions of Puritan descend ants, scattered over this »widely extended republic,-' the Churchman remarks: "It will certainly be news to the vast majority of the M\1y millions of people in the United Stabs to lcaru that thoy aro decenplants of the Puritans," and very much doubts if even "tbe description would apply to a very large majority of the inhabitants of the town" where the paper quoted is published. It is told of Dr. Chalmers, who waa rather given Ho "magnificee'nl verbiage," that on one occasion, be being invited to a Primitive prayer mi cting in a remote High land parish, the parochial mini-tor begged as a persona] favor that the distinguished minister would speak down to tbe intelli gence of his llock and use only thc sim plesl words and seuteni ■■;. Chalmers good naturedlj assented, and began with ' and unstudied sentence: "My friends, I have been specially asked, In addressing vou to-night, to avoid the technical nomen clature of scholastic theology." The contributions ofthe several religions denominations In New York city In 1 thc hospital Sunday collections were: Protr estanl Episcopal churches, $12,962.72; Pres byterian, $8,715.50; synagogues, $1,693.09; Reformed, $1,304.24; Methodist, $1,156.99; Baptist, $988; Lutheran, $638.13; Congre gational, $540.95; Unitarian, $174,91; Uni versalist, $134.73; Moravian, $20.20; mis cellaneous, $716.12. Total. $27,040.50 by 219 churches. The collections from other sources in lss:i were $15,762.19, making In all $42,803.69, about $12,000 more than was collected in 1882. . The Christian at Work asks the question: "Why do females preponderate in the mem bership of our churches? Out of 382,000 members of tbe Congregational denomina tion, 852,400 or 68 per cent, arc females. leaving only 82 per cent males. What is the reason lor all this? Tho Congregation al denomination ic the only one that tabulates its members bj sexes, hut we sup posea like proportion to exist in the other non Episcopal churches. Wlmt is thc reason : Do not men become religious as readily as women? —then why? Or does thc church not adapt its work as well to men as to women?" Bishop Littlcjohn, as bishopQin charge of the American Episcopal churches on the con tinent of Europe, has licensed Monsignore Savarese, whom the Rev. Dr. Nevin lately received into communion at Rome, as he had previously received the Rev. Count di Cam pello. Bishop Littlcjohn, representing the English as well as American P. E. church, declares the ex-communication of the Bishop of Rome to be "utterly null and void," and authorizes the ex-prelate of the pope's house hold "to execute his office as a dispenser of the word of God and of His holy sacraments, working wherever there may be lawful oppor tunity for a reform of the church in Italy, upon the model of the primitive church." Tbe Episcopal llccorder, the organ bf the Reformed Episcopal chuich, says editorially: The Protestant Episcopal church requires all clergymen entering its ministry from other denominations excepting Roman Catholic, Greek and Anglican priests, to be reordained. These alone ln its views pos sess valid orders. Even the Rev. Drs. R. S. Storrs, "William M. Taylor, John Hall, Wil liaji P. Breed, James Brooks, or liishop Simpson, if they wish to minister in its com munion, must go back to the position of laymen and theological students again. 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"By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nu trition, and by a careful application of the line properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Bpps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately Savored beverage which may save ni many heavy doctor's bills, it is by the judicious use of snch articles of di.t that a constitution may be gradu ally bulH up until strong enough to resist every tendency of disease. Hundred- of subtle mala dies are Boating around us ready to attack wherev er there is a '•'•eak point, We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselv.-s well fortified with pure hloo.l and a properly nouribhed frame." —civil Sen Ice Gazette. Made -imply v.itl'i boiling water or milk. Sold In tins only (HA and lb) by Grocers, labeled thus: JAMES EPPU CO., "sssiszs: CONTRACT WORE. Grading Carroll Street. offk k of tiii: Boa iii of Pcbijo Woraca, I Citv of St. Pali.. Minn., April 2, 1884. ( Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Public Works. In and for the corporation of the city of 8t. Paul, Minnesota, at their offl » city, until 12 m., on the llth day of April, A. I). 1884, forthe grading of Carroll street, from Mackubin street to the West line of Mackubin and Marshall's addition In aaid city, according to plans and specifications on file in the oilice of aaid Hoard. A bond with at least two 12) sureties. In fho sum of at least twenty (20) per cent, of the gross amount bid mnst accompany each bid. The said Hoard reserves the ri;,'ht to reject any or all bids. JOHN FA_RRIXGT(_i| President. Official. K. L. (ioioiAN, w 94 104. Clerk Board ot Public Work . CONTRACT WORK. Construction of Sidewalks for the Year 1884. Office of the Boakd of Pubuc Wobxb, I City of St. i'AL'L, Minn, April 2, 1884. i, Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Public works in and for the Corporation of the City of St. I'aul, Minnesota, at their office, In said dty, until 12 m. on the llth day of April, A. D. 1884, for the construction, relaying and re pairing of such sidewalks as may bo ordered buiit, rela'td or repaired by the Common Council of the city of St. Paul, from the 1st day of April to the 1st day of November, 1884, according to general plans and specifications on tile in the office of said Hoard. A bond with two responsible sureties in the sum of Ave thousand dollars, (§5,000,) must ac company each bid. The said Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. JOIIX FARRINGTON, President. Official: R. L. Ooiiman, Clerk Board of Public Works. 94-101. CONTRACT WORK. Grading Payne Avenuo. Office op TnEBoAnn or Pc^uc Works. ) Citt of St. Paul, Minn., April 2d, 18S4. J Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Public Works in and for the corporation of the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, at their office in said cityxuntil 12 m. on the 14th day of April, A. i». 1884, for the grading of Payne avenue, from Minnehaha street to Maimolia street in sai.l city, according to plans and specifications on file in the ofiice of said Board. A bond with at hast two (2) sureties in a snm of at least twenty (20) per cent, of the amount bid must accompany each bid. The said Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. JOHN FARRINGTON, President. Official: R. L. Uoiuian, Clerk Board of Public Works. U4-10-1 Change of Stroet and Alley Grade. Parle Ayenne.Aurora Arenne, St. Peter Street DDiyersityfAYenue. Brewster Ayenne, Alley in Blocis '2.10 and 13. Ewing and Cbute's Addition, and Concord Street City Clerk's Office, J St. Pall, Minn., April 8, 1864. \ Notice 1» hereby tjiven that the Common Coun« cil of the City of Saint Paul will at tin ir r meeting to be held on Tuesday the t'»th day _>t May, A. I), is- 1, «t 7:80 o'clock p. m., at tta Connril Chamber in the City Hall, onler a change of grade on the following named streets and al ley, between the points sained, vi/: PABK AVENUE From Martin Streot to Sherburne Avenuo. AURORA AVENUE From Grant to Rice Streets. SAINT PETER STREET Prom University Avenue to a Point 220 Peet South of Aurora Avenuo. UNIVERSITY AVENUE From Grant to Rico Streets. BREWSTER AVENUE From Sherburne Streot to Uni versity Avenue. ALLEY In Blocks Numbered 2, 10 and 13 Ewing and Chute's Addition. CONCORD STREET From Andrew Streot to Arthur Avonue. All in accordance with, and as indicated I yellow Una on the profiles thereof, and as reported upon as iniiiLr necessary and proper bj the Board of Pnblic Works nnder date of April 1, 1884. K\ eept Concord street, the proponed grade ot whicli is Indicated bythe red Une on the profile thereof, and which wa* reported npon as being necessary and proper hi the Hoard of Pnblic Works under date of March ;!!, 1884. Both of .-aid reports of April l, 1884, and March 81, 1884, wen adopted by the Common Council at its meeting held April 1, 1884. The profiles Indicating the proposed changes are on file and ran be seen Bl ihi» office. Uy orderof Common Council. Tbos. a. ProronoACT, City cleik. Apr. 9,-\Vcd. A sat. Iw. grr?— —**** i*—*———■________________} [Official Publication. | Vacation of Part of Bluff Street. Citv Ci kuic's Omen, 1 Pt. Paul, Minn., April lt),ls.n. \ WmSKAB, A petition has been tiled in this office aa provided by law, hy order of the Com mon Coancil of the City of st, Panl, asking for the vacation of that part of Blnfl street be tw. en Oranl and Bobert streets, and more partic ularly described ss follows: Beginning on tho north line or I'.lulT street at the West line Of Ho bert st, tbence southwesterly along the north lino of BInft street to the east line of Grant street, thence southerly along the oust line of Grant street, produced to a point wbere a curve of twenty-five fe. t radius starting tangent from said east line will strike tangent with a line SOS feet northwesterly Of and parallel with the north siilu of Fourteenth street, thence around sai.l curve southeasterly, easterly, and north easterly to Mid line, thence north easterly along eaid lino throe hundred and two feet northwesterly Of and parallel with tbo north line of Fourteenth street to the west line of Bobert street: thence northwesterly along the west line of BlnfE street to thc place uf beginning; and, Whbbeas: The petitioners stnto that ihey own all the bind fronting Che north ■ Ida of Mult street between Robert and Grant streets, and all the land frontini,' on tbe south side of Jilull street between Bobert and (edar streets, the object of the vacation aaked for "being to open a street in lieu of the on.- proposed to be vacated" sixty feet wide from Hobert to Cedar stu . ts, and extend Grant street thereto, and to ha tablished for such new street a grade uniform, or nearly so, from Cedar to Grant streets, and, from Grant to Robert strei t-.an.l, Whkbias; The petitioners offer to and will dedicate tbe grounds for su. h chai etc., and will pay tbe entire Costs and expenses of making such changes, Including tbo proper gradingof such new street. Now therefore, Notice la hereby given tbat said petition will be beard and com iden d by tbe . ommon Council of the City of saint Haul, or a committee to be appointed by said council, on Tuesday, the 8d day of Jnne, A. I). 1884,al 7:80 o'clock p. in., at the council chamber in tho city bull of said city. Uy order of Common Council. Tbos. a. Pbkxskboast, City clerk. ;ipr t8-0w-Sat CITY NOTICE. Omoi o» thr City TBZAStmzR, ) br. J'aci.. Minn., April 7, 1884. f All Persons interested in the assessment! fir Opening, Widening and Exten sion of Herman streot from tho Levee to Bridget streot, in the Sixth Ward, WILL TAKE NOTICE, that on thc r,th day of April, ism, r did receive a warrant from the <'ity Comptroller of the City of St.Paul, forthe collection of tho above named a The nature of this warrant is, that if JOH fail to pay thc assessment within THIRTY DAYS after tho first publication of thi* notl'-a, I ohall report yon and your real estate so asset di linquent, and apply to the District Conrtof tho connty of Ramsey, Minnesota, for Judgment against your lands, lots, blocks, or parcels there of so assessed, Including inter ..i <■*• -. and for an order of the Court to Bell th» tame for the payment thereof. 'J7-10S GEORGE HE IS, City Treasurer. CONTRACT WORK. Grading McBoal Streot. Office of tjif. Boabu of Pnsuo Wouks, 1 ClTT Of Bf. I'm::., .Minn., April Sd, 1884. f ed bids will be received by the Hoard of Public Works in and for the corporation of tho city of st. Paul. Miami sota, at their Offlce In said city, until !-' t.i. on the llth day of April, A. D. 1884, tor the grading of McBoal street, from •:i (7th') itreet to Donglaa street, in said city, according to plans and specifications on file in the office of said Bo ird. A bond with at le sureties. In a sum of at least twenty (SO) per cent, of the amount bid must aecompaa The said Board reserves the ri^lit to reject any or all bids. JOHN FABMNGTON, President. Official: K. L. Gokmax, Cleric Board of Public Works. 'Jl-lUl CONTRACTWORK. Grading Iglehart Street. Office of tiii: Boabd o» Pom ic Wi City of St. Ball, Minn., April •-.', ls-1. | Pealed bids will berei lived by the Board of Public Works in and for the corporation o the city of St. I'aul, Minnesota, at th.ir otiic- ; city, anti) 18 m., on the l Ith day of April, A. I). 1884, forthe grading of Iglehart street, bom Macknbin street to Dale street in said .. cording to plana a ons on file iu the office of saiii Board. A bond with at least two (*) sureties In the sum of at hast tu ■ eent of tka amount bid must accompainj each bid. The .-aid Board reserves the right to reject any or all bid-. JOHX FAKKEffGTON, President. Official: lt. L. Gokmas, Clerk iiuartl of Public Works. MUM ii