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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1888-1-5, Page 7THE SMUT OF THE PINE. Chi istinas Dreams on Christmas Ewe. The winter winds blustered through the pine woods, The soft snow fell on the dark -green foliage, and all but covered it. Through the clouds the moon peeped down on the steno and cast a silver sheen over the white -topped kings of the woods and their smaller companions, making a fairy scene far Away in those distant States designated es " down East." It washearty Christmas time. The spirits of the pines were abroad, and whispered together in the wind. At once a voice, loud and im- perative, broke in upon their murmuring. It was the spirit of the eldest and most weather-beaten of the group, which thus addressed the others : "Harken, 0 my sisters! The frost, the snow, the piercing, wind, ell tell us that the time of the holy Christ -child is about to come. 1, your king, bid you be ready, if a misaicn to mortals be given you. The fatal axe Will fell, some of yon; the sap which fills your limbs will be stopped for- ever in its course , but back here, 0 ye spirits, ye will mime I If to wortale your have dope all he ypur power to brighten the feast of the hely Christ -child, I, your king, will give a new lease of life to yore With spring's iirat breath you will began s . new life, and aid your sisters in beautifying the landscape once more." The great veto praised; tat soft, low, efuavertea accents, a small bent tree at Uzi feet'What the dime which follewed. 'hat could I do, 0 king, if 1 ant taken from you, ii.aesiiapan,small. fie I out:" "Your best! your beat i" sang out the mint of the great tree, and the other trees. joining in, sent forth on the triage of the wind a repetition of tbeirgreat king'ecoui- mand, " leo your best! Do your beet !" • • r a The horse, the stir of a great city. T@- werdtt one el the large markets a country: cart is beteg drawn by a stout pair of horses. 1deuy people as they burry Along psuee to loot, at the pretty eight— the eight of a cart load of green in the dark. dingy street@, How many, thoughts it conjures up in the tinods of the wilookere. Ctiriiitutau le t arniug, is all but here. Yisdens of plessors etnd festivity All the Weds at eteme ; °;here. too poor, too wretched tobe afie,,ted by aauythiug, easroe gle nese et the lord ee it peewee rtes Ivey market -ward. A jean to the roadway. AM, A small tient pito et ,green has twines tail. It would be crtaelietd tinder rause Ira ler the little street Amis. wile. abrieet At rim ttI #tis life. plucks it from sender the hene't feet and hurries away with his prize. flhrietnlas Eve : Whet I world Gt goy and ltappinees thine %lorde imply l—t9 souse, but not to all. Aloe ! Little Jima. the &treat Arab. who lived eo one knew bow, crawled up the ladder to hie wretched eluarters, on that blessed night, ae cold and es hungry as usual. He had trade no money for more then two dews. No ono bad called him from hie meal post on the sunny side of the street, by the high church railing, to hold a horse or ruu a raceme. He watt literally starving to death. and his teeth chattered as, arrived in the cold attic where he spent his nights, ho caevered him. &elf as beat he could with the few thin, tat. tared pieces of casket which, with a +:cant supply of straw, formed hist bed. From among these uninviting bed -clothes he carefully extracted a. long branch of pine. Then, hunting in hie pocket, he produced a match and a small end of candle. eeueh tie are used on Christtnee trees. Feeling about him he found a wide crack in the floar.into which he i,tuelt the green bough, and produeiug a pin from his tagged coat he carefully fastened the candle on to the bough. Now came the business of the evening. How carefully}, poor lad, ire atruek the ono match ; it flickered—the attic was very draughty. Wnsit out °: do-! 'Thtevaudle was lighted, burning beautifully. Jim clapped his little wasted hands in ecstaoy. " By gum : don't he burn nice, though," ho said aloud. Then sinking back on the wretched apology for a bed, he watched the little candle splutter and burn with de- lighted eyes. Soon, with hunger and cold, the poor littlo urchinfell asleep. The candle burnt on for a while, then, after a few flickering efforts, went out. A lovely presence filled the lonely attic room. It bent over the little sleeping boy, and laid a soft, shadowy hand on his bead. It was the spirit of the pine—of the bent, misshapen pine, which had been told to do its best in the mission to mortals on the Christ -child's holy night. What dreams the poor, neglected, lonely mire. child had, to be re. Such dreams ! The thin, drawn lips shaped themselves into a smile ; he even laughed aloud ; and by his side stayed the gentle spirit and watched him with loving eyes. The sweet odor of the pine penetrated the room, no doubt the child's dreams were leading him among the lovely forest trees, by babbling brooks, in summer time, strange scenes which he had never even imagined, having never seen. His short,. pitiful life had been spent in the by -ways and alleys of a great oity ; his master want, his teacher neglect. The night, the Christ -child's Eve, wore on. Ere dawn a chill presence filled the attic room. It was Amaranth, an angel of Death. Softly she gathered the sleeping ohild to her bosom. The spirit of the pine fell at her feet, awed at the dread presence. Amaranth pointed to the pale face of the little sleeper. "He smiles," she said softly. He smiles, and it is thy doing. Hence- forth, O ! Spirit, be thy mission one of healing. Sweet fragrance shalt thou distill, thou and thy fellows. Thou hast woven dreams to cheer the poor outcast, to his face thou haat brought a smile with which he will enter the presence of God 1 Adieu !" Amaranth was gone ! Joyously through the wintry air flew the spirit of the pine, distilling sweetest fragrance as she went. Many others joined her, their sister, in her flight. Their several missions done, : they hastened back to their forest home to report their yarious happenings to their king. And the spirit of the misshapen, small tree had done her best and received a reward above all the others ; the reward of perpetual fragrance above her species. And long after, as she raised her graceful head above her fellows and looked up hard to the sky, the spirit of that fragrant pine was given a vision, in the stillness of the night, of the beautiful green pastures far away above the sky, where thelittle children play through the long, endless beauties of the New Tertsalem. A little, smiling face was always there ; the face of him, who onee on earth was neglected, . cold and starving Jim, the street Arab. • * • * " Dear me 1 I must have been asleep ; and such a dream as I've had ! All about the fragrant pips, Yoe, see, I fell asleep gent '" p a with the ins cushion that your mother se. nee. under my head, What strange fancies our surroundings cause, Pick up my epees and band mie my knitting, there le a ..ear grmadohild, The Spirit of the Pima I Ahx ie .' Itis a lessors, to all to do the best they van for every one this merry Christmas time." F. " Hos nett e Men 'Who Distribute Money by the Car- load Once a month. paymasters masters of the several railroads running into the city are getting ready for their regular monthly trip over the lines. The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pennsyl- vania Company have the largest number of men on their pay -rolls. The latter com- pany have in the neighborhood of 11,000, who draw over $510,000 monthly. The mea are Fold in cash --generally gold, The ear, After paying ell the employee* in Pittsburg and Alleghany. goes out upon the road about the hitt of each month. They reach Chicago about the 21st The men along the grad are given notice that the ear is coming by the traits ;preoeaii: g it carrying brae flags on the enable. On the tlegs are th@ letters "" 1'. M., ° sueRnEug payiataatere To guard against attaeliset robbers at night vera little money is hurt he the ear. Before the payucaster starts out lie telegraphs to b.ii;iss at different pnintsalon'the Base that he will lee there at a certain hour ou a certain day with cheques to he sashed,. The cheque is just for about the amount that is to be paid that day. Tho flet point cheques are given is et Nalene. phio. where very often the amount le §00,000. U,000. A represent - ratite' of the Barak meets the ser et the etation and esecbanges the ixtoney for the cheque. There aro always three or "annum besides the train crew en the car. The paymaster and his assistants go heavily awned. and it would be a hard Matter for anybody to rob the ear. The or @tope at all stations aloeet the lime, and the ern- ployeeein the inimedietc vicinity ere KT - peed to be eta head to rereivs their ueoiwwy. The neemaster comae the money rent be. leers theirs and they mgrs the roll is hie pzreeeens?ee. J. 1l. Fredtericiw. R A of the e',deeteanp oyeee of the I'ea ss lvania Coma, 'clay, is the net -master. The Penney'. la moa Railroad have about 10,00 MCA nil the three elicieiveie laet:von. Pitt:butrg strd Philadelphia, Ali the emplt.yeze lar this city Ara paid in e..lae lie en the Merchants stud Maiautacturere' Banti. The chtegeea are reveiv ,t by ruail and tribeted by the oft:kids a the varies.@ denerameaate. These out en the road get their elasaluess trout the pay ears, There is one car for each division. They pay oat about 5500,009 monthly. If the employee wishes to get his money, for treed cause. before the regular time. he is bpraid out of the contingency fund. The 1laltin:ere ,t G.xie road pay about '2,500 men between Pitteburg end 1 ue:Aerland. The officers and °tlhere in this city receive elmslates end the employees on the toad aro paid in each. .Haunt 8200.000 is paid out, The Pittsburg; fi Litho Erie has absent 1,.s00 amen on their rolls who are paid about 570,000 in colt. Each mann money ie pet in an envelope with hinname. number of days he worked and amount of money he is entitled to. It tales two nnel. one half day& topavy them. The Panhandle railroad ear diebnrees about 5100,000 between this city and Columbia. It also payer the ('leveland.t Pittsburg employees. —Phaadere t5,a,eteercia! tioeetdt^. Oh>Jected to Her Photograph. A. case which created noun° interest was adjudicated upon at the Woolwich County! Court by Mr. Powell. Messrs. Long & Faulkner, photographers, Woolwieb, sued ;Sirs. Pearson, wife 01 an arsenal employee, for £ i Ge. 04. for portraits supplied to her order. 1'laiutiffa stated that when the photographs were complete Mrs. Pearson called with her husband and saw them, promising to call again enc; pay for them. No complaints were made, and as she did not call the likenesses were sent home, and subsequently returned with some frivolous complaints. An action was then brought against the husband, but it fell through, the wife asserting, that she had a separate income. Two photographers now attended and expressed an opinion that the like - noses were correct, but admitted that the negative bad been " touched up " to meet a common requirement of customers to Iook their best. Mrs. Pearson said she did not wish to be " flattered and tittivated up." In trying to make her look younger they had almost wholly lost the likeness. They had made her hair waved, whereas it was not so. Plaintiff, in reply to the judge, said itwas not within the photo- graphic art to make hair which had been photographed plain appear to be waved. The judge said the photograph certainly made the lady look younger than she now appeared to be. She did not give the photographer any specific orders to make her appear " just as she was," and the ordinary course of procedure—viz., to make the customers looktheirtest—was. followed. He considered that they were reasonable likenesses, and ordered the payment of the amount sued for. Putting His Foot In It. She—" And do you still squeeze up the ladies' feet in your country ?" He—" On the contrary, madam! That is a Chinese custom. We in Japan always allow the ladies' feet to grow to quite their full size. Not that any would ever rival yours, madam!" (Is delighted with his neatlittle compliment l!)—Punch. A Philadelphia grooer who had three hams stolen from his store wrote and pasted up a paper whioh read as follows : I know who stole the three hams from the front of my store. Thea,, are worth- less to any one but myself. If returned in twenty-four hours.' no arrest." When the olerk opened the store the next morning the hams hung outside. . They were made of sawdust and only for show. " You cannot," said the schoolmaster, place a, the singular article, before plural nouns. No one oan say a cows, a women." " Why not ?" said the good boy. " When we go to church we say a-men.l"-Judy, owe woese D GOSSIP Bnf MAIL. Prom England. Mr. Joel Walker, farmer, Heanor Gate Farm, Heanor, has just gathered a One. crop of Swede turnips on his land. Three turnips filled a large wheelbarrow, One of the turnips weighed 25 lbs. As some men were putting down an old shop at St. Mary Cray, recently, they dis covered a very large number of Bank of England notes of a generation ago. Their disappointment was great .on dwwcovering that all the notes were cancelled shoes time time ago. The Lord Mayor of Lender is said to have singled out two days of neat year for his grand efforts, He will make them re- nowned in civic annals. They ere the Jubilee Day on the Queen's corm:atm:1, and the day on which the Prince and the Princess of Wales will celebrate their eiivex wedding. A man got into a . London theatre the other night in a curious way. Hehadgone out between the acts, but baying lost his cheek, the attendants who did not remem- ber his face, would not reednnit him. so he aelted them to look at his coat-tails. The Feint _ant tn bis seat lied adhered to them. In a enelants were 4n`.skied, and passed pima in. One morning recently a little boy, aged 3 ,years, and hie sister, aged 5 years, the children of a beerlaouse-lseeyer named. Easteaibr, at bliaelibttr ., went into the hitches in thele eight-dreeees. The hay lighted a piece of paper and oat .faro to late tester, who wee et?, ehet kingly burned dist sluts died in Bled:baret I:elirin:ar the same day. Front Iretaad. The Dubs of Aliexeern hue been Invited to accept the office of President of the Royal Agricultural So:iety of Ireland her reit year. An old woman riamesl hymns was found dead mitt day racer tly et her fetteege in a lane out of Lower Leeson street, Dublin. Her ehull was 'teetered, mild there was a qnntiityy et blood in the rootrt. She wee ppoeroom money. but except eoiuo trifling Articles r.Qthing Samna to leave beers stolen. At a Ilatblin Pollee Court wee day re- cently a rime named Width :sae charged with drenhenneee. The evidence chewed that when he with ereested line 41eAr.41 eon watt letup, deed dtuelt beside hien in the sMet, The father lied raised Alit child arc rand to a number of etaverals arca glued hint liguer to driest:. Ily rneaacas of a. ettnn..acll pump the ell ! e lite was caved and the father wee 1.1.0.1 ten eleidin; e. From &&'Arland. The a j�. ,etnie of r eetatlee is still regfeeg la the bland et Eriahsy. There helm been eleven deatise from u esslee in the island within a ". ut two mont➢te. One afternoon recently when the inepee. for of the Port Glas etv Waterworks ex- amined the Altera et Parkhill he found the supply from Auchendoren elu;oat com- pletely &topped. On further elcaulivation st thevelvu he found the pipe choked with a largo eel 3 feet 2 inches in length, and weighing .111 lbs. Meat of the suburban burghs of Glasgow aro showing much activity on the hound. arieo question. They 'hews united in stat- ing a general ciao in oepoeition to the ele borate annexation ethane. Tho Sceretery for Scotland has appointed the Earl of Elgin SO4 Mr. Crura, of Thornliebank, additional memberu of the cemmiesion. Polloksbielda has voted in tamer of annexa- tion to Glasgow. A Itetnnrkniite Ferry Steamer, Tbero will soon be launched at Deficit a vessel tvhich, aside from her size, is eine of tate mosta arkabl e built x m v ever d a on the lathes. It in a ear terry boat for the Mac. ldnae Traneportation Company. and when completed is to ply on the Straits of Mac - kine between Mackinac and Point $t. ignaee. She is 2;15 feet in length, 52 in breadth, and 25 in depth, and is to carry ten freight or eight passenger care. But it is as an ice breaker that the now boat is expected to be remarkable. Everythin that modern sbip.building, predict) and experience can suggest to mike her suc- cessful has been done. She has fine lines, bow and stern being nearly the same form, and it will be an impossibility for the soft ice, which so often hinders the passage of ordinary ferry boats, to cling to her sides. Her bow, on the inside, is a mass of frame ing as strong almost as solid timber, and the outside planking; is six inches thick. Besides this, the hull is to be sheathed out- side with steel plates one.quarter of au inch fn thickness, whioh will effectually prevent the ice from scoring her sides. Terrible Ravages of Diphtheria. Reference was made the other day to the sad affliction of a family living on Met- calfe street that recently moved to town, the members of which were all down with diphtheria. Three of a family of six have already succumbed and the others are in a dangerous condition. The two who died yesterday were the two eldest of the family, aged 17 and 14 years respectively. The family, whose name is Smith, removed here from Burford.—Woodstock Sentinel-Reviete. Brought His Man Down. Rogers used to tell this story : An Englishman and a Frenchman fought a duel in a darkened room. The English- man, unwilling to take his antagonist's life, generously fired up the chimney and brought down the Frenchman. " When tell this story in France," pleasantly added the relator," I make the Englishman go up the chimney." A Disguised Statesman. Hon. William Elvin, of Hamilton, Ont., is a guest at the Holl. --Montreal Star. Now, who is the " Hon. William ?" Hamilton has not many " Hons.," but the crop seems to be larger than the directory makes out. Cotton Mill Shut Down. The Kingston cotton mill has oloeed for thred weeks in accordance with an agree- ment between the mill owners in Canada ORIGIN OP QLD. PHRASES. • " Cutting a Dido,' " Catching a Tarter, • and ante bay an Axe to (#stud.' Aida' Queen of Tyre, about seven On. furies before Christ, after her husband had been put ta.death by her' brother, fled from that city and establiehed a colony on the north coact of Africa, leaving bargained with the natives for as much land as could be surrounded with a bull's hide, she cut the hide into narrow strips, tied there to- gether and cleimed the land that wild be surrounded with the Brie thee made. She - Wee allowed to have her way, and now, cut when a dione pdo1uy$ a sharp trick he is •said to . A tailor of Semareand, Asia, Who lived on a street leading to the burying ground. kept neer hie ebop an ,earthen gor,inwhich he was accustomed to deposit a pebble whenever a body wags cattle(' to its final resting place; Finally the tailor died, and, seetteg the shop deserted, as person in - "lured what had become of ata former, ocewpant. "He hese gone to pot himeelf> was the reply by one of the deceased s neighte rs. Peeing a battle between: the Re siians and Tartars a private eeldier of the termer cried sent: "("aptein, I've caught a Tar- tar." " Bring ham ales eg," Maid the o racer. " He woe's let me,"' v; as the response. Ie. vestigation proved that the captive had the c.c er by the arum and weetd not allow hien to mo -.e, Eo "catching a Tartar" is applitaable to one ts1.i bee found ala aotagsl let too powestul for WM. While lying wase the gtertaed over it clue Are fit. 1,stnrertee--in whet* l em& sl o Eveurisi-was batiltby Phillip 1I., esadt. the Emperor who WAS watching hie eudierieg.e: " Ageetes co, tecta vera et ivandeice ; " which owe translator, mot quite literally, bet appreciatively of the e.anie grilse humor characterizing the original, rendered : This eiee eeeueti 15 reeeted. Lien turn star, t$rost, and ret; sed Eea iiieUlter rii71 er wasted 1 "oi Me surer wee, Renee, " Dome to a turn." Fertnerly tri Laindon when a mall dealer bought breed of the baker. for every dozen loaves purchased be wee given au eats leaf as hie profit, from whiele el ti�ntara arise sa origiee have been reigned the p�hrase. bat the %hove ie the onlF efie lewd on a $urs fetuidetiou. lit a worn, '1 k aheed from the Desk et' reel' 1:abert the Seethe." pubb*CLed its 1815. the .atatltar, 0,1tiii*er, tette the story of a Ivey whe, by the etre* of a liberal c 3rn- tr .aitia►tian. wee indecr.1 tri turn the ached- eton.e ter *span elks desired t.. ala .rpen hie sae. Theprosnieedeetepeheattenwas never paid, and ef enc wino disgoisea lids owls clit1511 mime metier era appearance of geeer- andty air dieirstcxeatedsaete it is remedied : Ile leo ensue to grind: °—CP:i'6atdca F"urea. People who Never Eat :Heat. There le no absterasiouaness le the world, and no thrift. like tlio thrift and abstemi- ouhuesa of the average native °t tilos, Alinest same among theworkingnlenot the world be has raised hianselt needy elxave wants, has stripped bitnselt et all the int. pediment of luxury. Millioilo of ]nen in India, eepeciBUy on the richer toil'. and in the river deltas. live, marry And rear ap• parently healthy children upon an income which. even when the wife works, le rarely above' 2e. a weds:, and frequently delis to VI, Sep the London 'rehrstor. The Ir. - than ie enabled to do this, not so much by the ehcapness of food—for, though it i& cheap, a Lvropean who ate the saulo food would want five times We money merely to feed himself -eau by a habit of living which malice him independent of the ordi- nary cares of mankind. Ile gees needy without elothes,'¢:ivee his children none, and dream his wife in a long piece of the most wretched c ed h muslin. e' N itlaer he nor his wife pay tailor or milliner ono ehillingdur- ing their entire Ives, nor do they °vier put.- ehaso needles or thread, which. indeed, it is contrary to a semi. religious etiquette ever to use. The poorest pea' ant inhabits e. hut con- taining a single covered room of the small- est size, with an earthen platform or two outside it, and as he constructs or repairs his own dwelling, ho virtually pays no rent except for the culturab]e land. He never touches alcohol or any substitute for it. There is an idea in England that he eats opium or hemp, bat he as a rule swallows neither --firstly, because lie regards them withal much moral antipathy as any Eng. lispentleman, and. secondly. because he. coup not by anyrossibility pay for articles which in India, as everywhere else, are ex- ceedingly expensive. Ho eats absolutely no meat nor any animal fat, nor any ex- pensive grain like good wheat, but lives on'. millet or small rice, a little milk, with the butter from milk, and the vegetables he grows. Even of these he eats more spar- ingly than the poorest Tuscan. Once a quarter, perhaps, he eats enough, during some festival, but, as a rule, ho knows accurately whatwilisustain him, and would be enraged with the wife who cooks for him if she prepared more. He is assisted in this economy by a religious rule whioh we have never seen a Hindoo break, and which is undoubtedly, like the rule against killing oxen, a survival from a mili- tary law or custom of the most remote antiquity. An Accomplished 'Wife. " Well, Nellie, does your husband still drink?" " Yes, mother, and it's worrying the life out of me." " Did you try the plan of breaking him of the habit that I suggested to you ?" "Yes." " Did you put whisky in his coffee?" "Yes." "What did he say?" " He said I was the only woman he had seen sinoe his mother died who knew how to make coffee as it should be made." A Stylish Christmas Present. " What are you going to buy your wife for a Christmas present?" " I am thinking of getting her a piano."• " Can she play? " "Of oourse not. Do you suppose Pd be such a fool as to buy her a piano if she could play ? I am going to get her a piano because it makes the parlor look so stylish." -Texas Siftings. to prevent over-produotion. Emperor William, according toa prophecy based on his handwriting, is to ire to be 100 years old. A olam weighing a pound and five ounces was dug up at Plymouth, Mass. Christmas Preferences. Tailors prefer a Christmas turkey ; they have a goose all the year, round.—Toronto World. The engaged young man bas a similar eke preferenceu ; his general " table fair " is d aumainNNG Y:LrSS1A'el C'ZA1 . He is Constantly Surrounded by i1warms of Soldiers and Detectixee. A few nights ago I attended the illnmina-• tions at Peterhoff in honor of the Czarina's birthday: The Czar's palace ie on a+ peninsula and the grounds and buildings occupy almost • a mile square --the most superb strictures, fountains, and miles of the finest ,parking and drives tan the world. Scores of buildinge and fauntains,hundreds of trees esed great crowns, crosses and • figures, besides miles of high walls, weep oovered with colored beteps. There were millions of lights. and it required a regi - meet of soldiers gond hundreds of civilians weeks to put them in place. All • was paid for from the public treasury, or rather a Cear'e ifengiry,reeleted by the Phe le. At a time in the evening when the Amu - tains and lights glistened most, the bands, played thefiudest, andthepyretechnics ani cannon frons the men -of -year in the gaff glared and roared best, the royal faintly gave theasseuabled multitude a rare treat. it slid:Med itself. Seldoee it is that people • in Russia gee their Emperor. their Czar, because :e suspects them of desig .c. viac axilsliing any why leteeeeeu Use of the great blazing walls of colored lights, ehroegla Dee of the drives, when a detaele- meet of Cese.3e&s carne datsi`aing 0/W.& slashing their sabres end deivimgthe people out of the way. Iia their wake came ael- diers on foot and great detaehmtnts of raven ire eitizen'a clot i 2g. The latter stationed themeelees la from et the liana of the uneeee. A din ;f vwi ae—ls et cheer- ing ie. tweed tai the chats'-c.e, tt oomee nearer, thein anearer. 'Nese t. e:ache, enta to seldlers, more anen iia citizena'elothirrg, end farther back we are cr.n ie:I. The tier of officious he re -enforced heeler front wed: ilnany 1lmger tri the driveway. Finally the c501,17411 coulee in vier.`. More Cessacka, &oldiere, citizens, Eight :shite hor es, each one ©e the left bearing is liveryman, ere neat seen?, then the royal egniplige. tai atri- Menee, gild -mounted diarist:. -The Czar,* great burly fellow. with fall heard, crown and untforiai. is on the left e;at in trent. The brother, • the ('0..., I'rlrace, the Czarina and grand dallies, ere., make up the Iaad. On ever; broad cit the ararriagen lour deem, are Goseethe, while the drive- way in trent and rear is bloc:keel with sandiery, meting a perfe, t wed fagaititt€ vietleet Wadi. The ""eitizrrns°' whe were we very pleat . tai wed enteieue'were the Mot experierweed detective end hardy enstedh ie the cuneate. There tveee theasauds (r? ei.eze. It vroeld have been iuipieQsiible ter en ' to rabic his air her hand agsan,m the Cam er any member et his Amity. 1t ie the tient et the Rine elan authorities *LJax; their .deteetivee have tales im every vertices et their &ueadi tied bodice, The whole sereisse ref preeteeting the Crown and member§ et the family, and sup reseiaig all thoughts of diiteati@fat"tiom with the present term et gseverenteut, is in full chane° of Greaser, chief of the secret service. The• authority: el this axtfacer is +aRpallirig, Ito can order into exile or the execution yard any (me euove4ed of un• lswietl or dieresptetiul nets er tetentioue. lie attends the theat:ree, end aney be Bald to run, ell places et amusement. If he .h diepleaaed with seething he euppreaatait, end there i& no ,edr(t,s° P11: Sen. A ModeNt Maiden. A very remarkable atony its told in Now York boarding wheel elealce about Mies Nellie Arthur, Om daughter et the lato ez President. She wan at Mrs. Lorkwood'a echo!, and had been there a year when one day else ware raiseed by her little chums, who crowded around the Principal after the opening exereitcte tt+ nth where °ho bad gone. " Where% Nell ^ " they said. "Why, don't you know:" said thu lady. " Her father, Gen. Arthur. died lest night," " Was her father Gen. Arthur? " all asked as with one voice, '" waw ebethe Peeeident'o deughtor ? " Miss Nellie had never hinted at what most gide would have told before anything else. <otnforaable All hound. "You want something to buy mainma a Christmas present. do you :+" said paps; "and want to buy it yourselves, hey ? Fell, well, that is right, my children. You ehall have it. She has been a good mother to you all these years. If you could only find something," continued papa, as his blue eyes Filled with tears, " haat would keep your mamma's feet warm this winter I wouldn't begrudge S50."—t'hicapo Tribune Those Good Old Times. Wife ton Christmas Evel—"" Whew! What a lot of money it costs to get Christ. nets presents for all these children 1" ldnsband—" Yes, it's a pity we didn't live in the days of Henry the Eighth." " Why so Because it was not until after his reign that stockings became fashionable. Christ- mas didn't bankrupt a man in those days." A Hidden Sting. A little three-year-old Rocklander went into market last week, and, helping herself to a green pepper, tried to eat it. Aftershe had failed the marketman asked her what the matter was with the fruit, and she replied, between sobs, " Vere was a bumble bee in it "—Middleboro News. Commercial Item. " Pa," asked a bright -faced boy of his parent, " what is reciprocity that I hear you talk about so much ?" t0 Reciprocity, my son, is the very life of. trade—especially the Christmas gift trade." A Religious pian. First Citizen—What makes you think your neighbor, Towson, is a religious man? Second Citizen—He always sifts his ashes on a still day. The study of Volapuk, the new universal, language, is obligatory upon the students. of the Royal Gymnasia of Munich. In Russia it is permitted to be used in tele- graphic transmission. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the philan- thropist, never goes to the theatre, and has read but two novels, "Jane Eyre" and the "Scarlet Letter." Her tastes are perfectly simple. She has a great liking for bread, milk and apples. It is doubtful if sooiety ever heard of her. But she is the only woman who has the fregdom of the floor of the House of Representatives, at Washing- ton, a right which even the President's wife does not have.