Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 1, 1878, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY., DECEMBER 1, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES S —— 3 T GOSSIP FOR LADIES. WHO CAN TELL? thelong stairway sweep the silken folds; El‘:\:r und slower etill the footeteps fall o e oaken flour. 2nd 1O\ they pause };:mrt the narrow window where the tall 014 cims their branches brush impatiently oet the dimond-pancs, as invain ezcechiug entrunce. “Through the lattice-wark of branch ‘ana leaf, the sunset's r08y stain vering blushes on the marble cheek E[;l:,::u in the niche beyond. As fair and purely’ white, the other face }cunt close Acsinet the glass—a brow by stining hair gercrowned, br tender wilieht eyes alit. 3 iy the evening lizht dics ont, and to Tpe monrnfal night gives place. The hunters ride {uto the court-yara with the hounds: A few, inToud recounting of their feats, boastfully, at last departs. D aiden, dost thou mies & wonted voice, . A Toter, with vaguc fear, doth beat thy heart? Suwtocantell? Thou art o cold—zo calm. Pt who wouldst open thytbarred windoww wide Fors small wounded moth, wouldst thou one light Tiag out for me, though for its lack T aied? 13, whocsntell? Thouart so cold—so calm, . 7oe due thou lovest, and thy falcon, have oy emile free-given. 1 wonder, Love, if thou Wozldst smile for meif smiles my life wonla save? CHICAGO- Lutu oL W. AX INDIGNANT TIEAD AND NECK. San Francisco Call's Londun Letter. Amoslcx(nwnlinar\' sensation has occurred 4 the Awericap colony of London this week. A young lady from Philadelphia was walking Jown Rerent street with the mother and sister of a young gentieman of rank, when tne atten- tion of all three was attracted. by some photu- .obs of notable people and others exposed in 3 window, and they drew up to look at. them. Fancy the astonizhment of the Ameriean girl oascelne her_own photograph exposed there gmeng the others, but in the most amazing chape it fs possible to conceive. Her head, ber {ace, the srrangement of her hair, the turn of ‘er peck, it was impossible to mistake; andvet, there ehe was, almost as undraped asthe Venus giogering Tisputiog e Medicl—in fact, got up in tizbts and flesh-" ‘4nd labeled Mazeopa!” W hat can this Ioe% i ehe_cried to the_ elderly lady, Ler lips Teached with shame aod terror. “T really cannot tell you,” replied Lady Dis- sip, with steel-hard eye and vy voice. “Youn perhaps csu tell us whethier on any occasion in Awmerica you were in the Labit of appearing in {nis dress E +0h, what do you mean to insinuate?” ut- ered the_poor mirl *Do_you think Iever st00d 25 Mazeppa? Ob, how cruel of you to k60, %’h is certainly your portrait,” added the ober ladv. "By this time one or two bystanders had drawn up to the window. and Doticing the likeness were pudzing each otber. “Itis some coincidence—of course it cannot ‘be meant for me.™ 'Yon had better take a cab and o bome and . tell vour father about it,” £aid the ladr, still with” ber {rimd manner. * My daughter and I ‘have some calls to make.” 1n Lalf-dazed state of mind the young Phil- adelphian crove bome aud told her father of what had happened. To rret back to that shop, to have that photograph out of the window. to demand an explanation. of the stationer, was ot the work of many minutes for the enraged father, But thougrh it wne easy enough to de- mand aa explanation, it was oot so easy to get one.- Susoicion falls upon the servantsin the house, one of whom might easily have abstract- ed 1 photo out of a packave of them which has Yeen kept bitherto in an unlocked drawer of the youne lady’s writing-desk. Of course it is-a “eooked 7 picture; only the hesd and neck of the American lady’s_photograph, the rest that of Egmc one else, and together the picture rep- reschts one of the most beautitul women it is possible to concvive. The matter has caused so mucn indizzation and so much comment that it froot unpossible it may check the mania now 50 prevalent among society beauties for having themselves photographed for sale at a shillngra qarte de visite. —e— \ SOE ITAS A HEART. Detreis_Frce Press. uShe’s a dreadful, dreadrul hard-hearted woman,” observed one of the females, as the parr took seats at the froot end of the car. “0b, 1 don't koow,” .,re,plicd the otherin 8 doubting tone. T iR vt “Well. L know,” continued the first.” **She’s acold, eruel wretch, and I shall never, never re- tarn her cail.” + You are entirely mistaken in her cnaracter,” il theotner. Toshow you bow tender-hearted sbe really 15, let me tell you that she caughta ratin a trap the other day, and g% + And pat its eyes out with a red-bot poker!” «0hb! uo. ©Onthe coutrary, she didu’t want to sce the poor thing suffer by beine killed, and $0 stie lucked the trap up in the spare bed-room for a whole week until the rat sisrved to death, aud saved it all saffering.” .A MINISTER'S LOVE AFFATR. Fitchburg (Maxe.) Dispatch to Boston Herard. The famous mimsterial slander and libel case tetween the Rev. David Shurtleff and the Rev. Horace Parker, two clergymen of the Orthodox faith, has been on trial in the Superior Court the past four days. The case was tricd last Juue, but the jury disarrcea,—standing, after being out all nizbt, eleven to one for the piaictill. Some new tesumony has been brought out at 1his tnal, and mauy things gu to show that min- isters are afllicted with like passions as other men. Bhurtlefl, while preaching iu Shirley, be- canze cnsmored of a young Jady who was en- pazed to 3 young map of the place. The min- Stervisiied the Yoyiur man, and_offered pim $L0X) 10 give up his® claim ou bis fiancee. The Iatter was ou the witness-stand duriug the trial, and his description of this scene, and tae plea of Shurtlefl to Lim to give ber up as not deing fitted for 3 poor man’s wife, **one not able to sithstand the trials of life and do the washing,” Lroughit down the house.” A FALL-OPENING TRAGEDY. Bejore a brilliant window fall A wretched fatber stood, And gazed at silk, and Jace, and tulle erce, despairing mood -, And veat nis breast and muttered **Fool,” And ehook his fists quite rade. Tor there, within that gorgeous store, Iic saw hie dunzliters three Betore a counter runming o'er With Leaped-up Sucree, . Eeceping the clerks—perhaps a score— As busy as coud be. That father smiled n fiendish grin, “hen tarned and rled away: Bck howe again he ne'er s been— . Those wills ne didn't puys Ang bis three dausliters uow take i ain sewing by the dayl ~Ezchauge. s 2 SEASONABLE ADVICE. Tyoy Times. The young msn who was married at some time duringthe past spring or summer, and who Lss beenso devoted ever siuce, iscovers the Guality of his affection fearfully strained when, Laving turnea out the gas, he jumps into bed aud finge his shivering form used as a hearth- slone for her dear little feet, whose touch sus- £etts the ccpuleure of Sir John Franklio, and Who;n every movement cxcites anew the mis- &‘_rm:ll.c busbana’s susceptibility to climatic nges. Butbe should remember that it is such episodes as these that try married soles, 20d 1t is the beroic endurance of these ills that - 515 upon the Benedict Lhe mark ol true nobil- %.\'4 Let hiw saffer and lie still, and he will Lavehis rewara in a hercalter wuere all is Yarmth and sunshine, and where there are Zone bt angel fect, which it is generally cou- led are not of the character that produces {rigidity accompanied by chills and shivers. XEEPING A MAN. Putsurg Telegraph. ‘Within the past three months a singalar wed- o 7 service was read of a couple in this city, th of whom are well known. The laay had s Sonsiderable fortune, which was §0 settled upon that her husband could mot toueh it. T gentieman, however, was not aware of this. e lady arranged the marriage service 1o suit ufl'&u‘ and when it was prououuced, the gen- Hman swore 10 *tlove, honor, aud ‘cherish,” Jutaid uot add the words about, cudowinig her Tith *all Lis worldly zoods.™ The lady Swore would *iove, honor; obev. and keep " her ‘busband, and thus the difliculty was_solved. bis reminds s of the wise sayiuz ot the Dan- News inan: “ Girls, never marry until you Sw'support a husband." 4 = AGAINST EARLY MARRIAGE. : T'\'enl.\;-fi\'c native students gave in their - %ames at'a‘mectiug recertly held m Calcutta us “willing to sigu the pledze,” viot aalnst liquor- ‘t"fl_'flm‘-', but against early marriage? The fol- wring is the wording of this curious document: Decply impressed with _the- pernicious char- Beter of the custom of child-marriaze, and with toe evils that have followed in its train, con- vinced of the solemn duty 1 owe to myself and to my countrymen to distourace, so far as may lie in my humble power, a custom so hurtful to students,—so prejudicial to the best interests of my counteymen at large,—! hercby solemnly Geclare that T will not marry, nor allow myself o be given in marriage, till I have completed the age of 21 years, wy present aze being —.”7 THE WHIOOPING~COUGH. Cincinnati Commercial. A lady was the mother of a brizht little boy sbout 3 years ald. The whooping-cough pre- vailed in the veighborbood, and the mother be- came very much alarmed lest ber boy would takeit. She hnd talked so much about it, and worried over it, that she had infected the child with her fears to such an extent that he would scarcely leave her side. One nizht, after the little fellow bad been put to bed and to asleep, a jackass was driven past_the house, and. when just opposite, set up his he-how, he-haw, be- baw. With a shrick, thelittle fellow was out of Dbed, sereaming at the top of his voice: “The whoopiug-cough is coming, mamma: the whoop- nz-cough is coming.” lle didu't catch it that ime. FEMININE NOTES. Who Mre. once to fake a Lkiss Tlas Mr. thing be shonld not Miss. Sleicht of band—Refusing a marriage-pro- posal. The artfuiness of women is increasing., They cven have designs on potiery. Marrying a man to save”him has played out among the girls, unless he has lots of money. The New York Herald tells of **an American young lady of 18 springs.” Probably ber uame is Soty.—DBoston L'ost. The rich widow who inherited her property from her husband attended his funeral in g real estate conveyance. When a poct Wwrote, * Nosleep till morn when youth and bootee meet,” he probably alluded 1o amiss who wears ber shoes too smull. 1t is melancholy, says Ouida in ber latest novel, to see now large the proportion isof young ladies who marry solely to get rid of their mothers. A bachelor paragrapher asks: *What shall we co with our girlst” Marry onc and shake the rest of them, young man; you'll findit cheaper in the long ron. + Madam,” sald a certain one to Mrs. Brown the other day, “you are taiking simply rub- bish,” “Yes, sir,” replied the ever-crushing 1ady, *“beeause I wish you to comprehend me.”? « Remember, now,” said an Indiuna bride 3t the altar, **we bave separated and been remar- ried four times, and about once more will con- vince me that we can never live happily to- getber. Ladg—* How much s this a yard?” Clerk— “Three doliars and 2 balf. "It s an elegaut material—double; it caa be worn both sides. 1t you tear oue side you've only to turn it on the other.”—Puck. “Do you love me stili?” 3irs. Harkins asked, as her busband was attempung to wrice su fo- vortant letter. *Do you love we stilt¢”? Yes, do,” said Harkinsj and it was thd emphasis that broke her heart. Wormnau’s dress may be superior to mau’s, but we don’t want no garments around us that you have to staud up it to get vour baud inthe pocket,—and then pot find what you are looi- ng for.—Aeokuk Constitution. “Dearest,” he murwmured, ecstaticall folded her in his arms tor the first time, “lct me sample toe nectar of your lips.” lake o whole schooner of it,”" she faintly whispereds “jt’s all on tap."—Newark Cail. * -~ - __Anaristocratic paps, on being requested by a fieh and vulgar youne fellow for periission to marry *‘one of his girls,” rave this rather crustiing reply: “ Certainly; which one would you prefer, the waitress or the cook?” Arich lady has just been married in a §150 pair of stockings.—MNycum ddeertiser. Lhis must be the dreadful new French fashion tnat Talmare told about. IL is certainly the most low-necked style yet out.—Philade.plia Bulietin. Mrs. Mackay, wife of the Bonanza king, has over 5250,000 worth of jewelry, and when she gets the tootbache she suffers Just as much as The womaun whose bracelets aud diamonds came from the ninety-nine cent store.—Norristown Herald. . Doctor, my dsuchter seems to be going blind, ‘and she's just:getting ‘ready for her'wedding, Tco! O dearme, wnatis 'to be doue?” {hLet her go right on with the wedding, madam, by all means.- If anything can open ber eyes, war- ringe will.? The Post-Officc Department has ruled that a husband has no control over the correspoudence of hiswife. But this decision will not prevent aman from carrying bis wife’s letter around in his insige cost pocket three weeks before mailing it.—Nurrisiown Heraid. This is a boy’s composition on girls: *Girls are the only folks that has their own way every lime. Girlsis of several thousaud Kinds, aud sometime one girl can be like several thonsand irls if, she wauts to do anything. This isall 1 Lnow ahout wirls, ana father says the less I know about them the better off Lam.” « Do you own sny gas stock?” Atom snd to Molecule, while they were discussinz Edison’s electric lieht. - * Any gas tatlk#” replied Mole- calex “DoIlown any? Well, I don’t kuow that T own it, but I —" llc looked nervous- Iy up at bis wife, who was rezarding him very inte:lfl‘_\'. and asked Atom if be bad ever been in mahs. 1f Edison will turn in pow and invent some Kind of a calcium ligat that will light up all the street except front gates, and leave them ina sombre shadow that will prevent an old man in an upper bedroom window from teliin wacther two people are ciose, togethier or wide apart, it will do. Otberwise ft will be exceedivgly un- ‘povular. 1Te had broken his promise to marry the gitl, and ber father wanted a money consideration to nelo heal u wounded heart. The young man said lic wouid consider a reasonable proposition. Well, then,” said the irate fufher, who was secking justice for his daughter, * youas man, how does a dollar and a half strike youl’— Turner's Fails licporter. Wistful Materfamilias (reading evening paper) _tiere’s another of those Allington zirls mar- ried !—and to that youny Carew, o the Granee, of ull people! How well those girls go ot, to be sure! Paterfamiliss— Al, awfully goud- Jooking eirls, those Alngtons.” Materiamillas (severely)—* It’s not the good looks. It's be- eause thev're g0 well brought up!” Chorus of daughters— 0, do bring us up well, mamna dear!” 4 \What,” the young man asked the younz woman who was waiting for him 1o ask for his Dbat, “what do 1 put you in mind of " A French clock,” she said, softly nd pretty soon he arose and went on bus way. The next morning lie called upon au emineilt horoiogist and asked him what was tne distinguishing irait of a Freneh clock. . The horologist said: “\Why, it never gocs.” And the youug man was sorely cast down, and be grieved, and told no man.of his burt.—Burdelte. ————— A Nowspaper-Man's - Experience. New York Graphic. He is a prominent newspuper-man, and paris his bair in the middle. The part is over five inches wide, which gives him an jonoceut cast of countenance. To those who knew him not, he mizht be considered verdunt in appearance. Iie was riding ina sleeper on the Ceutrul Pacitic Ratiroad, and fell into an innocent hitle game of pedro with a Colonel, a Professor, and a doct or, During an aoimated couversation and a quict Qeal, three aces were thrown on his side oL the table, after which one of the three gavly marked, with the greatest cooloess, **I wish that we were playing poker. 1 don’t know that T have been favored with such a hand for years.” Our editorial friend saw the zame, looked up innocently and remarked: I have been favored also. 1 have a pretty good poker baud myself.” The three looked at each otber as he countinued thusly: * They call you Professor?” * Yes.” ““They call you Colonel{” - Yes.” *Youare from the East, L believe?’ ‘“Yes? * Well, centlemen.” he coutinued, rising, * you bad betrer take the mext train back.~ We meet it -just the other side of - Battle Mountain. You tan't make a cent_ st this. They have been reaching it in the Sunday-schools in California or years.” v, as he e Retrivation. Early in the fteenth century a band of High- Jand robbers, headed by one MacDonald, of Rosse, having taken Lwo cOWS {romi a poor wom- an, she vowed that she would wear no snocs il sne had complained to the King. The savages, in ridicule ot hier outh, nailed horseshoes to_the goles of her feet. - When her wouuds were heal- ed she procecded to the Royal presence, told her story, and-showed ber scars. ‘The just moparch jnstantly dispatched un armed foree to secure MacDonald, who was brouzht to Perth, aloug with twelve of bis associates. The King caused them ail to be shod in the same manuer as tuey had doce by .the poor woman; and after toey Dhad been for three days exhibited through the streets of the towh as a public spectacle Mac- Donald was beheaded and his companions bung. CURRENT GOSSIP. L0, THE. POOR INDIAN. New York Commercial Adeertlser. Yo, the poor Indian, with nntutored mind, Steals everything s cagle eye can fnd; 1is roving spirit early taught to stray, Across tie prairie elow he wends his way, And wanders on Jike some poor tramp turned loose, Behind him leaving wigwatn, squaw, pappoose. Poor Lo, he disregards the Golden Rule, And steals the settler's horses, ox, or mule; *Tis seldom that he Jeaves their scalps behind, Or any little trifle he may find. - This done, no longer thiere he cares to stay, And homeward now he plods his weary wiy. An npt observer he of Nature's laws, Jie lcaves all Iabor to be done by squaws, While he on welehtier mattersof state, With pipe in hand, sits down to meditates And peaceful thoughts his simple mind pervade While contempiating where to make a rald. A hanghty sou), to conquer he ne'er stoops, Unless persuaded by the C. S. troops To lay aside bis proud, disdainful mien, ity musket-balls or sabres sharp and keen; For they believe—at leust T've understoad— “fhiat ouly 1ndians who are dead are goud.. Oh! where thy equal, monarch of the woods? You burn our houses and ou ateal our g00ds; “The scourze of every scitler on the plain. Pray get thee hence and nu'er return aain; Your image may it ne'er confront us more, Unleas in front of some tobacco-sloru. A RUSSIAN DINNER. Iriladeivlia Record. Just going to dinner? Cowe with us.” The host was an oflicer of the Russian man- of-war Europe, and the invitatfon uddressed to areporter. The seribe looked at his watch. e had nalf an hour to spare. The aaffirs from the Xitchen suggested tempting viands, find the in- vitation was accepted. Capt. Kleopin, a special favorite of Count Grippenberg, sat at the head of the table. Baron Sternberg, a Gerinan no- bleman, who now swears by the Emperor Nich- olas, ¢at on his right. A dozen ollicers, repre- senting the various provinces. of Russiy, lined tue table. Brown-faced sailors, atiired in snowy-white jackets, with blue lap-over collars, stood behind them. “Take 4 nip ot brandy?” The guest smiled as suggestive of temper- teachings., ot \Why, we always do before dinner,” suiting the action to the word, the assem- forcizners tossed off a thimbleful of - the and, bled beverage. Soup was brought out. The Russians flavor- edand tasted, and flavored aud tasted again, 2nd then bejran to feed themselves witn dimiuu- tive spoous, wiich rend the process of cmptylue the Gish negessarily levathy. «Now for a citrar,” remarked the host, hand- fug a mild brand to the newsgatherer. Le tovk it, and wondered, and woudered azain when the Whole of the company lizhted cither cigarcttes or vigars, and bezun putling away vigorously, taking thew lights from u -hatf-dozen lamps (winus globes) which decorated the table. Af- ter the stoking cume fish, then another smoke and white wineg, then poultry and dark wines 2nd smoke, then roasts and champague and smoke again. Toen came puddings and with tuem sinali-sized cups of black coffee, and after the coffee cigarettes and cigars aguin. The reporter became uueasy. Uis balf-hour bed stretehed into an hour and a half, aud yet the dinner was not over. Presently ice-cream eame on,—ice-cream of a quality which would do credit to our best coufectiouer, but which, as the_presidine oflicer proudly remarked, **was made on our £hip by our own cook, and witt fee of our own mauufscture.”” ‘Tne ice-cream dishes were removed, and. the company smoked again. Afcer awlile came tea, blacker by far than the coflee, in glasses, with a slice of lemon in the place of milk. 4 Beautiful idea!" exclaimed the Baron. «“Don't belteve in milk. Lemou good. Good tea. Second pickings. Always get best tea 1 Russin. You ean't get second pickioks over here: Costs us 32 a pound across the. water.” “Tne seribe inwardly groaned. Etiquette for- bade an abrupt retreat; but time was precious, and the cowpany seemed iu no hurry o wet rid of their tea or their cigarettes, which once more made their appearanee. Fially the last cap of tea disappeared. ‘I'nen the Captain dived intohis cabin, returning In a sccond with two nuge -boxes of sweets. Every man in the company Leiped himself, and sucked, and cruuched, and 1aiked, and handed paragraphs around, and— and—smoked. At last, to the scribe's 1nfinite relief, the Captain gave bis signal that dinper was over by rising rom the table. The scribe looked at bhis watch azain, and broke into a profuse perspiration. That dinner had lasted just two hours and a quarter; and yet the Rus- 3ian officers dine iu this wise' every day.in the year. ¢ = THE DUCHY OF BRUNSWICK. ew York Time: Duke Wilhelm of. Brunswick has suddenly fallen sick, hopelessly sici,—he is 72 years old, —and all the Court zeese of Europe arein a flut- ter. Of course, by itself, the death of a Duke of Brunswick is not of any great importance, but, on account of certain curivas complications, it will, nevertheless, st this moment occasion a good deal of embarrassment. The old Duke, who ascended the tbrowe in 1831, and stecred his boat micely through the fatal year of 1864, bas mever been mar- ricd, and is the last sciou of the clver branch.of the House of Guelph. - iis heir is the Duke of Cumberland, aod the Duke of Cum- berland is the only mule represeutative of the younger branch of_ the house of Guelph. But the Duke of Cuwberland 13 also the son of the Tate King of Iunover, whom e Prussians ex- polled jun 1864, and, when the father dicd, the sou solemuly repeated the protest aguinst the spolhiation, aud refused to give.up lis claims on the danoverian Crown, though Prussis oifered 1o pay him sixteen millonsin danages. Now, van Prussia, which completely encircles Brunswick, and which, through a number ot conventions,— military, postal, ¢tc.,—has almost" wholly en- grossed its administration, allow the Duke of Cumberland to be Teigniug sovercimm of this countrs ?. An the very complicated Counstitution of the Prusian Empire, he would act like a wedge in u split. But, ou the other haod, how can Prussia ever prevent him from taking his beritawe! He ig not_ouly the -legitimate heir, the richest man_in Europe, the sonofa Kinu, ete., but he is also the fianee of the Princess Thyra, aud also the brothier-in-law of the next Czar of Russia, of the next King of England, ele. Of course, nobody gues to, for a pin-head, but it is sometimes .ex- wremely vexatious to be made to feel thav the pin hus a point. Toere is, indeed, ouly one way out of the dilemma, namely: 10 place Brunswick, like Alsace and Lorraive, directly under the Imperial Diet and the Chancetlor of the Empire, without annexing it to any indi- vidual State. .But, even if Bismarck 1s willing £0 walk that way, be will probybly mect people Zand influential people—who find it a rather Gangerous precedent thus to piace one part of the Empire stter the otler outside of the im- imediate power of the Emperor and directly un- der the hand of his Major Dunos. RAILWAY TEMPERANCE-LECTURE. Jeurdette. # Twenty years ago,” said the passenger with the red ribbon in his button-hole, ** I knew that man whom you saw zet off at the last station. He was a younr man of rare promise, 2 cotlege- graduate, & man of brilliant intellect and shrewd mercantile ability. Life dawned before him in ail the glowing colors of fair promise. He had some money when he left college. He invested it in business, aud i3 business prospered. He imarried a beautiful youn irl, who bore hun three lovely children — " "Fne sad-looking passenger sltting on the wood-box: * Allat one time? ™ The red-ribbun passenger: * No, in biennial jnstallments ot one. No one dreamed that the poor-house would ever be their bome. But, in aa evil hour, the young mun yiclded to the tempter. He bean_to drink beer. - He liken it and drank wmore. He drank and encouraced otbers to arink. ‘That was only fourteen years sgo, and he Was a prosperous, wealtby wman. To-day whege is Lied” The cerzyman in the front seat, A sot ard a beggar.” solemnly: The -red-ribbon” man, dlsconsolately, *O no! He is n memper of Congress, and owus 2 brewery worth $30,000.” Sometimes it will bapoen that way. TILDEN AND MISS ZELTINE. New York World, Not. 21, State Treasurer James Mackin and his bride, towhom he was married in St. Louis on the 13th inst:, Teceived their fricnds from Sto 10 last evening in the parlors of the Winasor flo- tel. Miss Hazeltine, ‘of St. Louis, the young Jady who was faisely reported in a.St. “Lotis ‘paper a few weeks ago Lo have been enraged to ex-Gov. Tilden, was present; and au intereéung incident of the evening was the mceljng of Miss Hazeltine aod Mr. Tilden, who had pever seen ench other before. Mr. Tilden, with the bride on bis arms, was promeuading after supper in the general parlor, when they sudden- Iy met Miss Hazeluige laceto face. ‘The brile at once presented: him as the President of the United States. Miss Hazeltine expressed her sympathy for_him anu her indigpatiou at tus baviue been depr.ved of the Presidency. Toe ex-Governor thanked Miss Hazeltine, ana gal- lantly said that the sympathy of so lovely a lady was a fall consolation for the loss of any office. Mrs. Mackin lauzhed and said: “Tle President never spoke in that way to me before 1 was married.” "The conversation then turned on the reports concerning Miss Hazeltine and Mr. Tilden, al- ready referred to, and Mr. Tilden courtcously liis great regret that the lady should d 8ny anooyance such as thie report must have given her. i & Oh!" said she, with a bewitching smile, ¥ 1" felt sure that you had nothing to do with {r.” Uirs. + For The Tribune. Headquartera: A pillow. Operators on change: Pickpockets. Runaway team: An cloping couple.~ Polite lireraturc: Books of etiquette. Attending a bawl: Minding the baby’s cry. A man with whom it isall up: The balloonist. Getting a bear living: Capturing Bruin afive. A Friend in need: AQuakerinwanz of money.| 4 Syick, to it bub,? asthe glue-maker observed to his apprentice. Not an nuthor, and yet a righter of books: The expert accoustant. Says the advertisement: *Take Anti-Fat. This, then, is a **fat tuke.” f See here, girls—why not call a spooney young man **Rainwater??” - Lainwater is soft, you know. In recounting the antics of o drunken man, it is not inappropriate to Fpeak of them as. “full particulars.” . A man on Hoyne avenue Is s0 set against the snares “of this wicked world” that he is even opposed to a snare-drum. A bad boy calls his maiden aunt, who weighs 240 pounds, *Aunty Fat.” ‘‘But,” he says, “nobody will take Aunty Far.” s [Tave you cologne?? sbe asked. ‘“No ma’~ am,” replied the druggist; “I have no scents ntdull." 8he said he didn't look as though he bad. Au ignorant fellow, hearlng 2 Jady mention china-asters, wanted to know **if -them Chiua Astors were any relation to them New York Astors.” #A hog's head,” he began. But she inter- rupted ui Saic she: **No watter what a-hog gaid.” She thougut e was speukiog of his neighbor. e \Where can I get board in this city?” in- auired the stianger, 'Iie man sent him to hear liis wife lecture. Then he did get bored, sure enough. 8 . Dancing 1s 1 part of the religion of a certain scet. If your girl becomes o convert to this torm of worship, the best thivg you can dois to shaker. o, A Monroe-street man calls his wife “ Appear- gnces,” beeause she is ofien deceiving, And a Park-avenue girl calls her rejected suifor ** Tvo Much Familiarity,” because he begets contempt. “ Father,” sald Charley Spilkins, *Mrs. Jones has two pair of bauds, hasu’t she!” ¢ How do vou_fizure that out, Charlie?"’ asked Leander. Wiy, didu’t you say the other day that sbe was ¢ four-handed *¢” “Iy's all very well,” snid.a henpecked hus- band, when told to ** ook after the children,”— “ivsall very well to tell me 1o mind the young- | sters; but it would suit me better if the young- sters would mind me.” | “Papa,” said the 5-year-old daughter of a Vest-Side minister, *is the Devil an author?”? d the amused clereyman, I should he was,—the sushor of a'rosd deal of mischief,anyway."” “ Notthat,I don’t mean,” pursued the littke one, ‘“‘but does he write books#? Vot that 1 ever heard of; at least, not personally,” was the Téply; “but why do youask® 0 nothing; - ouly T heard you say something to mawma about the works of the Devil.” S H DEBTORS AND MILLIONAIRES, To the Editor of The Trisune. CmicAGo, Nov. 20.—A lite'number of an East- ern pager contains this cditorlal paragraph: The Rev. James Frecman Ularke, in & recent sermon, took vccagion to discuss the question of financial honesty. Ile disps ed thus of the bloated pondholder: *-If I owe a rich mun 2 dollar, and 1 lye only one dollat in tag jvorid, und he has a million, 1 will pay him_thar, dollar, not for his sake, but for my own sake, nmd 10 prescrve my honesty and self-respect.” “Thiere are not 8 few persons in this couniry who: greatly need to hear Just this sort of preaching. -+ 3 ell,” repl 1 beartily aporove of every wisc effort to tone up the public consciencé in this country to honesty, and I doubt not, fid sermon from which the above purports to beé An extracimay have becu of good tendency -on'‘the whole. But I cannot o readily indoise ind'extreme statement quoted os elther correct it principle or healthful in its influence. & James Freeman Clark: ’II venture to assert, was never in the condition supposed: and 1f he were, he would not, I imagine, sec his way quite so clear as to pay over his'last dollar to the millionaire. True, if h¢‘“had abundauce of evervtoing elsc, food, clothing, shelter, or suflicient thereof for his, ‘personal needs, and were poor only {u mouney, te might, with com- parative clieertulness, "} with his_‘*‘only doliar.”” But suppose, as’ with many debtors, that dollar were the only thing between himn starvation, or,a lolging in,the street, would he fecl bound to'give it to a than who had a million of them, and lie Gown supoerlcss to sleep on the sidewalk? Or give it up and then beg food aud loaging? What principle of houesty or self- respect wouid require him to do this? Suppose that instead of 2 dollar, he oyed a hat toone who bad alveady 2 million of hats, ought he to take bis only hat from hishead, aod o barebeaded? Call it a pair of boots, owed to a man who had a million pairs, would auy prin- ciple of honor or self-réspect dictate that he ‘should pull off§his only boots for his creditor, aud o barefooted, or beg from somebody elsc? Let a wifeand little children also be depend- ent on this * last dotlar,” gs very often hapoens, :m:! what would James Freeman Clarke then do? Ethical writers ‘tell us that oblizatioas and riehts are reciprocal; therefore, if this debtor is bound to give up his last dollar, his only bat, or boots, Lhe creditor has a'right to require them. Surely thc creditor has richt to require “honesty and.* self-respect*’ in the debtor; and if these virtues really impose on one the ob- Jization Lo pay, the other bus the right to de- mand. But who believes, or can be made to be- lieve, that a millionaire would have any moral richt—it i5 wnorel rizhts and obligations I am talking about—to demand the last dollar or to take the hat or boots! 3 “This teacbing is unseriptural. The old Mossic Iaw, stern_ a8 it has been thouznt, was morce humane than this. Exodus. xxii., 26-27: *“If thou at all take they ncighbor’s raiment to pledere (sceurity for u loan), thou shalt deliver it to him by that’ the sun goeth down; for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein stgll he sleep? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that L will hear: for § am gracious.” . This pagsaze plainly teaches that human suffering is a greater evil than debt; that human life and even human needs are more vaiuablethan property: that the rizht to Jife and the means of sustaining it takes precedence of the rights of a creditor. No cred- itor ans the right to put his debior's life in jeopardy. No debtor is bound to put bis own Tife in jeopardy: nay, he has no right to put his ife in jeopardy to pay 1 debt. 1t would be casy 10 show that this teaching is contrary to numan law, which in all civilized country grants excraption to the debtor. In cases of extreme destitution the statute, for bis proteetion, atways steps in between him and the exacting creditor. In some of the Western States these legal exemptions may have been too great, and honesty may forbid the debtor to ovail himself of the law to save his last dollar for i starving family. 1t 3 said tuat * he should do right and trust the Lord for the futurc!” But that begs Lhc oucstion of right. Besides, he will be likely to have great oceasion to trust the Lord for the next dollar and tbe many others thatwill be needed for himself ind those dependent on his resources. Of course, the arrument is not about 2 single dollar. II this were all, it would matier little what were done with ji. 1€ parted with, the agony of starvation t Le soouer O7er. But this dollar, is. the reprezestetive of the ant of prosperity lelt m these days to te families, and the ctival question is, Shall their consciences be with the reguirement to eive it ail up b creditors? Isay wo. It is their dutfifw e health, aud working order. Very .often, with cousent of ereditors, they should retain cuough tostart them anew in business. Not unfre- queutly the ereditors will cheerfully grant this as most for their own interests. .~ - e Tar be it from me to say one word in defense of the idle who will not work, or the seit-in- dulgent who will not deny themselves “to pay their debiss still lessithe fraudutent deators wWho nave availed themselves of the Bunlript law to cheat others out of their just "du ‘lere are sueh, It is admitted. and they deserve severest execrations. But it'snould “not be forgotien that there are thousands of otuers in these times to whom baukruptey has been-the sorest trial of their hives. ‘They bave always hereto- fore prided themselves on the puncmualily with whivh they bave imet their oblirationg, ‘They have now passed auxious days and sicep- to ri rewaiv enough, if they:cau, to keep them lu less nights to devise ways and means of paying, Bave siviven. by induster and by Hracaiey ta persoual and family. expenses to avoid the dreaded necessity of saying we cannot puy, and have not yielded'till there was nothing else 10 do. Thislarze class mast not he forgotien by ministers and moralists. We doubl vot they are the majority of the bankrap:s in the coun- try. Amone ail thiat I have personally kuown I do not believe there are balf-s-dozen who would Dot have avoided bankraptey if they could. 1 sey, aeain, it is likely that the sermon as preachied hus some quallfyings which relieved these Lard features. But, if not, it is not the sort of preaching for this country or for any other,—for this aze or anv other. "It is all on the side of the rich. It shows no sympathy with the poor or the unfortunate. Tt is just the sort of preaching to disgust them with all preaching, intensifying their hostility to the rich and pros- perous, and drives them to the fellowship of the Socialists. Just at this timé such preaching is extremely perilous.- It is holding down the satety-valve znd preparing for a Communistic explasion, . 1t is the part of wisdom now for the millionaires Lo make concessfons. not to ex- act the last doflar. The jute elections have shuwn the existence of a party, fortunately not yet strong enough for victory, but too strong to be despised or exasperated. MORALIST. THE BONANZA -BATTLE. Nature of the Contest Between the Mining Magnates of Sun Fraucisco—Proposuls for Yonce. Snectal Dispateh to The Tribune. Virainia City, Nev., Noyv. 30.—Yesterday the crosscut on the 2,£60-foot level of the Sierra Neévada struck seams of porphyry mixed with ore. To-day the face of the crosseut is in ore at the bottom. Tne assays rangze from $115 to §190 per ton. The north crosscut has not yet reached the ore-body. ~ fu the Ophir they are getting ready to cross- cut on the 2,200-foot ievel. The erand prize mill rupning all uight. There is nothinz new in any of the mines that I have not mentioned in these dispatches. DaN DEQUILLE. Sax Fravcisco, Nov. 30.—Virginia advices say ore is wakine its appeararice at the bottor of the north cross-cut on the 2,200-fout level of the Sicrra Nevada, The news stiffeved the mar- ket to-duy. < San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 22, The controversy between the Sierra Nevada and Union Consolidated Mines, which is now in a fair way of reaching an amicable adjustment without necessitating a further slaughtering of the innocents, involves 300 fect of ground in which the present supposed bonanza is located. The circumstances on which the quarrel revolves are these: The Union Mine, 600 feet, was orie- inallylocated by two Mormons named Cook and Payn, June 10, 1859. The Sierra“Nevada was located on the 22d of the same month by one Miller and eleven associates, takiug 3,600 feet. Shortly after a party from Grass Valley jumped Mine, and the two Mormoas, be- to hold their ground, succeeded in eflecting a compromise. By the terms the Grass Valley party took the south one-half, being 800 feet adjoining the Ophir, as the Ophir location lay before the cutling up, and contracted to run a tunnel, the Mormons to pay one-hzlf the expeuse. This the Mormons failed to do, and six wecks after Minor and his_party completely jumped Lie Mormous out by moving the stake of Sicrra Nevada 300 feet south wich the consent of the Grass Valley . party. Cook and Payu decidedly objected to thig, and the Sierra Nevada stakie was drawn and moved back and forth repeatedly. Finally, in 1875, the Union Company quietly appiied o Washington und obtained a patent for the 630 feer, oriinally taken up by Cools and Payn, aud, of course, coveringr the 300 fect in dispute. The Sierra Nevada Company protested, but too late. An apolication was put in for the reopening of the case, it being claimed that the patent had Deen obtzined surreptitiously. The applica- tion, first denfed by Commissioner Williamson, has been by bim referredsto Secretary Schurz, with a strong recommendation that it be grant- ed. The Sierra Nevads- Company claim that their stale wasirst;set at-the south line of the disputed eround, and never removed, and that their locationcovering:the disputed 300 rect, i inal and regalar.:If the efforts of Flood to main control of the Sierra Nevada should su ceed, or a comoromise be effected, of course lit- iration would not be esseuntial to establish the boundary between thi¢ two mives. - ‘The Union Consolidated av _present embraces the disputed 100 fect, the_south 300 feet of the old Mormon location, and 225 feet purchased from the old Ophir ground, at present adjoming the Mexican. As before stated, the ore body now found is the Qisputed ground, and the develoo- ment . is within_sixiy feet of the -undisputed -grround of the Union Consolidated, with indica- tions that the maiu body pitches in that aivee- tion. ‘The terms ol _compromise which Flood proposed to Skae were to give Union the south fifty ‘feet of the disputed grotnd, or, in_other Words, tarn over the bo- hanza which he has been develovinz. Skae repeticd the proposition deliautly, teiling Fioud that he had found n mine and was gong to hold it, and, further, that he desicoed gainfuz cou- trol of the Union Consolidated also. On toe rejection of Mr. Flood’s ultimatum commnenced the stru which resulted so disastrously to thousands who had jnvested in stock: The priuciple invoived was aptly strated by the expression of a prominent operator, who assert- od his belief thatif some person should discover hiell, the Benanza crew wie gubble it, corner tie brimstone, and leave everybody else out in the cold to freeze to death. “After the impetuous onset between the great nining magnates, wiich opened on Monday, and_ term cd in the termiic charges of Wednesday. when thousanas were numberci with the siain, a truce was declared, and neeotiu- tions azain opened for peace. - On Wednesdey, Mackay and Skae met on the ficld, and Mackay again renewed the proposition orixinaliy made by Flood—that was, that the south fifey feet of the disputed zround, in which the bouanza poses, be ceded to Union, and the remaining 259 feet revert to Sterra Nevadu, In the interval, Skae had beeu sorely pressed, and at the price to which the stock had been beaten down on Wednesday, his 21,000 sheres. on which he owed 1. AL Glazier & Co. §300,000, were reduced t0 2 maregin ot per cent, which was a figure extra hazardous. A further break in the stock might bave annibiliated him, as well as his friends and brokers. Itwas vxpected that Skae Wwould more readily consider the proposition in tis imueriled condition. But he still defluntly put forth his warlike shicld and bid Mackay tolayon. It was not in the interest of the Bonanza firm to breaic the stock =ay lower, as a further squeezing process would ruin 8o mai people that the disaster would be irretrievabl and it woulé be impossibie to producea reac- tion. It may be remarked that the rround in dispute eas but 205 fect instead ot 330, and the offer of Mackay was to take the south forty- ciehty feet. Ii hostilities were rencwed and greater ruin wrought even though the bon- anza force were victorious in the life and Qeath struggic that was dragging down thousands daily, tedious litization mizht bave still in- terrunted the posscssion of the ground. Tt wasin the interesi of buth parties fo come to terms. ‘The nexs proposition then came tron Skae, and it was on the basis of 8 uew coupouy, ‘hich should be formed and tuke possession of the disputed ground between Sierra vads and Union Consolidated. This Droposition was yes- terday under corpideration by the besieging force, with favoraole indications of its accept- ance. It was confidently auticipated last night that peace woutd be reached on these conditions aund the treaty be tinally ratified to-day. Oure- ports peing received of a probuble compromise the markes yesterday stiffened Iy. S Franctco Chromele, Nar. ¢ Borland They are both heavy Baldwin and Arcl dav. Virginia_City. holgers of Sierra Nevada, Uniou, Mexican, antd other stocks, and desire to sce for cselves the crosseus on the 2200-foot lesel of the Sierra Novada mine. Thev claim to have had great Taith in the development of & ness bonanzy, and ‘\rhen the break in the market came, neld their stocks. All the reportatey have received from the mine have been perfcctly satisfactory, and thev cannot account for the break on any other theory than tuat Flood was determined to rule o Yo, They stated before their departare that it was reported thot Skae’s account was closed at Glazier’s yesterday. and transferred to the Nevada Bank. Should"tis prove true, it teould 1ok as if there had been a *tjob put 115 on the public. 1615 a daugerots thinz for the community for one man to pustess . the ‘power to ruin so mauy people. 5 Some eflicient method should be adopted compelling tne deposit of the material bored out, by the drills at_a convenient, pluce, s0 that “any one interested could ' lave - as- says .made and . know “as - spcedily us « jnsiders 7 what would prababls be uncoy- cred at subsequent. workings. . Mr. Baldwin states that he Las 3,000 shares of Sierra Neva 2,100 of Union, and ‘3.000 shares of Mexical Tioriand hos aboat the same amuunt of the sy tocks, and boch clata that they have uot sold a ghare Since_the -break cowmicnced. Baldwin saye thut ais actuslloss -is at oresent £250,000, ana thot he only weat into-he. deal to - make $16,000 to binid his nes . m; 5 street, - Borland says thet bis loss by shrinkace excecds $1,000,000. but that it was ot unril the stock stru 350 thae his . juvestment be- wan to be' véted, so he gor in at low prices. Baldwin bought a priviicee from Robert Morrow yesterday to eall for, 1,000 shares of. Uulon at £70 iu tiventy doys. Tuey both o areed tnot this was- one of the worst bretis ever ~Enown in tne stock markec; that thonsauds had been ruined by it; and that it would take at least two years to recover from the effect of the blow. Balawin instanced the wav he had already comrgenced to feel the blighting in- fluence of the stock panic, several of the best rooms in his hotel having been-vacated by peo- ple who had lost theirall in the crushing dis- aster, while two of his houses lose their tenants for the same reason. They both expect Lo go in the mine to-day, and return to San Francisco to- morrow. A BELGIAN BANK SWINDLE. The *Combination to the Janiter” Far Outdone in the City of Brusseis, Corvesponderce New York World. BrusseLs, Nov. 16.—I do mnot know where you will iud a case like the T'Kint embezzle- ment case now on trizl here. The amount stolen from the bank (of Helglum) was im- mense,—23,000,000 of francs, say, $4,600,- 000,—but the theft was commonplace aud trifing in comparison with the thiel. Lest you may think that I have availed myself of the temptation to waxeloquent or sensatioual in the presence of such a theme, let me say that the details in this lettegare almost lterally translated from the acte d'accusation, or indici- ment, adocument which is based on the re- searchies of nearly three years. and which it took four days to read. ‘Ihe’ trial will provably last _uut well into December. It began on the 4th inst. _Eugene T'Rint van Roodebecke fs a compara- tively younz man of zood familv, who is cused of baving committed 149 thefts while in the service of the bank, whicit he entered in 1857 us junior clerk, being promoted for his quickness, earnestucss, and courtesy to b Chief Clerk in the Deposit Departinent, under Senator Fortamps, * the Chict Director. fis salary was 540 a year, on which he mant: a- town and ‘comntry house, a1 stable, a box at the toeatre, 2 gallery of costl vaintings and_sculpture, and a mistress, the 1amous “Lolo.” The depositors, mostly of the muddle class, intrusted the. bank with their securitics, and the bank credits on its le: tne depositors with the value thercof, omit- tiny to el the numbers. As a rule the de- positors keep no track of the numbers, 50 that all T'Kint had .to do was to take what shares he wanted, sell or hypothecate them, and, if the depositor- were auXious to withdraw his securities, replace them with the other shares of the same company taken from some other depositor. But very rarely did adepositor with- draw bis shares, because T’Kint—who was im- licitly trusted Dy bis fnmediate superior, M. Ieyvaeri—was practically tbe mamaver of the bauk, and permitted overdrafts, lent money, and paid dividends on coupons without exactivg the usual commission, aud so made things most pleasaut for the depositors. Meanwhile, in September, 1875, Mr. Bischofls- Leim, the ereat financier, who hapuened to be a Director in a bank with which ‘T’Kint kept an ‘acount, was surprised one day to find among its securities, lodged in T’Kiot’s nawe, 1,100 shares of Numur & Licge Railway stock which he recog- nized by the numbers as being his own prop- erty! He at ouce went to the Beuk of Belgium and asked for his securities, but, as luck would have it, the Dbaunk was just closinr, and ‘*Kipt put him off till next morning. At 10 sharp 3. Bischoffsheim was on hand, bat TKint ki bim oceupied for fifteen minates till e could wit draw the shares and produce them. The sréa financier thoueht this procceding so_irreunlur that he brought the matter befure the Dircctors, before whow appeared T°Kiat, Sept. 27, 1375, and so convinced them of his own integrity aud the prosperity to which the bank had attaiued under management, that they unanimously exculpated him aud gave him avote ot thanks!t Warned by this narrow escape that his pusition wus precarious, T'Kint went to work and by the beginning of March, 1576, had stolen 11,000,000 more,—say S3206,u00. ' They were about to examine uls bovks and securities,— previous to this M. Fortamps would give him some days’ notice ol an investigution, sign the ledwer without lookinz atit, and_examine 2 bundle of securities brought by T’Kint, “at bap-hazard,” from the vault, Wwhich, it need hardly be said, was always found to tally with® the lists in the books,—and he deemed it wise to abscond with some hundreds of thousands of doliars’ worth of valuabies in his carpet-bag. He wrete to 3. Fortamus on the 7th that he had abused the confi- dence of the depositors, but would settle eve thing and rezurn from Paris by the nest da,’s frain to receive his pumshment. M. Fortamps Delieved him, went to the station to meet hu, e wasn't there, aud nereed with the Direc.ors 1ot to_expose the maiter just then lest they should embarrass T*Kint in his nezotiatious at Paris to cover his defalcations. Meauwbiie, with his mistress, her maid and nine new trunks, ‘T'Kint had fled to_Liverpuol, whure he had taken passage for New York on the City of P’aris, ou which steamer- he was arrested at Queenstown, March 10, 1876. e lsd written from Paris to M. Fortamps to say thut he bad failed in his eiforts 1o wake up his _lvsses, aud was en route for the East Indies with s mis- tress. I have consumed,” he said, “all that sthe had Jaid by, and all that she had made by speculations. Sne has given up everything for me and_consented to Tollow me. “We shail work. You shall see, sir, of what avail is the sweat of the man who burns to repair a wronsz! I am maa with grlef; have pity on me and my sainted mother!” Bronght back to Brussels, T'Kint attempted to extenuate his offense by pleading tne ewi- nence of his services, by puiting his fortuue of §500,000 at the bank’s disposal, sud offering to direct it in seversl soeculations which would cover the deficit, -‘speculations,” the indict- ment says, “whica were suspicious even from the standpoiut of financial morality.” The net deficit, siter cverything possible bud been recovercd, . was, by the way, 16,778,000 franes. During the examination some 1n- terestine _facts - came out how ol the 34,000,000 frunes’ worth of securities deposited y millions never sppeared ou the DOV, T'iane giving a receipt and not enterimeg the depostt; how ne got rid of a elerk who kevt a check on him bY representing, in the intercsis of cconumy, that this Was puyIng two men to do one man's work; huw tite Sccretary was thesole custodian of the keys of the vaults, but always took T'Kint’s word tor what he had taken out of them while in possession uf the key3 how, in short, in his own words, * They all had absolute confidence in him.” On examipation T'Kint sdinitted every- thing, his defénse being thiat, where everythe was 30 loosely managed and 5o much tacit cn- courazement was given to theit, he could not be blamed for ktealing. * What are $60,0004" he said, disdainfaily, when remmded that bis mistress had that sum in her possession at their fliwit, and was not, as he wrote, pcoviless. He defended bis acts s iuspired by patriotistn, sinee, it ne had confessed and stopped stealing, De would have brousht ou a panic on the Brus- sels Bourse! 1t cume out that the costly din- ners which, during the past two years a richly- lnced chusseur has twice a dav carried to T’Kint at the prison of the Petits-Carmes, were paid for —out of u sum of 40,000 francs voted to biin L The Directors aiter hie was locked up. o they came Very near rerurning him two vali piciures whicis he bad been particutarly fomd of and which had been seized. His lawyer was moved when this eame out to declare on his honor that he did not-know that he had been retaized with funds so obtained. According to the evidenee thus far adduced. every one in the was more or less an accomplice of the thief. M. Fortamps was told by u clerk that FIKint was owing the bauk *some wmillions,” and said, “Is that so? I must think the matter over.” To another clerks he said, = Really [ st speak to U'Kint about tlis; bat you hasn’t beeter say anything to M. Kok (the Vice- Governor), for athis age 1t tizin afTect the poor old man seriously.” AL Fortamps dul not sce anytmne si r ina mau worth $500.000, as he estitnated ‘TKint to be, workinr hard in a bapk for $340 o year, ihough he did tell che Sce- retary that ‘TRt was destroying too many Jetters meant for tbe post, and that hereafter Le should bimself mal auy that. were of especial importance. ** We all koew that he was stealing,” said another clerk, “but what ceuld wé da?” T'Kint passed bours every day iu the Governor's office, and then came out with orders for os atl.” 1t was not elone fn the Governor’s office that rortamps enjoyed frequent chats with bis cles They mec often at Maric Collard’s hotel in the Rue de 1a Loi, where *Leto” did the hovors. It was a’sumptuous palace, with laces, bronzes, pictures, plate, exotic plauts—ouy knows not what, and mightly the couvle received at dmuer—at a baoquet, 1 should say—their fricnds, wostly old ur widdle-aged men of rank or position, lenislators, financiers, nobles. **Lolo™ was all the fasmon iun Brus- sels then, aud ed at these dinuers sud in the drawing-room afterwards with taste, tagt, and digmty. Sometunes, however, the feast was turned Into un orgy, as when, on @ Chrst- mas ve, to reward M. Fartamps for his zeaer- ous presents to the adv aud ber [ricnds, he wias ven **u surprise party,” und on entering the Sarlor,was rectived—in toe presence of 3 lurge tompiny Of guests—by 2 procession of six young women in what Artemus Ward called % the scandalous costume of the Greek Slave,” hout even the drapery of a b foot of doz-ci:ain Tt is a vleasant story, is jt not? For steady- going Belaium, tool TRt tells 1t all with Tire Utmost calingss, correctiug, the esamiuers and witaesses, adinitting everything, aud only appeuriife AnXI0us to show that his meumory i3 erlect as 10l trapsactions, . He claims that e was * the Newfoundlaud dog ” of thé bar and di s with price that he spent SH00. in commissions to une’ broker alone in Working gr the market, so 28 to prevent any panic and: to keep the shares from falling. “1 sus- taiged,” he says with modest pride, “ihe strugzle of the ecarthern pot with tne fron pots.”and when the Prosecutinz-At- torney suid, * Marie Collard had with der 130, 000 francs in dollars,” interrupted politely, I bw your pardon,—in notes.” ** Yes, m baok- notes. Besides, she had a bouse and furniturd and some securities, in_all property exceeding in value 300,600 francs.” T'Kint—Yesides the pictures. Prosecutor—Well, she had over 200,000 fraucs worth of property, and yet you wrotc to M. Fortamps that slie was penniless? ‘['Kint _(contemntuously)—Thbree hundred thousund francs! Whal are 300,000 franesi CLOAKS. Tanfactmrer’s Siock 5,000 LADIES’ ARD MSSES’ CLOAKS 50 o 60 on the Dollr. 500 Ladies’ Heavy Chinchills Cloaks. at $2.25, worth $5. 300 Lindies’ Beaver Cloaks at $3 snd $4. cheap for $5 and $8. 300 Ladies’ Wool Boaver and_Matelasse Clonks, Trimmed, at S5 and $6, worth $0 and S10. 500 Ladies’ All.Wool Cloaks, Elegantly Trimmed with Satin and inge, 2157 2nd $8, very chesp for $13 sad 300 Ladies’ Elegant Wool Beaver and Di- azcnal and Matelesse Cloaks at 59, $10, and $12, worth $14, 516, &'$18. 200 Ladies’ F'ine Germania Beaver and Im- ported Matelnsse Cloaks, Hand- somely ‘Trimmed with Fringe, Satin, ete., ‘ap Si4, S15, $18, SiS, ana>20. This lot of Fine Cloais’ are 50c on the dollar of regular prices. 50 Ladies’ Elegant Dolmans, Handsomely ‘Trimmod, 2t 8. $10, $13. 515, S16, and S18, Sample lot; Belf Price. 1,000 Iadies’ Cirenlars at $3, $2.50, $3, $3.50, $4, worth from 5310 SB. Will offor next week the entire Stock of & New York manufacturer of Misges® gng Children’s Cloaks at 50c on the ollar. 1,000 Sample Cloaks will bo offered this weelc at half price. 50 piecegl gglm‘ed Velvets at 50c, worth 1,000 pieces Colored Silks, all Silk Serges, 'l'untmisfl;und Satius at25 and 350, worth 75¢ and S1. FROM AUCTION 2,000 LOTS OF Dolls, Tin and Woodsn Toys, AThums, Vasas, GTDs & Saucers, 110 Fancy Goods For the Folidays, at from 25 to 85c on the doiar, the Cheapest _Joods ever offered in this city. Every lot of thase_Goods must bo sold before Dec. 25. BOSTON STORE, 118 & 120 State-st. PECIAL ARGAIN COLORED Dress (oods 50 pes All-Wool French Mixed Suitings, 48 inches wide, at 75e, sold carly at $1.23. pes Fine Silkk and Wool Mixtures, 4S inches wide, at $1.00. 20 pes Velvet Suitings, latest novelty. 48 inches wide, at $1,50, former priee $2.50. 100 pes Chenille Suitings, Sillkc Mixed, 48 inches wide. at $2.00. 50 pes All-Wool Matelasseand Bourette Suitings. all shades, at 40¢ and 50¢. 500 pes Lubin’s Best Fremch Cashmeres, 40 inches wide, extra heavy, in 20 differ- ent shades, at 75¢, 85c, and 9oe. PARDRIDGES MAIN STORE, 114 & 116 State-st. N. B.-Ladies ordering goods by mail must inclose P. 0. Order. Samples sent FREE. Goods C. 0. D., with privilegs of examination. s = ~_ mEDICAL. Tamedaily iin Dirses. * Ne winz Elertridity, TROTHERAAL TLTR, €3 1 Arend’s Congh Lozenges Afford tmwedtate rellef and Eftect a speedy cure. Taatd pleasape. 25cabox. East Madisou-st. - 1 wprinzs, Hoiica NOVELIDEA, nu wheels: ovelty. Evervbody bu crerswhere. Larze profits. Sam culars free. Afarm Stenat Co. Axent le inailed for 23c. Cir- jox 23, New Maven, Gh