Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1875, Page 2

4 sh earth o:-fen Bia rainhows gt win " 4 t pencefal fakes Like epirite of the storm Smiling im their «weet sleep. as if thetr dreams Were of the opening fliwer= and builing trees And wwerhanging al its bright misty Resting upon the 1 Upon the of giant=. Antumn, ton, Has gone’ With all its deeper glories gone a ke nitars of the ferings to thea nests hanging o'er the West. re from the battlement of heaven And its «till evening-—when the mooolit ea, Was ever threbhing—like the I he great universe. Ah. t! vist ~~ i Tbematy has departent frou the earth And they are gathered to the embrace of death. heir solemn herald te ity, Bor have they gone alone High human hearts of a have gone with them. The fresh dust Je chill on many a brenet that burned erewhile With fires that ser mortal. Joys that leaped Le from th oang mern. t I wandered free 7 7 i Stricken down ' nt Ht Th Sant w Lik { Parvtive Ar heart in © marie it de his soul in the glance dreamed «f Beomed but 9 lyr ME the bole his His fare wp To make a thren Armd s sea of bleod Though the year Fsteriods tide ot with sorrow” 2 Wpicad wich te Of old Eternity. and Upon its heaving ti Of glory aml of beauty <i a thousand wrecks Yet. why mourn That evech is destiny? Another year Succeedeth to the past. In th {round he sensons coms avd eo: th That hath heng «er us will bb ‘The tars the ch HIP at tw ik Man will remain t reamed the earth sve will spring fone tombs Hops a ith bes scroll ‘OF past Eve Of coming: Life now t Hin tts somndless depths. And stregzl “ As pressing on. it w ‘A brighter era te Along the vales and me There ica deep. portent Like the swift rush of subterrancan streams ines of earth and air With sonerons wing Heaves his deep folds upon the rushing winds that time a Hack! sof the earth And ber rd. with his might of elowle Against the eternal mount OF infant Freesier, ard Bs heard ani anew: Zz fame. Bt yours T. Will puss in silence: snd the sinking waves Gathering the forms of glory and of peace Reflect the wedimmed brightness of the heaveus ———————— ‘n of Beargrass Missed His Christmas Dianer. We felt sorry for him. He was sitting ina chair very heipiexs and Linrp, and unmistak- He had waikea about Christmas s. ant, in the best of humor. partaken fre of the seductive de- cotions Known as Tom and Jerry and egg- nox. He had invited a number of friends to a Christmas dir Ip m, and he was most fearintly dev pe tive 5 a& temperance s Would scout the irank ov Tom and Jerry. He His companions Stoo about him in tter condition, i mpethized with him deeply. nae (hie) beer eze; Fi sid one grave chap, ek of the 3 i How 2 Ci man at home iedlea that ow If he contd throw pallid youth. who had Telief fre he oper make him all “Git up. ia need «I think it would « couple of a ler can fetle stannup? ied the unhipy ting the suggest! A chap with gre who had remainet had been offering = Ward with a solemn fa and remarked: “Say, fellers, Fil fix i Ili take him home. too drunk to got sick seri ance on Chri to bed. and yp wane can't Feorge put- nm right on its merits. tenanes, friends estions, HOW etme for- e and wavering ey You set ahackand I'm sober; you're ‘ife that George tial intemper- n he com go the day.” tei on. and George Was escortes! to the hack by his friend. and it would b: xtremely diffleult todecide > ends Seem- t George's wife wouki 2 been arranged to We are rather inclir George realized yesterday m - woke up, that the story his f was @ trifle thin for an intel Ville Commercic an te follow.—Louis- THe Daxce tHe Horses—From many points of 2 Pennsylvania reports have come of a new horse A veteri- Bary surgeon furnishes the following peeuli- @rities: The first symptoms are general de- Dility. lose of appetite, the horses refusing to eat from the commencement. A shortabrapt cough. a dark mucus tinged, with blood ooz- ing from very Sore throat with very of the glands— tn fact The carotids are a litt ~maxitiary a lit- Ue more se ne nt sore ess of the threat but little swollen, countenance deje ght cough resem- bling catarrh or intluen: At times the ex- tremities are deathly cold. slight fever, heav- ing at the flanks. in on long, expiration quick, resembiing tur er. except the stiff @nd immovable position, which always ac- companyes that disease. ‘Aguin the horse lies down from the commencement of the malady, whieh he never does in pneumonia. There feems to be a partial bination of dis- eases—_pneumonia. br itis, eatarrh or in fluenza. inflaminati rynx and in- ne a. There appears erimit. It is insidt- ‘ous in its attack ncing im the nose and creeping along until the whole of the re spiratory passages are involvet, and the tem generally effected. This disease, which Js but briefly described. is considerst more dangerous than the late epizootic, and farm- ers and others noticing these sympioms should at ence apply for aid to the proper parte A SINGULAR STORY of disappointed love is reeorted in is. A young man of good family, whose name the Figaro withholds, beeame violently attached toa countess, who refused to receive his addresses. When alt hope was the poor fellow took to drink- img and ling ether. This operated so powerfully on hie urain that he became in- sane, and on the l0th of December was taken to the Ivry insane asylum. While being rs tothe madhouse the young man Was continually shrieking, “Take me tomy countess! take me to my countess.” THE SON of a devout old Scotch clergyman having marriet without his father’s appro- bation, the old man took occasion in the ¥ first family gathering when tho bride and groom were it to insert his ton of the afair in the midst of a prayer in this Wise: “Thou hast added, O Lord, toour family. So has been Thy will, it wad never hae been Tine, But if it is of Thee, do Thou bless the connection. © carnal desire, against «° reason and credit, may the cauld rain of adyersity settle in bis habitation. ONLY a woman's hair! Who has not some time in his life picked such a thread from his best collar, and felt his heart beating quicker for it? Or Ci a tress laid some nook, and felt the intluenc ~oder memories? Only & Weman's t Aud yet we do not like it in biscuit. But. if the fule hath done it ont | MINCE PIES. Ton silver strokes (rom the tiny mantel clock interr upted a voice that was saying, innily: “Won't you bring some hot toast, Sarah? The speaker kaif ivughed as she sank back in her chair and remarked to her vis-a-vis, “Caroline, do you hear that?” “Yes, and I was thinking it lucky that papa had gone to the office. We should get a lec- ture of Inte hou: * sai zy. Bu first speaker, remorsefully, ‘m sotired! You know it was four when I got home. I feelas if I could sleep a week. Don’t you? mean to take my rest for® while,” re- joined Caroline, with a yawn. “We've no emgagemendy for the next two or three even- ings. A little flush came upon the fair cheeks of hor sister a4 she said, hastily: “But have. Mr. Evarts asked me to go to the musical sotree to-morrow evenms. And LT accepted.” It was well that she did not see the look on the face opposite her as she spoke. Only sereh, coming in with the toast, saw it, and muttered to herself as she went out: “Miss Caroline’. got such a temper! I won- = row what Miss Alice had gone and said to or" Caroline only remarked, as she helped her- self to toast: “Going with Mr. Evarts again?” Something in her manner of speaking caused her sister to color still more deeply; but she met Caroline's eyes stealily as sie asked: “Why not?” “Oh, if you like your cap for a ri allright! 1 think. comments If to have the name of setting ming man, of course its ice, if last e y your courtship of Mr. E ¥ courtship! I should like both inore polite and more just, C: was the reply, delivered with spirit, as speaker rose and walked to the window. “I am not aware that I have et unbetom- ingly in simply accepting Mr. tn and he is not a man who could be ca- flattered by a “It is precisely began Ca Stoo angry toh in her speech, “that he aliows—" The heavy shutting of the outer door and rapid steps coming along the hall eaused her t the dinin ide, and an active, pon its threshold is hand. Anex- tostop short. In another 1 room door was thrown w little gentleman appeared with a bundie of papers in muttion eses ped his lips one young lady to the cloc «Is this dinner or breakfast, I should be glad he inquired, snappishly, adjusting sin onler to stare at the two care- arranged figu What docs this . we can’t do with four hours’ up at eight,” responded Caro- “Four hours’ sleep! I should think not. Sc you came in at four this morning, did ye ‘And at three the night before; and at one the night before! Thists getting worse and we This—this is positively indecent! T won" tow sueh hours—I declare I won't!” “Bat, papa—? “Oh, don't | ine have buts! You look hag- gard, both of you. And what will you be fit torte-day? Nothing. You'll probably goout again to-night and come home late again, and feel worse than ever the nextday. Now Im going to stop this—here and now. “Why, papa, we must go out eve “And you must come home eve mast be in this house before tw: want tocome in atall. I won't cour impropriety. at any The doors shall locked at twelve—eve Ity home after that time, t get in. And I won't be rung up; neither will I have the servants ring up. I'll give my orders to-d ¥ I'll have it distinetly understood that nobody shall be let in who comes afier twelve. You equieseent and 1 apulsive Hitt moxterate it's for your own good. It's i comfort that Tm: the rule. bight—are “No, Sir 1, to-morrow, then—when you come in row ni, Now to- Caroline; rather 0 Alice, she can’t afford t lice is going, is she’ * said the old gentle- man, good-humored!s ing no notice of Caroline's hint. “Aid who's Alice going with, et “With Mr. Evarts, papa, to a musical en- tertainment,” responded the one spoken of. The father’s ice expanded into a well- pleased smile as he patted his favorite daugh- fer's shoukler. % “Aha! we must look ovt for thist| Well, well, child, you needn't blush soe. I don't quarrel with Evarts is a large fish to hook—a very large fish!” and with a chuckle for farewell the busy old gentleman raving one witha very uzly expressi Late that afternoon, ng her bair.a sharp p- Ust her. Stealing out into the hall softl heard a well-known voice inquire for Alice Wylie, hair and a gra ed the bail ar ei back as softly toher chamber : her haif-closed door heard the maid knoe Alice's door opposite. Presently her sis volee satd, laugh “Dear me, Sarah! [ve been asleep the whole afternoon, and ucy er Usought of dress- in fa less than fifteen minutes, however, Caro- line heard # siik dress rustle down the stair- ease. She turned back to the mirror with the frown deepening upon her brow. Her thoughts, as she «at gazing at her reflection, were bot very pleasant ones. She, Caroline Wytie, was far handsomer and cleverer than ber sister Alice; yet she had failed, after us- ing all her arts, to win more indifferent attention from the rich youn chant, and Alice, a girl of eighteen, b succeeded in captivating him. While she sat musing in the gathering darkness the sound of the piano came from the room below, and later there was laughter. mixed with low-spoken words, inthe hail. Then Alice came running up irs and tapped at her doo: she said. her madd Cans aubura overee IMpse 6 2 gentler ool hummer en- ¢ come oom and ¥ White silk dress. nt dink ¢ to-morrow night, its so soilet, t like to pnt on my new black silk. It you de?” t know. I can't see dres it fit but I de What we “1 dor dark.” sin the B y. the should i ppen to get home till ar ould Mr. Evarts think ors locked ine cou a io dear’ if What if we should find the 1 have asked no better fortune “I suppose you could get in the be kitchen window, as I did last summer when every body was @ etty high, but it doesn’t fast t papa b “No, he put in @ nail for a cateh. You caa * the nail out before y : imb in window ould die of mortification and— Care " she went on, coe ty, “if J should be little late, wouldn't you coine and let me in? Twelve is socarly to get home, you know. “There's the snpper bell.” won't you” papa wouldn't like it. Besides, I really can't guarantes to keep awake nowa- days) Make your arrangements to come home early, aiid if you're late, just get in the back window;” and Caroline hastened dowa to supper. . ‘The next evening—a bitterly cold January evening—duly arrived. Caroline dawilled over her supper a while; then went bac her chamber, and threw’ herself into a cush- joned chair with a novel in her ‘She was so deeply engaged with this that she seemed not to hear Alice's pleading voice cal- Ling across the hill: % “Caroline, Caroline dear, if you'd only fix r @ little! Norah is sick, and it's so d these puffs won't stay in place.” i, what makes you try to puff you hair yourself?” was the final ungracious re- sponse. _ “If you'll just fasten this hair-pin— - «I don't see but it looks well enough. It's ridiculous for youto goout to-night with yertin going cloak and_ furs. “ io wear my : Papa tabi aes to be sure to wear them. There, Caroline, that 'Il do.” ‘aroline returned to her chair and her no- vel, but she d: the book when a ring a: the door advertised Mr. Evart's grrival, ant for a long time after Alice was gone she sa scowling at the cai busy with uncomfor table thoughts. Here she was, almos twenty-five years old, passe, and principally useful in ety asa foil for her sister Altee, whose soft bloom and heavy coils of hai: never looked fairer than beside her own sh: eager face (which had been beautifal unt discontent had soured it). “Twenty-five and with not the ghost of @ lover who could offer ber an establishment!” Caroline threw the novel across the room and n to pace back and forth restiessly. Rivaled and outdone by Alice, a mere girl, and laughed at by her asso- ciates who knew how high she had placed her wishes! Something akin to hatred flashed from Caroline's eyes as she pulled a photo- aph of Alice from the mantel and threw it fire the fire. As bag gr the — “4 ticles floating up chimney the struck eleven. Caroline turned off the gas anddrew up the curtain. She was mney, bet too much exetted to Gazing out into the wintry street, with bril it moonlight, she noted the high white clouds, the lighted windows, and the hurry! on the sidewalk below, and meanwhile went ou with her bitter reverie. It was long be- fore she tured shiveringly back into the | Warm room. so long that as she beat down to. look at her watch by the aid of the fire-light, she saw with a start that it wanted fe min- utes of twelve. | Caroline’stole into the hall. The whole seemed intensely quiet. She glidet notselessiy down to the head of the basement siairs. AS she stood there listening the cloc! above struck twelve. She heard the coc yawn and shuffle heavily across the kitchen. Caroline retreated to the dining-room, and presently the woman passel on the way to er attic chamber, leaving all dark and silent below. In ten minutes more the listener heant the sound of her hea snoring. Aut still no ring at the door. tered Caroline, tri- "sa pretty pickic for Miss “They're belated,” m omphantiy. “Her Allee. I wonder tf she took the nail out of that window?” Determining to make sure, her way burriedly through the kite! and along @ passage-wny into the rear kitchen, which was not much used in winter. Hore she struck a mateh and hastily glanced around. The single window in the room was bo the door by which she had entered. ‘he nail that usually was inserted above the sash had been withdrawn, and Caroline found that the window would lifteasily. A wicked idea came Into her head as she stood hesitat- ing in semi-darkness, in momentary expec- tation of hearing a ring above. Why not re- place the nail and let it pass for the cook's doing? The window ought never to be left unlocked, and the woman might have no- ticed that i€ was so. Besides, Allee would never dare to ask questions. Ahd what would she do, left outside with Mr. Evarts?) And what would he think ofa lady placed in such a predicament? Surely the fates favored rolin Caroline groped It! where should she find a nail rehed the kitchen and cupboard in a peeth be be , but nothing offered except rk, and this She could not thrust into the She hat shaken down her euris, not a hair-pin remained in them. In des} she was about to run up stairs for on last-mentioned es, WN m the pected ring 4 or echoed thy LOU i like trie she now. bafited plort by the fig more gt stampet in impot nger t of her last mateh she stone round, over walls and floor, in shape of a nail escaped her lips, sss the room, she by m ged a heavy table th few yards to the rigit of t ath it. Never heeding the suecession of rings that went on sou g above, she tolled and tugged at this table un- til it Stood squarely across the windo she laughed to herself as she stood ther rk, listening to the e 8 of the A lnugh easily explain rtipon that cook had “placed th baking, Z ol ten pies and ¥es of br to exult ring had alas she fled up p Ustopped before she had thrown ag tuto bed, still quiv- Stairs. bu off her clothes and sp ering with excitement If Caroli i she cou she wou ii standin tine the flight th: <uchmian, was restin pulls at the bell. “Don't trouble yourself to ring an; said the lady. - It is very singu- len sleep, I think, from his more — wake her, nustn’t we?” rejoined the gentler me wrap your cloak around such a cold night. Doni b one must be waked present!) “Oh, Ldon'tmind the col halt crying, “but 'm sa use. Papa is such a heavy sleeper. line Is so tived ou the sleep in the house. The coachy “if he didn’t wake ‘em with this her the angel Gabriel to do i! ‘and was prepari sault, when the gent i » is somethin: e around to the rear of t and see if there is any light said the : the windoy mber there. And Alice b rish bh sit fasten, I It's Ine T remembered n tode her puzzled cavalier re- Wylie, pray wait Shot this ringing. Let me put Tt is im in until the door is opene * y don't do an¥ thing about it! in, and Dd rathe disturh * insisted f the house, Jel bet we “Discard Folly of your cll ofit. In for me to drive fries s comp Lonly rejoined, imploring!s Oh note ais hour init? ‘The only t s quietly as possible something that looks like & Logs! ing in the shadow of the hou draw it up here, I think it ‘ll be high Mr. Evarts looked with pardonah! tion from the speaker to the article indic and commenced another remonstranc was cut short by the pressure of two besee ing hands laid on his arm, and by an aumis- takable sob. “Oh. Mr. Evarts, please, please!” Mr. Evarts went for the hogshead. It was infirm, heavy, and coated with slime; bat he laid his aristocratic and nicely gloved hands upon it without delay, and by much exertion relled and pushed it to required place. When it was set br ce with a final ‘he that brought the thick drops of pers to the young man’s brow, he me ered pause. But Alice said, inn ytipover. Wait hold us both; yupon it, and & ness With two or th ie stamps, reached down both n: who, encum iments, had muc hold at his sid When she was fairly : em- the hogsheal Mr. Evarts was obliged her with his arm to. vent her from . To con- cen! an odd sensittion thé through his veins as her cheek, 5) touched his own for A moment, li with a half lang! his barrel ishardly large enough to waltz ww shall I get in the window anit I her vexatioa. spring she was on the window- hering her loose drapery to- gether with one hand, she put out the other to 2 ifthe deseent was clear. To her amaze ment her white-kidded fingers sank into a soft mass of Some greasy substance. With a ry of surprise she recolied, and her cavalier inguired from without. What is it?) What— “Nothing,” Alice hastened to say, fecling that she would face any thing rather than ask farther aid frombim. “‘Nothingatall. Lam yery much obliged to you, Mr. Evarts, and if I knew bow to apologize. ae “Apo! Why should you? I've ther enjoyed the adyeature, or should have enjoyed It if you had. Can you get down there safely? “Oh, certainly. Iso much regret that any ing So unpleasant should have happened. “Well, next Thursday night, whea you go tothe next soiree with me, I shall tell the cook to keep awvke, that is, if you consent to go,” said Mr. Evarts, dreading to lose sight Of the piquant face looking down at him from the dark window. “Thank you,” Alice rejoined, wishing with all her heart that he would go; for now the is a come in moar another moist substance, and one foo! mbedded in something wet and yielding. oT hall ee oe Good-night. “What Is it” “Oh, barren I must not keep you here. Good-night again.” or wile iff can not help you any more. I shall call to-morrow if I may, and see how youare. I wish I could have sayed you this exposure and trouble. Good-by. unfortunate Alice, thus left alone, be- gan to feel about in the darkness. Her dis- increased With one seat, and ‘The smell of meat and spices which rose from ealed onl, lainly the nature Grits erachel substance, ‘She was crawling = the a —_ of mince-} wegen tly. Over how mu t guess. She couki only desperately crawl i a et eet to the floor uy rs. sight Tevealod to her eyes when she had i her own chamber can be Seated. Sines cod bests thick with what with slime ani dippings into varions substances, the skirt har liv looked like silk atall. And it was the first time of wring? Alice sat down besi te the ruins of her new “winter rig,” and crfal as if ber heart woul L break. There was no Alice at the bronkfast-table the rext morning. Carolir ad the master of the house were fully occupied with the cook and the lower servants, who decia that the house hal been enters in the Mr. Wylie, of course, on seeing the ruins of the pies and the generat confusion in ths rear kitchen, went intoa passion. A timely hint from Caroline concerning “late hours” gay= him the key of the mystery, and checking his ) tirade with a short’ “Ham: he waiket back to the diaing-room ani sent for Atic Caroline found her sister asleep oa the hearth-rng, with her soiled clothing spreal about on various chairs, and summonet hor to judgment. Ti is useless to attempt to picture Mr. Wy- lie's wrath, Caroline's virtuous. site and Alice's distress. The seene woul have saited a theatre better than a private house. It ended finally with Mr. Wylie’s closing detla- ration, delivered as he palled his great-coat ashbout him to go down town: If you want another cloak, you can buy It yourself. Isha'n’t wy you to it. Poor Alice! Sitting inher chamber, vainly trying to cleanse the besmeared white cloak, she watered it with ber tears the wh ing long. Thoughts of her father’ sure, of Mr. E ‘sp her expense, and of t ternated dismalls evercame near her, and k, so the morning was sitting before th ner when a quick ring at the door roused h. The announcement of Mr. Evarts’ name fol- lowed. Half grateful to him for coming. half are 1 after her aiven- nd was r wel- h was still iyone. She rlornty afer d 3 jing to-tay hope you'll say you’ ve rehe, brought ar y for drove ny new gry” span around here in the hope that Eom tempt you te tz ride. Can't I Alice glanced t a the windew at the horses, then (their “im ride will Alice thought « before ah stil, room up st * frou bi point ras added t ,y ormer trouble too suddenly for he nee. Res iterating her she bi face in he hands and by Ah, that uni She varts did or ith mortifics she not over- asthe ing ail sorts of wild assertions as t the ctl: upon himself ifshe shed another tear, and, fu he became conscious of the faet that arm was about i tears we tiling upon browicloth, hat a tonder i ing that she shoul never ould help it three hours the horses stood b: They were there til! v a toget ren. They wi supper bell. and ¢ sudden entrar the parlor doors, admitting a blaze of from the hall. h—oht nimed the surprised old gen- tleman. 2 in to ask vou to stop to tea with us, ris; and in spite of his at- fempt at dignity, Mr. Wylie smilel as he he noted the tell-tale confusion of the two Foung people. ‘Then seeing, ay he afterward housted, “whieh way the land lay,” he a ded, with a broad laugh, t's true, I can’t offe p have onl pers Bazar. A Perverse Ticket Agen Yesterday afternoon an oll man appeared * the Detroit and Lansing teaitre 1 Heket window at the Central depot, and Skea: you any minee squash ones. tt do you charge fora ticket to Lan- ty. sir,” replied the agent, wet- his thumb and reaching out for the money. Two doliar und zix ee !” exclaimed luis bead out of the win- mane sush'n swine Two-sixty is the will have to pay it if t. Tshurst aid the strang: mt do it. Isthiys 0 rol it De 1 te nt a He exp » Window, #& with aclothing dealer. ent did not occur, and, affer a few e Old man returact and called yt Tilon't go. so help in roit three y bay bolice tax. tax. und w. up mitdis town, nd T shalt not dlet.”” He walked off again, looking back to se* if nt would not call him, and, after a stroll around, he returned to’ the ‘window, ew down some money, and sald: grass. tnd si At to be swiu- Vell, dake two dollar und twenty cents, and gif me'n dickette.” “My dear sir, can’| you understand that we have a schedule of pri must Ce by iv” - os he: replied the agent. Isthays mit Detroit ve exclaimed the stranger, “I bays bolice taxes ald taxes. und I shall 'see about this by the She of Bolice He walked off again, and as he comotive backing up to couple train, he went back to the said.” and that [ 1 dou- tder or f ww the to- a to the window and Gif me‘n dickette for twodollar and thirly ts and J rides on de platform!” n't do it,” said the agent. “Vell, den, by golly, Ispikes to you what Tdoses!’ Here isdem two dollar and zixty cents, and I goes to Lansing and neve) back! No, zir, I shail never come ba shai! come mitde blank road! — I bays taxes by dem bolice, and by dem zewers, und T shall show you dat I shall haf noddings more todo mit dis town! . He went on the train.—Detroit Free Press. Commander Cushing. The following appears as a communication in a recent issue of the Boston Transcript: When one has finished some great work for which he seemed ordained, life fitted, and fall of maturity; when such a one passes away from earth with his work done—well done— wesayamen. Of young Cushing, who died at Washington ef brain fever, after a short sickness, one canuot as yet say this amen, as he was only 52 years old, and never more fitted for the work of his life than now. With the years that had come to him since the war had come that wisdom which time gives, and with 2 most true and proud love for his coun- try, it seemed as though he was needed to Aimerica. How many times he has been heard to say, “I live formy country; if ne- cessary, L am willing to die for it.” When all matters had been arranged for the destruction of the Albemarle, he came to Massuchusetts to say what’ he supposed would be his last y to some dear rela- tives here. He did not say what he was going to do, but “I’m going upon an expedi- tion where, fail or not fail, there seems not the faintest chance of my life.” “But, Wit- lie, (his pet name,) are you willing?” “Yes, perfectly,” he answered, “if so doing it helps to achieve for my country, what Iam deter- mined it shall, success and the close of this wa He gave the good-by kiss with a quiv- ering lip and eyes full of tears. Ah, indeed! the bravest are the tenderest. He well con- sidered all the labilities, but he was no weakling to foolishly give up his life, and after placing with his own hand the tor lo in position, and hearing the ted call to cored r, and tee cannon 48 teari out the bottom of his boat, he isto his men, “No surrender then with a shout in to the foo—*No surrender!" and pulling off his boots and outer garments, struck out for his life. He was in the water all night, swimming back once to help along asailor. In the jest dawn he the “SLIM JIM. 4 raphic Sketch of the Great Central Pacific Monte-Thrower Mysteries of the “Litt! er” ai “Train. Working” Explained. [Sem Francisco Chronicle, Deo. 2.) Slim Jism is not the John Oakhurst of pion- eer California literature. It is probably not in his composition to press chivalrous devo- tien to such an extreme of loys would die with persons whom he could save. Very likely he would never be able to | pass in his checks with that lofty politenes jSometimes achicved by great criminals—uo- | tably those of frontier fietion. It cannot be | sald'that he Is Ike the John € jain of | t, who hangs on the of society with an ease and grace born ¢ rough knowledge of the world and its shadiest paths. John Chamberiain has met on terms of temporary | equality with the mos! polished—perhaps not the best—geatiemen of the time t cities of the East. Stim state in which morality shades itselt off into vice with easier gradations, and the two sometimes become mived and indeterminate at the edges; where society, outside of towns and villages, isas yet unfinishet. No good comes of painting the devil worse than. he is. refathers did that, and what is the re- A world full of bi itmen of extreme ews, and a strong tendency to atheisin are. course, men, and men, gamblers and ganiblers; why have we such portraits asdohn Oakhurst painted with ey vid hues of Titian, aad a literalness almost pre Rap! Slim dim new throut brigar ears of an unhapy the intimation th torthe lord on ata hotel dinuer. To say ns is not depre: that vie Kes is an Ape & man cries *H to let up; and when a i © has ‘lived a life that no moralist can ays. “Lam going to forsake my course and Tollow some leg! ss,” the publ rtainly 1 will not, > promised it is time m Jin, iand in the w reformation. Tt wits soni writer ponde for Slim Jim two or thre 3 nee. Everybody knows that that man is the most notoriogs thre cant monte player of the time. Everyboly that the except the vielims knows how that’ lit game is j re it has t stecessfu: The laws nking gam rd monte men The thre trick game" legal immunity . and they pract it, or have some months pricticing it, on the cars 1 in the saloons at the stations of the Cen- 1 Pacific railroad. T more aristocrat te men have ouly © work: ss Serupul gs from Ui "a of their operation can be explained in y wonds for the benefit of the ninety- der who does not unders |. When n stops at some station in Nevada the monte men board it like any passenger who desires to go to some other station on legiti- Two or three men, who play rs,” elther enter with him already, having embarked at ation, 3 amplishead monte pretends to be either a miner or a drover, very green, and has pleaty of mone which he shows care- lessiy and freely. means, his cappers assisting. he aby ing up the show of verdancy, he indu elers to bet that U three cards, rapidly suspecting traveter is sure by mie of the The un- can detect the right one. and fully expects to win the ¥ of the poor, innocent mine The dis- gamble: but not always, and, bavi As he © togo, he alights Ss the next train back to the st point The reporter did no! the sof the ei lired and not court sau cidental Hotel. Thé sporting gentleman, whose ocenpation is for the present gon in a small beck room, leaning on a table hardly cheerful, but still somewhat encour- aged by the prosperous issue of a recent law- : His attire was not remarkable tor ex- look for + He fe and bh ch was small and 1 discharged ofexpression and similarly ne tive. Only a furtive glance now and then from his rather small eyes shov iderable intelligence lurking Somewhe in his brain, U ly for this story he did not use his by from which the troutier rou ed its most piquant favor. i id discern, th vily bearded, was all that hi beantics of U him as the Hinde ptian hieroglyph. sed his 1 depths to the efle was amp: nchilla coat-eollar, and replied t that his newspaper toricty pall practical purpose: diid not care to extend it. Upon being pressd he sustzined part ina colloquy, Which ran much afier the following manner. After lis- tening to a es of complaints regarding the persecution. to which he had been sub- jected by the Central Pacific railroad eom- pany. stimulated to virtuous efforts by the slanders of the ific Mail steamship com- P sked bim nee you have played on Pacific rativoad?" 7 ard the last two months, and they all know i “Ha ma ever been arrested or been In any difficulty growing out of your monte gaimes before the recent arrests by the United States authoritie: “never have. I have never even had per- sonal trouble with any one from whom Ihave won money during several years’ experience on # good inany railroads and in a good many fates. This Whole excitement has been sed by the railroad detectives, who want to get their names up, and are working ina lively style for their own interests. There is a great ference in the men who have been practicing the game. A few fellows up there n Nevada, wh abused passengers, i anadvantage which nh used to the utmost. Persons who Jose nevercexpress any dissatisfaction so long ‘&s the bets have been legitimate. If a man doesn’t choose to bet his money. [don’t choose towin. It isat their own Option, entirely, and it is to be supposed that every sober man knows what he is doing. Atthis point Slim Jim developed a little Mephistophelean policy which made John Oakburst’s career for a time so successful— that is never to get drunk while on duty, As Mr. Harte puts it, it interferes with a pro- fession that requires coolness, impressiveness and presence of mind.” Mr. Oakhurst used tosay to himself in one of those lofty, intel- I moods of which only the California fe ler is capable, that he “couldn't afford The question asked: «Is it true that money is won from passengers when drun! The reply was: “I have never seen a drank- en passenger betting on the three-card game. I never would play with one who was in that condition. In fact, a drunken man is not likely to bet at all. If the vietim were in- toxicated he could not see the advantage which he thinks he has over an unsophisti- cated miner, who has plenty of money, bat ay pa ‘ently not sense enough to take care o etectives “You consider, then, that a portion of the guilt, if there is any guilt, attaches to the man who is called the victim?” “Of course Ido. The victim goes in to win the money of this man, whom he thinks fool- ish and unsophisticated, and he will have it if he can get it. He is a gambler just as much as the monte man, but one of the kind who will never bet except on what he con- siders a sure thing. He is itive that he knows the card that will win, either by the corners being turned Be or by some other mark on the back of it. What om thy does such @ man deserve when Yoses? None at all, I should think. He thinks, he almost knows, that he is going to win, while {cannot tell half the time whether I shall win or lose.” “How is that? Do you mean to say that You are not sure of winning in ev case?” * Of course Iam not. Tae man who bots is liable to get hold of the it card, It is always there, and a smart fellow may pick it up ifhe is quick-sighted enough. It'd Lees cee 4 on the monte ‘man’s s! manipulating the cards, and little tricks he has of changing the outside face card on which the bet done.’ «Thave been told that no : win in betting on three-card monte; that the monte sh: means of the face at the moment im. For instance, that which the EF nic0283 r : ‘ usually bet on the olf woman. Just 1 fy Ay the cards over one another dexteriously.) Here is the old woman, with one corner turned up. The flat sees tf. ant would het his bottem dollar that be can pick itup. Perhaps he bets on it and wins. That makes the flat more confident, and he is ready to bet again. The chances next time mayn't be so good. [Here followed another rapid shifting of the three cards.) Can you pick up the old woman? Ha, hat that aint it. Turned that corner while shifting th Hore’s the old woman (picking up a cart with the corner smoothed out, a litte black- ened by a dirty thumb.) Now you umter- stand how it is done. We change the looks of the card in manipulating it. So this way (stowing a longitndinal creas») sometimes so, (exhibiting a lateral crease. complicated by a compound fracture.) If ati depends on the skill of the monte man, you know. If he is awkward he loses; if he is uick and active be wins. But tt ain't sure ing any way. It can’t be. No man caa put a spoi on the carts the way you say. He Would be detected at it.” “What has been your usual disguise waen working the trains?” “IT have always represented myself as a | aha miner. When I got on the tr going cast I had always made my “pi was going home, and when I was comind this way | was just coming down to have « good time at ‘Frisco before L lett for the east. I would always have my pockeis full of money, and was always green and innocent and acted as if [did not Know bow care of it. Then | roped the people in va rious ways by the aid ofmy cappers, and the greenies would flock around me sure to wi Good people would come to me aad tell me I wasn't fit to have any money, am! 1 f ter give it to the conductor to ts or put it’ in the express car. T¢ have been y: pmereiful t fleeced. ame to me and said that was they had, or that they were ruined 4 families, and all that f thing, I ays iet them have sor ck, if if amounted to anythi y, exactly, lost mone me of them hi it was ali th about ft, have fron singoua tour h money tarnished by his cong 1 is covered ail over with ex pressions of of his flock.” tenderest love government) prot Bat th ‘ed for too hh y small me: There is little gambling in Paris three-card monte is not a good played on continental roads. however, and su ¥, too, great roads in E pool, Midlan Stayed there if I going her “Have any of the three-c made money the bus of them hay . They win of dollars one day and That's the wa Bill is the ric whi "i Zo, Omaha, pla owns several small hotels in both thes: But he did not make all his money in tae three-card monte Most of it he ron at banking g conyersitt life of Si as well be called thirty-seven years of his life at San A ihat school there, Upen his searf was ety badge with the lone iscence of his days of inner since he arrived at manhood be ty gambling games, but those thi looked at as.so very bad in Tex been away from His native years, world playing three-card wy made some money, and was g gage in a legitimate busine it was about time for them to want had liv most He ast toen- did think ap on him, had had accused him anyway ofa thousand t He fol- had never been guilty of > reporter lo the dc injunct , light on hin parted. Henry Wilberforce Brown, Widower. [Detroit Free Press.) t the Central Station last night in He wasn’t drank, and he looked neat and clean thata reporter was led to quire why he was detainted i Henry Wilberforce Brown is Jearsot ag owns 4 r He arrived he Sunday night train for the purpose of hunt- ing a wife, and early Monday morning he Started out. He didn’t intend to lose time, but as soon as he found the right sort of a woman he meant to go toa justice, Lave the knot tied, and start for honie. corner of Woodward and Jefferson nues he encountered nung girl, and he stopped hi Miss. my name A Henr; Brown. 1 am the father of tl have horses, cows, and a farm. wife. [like your appear—.” She jemped away (rom him aod ran across the street, and he ided that she make a good wife anyway. He » upas faras Larned street before bh ver face that suited hin, he woman and said muiy, my name is Henry: Wilberforce Brown. I am the father of three children, owna nicefarm. ve lots of mone and I want to marry. You are a mighiy handsome woman, and if you will say the Word we'll go and get ——" “Sir!” she said, as she stepped back: “sir! you are a drunken old fool!” “You wouldn't suit me—too much tem- per! he replied, and he waved his hand at her and passed on. He was gazing at the City i, when a portly female came sailing around the eor- ner of Michigan avenue, and the widower took offhis hat, made a low bow, and as she halted and wondered who he was, he said: « Mademe, lam Henry Wilbe ¢ Brown. T am the father of three children. have s unda farm, and I am looking Wilberforce ee chit nd I want a she gasped. retres no offence, madam! am looking for a wife, and perhaps you can assist me. Ifso, I will send vou 4 hull lot of produce to pay for your trouble. I didn’t want to marry you, because y Loo stout, and I know that stout women‘ are often as lazy as the day is long; but perhaps you can tell me of some nice little” You old wretch!” she shrieked; “ you ought to be lashed to the bone with a raw- hide! If I could see a policeman (looking around) I'd have you in fail in five minut Henry Wilberforce Brown was somewhat discouraged by his failures, but he concluded that patience and perseverance would brin: him ‘success before noon, and he walked around the Opera House biock. He carefully noted every passing female, and it was half an hour before he found one to sult. He thought he had, perhaps, been too bold with the others, and so when he stopped this one he inquired: “ Miss, you know lots of women in Detroit, don't you?” “What!” she asked in amazement. “This is nice weather to go on a bridal tower!" he continued, giving her a powerful wink with his left eye! She ran into a store, earpeuine him drunk or crazy, and after a little reflection he de- cided that the boldest way was the best. He Would state his business frankly, and then if they don’t want to marry him there would be ho time lost. He started for the market, but on Monroe avenue he encountered an- other female whose face suited his idea, and he walked right up to her and said: “Miss, I am the father of several farms, and my name ts Henry Wilberforce Brown, I own three children, several cows, and wEPoliee! she ed, strik “Police!” screamed, striking at him with her umbrella. . “Oh! no offence, madam; if you are en- ing a litte. “he wenton. “I t | plied. SHARP SCHOLARS ic Sheoting on the Part of a =e ‘The San Francisco Post says: We gave the other day the examination paper of « tourte te pupil, which Wasa curiosity tn tt way Phere are few schools which could ra hibit some quite as funny, ant, ine. too tred, the teachers now poring ov -r examina tion papers must have many @ hearty jeuch For instance, some fourth grate papers wa have lookest over farntsh such information ts this in answer to the questions givon whe ber day ~Man is the largest being on Land * The difference between a dog and « cow is acog has five toes in tis front feet aod four toes on its hind feet. “Deciduous means to dry The lawyer constructs peopl” Lawyers are peace makers | “Lawyers govern the country “Lawyers plead cascs Aud ase common sense.” | “The doctor saves people from dying. ang is very useful man for cutting oi bogs ant vin. Doctors are men. The lawyers, if you lend some money fo another man and he lid | not pay you, you would go tosull ant divorce.” Lawyers decide a cas trow “The banyan and magnolia trees are in the Osymety vil » the feline te alump under ther “The feet of r fanny formation In reply to questions about as camel One says “THE FOOT OF THE CAMEL is at the botte f his legs. to walk other says: fost of the cao pur ieet high, and th and tor parts toin enon: drinkin, bound t foo camel ts aset val he did not have any f wad be K feet” and two reptil 26 > with other rally litde sing appropriz used “dragran: tw of spring; and Were Sometimes used in the fansiest ¢ nect s for inst ~The “The woman is « Dustib flexibh boy ts elastic. Ta is fragr . see through ombuste- ble flexible boy £ hous broken down.” “The uble t » fragrant iz cal horse man ts sick Silver is ele se The elastis run. > soluble is combustively. Horse legs are . that bursts. antic: he is to be text vluble girl sits at h TT: com » lite boy walks. I have fexible thoughts ‘Soluble little bells are ringing. The ever isnot done. The soluble girt ts “she is flexible about her The so! is dena. <8 Soluble horse terday. That cow was a ¥ thing.” What a combustille face that is.” One pupil, in despair « » containing th every e wear Mary went the latab'suluble to he use of coral and sandston ° being asked, © little fellow of a commercial turn an ed, + buy.” Most of t pupils ‘wrote that coral is to make inte “jewelry” or “guiery.”” Some of the other re- plics were Coral isused tomake diamonds and pearls. Sandstone is to be put on graves Coral ts to be put int stove. ral and sandste lel.” al is to make lace; sandst bour gias In answer to“Give the names o mestic animals and their uses, plied, « dd ofe “Dogs and wild cats. Some * good to catch rats, and dogs are Another replied, “Chickens—their uses are The cow—ils uses is to ¢ ¢ two animals nurse their y i ing required “five p one boy wrote, . bottom, middle, two sides.” ow! | was one of t all an- | swered, “To rest "but ow To rest their mind, when they 1h lany:* and a third, “Th is when they sleep. ‘Some ma! is in trouble and wants to open the door, the other animal wakes up and breaks the door and runs after the animal.” Various answers were given to the diree- tion toname three common aud rare fruit plants, among which were*Cora, corn starch, and popeorn;” ‘Green corn, corn for chickens, and corn to make candy.” Some curious answers were given by the pupils in the higher grades. --Philanthropist vas defined by « pil in the first gra: ‘a fighter,” and “unsullied™ as “rolling.” second grade scholar defined “dilator sacred place.” A second grade pupil od Maine as follows: “North by Oregon. east by the n, south by Michigas, a Nearly mes when the ani- os A Pasta west by ns.” The pupils of the second grade were required to wrile for a dictation exe @ short ac- count of ALEXANDER SELKIRK. The biography was read to them three times, and then they were to write what they —o ofit. One pupil peaned the fol- jowing: “Alexander Selkirk started on a voyage about a century azo. Hix chief things ware commerce and piratical. He went out with Captain Staadburg to the Juan Fernandes Islands on a voyage to the sea. The shij satled was about fourteen miles long, s! feet, broad. and about four hundred miies from any point of land. His chief food was some meat and ocean fish. When they returned to land he Dullt'a house of some pinento woods using goat-skin outsix rt, and ha grass all around it.” - ste Is it any wonder, with such a collection of Crrors to correct, a teacher should say,as one did yesterday, “Sometimes, when I see the onsense in these papers, I wonder are alldoing. And yet we are workin slaves, all of us.” Too much is required of the pupils, and the cramming system necessitated prodtices only @ confusion of ideas. Look at the musical catechism taught in theschools. Tie first 100 questions and answers are to be taught orally to the fifth grade. The first question im, “What ts a tone?” and the answer is, “A sound — by the even and unterrupted vibrations of some sonorous or elastic boty in the air. In singing, tone is breath made vocal.” ngs of solu- ‘Judging from the definitions bie, elastic, and combustible, this sentence can the poy ued conven apni i had secon les, the former sixtesa words, the latter thiriy, and the latt by far the more difficult. “were A FEW DAYS SINCE @ convict resorted toa [agl momen before regain his liberty. . Just their