Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1878, Page 2

BRIDAL VEIL. > they sav, aud you thiuk you have ‘3 white vell from my he ad took acter to vex you, ant my grieve ww distrust you, and Saita to boliewe pnmon ¢a-th, common dew: Ie Ly Poses, wis t ning " It is not yours to-day for ta ye nin The past is not mine—T am too proad t You most grow co new hights if I morrow. love you to- We're married! praises. As the turf at your feet dos ts handfal of daisies; ‘That way lies my honor—my pathway vf pride, But, mark you if greener grass grow either side, I sbali know it, aud keeping in body with you, Shall walk io my spirit with feet o1 the dew! We're married! O. pray that our love do not fail! F have wings flattened down and hid under my vel They are su And swift het I'm plighted ‘o hold up your as lig ht—you can undo them, n thelr fight—you can never parsue them. And spite of all clasping, and spite of all bands, I can sliplixe a shadow, adream, from yourhaads, Nay, call me not cruel, and fear not to take me, 1am yours for my lifetime, to be what you make me,— To wear my white veil for a sign or acover, Asyou sha! be proven my lord or my lover? ‘A cover tor peace that is d-ad, ora token Of biiss that can never be written or spoken. (Alice Carey, ——_-e. THE FOUR GUARDIANS OF LAGRANGE. [From the N. ¥. Sun.) BY BRET HARTE. Part I —TueE Trvst. It certainly was a matter of serious import that so gravely interested the four most expe rienced and seif-contained citizens of range. For nearly haif an hour they had sitting in the private room of Riker’s grocery without exchanging a word. Even the silent ‘communion of libation was their liquor swod untasted that aroused the serious concern of the bar- he free comment of the outside bar. 's some new ‘skin’ game im- ported from ‘Frisco. and they want to keep their heads level,” wassuggesied by a cautious gossiper The barkeeper shook his head. Nary deck ©’ keerds thar—onless they plays ‘em under the table, and thet aint their style.’ “Ye didn't notiss no lumps 0° sugar, sorter | lyin’ ‘round, keerless like, before each m insinuated another, “at and quiet, waitin and rake down the pile. speaker continued, cautiously, “t food money hez been lost in thet oa eristian ike way. “Yes,” interpolated a third. flies, ez knew just when to lig rung in o! = Thar down at Fi they ‘and trained ht, hez be Wats ay, piexed up innocent one o” the ass down on t Ita m viteraied the : in more “a om their minds, My beidef is 0 revive the oid vigilints of a lot o de tno barkeeper si tlie: th ion of certain’ unsettied scur “ez mebbee will find out soon enuugh We up. Unfortun: ever ingeniou The simpie {: miner had on his deathbed calle the above-mentioned four eitiz grange, and solemuly confided to €are of his only rect. ee . iy deceased nem the * with the of the death of her p and it now devolved guardians to inform che orpaan of her double bereavement. Tuis was the first meeting of the guardians since they had last looked upon the face of their dead comrade. Hence their ve silence and perpiexicy. At last the spell was broken. Que of the party, a tall, thin, riekety man, who had been softly pacing the room with a ‘ce:tain dep catory manner and a smile of imbeciie ac- quiescence iu everything and anytaing that Shone out at the slighest expressivn, even of Vexation or anxiety on the part of his co.n panions, gradually neared the door, and laid @ large, bony, good-humored hand on the lock. The aci was instantly detected by one of the party, who coolly locked the door aad put the key on the table. “Ye can’t slip outer this, Rats,” he said; ‘ye must sit dowa here with the rest of us, and see what's to be done.” Capt. Rats weakly suceumbed and b2gan to apol ize. “IT warh’t goin’ back on ye, Hor- on, began. I only reexoned ez ye all eemed to be gittin: vo famous, athinking ‘d Jest Slip out and ‘tend to som> busdaess, nd allow ye to make up yer mind without me—countin’ me out, and yourselves as my roxies. For wot's agresable to you Is agcee- ble tome. I'm no sharp at this game. bi vs @ guardian,” responded Horton,de- + isively. “ia course. Tuat’s so. But L allow it ain't no valid appuiutmeut. Tae very fact thet the GF wae sypotnied a@ d—J foo! like ina, shows Le warn’t in his right mind. at's so, boys.” ejaculated the eldest of *he four, wit a sudden gleam of nopefulness, “The old man was sorter fligh:y just afore he went off, and we can silp our heads outer this asso he tung over us by allowin’ insanity, you now.” ““ We can’t slouch out of this kind of a trust though, Colonei,” said Jue Fleet, the youngest of the party, yet witha leader's psre.nptori- ness. “It aint white to do it The gloam faded from the Colonel's face. “ Thet’s so, it would’ be the square thing,” he said dejectedly ‘iek me, boys.” “Couldn't we Sorter club together and ap- pint a kind of sub-guardian to take care o’ the whole thing on a high salary. I'ilcome dowa heavy,” suggested Horton. “If yecould get achap to do your feelin’ for you ai the same figure I don't Know but it suit,” said Fleet with decided sarcasm. * As for me l aint rich enough to buy up any chap’s conscience.” “Ye may as well quit this foolia,” broke in the Colonel, with a groan. “Tue game's made, and we're goin’ to wade in like men. ‘Mebbee, suthin’ may turn up. Afore long some one of us may get shot or buried in a tunnel, and so get excused on the squar. But just now we must wade in.” “Oh yes, ‘wade in!’” said Horton derisively. “Do you know the first thing we've got to do Why, write to that gal, and tell her thet father was a d—4 old liar, and thet her m er’s been dead a year, and thet now he’s dead too, and thet the d—.J! old fool's property won't bring $00, and that we're goin’ to give her $000 for charity. and adopt her, and if she's a loving sort of ‘a gal, and a higa-spirited gal, she'll like it, and like us all the better. O1 yes!” he continued with sardonic shrillness, “It’s easy enough to do ail that, of course Wade in! Yes! Wade in—drop rignt out o° the ford into deep water over yer head the first thing.” The men looked aghast at each other, and there was another ominous silence. “Couldn't ye let it on easy,” suggested the colonel, de Spairingly, “sorter begin to-day with’ the mother, and next month, when She's feelin’ better and more able to bear it kinder light gently down on her with the decease er father, au‘ so on ontil, in the cours of a year or 50, spell take the charity business quite peace: But Joe Fleet dismissed the ida fiercely. “Ef she’s got any pluck she'll tak a lump. You go to work driftin’ into her feelins like that instead o” sinking your shaft straight down, and you'll hey her crazy bere on your hands in a week!” SSO awlul a3 to conpel my Silence for its s_ern eontem jouldn’t yedrop it on her allina , deceased parents, et estter Capt. Rats, with vague and {m- xd humor, “kinder brisk and busi- said the Colonel, shaking his on and give Captain Ra's a show,” Interrupted Fleet. “Et there's a min ez cin doit it'shim. Didn't he edit the Record uw at Murphy's? Wade in and give usa spsci- amen.” The suggestion met with unanimous favor. apt. Rats, not entirely displeased with this wonfidence in his rhetorical skill, s!id anguiar- 3y into _a chair with an almost audible creak- ‘Ing of a, dipped a pen in the ink, aid ghen put ft inhis mouth. Then softly with- ig it and waving it before him, as if an epistle in space, he be- gan “In the midst of life we arein death, and Not knowin’ what a day may bring fort! beg to inform you—No,” reflected the Captain bovigh feeling some unfavorable criticism in the alr; “No, that won't do. Let’ssee! Ah! “The death of your mother, followed by tie illness of your father, resulting in his decease ‘and the entire loss——*” “Ain't them bricks follerin’ each er close?” suggested the Colonel, f Captain stopped, rubbed his longe fully, and loo ed at the others. I: was evident ¢ this was the prevailing impression. “Well, yes; I was rather thin in’ so myself,” be assented, vaguely. And its Dein’ a gal, don’t you want to heave ipbere and thar alittle sentiment,” said Hor. “and r touch her up gent'y? Tae: Tee re ran oe Sry ony, they kinder +, er.” oy ee returned Capt. Rats cheerfully. Swee “ that very thing, only jist now Zwascerte Ao Hin’ it; showin ye what could pletely lost in the fascination BOW, Bosovaitoa'a Yer food aa sce le like. “It's a gal,” ver lt. Meld other rath- ily. Tae a thougit- | Without, suddenly turned, advanced to th hat’ | clar. We don't write no letters of condole! | other day, tellin’ that , is to tell it, and yet seem not to tell it; to kind- er ring in a cold deck of inform and never Te ye shnite the keerds. Sachin’ like this know: ‘Honored Miss: Exclosed please tnd draft for $000; same would have been sent before but for Wells-Parg v3 office being closed the day of your father's f ek The weather here is fine, but we suppose is | fur different with you in the East, as your de. ceased mother often remarked to the weiter. Business is dull, and ores are ruanine ight, | most o’ the eiaims on the North Fook sha lag the fate of your la’e father’s rity’ Ya see,” continued Capt. Rats, + glow of | suceessful authorship maniling his creek, “chat | kind of letter mout be writ en so that by the time she got through with it it would seem as if she'd knew it all before, and she couldn't | get nary soul to sympathize with her, and help her take on.” The feeling of the m jority was so strongly in favor of the last co:nposition that they all turaed impatien ly to the only dissenter—Joe Feet. But at this moment a knock on the door checked further discussion It was Jack Foster, expreismin—alert, vigilant, familiar, and fateful—holding a let t er. “For John Meritoe,” said the Sierran Mer- cury, crisply. ‘ As we don’t have no offis nor agent at his present address, we deliver at his last residence.” He tossed’ the letter on the table, winked, and was gone. It was for the dead man—the great first eause of their perplexity. Fora few moments it lay there undisturbed, while the mea looked at each other in silence. Then Capt. Rats, | with a decision and independence new to him, took itup. “Ther’s no one, boys, hez a bet- ter Figet to it than we has,” he said. ‘I pro- pose that we open it here afore each otherand read it. “As to opening it, Isecond the movion,” said Joe Fieet’s voice, “but we'll see who its trom before we read it,” added that honora- ble man. The letter was opened. It was si D Titoe. irl herself,” said Fleet promptl i With a hesitating voice, that at last seemed | to almost simulate what might have been the igned “Fan. | | hesitating youthful aecents of the writer, Capt. Rats began. i But 111 deseribe it? It was simple, it was | girlish, it was affectionate. it was real. Again: its candid frankness and simplicity, poor Rat previous rhetoric assumed the appearance of the most monstrous duplicity and deceitful | sophistry. It was evident that the writer had seen but little of her real father, and that the rather common place, homely, often somewhat despicable figure known to the men who now listened to her yearnings was not the ideal parent of her d At last Capt. Rats ished. The ght huskinoss in the Captain’s voice, a slight dimness in his eye- sight as he ended, and a blur upon the fair page that was not there when he began. | he Colonel had dropped his head between his two hands. Horton had never taken his eyes from the paper. Fieet, who hal wal to the window and had been appar bsorbed in staring at the staring sun ut | He held out both his hands. In another | moment they were locked in his companions’, and the four men, holding hands, closed round the table and the letter that lay ia the | center. “We don't want no letter of condolence, Capt. Rats, said Joe Fleet,” sturdily, “for there ainsi thin’ to eondole for. I don't see just now how 1t is, or how we ean fix it, but | J know that that girl's parents aint dea'l, ez | long. please God, as we are living!” The men. pressed each other's tence, until Capt. Rats, with a burst of revela- tion, disengaged his, and suddeniy brought it against his right leg with resounding em phas table, a hands in si it—and it makes the whole thi for why? We goes straight on and writ if we Was the old man. He's let on enough to | me about hisself and his affairs te as easy as fallin’ off a log. We'll jus’ chip in waar he ‘left off. We'll take his hand as it is, pay | out his little game, win or lose, and if four | sharps like us can’t make it easy for that child | and rake in the pot every time, we'll leave the 22 board. Yes, gentlemen,” coutinn Rats, taking up the letter, “I'll answer this to night | myself. I Capt. Rats, late Meritoe, deceased.” Part U.—How THe Trust Was FULFILLED. | _ When the combined guardians of Lagrange | first prac.ised to deceive, they did not forecast | the taug.ed web whose pleasant intricacies and. sinuosi.ies they were Presently to weave. And when ead Rats calmly announes is gentle confederates his intenion of writin his | first letter—in loco parentis—to the orphaned girl with his left hand, expliining to | her the thereby changed chirogtaphy through | the Ingenioas oo ceideat that had | to said the Captain, ‘every man slings ink with his bout ‘the same gait. The styie ain't pretty nor plain, but she’il never find out itain't the old man’s. The possibility of detection thus obyiated— and, indeed, itafterwards appeared that the simple-minded girl dwelt more anxiously upon the discomforts of the accident to her father than on his changed and almost illegible hand—various other gentle frauds and deceits were introduced in the correspondence. A certain emulation of the Captain's skill and importance as a correspondent grew up am ong the other guardians. They began to 1 e suggestions of their own, until at last steamer day brought them generally together, in con- clave, in the back room of the saloon, where the fortnightly epistle was dictated fin'lly by all. Capt. Rats’s pride, which at first resented this interference, was finally placated by the compromise that the composition or “word- ing” of the letter should be his owa, although the subject matter might be a various contri- ution. The result of this unhallowed collaboration was a series of the most extraordinary letters ever inflicted on a single correspondent. It was noi long before their fame passed beyond the horizon of their fair recipient. ‘Do you know, papa dear,” wrote the simple girl from the seclusion of e. Brimborion’s academy ; “do you know your letters are so very, very in- | teres ing, I could not help showing’ them to some of the girls here? You account [the Col. onel’s] of the fight with the bear was so real that I almost saw it. I jaugbed til I eried over | that funny story of the Chinaman mending | od clothes [a characteristic contribution from Horton,] but thenI did cry Teally, too, apa, over what you [Fleet] said about your | eelings that Sunday you saw the sunset from the poor li:tie forlorn cemetery on the hill. | Oh, papa! it ~~ lovely—and so sad—sw | ery sad! Mary Rickets said it was just like | Shakspeare, and she knows, oh, so much, an is considered wer very smart! They all think | Tought to be so fond of my dear papa, as if I | wanted anything to make me love him! Ste, | Mary, asked me if you were very oid,and [ said you couldn’t be very—are you? Then that | was Very good about the mines thit you [ile | Colonel] wrote. Mme. Brimbrion asked per- | mission to copy that pari where you [the Col- | onel] describe the manner of reducing ores; she said it was so instructive and valuable. Dear pana, how much you do kuow! Bat I think I like you better when you're a little— | just a little sad, and say such sweet things about the landscape and your longings. [in | sure you're a real poet, papa—ain't you?” It is searcely necessary to say that when this letter was read Fleet coughed slightly, colored pereepuiy, muttered something vaguely about “really having forgotten it all,” but remem- bered only that he had dictated to Capt. Rats some suggestions that he “thought might lease the young thing,” &c., nor that a slight eeling of jealousy crept into the beasts ‘all but complacent Captain. Indeed, the Colonel is said to have afterward remarked aside to Horton that he was of the opinion that Fleet's “flap doodle” and “ purp stuff” wasn’t exactly the thing to ladle out” to young girlthat was overdosed with chewing gum and and Fleet is reported to have cau- tioned Capt. Rats against the freedom of some of the Colonel's stories, “Ez fur as_ the word- in’ goes,” explained Capt. Rats, “I plays my own cards; so don't you get skeert! QOa’y the about the ‘cooa hunt, the Kernel aliowed the dogs was ‘heil bent’ on gettin’ the coon. Lord love ye; do ye think I set that down for that little gal’s eye? Not much! 1 jist sat dowa sorter keerless and quiet like, and slings her this: ‘Meanwhile, the noble hounds, justly emulating the feverish impatience and ambitious Sieg of theirmas- ter!” Lord, it’s easy enough to turn the Ker- nel into decent agilshef you've it the sabe! Why, it’s jist wonderful how keerless men is in their composition. Why even you, Fleet, I hed to take you down last letter. Don't ye mind ye was lettin’ on about Night walkin’ in her scant robes on the hill? Did ye think I was goin’ to hand that over to that child? No, sir. I stopped it! How? Why, I jest said “suitable apparelied.’” That's all. {v's easy when you Know how. Another unlooked-for result naturally fol- lowed the baleful excellence of this corre- spondence. Miss Fanny grew more and more anxious to bel again the author of her xtraordinary letters. Que or two vague hints to that effect. thrown out in her correspondence, were received with alarm Oy, her guardians, and it was finally re- solved that the next letter should be composed in such a manner as to effectually check this wanton desire. For this purpose all the guar- dians assembled. Considerable excitement was manifested. I grieve to record the fact much liquor was drunk, and that Capt. Rats was somewhat exalted and discursive. But your true gentleman is never more fastidious and refined than in his cups; and the gentle ‘apt. Rats, during the whole letter (save an occasional ap), heid his rhetorical hat defer- entially in his hand. A copy of this epistie has been preserved, and runs as follows: to han i, aud co our sainted in ther » Rand and trast gaat eho branes 1 to 5 rust tne by’ ‘which you retained atterp:ying Mule, Brimborion's bik will be sufficient fur Fou chase laces, furbelows, bonnets, w ies heslery, suliable to the "season ahd the fashi We (that is. your mother—who : write, by reasoa of a sore fin: nd myse'f, hope ‘you wil! not spare any expense ts «loth> yourself equal to your scho.'matey, We 20. | ment: | road and seize the truant epistle was the work what you say about Mary Ricket:'s new silk dressy that enst 875. You are to see that $75 and g> har $50 oF $10 better, drawing on us tor the ha'aac ifstore, Kaige the Rickett giel or bust, you are careful of your health, rake too frequently of chat your French and music We trust that you wrap ap warin’ You go ont. and are careful about your lina | atin adiul astern climate, al always wat | Our rnbbers. ‘Tue wheat crop this year Will ayers nearly forty bushels to the acre, or su | abitant of the State with for: and stil leave 100.060 bushels far exp y-ta- ne Wich ihe Pacific Ratiroad flaisbed aud che affete nations of Europe and Asia knocking st tne ‘do'den Gate * rbreadstaffs, the time i3 vt Car dis- | tant When tle State will beéntirely sel’-prot teas. We often picture yeu, dear child, sitting at your tasks. }our bright eyes occasionally dropping in reverié as you think of your pareuta so far away, Do you ever wader with us turough th s? dim | wouls God's firs. temples—and breathe with as che infinite pace of solitnde. or refl ct that ioag before we had being or existencs thse grand old | tmonarchs looked down on others as they do on us? Do you? We hop )—that ls, your mother and my- self trust you do although we enrnestly, beg and | implore you not dream of visiting us here. For the soctety 18 quite unfitted for & person of your an Sex, Murder not unfrequently statks | abroad, and siuice hand of the assassin. Scarcely a day passes that we | do not consign some victim to the silent tomb. Consumption is epluemle aad small-pox, too, often has marked the loveilest of your sex for his’ prey. | The face of beauty fades quickly through a pisti> lential fever now quite co nmon, aud the exquisite daughter of ope of the first families bas been taken for an Indian squaw by reason of the same, Freckl are paramount. The hair withers and fall, out the teeth likewise the same. Much as we hope to once more behold that darling face, we could not expose you to such certain ruin. Your mo:her fainted on rea-Jing your request to visither. I fear in her present state of health a from you would be fatal. (f you value your parents’ jove vmisi this idea from your mind. In a few years, babiy. we will be able to once more clasp you In armis by the Atlanti> shores, YourR AFFECTIONATE PAREN T bbing is as common as the red Six weeks had elapsed, ani the dutiful ai swer to the above, confidently looked for by the guardians, was due. Nevertheless, as the time approached, Some nervousness on the part of Fleet was manifested by that gentle- man’s unrest and frequent visits to Capt. Rats, to whom all letters addressed to their deceased friend were delivered. ‘‘ Nothing from the young lady yet, I suppase,”. Fleet would say, ndifferently. “No,” the Captain would re- spond, quietly. ‘I reckon it'll take her about two weeks to get over her disappointment. Then she'll wiite sass: ike as not—or mebbee not at all.” Fleet turned pale, then red, and then bit his moustache. ** You don’t think, Captain,” he asked, with an affected laugh, “that we were a little—just a little too | hard?" “Not too much for peace and quiet ness,” replied the Captain gravely: “women don’t take a half-way ‘no; they can’t believe aman means it,” he added, “any more than they do.” Nevertheless, the Captain himself grew a little anxious, and, having to visit Sacramento, left strict orders with his com- rades that he was to be recalled promptly on the arrival of Miss Fanny's reply. But his visit was not interrupted, and it was nearly three weeks later that he mounted the box seat of the Pioneer stage coach to return | WIDE-SPREAD AND DEEP-ROOTED—LEVEL' | of the Russian nation, and is gi to Lagrange. As he settled himself beside the driver, after the interchange of a few compli- y epithets, his eye glanced down toward the wheels, and was attracted by au open let- ter and part of a female head obtruled from | the window of the coach. The fair reader had eviden ht to evade the gloom of | the coach’ and possibly the prying | eyes of her fellow-passengers, while she perise it. But why did the Captain's withered checks instantly lose color, and why did he conyul- sively clasp the railing by his side? was in his own handwriting, and had been mailed to Miss Fanny six weeks before! It was impossible, even uF the utmost eran- ing, and at the risk of his life, to see anything | more than a bit of lace, some artificial flowers, a front of blond hair, and the fatal letter. Yet his guilty conscience ins‘antly recognized in these seant facts the formidable presentment of the deceived orphan. Had she di ered the trick, and was she now on their trail, with this terrible indictment in her hand? Or was. she still in ignorance—an ignorance which a single chance and answer now might dispel, amid faint- ings, shrieks, tears and wailing? Capt. Rats xrew apoplectic with bewilderment ; he dared hot even ask a question of the driver, who was already beginning to survey him with a sardonic leer, and’ had audibly sought | information if he, the Captain, called this kind | «f conduct proper at “ his time o' life.” “ Let | the gal alone, Rits—don'tyou see it ain't a love letter from you she she's porn’ over?” he ad- ced—a statement that again covered the Cap- | tain with guilty blushes. But a sudden jolt of | the vehicle, a little shriek, and the flutterin; of the letter to the road, jarred from the read- er’s fingers, gave the Captain a providential opportunity. To jump from the box to the uestion | ofamoment. When he approached the coach to restore it to its fair owner another passen- had appropriated his own seat on the box, and thus gave color and reason for his exchange to the “inside.” The young lady thanked him, the coach again started forward, and Captain Rats fell into the seat beside her. Here was the supreme moment! With a profuse apolo- gy, the Captain drew his knees together, slip- va into arespectfully diagonal position, 30. as » oppose the narrowest point of contact with ‘r, and carefully dusted his knees and her ress softly with his handherchief. The shyest ymph would scarcely have been startled, the oldest and most antiquated of duennas would ot have been discom| by the submissive espect of the Captain. ane ye jay, who «vidently was neither, turned a pair of calm, arge gfay eyes on her neighbor, and sat. ex: veetant. But how the Captain improv-d his chances I must referthe reader to his own ae- count of the interview, delivered gravely the ame evening to his brother guardians: “When I saw we was in for it, Lo ie he said, rubbing his knees upward softly, “! kinder measured the gal afore I commenced, see what sort of a hand she might hoid. But you couldn't hev told anything by her looks, And short of axing her a downright sassy question, you couldn’t get a word out of her about her own business, nor what she war up to. And then—well,” continued the captain, with a languid smile of conscious success, calkilated tl this was one 9’ them peculiar cases that wanted skill and science, and I jist applied ’em, and in course I won. Thet’s all. Yes,” said the captain, with a yawn of stifled indifference, “‘it’s all right now, boys. Every- thing *s explained.” “But how?” queried the others eagerly. “Weill,” said the Captain lazily, ‘1 sorter slipped into a gineral conversation about the opery, the fashions, and po'try, and sich. Speakin’ o’ litiratoor, I told her of a yarn ('d read tother day in a magazine, and then, kinder keerless and easy,1 jist up and told her the whole story about her father and us and herself, giving her the name of Seraphina, calling youand Horton ‘Oscar’ and ‘Roderigo,’ and Fleet ‘Gustavus,’ and myself ‘Rodentio,’ which is Latin for ‘Rats.’ Weill, if I do say it inyself, it wasn’t no slouch of a story, fur T was kinder chipper and fresh, and the other passengers was just about as much iutereste 1 4s she was. Then I sorter looked in her eye, you know, this way,” and Capt. Rats here achieved a Poculacy Jesuitical leer, “and said that I allowed it wasn’t true, and asked her what she thought about it as a story. And she said it might be true and it might not, but it was quite interesting. Them's her very words, gentlemen.” +s Well, £00n, * said the Colonel eagerly. “That’sallt? 1!" shrieked the guardians together. “Didn'tshe say anything else? dnt you— A ot Nary ” said the Captain, coolly. ‘But it's | all right boys! You'll see.” Horton seized Capt. Rats by one shoulder, and the Colonel grappled the other. For a few seconds they shook him furiously. “ Where is she now, you blank, dlank mu'e? Answer us!” “ Why, I reckon she’s over at the Union Ho- tel with Fleet. I fort to say that he happen- ed accidental to be there when the stage kem in. She seemed to be kinder easy and nat’ral with him, and I—"" But before Capt. Rats had finished his speech the two men rose furiously and dashed out of the room bareheaded. And even as the Captain sat there, mute and astounded, vet with his usual vague smile of acquiescence iseertng around his mouth, Horton returned. shook his fist fiercely at the Captain, seized his hat, and vanished. In another moment the Colonel also reentered hastily, ea. ad his hat, kicked Capt. Rats, and dashed out again. ‘As the door slammed on the last of his fellow guardians, Capt. Rats rose slowly, emptied his glass thoughtfully, placed one knee on a chair, and rubbed it in silence. Presently a more decided smile came in his eye, and crept to his mouth as his lips slowly fashioned this astound- ing, reflection ; * Thats so—that’s it! Fleet was allers kinder soft on the gal! Like as not—like as not—he's up and writ to her on the sly.” ——__—+e2-___ EXx-SENATORIAL DiGNitTy.—How the ex-Sen- ators hang around the Capitol! They remind one of the veritable ‘poor boys at a frolic.” The other day I saw five at one time Jounging on the sofas back of the charmed circle where they used to operate, and, as remarked at the time, it wasn’t a good day for ex Senators either. The file of superseded ones was flanked on the right i the dark an, of Mlinois, and on the left by the ‘owler, of Ten- ar] auburn nessee. Logan has lately spent much of his vaiuate time in Washington, and rumor cor- nects him with some sort of a flank move- ment in Lilinois politics, I do not clearly ur- derstand what, and probably Lozan don’t himself. However, Ozlesby’s term expires next March, and perhaps th’ dark ex-Senatar will attemp! to get into power, as itis evident that he is not well contented with the present siination of things. An ex-Senator who visits often the seat of his former power, coming back again and again, like the ghost of his former self, reminds one of a fish on di land, Sopeicg, about in an unintelligent soi of way, hoping to strike water agaim.—[H. V. R., in Cin commercial. versity, S it Wal my, on the Kansas Pacific road, 520 miles west of Le west of Leaven- Worth, great quantities of phosphate of lime. The letter, THE NIHILISTS. A Sketch of the Great Russian Social Comspiracy. ERS OF PRIVILEGE AND SHARERS OF PROPERTY— La COMMUNE A LA MUSCOVITE. The papers lately published a dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Cracow, statin: that the Russian railroads were incum) vred by the fransportation of troops north to chee T threatened disturbances in various centers of education ese disturbances are sai: the creation of the Nihilist party, which is largely made up of the better educated portion ving infinite trouble and anxiety to the Czar. The word Nini!” means “nothing,” and the idea of the Nihilist brethren is to reduce things toa state of chaos—to commence de novo and fashion out the methods of life in such a way as to | avoid all responsibility for paying taxes, or gontrabutiog to the support of the government. The principles of the een are abolition in its most radical sense—abolition of all the bar- riers that the experience of over a thousand years have been found necessary to keep so- ciety together, and they offer nothing in the | piace of what exis be of wrong in it. ORIGIN OF THE SOCIETY. The society, known as the Nihilists, has been in existence several years. It originated in the spring of 1869 with PA pe ogi neel named Netchalef, who had adopted the views of so- cial organization which have found expression in the works of Proudhon and the Abbe Con- stant, and found able and earnest fellow- workers in their dissemination in Dolgoff, Orioff and Ikatscheff, all young men and mem: bers of the most educated section of Musco- vite society, The right of association and the treedom of the press being non-existent in Russia, a secret organization affords in th: country the only means by which novel prin- ciples, whether political, religious or social, ean be promulgated, and Netchaief proceeded’ therefore, to devise a secret system of propa: randism, and to attract to it many of the stu- cents of the Petrofsky university. The poly obtained numerous’ affiliations among all classes of pits peonie, and spread its ramifica- lions from Moscow to all the towns of the southern provinces, add United” to “the isolated” w culated, and groups of the in among the students of the colleges, the sol- diers of the garrisons, the artisans of the towns, and the peasants of the rural dis- tricts. Wherever five members were ini- tiated a circle was formed, and a certain num- ber of Such groups formed’a section. ‘The di. rection of the society was vested in a commit. tee, to which judicial functions were assigned however much there may widely cir. ted formed extending, if is said, even to the Inflie- tion of the pital penalty. Tae whole cf the soci proceedings were con- profound — sgere 13 cueted with ey. ing were made AIL comma ina peculiar te was isol so that each member knew only the N composing the cirele to which he belonged. [ vil the correspondence numbers were subs' tated for names, and the members of the nittee were known only toeaeh other. 1 came to be a division of opinion among the waders when the organization had taken root #3 to the means by which the end they had in view should be brought about,Orlo‘l atid ‘S- i a n- There cieft being disposed to awai! the results of the +radual propagation of their ideas among the Shorter }eople, while Netehaief ; preterred the catot re ‘yolu:ion by ph foree. ‘on over his coadjuiors to the adopti views, but before the plot ee for execu- Ton some ot the peculiae °o avance aifected by the init rt hair and short, rough coa attention of the authoritie: is—attracted and the po! tvund it necessary ‘to make discoveries con- cerning them. Dolgoff, who held a position tae Society second only to that of Netchaief, was arrested with Price Cherkesoff, who had supptied the funds for the a; son of a military man named Ripp rrests were made among the studen sky University, and a special sion was opened at Moscow for the tri aeeused. All the prisoners were convicted, but a acts of treason could be proved ugamst them sentences were passed that were considered lenient, Prince Cherkesof being Ceprived of his civil rights and his. privileges asamember of the nobility and banished to Siberia for five years, while the rest were con- demned to various periods of imprisoamant Fanging from three weeks to elghteen months. This investigation and its results caused a temporary lull x é in the Nihilist agitation, but it soon resumed, and the movement spread legrees to the shores of the Baltic. Tie minol ty of decided Socialists had yielded re- cl ye to the pressure of circumstances left to themselves they indulged in the ‘tion of the necessity of overturning all order; of annihilating property, state, church. marriage, society, &c.; and of placing Communism instead of Socialism on the throne, and of beginning this great work by the murder of the Czar . METHODS OF THE NIHILISTS. During the fall of 18¢. rinted incitem»nts to revolt were extensively circulated through- out the country, and some of them got into the hands of persons for whom they were not intended. About the same time certaia let- ters and documents came under the notice of M. Zhikhareff, the procurator of the supreme tribunal of Savatov, in the course of judicial proceedings entirely foreign to the Nihilist agitation, and created in the mind of that functionary suspicion of a plot. With the as- sistance of M. Davidoff, juge d'instruction at Temboy, he proceeded to investigate the mat- ter, and soon obtained a clue to a widespread conspiracy, which had for its object the de- struction of the existing poitical and social system and the reconstruction of the govern. ment and society on the lines laid down by the Communists. 80 deeply impressed were the conservators of the order in Euro with the idea that the international ani the revolution were synonymous terms that MM. Zhikhareft and Davidofl at once jumped to the conclusion that tne central com nittee of the International Association of Workmen were the authors of the plot, but the fur- ther prosecution of the inquiry and the arrest of the incriminated persons’ dispelled that idea and showed the conspiracy to be the work of the Nihilists. On the first report of M. Zhikhareff to the government, General Sles- kin, the chief of the Moscow gendarmerie, was invested with the powers of a governor general to make arrests, and he proceeded to exercise them with so much zeal and promptitude, and probably with so little regard to the guilt or Innocence of the persons whom he swepi from their homes, that several hundreds were ar- rested in a’ week, chiefly in the towns of Saratov, Samar: roslay, Lambos and Pen- za, and the neighboring villages and hamlets, and a much larger number placed under the surveillance of the police. A cominissioner Was appointed at Moscow for the further in- vestigation of the affair and M. Znikharett placed at its head. The persons first arrested Were principally peasants and artisans, and it was thought that the workingmen’s associa- tions or mutual aid might have been instru. mental in diftusing revolutionary ideas among the laboring classes. Several of those iastitu- tions were in consequence closed, but a3 ths investigation proceeded evidence was obtained whieh implicated many persons of superior education and. svcial position, and among these a large proportion were officials of the police and judicial departments. The more rominent of the accused were Professor aRhOvaKy, of the Larosiar Cuiiege of Law, and M. Khavanko, President of- the G-n-ral Sessions of the Magistrates of Teheruigoff. Besides these there were among the arrested many superintendents of the rura! police and mediators of the peace—oilicers appoin ed under the decree for the emancipation of the Serfs. THE MEN WHO WERE 8U3PECTED. Among others who fell under suspicion and whose houses were searched by the police were the President of the Supreme Tribunal of Kazan and the Procurator of Orenburg, sus, piston having been directed against the latter by his having carried some Nihilist manifes- toes to that town without, it seems, knowing what they were. nuimerous were the ar- rests during November that said early in the following month, in speakia, of the labors of the Moscow commission, that so many aporeoms Were, already in custody that if the trial of each occupied only a day the proceedings wou'd last a year. He suggested, therefore, that the accused be tried in batches. The preliminary investigation, however, was not concluded until the end of June, 1875, when the Miuister of Justice made a secret report to the Czar on the affair, and the Minis.er of Public Instruction issued a circular in refer- ence thereto, announcing that thirty-seven provinces were infected with Nibilism, aud di- recting the teachers of schools to warn their pupils agaiust so dangerous and subversive a system. The publication of this circular cre- ated a great sensation, as the facts of the con- spiracy had been officially denied by the gov- ernment when they first oozed out, and the jvurnals had been forbidden to give them pub- ication. UNKNOWN TO THE POLICE. The extension of the Nihilist propaganda to St. Petersburg was unknown to the po ice when the Moscow commission began its labor *, though a letter from the former city, written | at that time, stated that “shortly after General Potapoft su led Count Schouvalof in the direction of the secret police there was a con- siderable stir among the Nihilists of the Capi- tal, which caused a geatieman here, who is a: quainted with many of them, to remark tha’ he should not be carpet to hear of strange eyents before long. n afterward we heard of the arrests in the south, Here, however, the Nihilists seemed to be as much surprised as anybody else, and though many on their houses have been searched by the police, no arrests haye been made. There ts, indeed, a s'rong and very OxMabs disposition here to pool-pooh the affair, some expressing the oj inion that the arrests were due toa desire of General Potapoff to show how clean a new broom can sweep, and others that the secret pelice have got upthe alleged conspiracy with a view to the return to power of Count Schou- valoff. Though whatever moment, ifany at all, was designed by the Nibilists, it was pre- 5 M. Zuikbarett | | before, and at | Dor ses from “the | | social revolution. | Gi | Page, Patrick Russel have been’ he: vented by the number of arrests wiich had Veen made and the sudden vigilance and ac. tivity of the poi ngements were mail ng a ‘journal in London—the Vpe its secret introduction and circalation i sia. The Nihilists of Petersburg, ned by impunity, worked with ine iayity. “Two students of the Uuivers' of twenty, both sons of priesis, nai end Shiakof, made themselves acy under assumed names, with seve! workmen engaged in a facto them frequently at their lodgings, where they 1ead and commented upon the'story of the four brothers, the adapted translation of the ‘Historie d'un Paysan,” and the narrative of the rebellion of Poughatcheff. Two peasants joined in these readings, and assisted the workmen in circuiatiag the book among their friends. In the same way Diakof and Siriakof contrived to introduce the book into the bar- racks of the Imperial Guard at Moscow, and especially among the bandsmen. A peasant | was employed at the same time circulating the books among the inhabitants of the village in the vicinity of the Capital. Unfortunately for the Propagandists some of their hearers were in the pay of the secret police, and while professing great interest in the readings and assisting in the circulation of the forbidden Oks, they Communicated to the authorities what was going on. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHIEF CONSPIRA TORS. Diakof and Siriakof were thereupon arrest- ed, together with two other students named Veltsof and Viatclreslavof, the two persons who had _ assisied in circulating the books among the workmen at the Tchesher factor: and two privates of the Moscow regiment charged with sreulating seditious publica tions and inciting the subjects of the Czar to rebellion. Asthere was no apparent connec- tion between the Nihilist propaganda in St Petersburg and the conspiracy which formed the subject of investigation at Moscow, it determined to make the affair of the students a matter of separate inquiry. No documents were found in the possession of the accused to indicate affiliation tethe Nihilist Association, but copies of the book which has beea men tioned were seized by the police and also the Nibilist song book and an article of a revolu- tionary tendency from the Vpered on the d tress prevailing in the neighborhood of the Sa. Diakof stated at the prelimin: in vestigation that he had read the books to th workmen for the purpose of explaining to them social and economical theories, and’ he denied having said, as was alleged by agents of the secret police, that the Czar was the source of all the evils that afflict society, add- ing to the denial the expression of the opinion that the Czar is often restrained by his coun selors from carrying out his designs for the welfare of the ‘people. reforms which Alexander L ce, and which were frust i mof the nobility. Sirtakof sald that his desire to become acquainted with the work- men arose from his reflections on the present structure of government and society iu Russia, y which the lives of the working classes are unendurable. He ad-led that, ng how sad was the condition of the ses, he thought it his duty to show them at they could emerge from it only through a ‘They were brought to trial in August, when Diakot and Seriakof refused | to defend’ themselves, on the ground that it Was impossible to do sd with self-t three agents of the poli tthem, All th ted, * condemned to and hard labor in a rian fortress, the former for ten, the latter ix years. The two peasants were condemned to the like penalty for nine years. The third peasant had contrived to elude the vigilance of the police. The two soldiers, who protested that they were ignorant of the character of the books, lost all their advantages of service and were Sentenced to imprisonment for nine and twelve menths respectively. The re: of the prosecution of the 780 persons indicted upon the report of the Moscow Commission are not yet Known entirely; but, whatever they may be, they must be less important than the fact at the Nihilist. movement is still going on, d that the journal of the movement contin to be issued from London, and that the vernment can suggest no remedy for the evil apart from the terrors of the law, more eMecient and a larger amount of religious and moral teaching, and more careful supervision evidence was n of the young. In Oc! fr, given and proved against twe mbers of the Nihilist Society. The remaining eizhty were liberated on bail. The prisoners included both men and women, and they resided in dif- ferent portions of the Empire. A great many witnesses were examined, and the leading counsel of Moscow and St. Petersburg were appointed for the defense. The Government, of course Giumpned but the Nihilist’ move: ment is not extinguished, and is as fall and vigorous to-day as it ever was. THE TROUBLES IN CALIFORNTA.—In conver- sation with a resident of Califor who was an old “ Forty-niner,” and who is now on visit to this city, we are given to understand that the ory against the bonanza kings in Cal- ifornia is, in a measure, unjust. e whole trouble is caused by the excess of Chinese labor. The immigration must, act of Con- gress, be stopped, he insists, or serious trouble and probably bloodshed will soon come. He has nothing to say against tne Chinese, only that they degrade labor and make it almost impossible for the Caucasian to exist on the Pacific slope when he has only muscle as his stock in trade. This is an especially forcible and pungent point. The degradation of labor is the ruination of the stat nd itis beiter the Mongolian be banished t! the workin; whites of California be turned into a vast army of tramps, as now seems probable. Con- gress should take speedy action on the treaty question now before it.—[ Albany Express. , THE ELDERS PUZZLED.—Divorce is increas- ing tosuch an alarming extent in New Eng- sand that the elders have gone to discussin: gome means of changing the condition of af. fairs. In Vermont alone, last year, one divorce was granted for every sixteen’ marriages, While in Maine it was still worse, the ratio being one to twelve. Traly, this is not the spirit of the good old Puritan fathers, and there is little wonder that the New England bapers are calling upon the people to put on the brakes and switch off from the downward track before it is too late. The “land of steady habits” seems to have caugnt the infection of the loose marriage laws of the west, and are rapidly coming down to the same level. This condition of affairs is in marked antithesis of the ultra Puritanism of the Cotton Mather ducking-school times.—[Syracuse Standard. ELECTION Day IN KENTUCKY.—The H derson (Ky.) Reporter says: Visitors to Heb- ardsviile, election days, pursue the bent of ir own sweet wills, unchecked and unre- trained by municipal interference. They ma: fiddle, dance, wrestle, run foot-races, yell, suort, swear; nay, they may even venture to vary these innocent pastimes with fisticuffs of the roning, tumbling. biting and gouging sort. Meanwhile Esquire Priest and Parson Hatch- itt may be observed standing off, yet looking on, wearing expressions denotiug mild and helpless disapprobation of the entire pro- gramme. There be men in the Hebardsville Brecinet—demoorats at that—who, on election lays, seem to hunger and thirst after human ears and pees, and would hesitate no more to take a biteoff these features than they would to take a “chaw of terbacker.” A Re.iciovs Row at Rome.—A writer in a Londen newspaper says: “I learn from Rome that there is considerable commotion in the English colony at Ahe religious proctivities imanifested by our ambassador to the court of King Humbert. He does not attend the old English church, but prefers the ministrations of Dr. Nevins, at the American Protestant church of St. Paul. Dr. Nevins’ assistant has recently—quite recently—gone over to the Vatican enemy, and Dr. Nevins himself was ‘only a cavalry officer in the United States army’ before he donned the cassock. But Lady Paget aad the lay of the English chap- jain are not on speaking terms, which may jossibly explain the pious dissatisfaction. ‘hey are even malicious enough to sa: ‘no surprise would be felt if th bassador to the Quirinal should one of these peoome Ley A gtr sablect of {he Vatican” vo an alarming event to tattling colony in Rome." sitteie THE Bonanza Kins’ MILLIONS.—The Con- solidated Virginia Mini company yesterda; r » ageregatin: ayable on the 13th fasta This brings tl fe grand total of dividends paid by this company since lay. $374, up to », 960,000. The California Mining company also declared yesterday the en mont yj Gividesd aot Tr share, a} ing $1, ), payable on day, the Biirinstant, ‘making the of dividends paid since May, 1 16, (twenty. four months), $25,920,000. Up to date the = solidated Virginia has paid in dividends $74 per share, and the California $18 per share; aad th total of dividends pald Doth companies is $65,880,000.—[ Virginia City En- terprise. THE MOFFett REGISTER IN VIRGINIA.— Despite newspaper protests and letters frem the auditor, some commissioners of the rev- enue utterly refuse to report to the auditor of ublic accounts as required, by the Moffett Ww and their oath of office. The counties of Buchanan, Gra: Highland, Lee, t, Smyth and Wise n never will be.—[ Richmond Dispatet merry SEVERAL Tnousanp CoMMUNISTS are re- Ported to be ariitiag nightly in Chicago, and the superiniendent of police has discovered that they have sent an agent to New York to urchase arms and ammunition. This is in- resting, but not at ail alarming. There are ps ‘al people in Chicago who are not commu- #@Martin a Mollie M. ‘al ‘Tuscarora iu 1870. —* . Cigar Ends. Probably few people in this country are awate that usually wasted substan cigar nd, is utilized in Germany to a large extent, and with even beneficent results. We can imagine many of our readers won tering What can be ‘he object of collecting these small ends: and we will therefore brief. are sold for the p: waft, and that th of such sales are devoted to char! med par e There is in Berlin a society ¢ ‘in der Sammler von Cigarren Abschnit »,” or the society of collectors of cigar eut lings, which has been in existence some ten years and has done much good. Every Christ mas the proceeds of the cigar ends collected by this society and it friends are applied to the purchase of clothes for some poor orphan chil. dren. In 1876 about thirty children were clothed by this society, each child being provided with a shirt, a pair of good leather boots, and a pair of woollen stockings, a warm dress ani xcket handkerchief. In addition to this, a fare. well-decorated Christmas-tree is given for their entertainment, and each is sent home with a good supply of fruit and sweet- meats. Altogether more than two hundred oor Orphan children have been clothed 4 Rie society simply by the proceeds of suc! small things as cigar ends. The success of the Society at Berlin has in. | duced further enterprise in the same direction, and it is now proposed to erect a building be called the Jeutsches Reichs- Waisenhans (Imperial German Orphan Home,) where or- phans who are left unprovided for may be properly cared for, clothed and instructed. The site proposed for this institution is at Lahr, in Baden. where there are a number of snuff manufactories, and it is therefore well dapted tothe scheme, which can only hope may be successfully eariied out. The system of coilecion, which is extended over a large part of Germany, is generally un dertaken by one or two ladies or gentiemen in each town, who collect now and then from their smoking friends the ends which they have been saving up. These collector either send on the cigar ends to the central society or sell them on the spot and transmit the proeseds. This latter plan, when it can worked, is preferable, as saving expenses in carriage and packing. It is proposed that the number of children which each town shall have the priv- itege of sending to the home shall be regulated according to the amount which they have con- tributed to the society. ‘o insure the success of the institution it will be absolutely necessary for all to unite and work together ; each one must not leave it for his neighbor, thinking that one more or less can make no difference. To show, how- ever, what might be accomplished by a thorough unity in this matter, let us say that there are at least some ten millions of smokers in Germany; or, to be very much within the mark, we will take only five million smokers who will give themselves the trouble, if such it is, of saving up their cigar ends; and ‘assuming that the cigar ends of each person during one Week are Worth only a quarter pfeunig, (ten }fennig equal one penny English,) we have a otal revenue for the year of six hundred and thousand marks, or thirty-two thousand hundred pounds. Now, these thi wo thousand five hun- dred pounds, which, as a rule, are thrown away and wasted, can be used ‘to provide a home for at least thirteen thousand poor orphan children. Furiher, if the five mil smokers would contribute value only of a single one penny, this would m: uy hundred thousand marks, or twen' sand pounds, h would clothe fiv \¢ ty an ther ten not worth while to be eare- #8. and to save up these usu- cigar ends,when we see what We can only con. © g success to this remarkable institution, which has taken for its motto the most appropriate words, “Viele Wenig machen vin Viel; or in the words of the old tish I . “Many a little makes a mickle.”’. (Chamber's Journal. ful in Small thin ally wasted Splint Frames, Easels, Hanging Bas- kets and Fern Racks. The materials used for this new class of orn- ament are wood splints of various sizes, col- ors and quality, with some bright colored ze- t bright beads, fancy buttons and rib- pon, With enameled papers for lining in some cases. The first articles we shall describe are the picture frames. The splints for these may be either white or colored, and as regards form, this in variety is ad inginitum, and may be elaborated until quite a complicated and elegant econins is formed, sufficiently tasteful for any apartment. For light colored pictures, such as water color paintings, flower chromos, &c., the walnut or stained varieties are the most appropriate, while the delicate white kinds are especially ‘exely asa finish to the flower chromos upon a black ground. The splints for the style of frame we will first describe must be cut thus (supposing we have a panel chromo, say of clusters of apple blossoms and lillies. of-the-valley on a. black ground, size 16 by 6 inches, requiring white- Wood splints): First cut the foundation, made of four splints on each side, and the same top and bottom; cut all the ends in “fish-tail” fashion, and allow them to project three or fourinches beyond the edge of the picture, postipg the corners in and out, basket fash- fon, at the points of intersection, which must be just on the edge of the picture; lay the sides down on a table in proper position, and place the ends on, then as you weave them, fasten each one by means of a stitch or two with needle and thread. Next take welve splints of the same length as the «nd pieces, notch out the ends, and ar- range them to cross over each corner, three loge proccans down toward each other «n each side, and extending up into points at the top and bottom, from the center, and held together by being woven together and stitch- cd. Next € a set of ornaments by cutting three splints about two or three in Jong, notching each end, and sewing them so tha they cross each other. Make four of these for the top, bottom and sides on the foundation frame; then have a nnmber of ornamental buttons, such as the little bright celluloid kind, fasten them on the connecting points in various places, and you will find you have a charming little frame. Pearl buttons are es- pecially Dretty on these white frames, as also ‘he common white porcelain varieties. When done, Blue = Picture to the back, or catch it with st Another pretty frame is made by cutting twelve splints for sides and ends, graduatin, ize from the outside ones (whieh = shoul he longest), allowing them to be separated about half an Teh and weavin, them together so that they form'points at cack corner, cutting the ends of the splints diago- nally, so that they form a uniform line when laced beside each other, that is, each set. Lastly, take four splints long enough to reach from each inner point top and bottom, to the center of each side, thus forming points ex. tended out on each side, and cut four shorter pieces to finish the side corners in the same manner, these ending on the inner splint of each side. These splints are woven in and out the sloping corners, but finish them flatly without any projecting corners, on the i tid vidual splints. This frame, being open, must be lined by having a sheet ‘of colored or gold papety pasted neatly on card-board, placed eI 3 Four frames like this, made quite square, and fastened together with the point at the bottom, make ge elegant hanging basket. In this case do fot line with paper and finish with balls, or tassels of zephyr at each corner, and long suspension cords and tassels, with a bunch at the bottom, hung in long loops and large tassels, or the woollen balls used for va- rious kinds of fancy work. After once beginning to make elegancies of these light and’ pretty materials, the number of articles and the variety of form into which they may be shaped by the ingenious and Sh nee worker are innumerable.—[ Harper's San Stefano. San Stefano, the flattest, ugliest, and most uninteresting of country resorts in the neigh- borhood of Constantinople, has suddenly risen to fame and honor. It thrown open its best houses to the strangers, and there is a strong rivalry, in hospitality, between the rich Greeks and Armenians, who own most of the handsome villas there.’ Their empresse- ment to welcome the coming. guest, must be taken for what it is worth. They do not love the new comers, but they knew which is the winning side and their s{ncerity is about ona par, with that of the Greek Bisho) aldja, who, publicly hailed the deliverers, and, then, privately, confided to a benevolent neutral that’ the’ Russia eee saa ot aia people. a burden, » exclaimed, “ lor ieee ure tte fact ign tad own way, exce] of tithes ad tea an hepentter San Stefano lies close to the sea ; its shore is bathed by the ra, and during August and September its chief recommendations are its bathing and quail shooting. At present, the Russians are ag attraction. Their military display and their splendid bands are leasant novelties for the ntiaopoli- ‘ons, Who seldom see or hear anything finer than a shabby, out-at-elbow Turkish regiment, with its brazen monotony of trumpets. The = runs extra trains, and the governinent the Seven Towers—which means Con: z nople itself—is but a step—{ London Truth piasstd ae Aa A school-boy says the ships are galled she” is Decailse it takes ments mas, 4@The Unitarian Church of Northhamp- ton, Mass., being in d the emen have yoluitecred to downs work of the ‘yexton | LADIES’ GOODS. MME: 2p 2 SRANNERET has ) - ceived two case. of SUMMER MILUINERY of French patterns, Bocnets and Round | Hate. which she a ft guaranteed. | FREsce ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS, Recetved to-day, from importers’ auction, sa immense stock of Very fine FLOWERS that we will offer at about half their sgiue. CONNOLL ap26-1m 608 Ninth st., ony. Deterass Ninth street. Ninth street. Summer Merino UNDERWEAR, For Ladics’, Misses and Children. New Btock just received, And prices very low, Look at our new Grecian CORSE’ Our Own Make, DOUGLASS’, apd0-tr Ninth Bt., Bt.Oloud Building. M yuan has this year made a spociaity . READY-MADE DRESSES, and 1s now constantly receiving invoices of Kilt, Tourist and other Suits in all the desirable shades and materials, direct from his house in Paris, ALSO, capes, Circulars Linen Dusters, Manin sd Cat , Cireu! nen rs, Muslin and Or feo W Undergarments, J, B. P. Oorsets, and pew and exclusive destene la BONNETS, MILLINERY GOODS and FINE omit ota Ss TRIMMINGS, ver ractive prices. ee 907 PENNSYLVANIA AVS, 7 Cite Trevise, Paris. - __apli-te GBaND OPENING or PRENCH PATTERN BONNETS AND ROUND HATS, On THURSDAY and BRIDAY, April Lith ant To which the Ladies of Washington and vicinity are respectfully invited. MRS. M. J. HUNT. apl0-tr_ No. 621 and 623 D Street N.W. Ccn= BUPPEKT, No. 403 7th Street N. W. Grand opening of a magnificent display of CHILDREN'S SILK and MERINO CLOAKS, LACE CAPs and BONNETS of Variety Styles, LONG AND SHORT DRESSES, GIRLS and BOYS’ MARSEILLES SUITS of the latest de- best material signs and ALSO A FULL LINK OF BERLIN ZEPHYRS. WORSTED, GERMAN TOWN and NERCOLER WOOL8, iN , and APPLIQUE PATTERNS, and all kinds of EMBROIDERY MATERIALS) &e.. ac. ap8-L GPEciaL NOTICE. | LADIES FINE BOOTS for Spring wear of my own make for sale at very reasonable ri _ JAS. H. VERMILYA, 610 Oh stroe. Opposite Patent Omoes, Ladies Boots and Bhoes made to order at short mar30-tr notice, M™: 614 9TH STREET, OPPOSITE PATENT Orrick, Has just opened a large and select assortment of INFANTS’ AND CHILDREN’S LACE CAP3 and BONNETS, BOBES, LONG AND SHORT DRESSES, And ail Kinds of CHILDREN’S FURNISHING GOODS. Novelties in Lisle Thread GLOVES, Black Silk MITTS, LACES, LACE GOODS and EMBROID- ERIES, SILK and SE aE ES in all the newest I pod ced sod CHILD LACE as RS. J. P. PALMER, No. 1107 F STREET NORTH WEST, WILL HAVE HER GRAND OPENING oF FRENCH FATTER SONNETS D ENGLIBH BOUND HATS, THURSDAY and FRIDAY, 28th and 29th inst., ‘To which she cordially invites the ladies of Wash- ington and vicinity, mare I )=MOREST FATIAENS, all the Bw. ve. just received by W. P. rT! ey c wcilers and ‘Stationers has 7am streot a.m, geboal and Blank Books specialties, GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. AMEL’S HAIB OVERCOATINGS AND SUITINGS, SELMA RUPPERT, TAILORING DEPARTMENT, A. BAKS & CO.'8, 921 Pennsylvania avenue. G=¥STLEMEN's HATS. Just received, Stock, aplé-tr |, fresh y sprin, Soft and Stir aka wei assortment tor boys and children. Ladies. Gentlemen's SILK UM BELLAS. © apl2-tr 1287 Penn. ave., uext cor ish st, ADIES SUN UMBBELLAS Blk, Regina, Alpaca, ‘and Gingham, t the lowest market price, ¥4 GENTLEMEN'S UMBRELLAS. Zeiued Gin. Par Fue trom’ §3.50 up. Gingham from $0 cents up. Boft and Stitt FELT HATS of the latest styles and at the lowest rick Prices, 1419 WALTER KER, apé-tr bo, GREAT HERN T OvEN SOR a 4s elegantly made of first-clas+ material Anen Sleeve Bands and Linen iiatog 20 the posoms un- Theel Shirt tn all “i - ote na te aris our Wam sorite for along time at @0 cts: uulitshon aad 96 “Tne Wamsutta 0. XX aaa he Wi Me an So enaat ‘Shirt is 75 cts. unfinished, Finest 4-ply Linen Coliars, 6 for $1. #@-Sold at our Branch, 1002 F stroct n. GO. MEGINNE | GHouGE F. scuaren, | MERCHANT TAILOR, «fers for sale the balance of bis stock at and below cost to close business, mar27-tr | #arA call is solicited. | _mar8Sm_ 1111 Pennayleania ane. w 10. DUCED PRICES. patrons and the pul facili “. | CUoTHiks ana turnish | ten to fifteen per cent. less than former | Orrr: a | 06-tr 535 16th ot $25, $50, $100, $200, $500 The mre Te mlorty of Wallstreet houses and man are as be, roy J etalon Ia ‘Bend tor CHAN mor i i Ham- ‘$50. = colt, at Toronto fauren ty Hombieceta az GEORGE PEABODY, at aca Pennayiranis aveine ar oat toeeaea St stabie. Ez * Sas iat ere on. dove ree ee ENUINE Blue FLANNEL SUITS Bata, Us". be 30