Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1892, Page 7

> - wa f ; . 30, 1892—-SIXTEEN PAGES. nt it > a ; See ee THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D, C., SATURDAY! APRIL % 1 her. Leven learaed his name. It was Byron ‘She told him in # dozen words {nearly all . ‘persons, misled by this have | Written for The Evening Star, CLAIMANTS AND THEIR CLAIMS, ERS. ton p r | Tate horpe. D— him!” v7" | te susted to hues ansept enn “a LIFE ON THE PAMPAS acted upon it with deplorable results, MYTHS OF THE SEAS. — —- poe T Shit {RL RE | [tis queer how those mountain echoes take | shat’s (he man’s name?’ he asked, y) 4 UL . | One of the most interesting maramals of the Interesting Stories Hidden in the Archives of | According to Edgar ae ‘ a 4!) up words—even the slightest sounds, I am twas—-he's dead, you know. It was— described is the ‘vizcacha,” which is &| Curious Folk Lore of the Natives of Pacific the Government. Surprising Types of Loveliness. sure I heard come back in triplicate a bunch of | you'll find it in the copy.’ And she laid on his jent very common on tie pampas, It is Islands. Malta Corresponden.e of Chicago News, ne a ae “damn hims!” Now that I think of it, I be- | desk what she had wr < d Little | Bew'y, fe tect long, exclusive of the tail, Frank Dailey Milian! in Harper's Week lieve I saw the lips of the other listeners mov. ouslow looked up in surprise, but he eaw | Curious Fauna of a Strange ant le But soon from this patio, from thet narrow when full grown xad weighs about fourteen AN AMERICAN DISPOSSESSED OF HIS LANDS BY EXO- | that her | started away quickly, and as she turned I | hoard w haif-choked sob. ‘Then I saw her reel | and grasp at the handle of the door. She man- aged to open it, though it was with an effort, and as soon as she let zo she fell all in a heap in the hallway outside, Maddern, who had just come in, was at her side in a minute, gasp- ing, choking and wringing his hands—bebav- tug. im fuct, like the young fool that he wax, | “Well, we soon brought her to, and Maddern | took her home in acab, ~ Looks like a good story, ‘remarked Fenslow, as he ran his eye over the girl's firmly written PROSECUTION OF WIS CLAIM FROM YOUTE TO OLD Aue. sours. Itis m rare Lt to see, and one the heart a party of aper men y for a week,and loose where air to breathe 1 something green atthe eye upon, : THE WORLD A MoLLOW CpCoANeT surLi— thoroughfare, another silent archway, from ah ce | at the same time, and there may have been — face wae white as snow, and he guessed . adits its apoeias loves in atenl comune LAND Im SOW SEALAND—am UBeUCCRBEUL ae HERE WERE FIVE | but I am wot pocitive om that pointe fourth | that the nome meut sometting to het. She Known Region. Pier of twenty oF tinrts membre ma silinge | ORIGIN OF THE COCOANT—A soUTR PacIriC huge barred doors that open and close with a ane echo. of deep chambered burrows, all with their Pa like entrances closely grouped together. The animals make a smooth clearmg all around their village, on which a tarf is formed, and here they feed and enjoy their amusements in comparative security. Any enemy that ap- proaches is easily seen and at the firet note of arm the whole company scutties into the bur- | rows. ‘Lhey fetch sticks und all sorte of | refuse from every bund and pile it up about ; the village. forming in the course of years a| mound thirty or forty feet in diameter, which ‘otects the habitation from floods, Each GIANT XILLER—HOW THE SUN WAS REGULATED —FATE OF THE DYAD IN TRE Laxp oF auosrs, | “it seems that he had found her an orphan, with alight purse and no one to look out fo her. Sohe had hetped her to get work on | a morning paper. and she bad got to thinking so much of kim that it broke her nil up when she found that he was getting very reck- | less as to whisky. She tried to reform him, but | | be did not reform se ‘Then they bad a quarrel, and she broke the ew; left New York. - “Then he didn't exactly throw off on her,” | ventured Hunzie. But be went no further {startling ctick, come funereal forms clad im jsomber black. Thoy glide along with bowed There are many claims before heads, Their advent has ben so sudden and about which the public hear nothing, or, hear- | their number isat once so great that you are ing, do not pay any attention to, which are | Siled with surprise and dismay. But these do fall of romance from their origin and their | Dot remain. Fora soft and ate hand, a6 long drawn out prosecution, Every onedimows | if by accident, with swift motion changes the that itisa very unfortunate thing to be a | folds of the faldetta and tho pretty faces of claimant and that claimants before Congress | 500 Maltese maics and matrons are one by one generally drag out & miserable existence of | fF * Moment turned roguishiy or kindly to | QUEER BEAS'TS IN PLENTY. The savage islanders of the South Pacific be- | lieve that the world is » cocoanut shell of en- | ormous dimensions, at the top of which isa singto aperture communicating with the upper air, where human beings dwell, At the very | bottom of this imaginary shell is a stem grad- ually tapering to a point, which represents the | Snake Hunting Armadillos and Wrestling ¥rogs—The Fierce Puma and Its Fear of M: unks in Fiveks—The Vizcachs and 1ts Funny Ways—Other Creatures. | when he saw our dark frowns. “Weil, to how it was,” continued Johuson, rate, she was on ihe Shield #tal, a great big anchor back in N suw readily enough that the m her heart still had anks of yearling calves in the ane, e but the mean- Tint our antice a sweeping down of dult n the grass, fe. meant row ‘ork. For in his keeping.” son’s st generally are.” the truth, I don't know exactly ‘but, at any nd there was who had won “Allof which is very much mixed, as Jobn- | copy. It strikes me I've seen that before. 1| cursed long and deop within myself. Byron’ Paiethorpe—Byron Palothorpe. ame somewhere “Then I knew what had happened, and I teursed Fenslow for ever letting her go out on such an assignment, and I cursed myself for not hurry- ing back from the hotel where I had been in- NE OF TEE MOST interesting regions of the world is the grassy desert of the Argen- tine, known as the “pampas,” whieh ex- urrow of the vizcacha ordinarily opens into a large circular chamber at from four to six feet from the entrance and from this chamber other burrows diverge in all directions. The now “vizcuchera” or village iv invariably be- gun by a male, which, after establishing bi self as a solitary with a single burrow is subse- quently Joined by other individuals, and these beginning of all things. This point isaspirit or demon without human form, whose name is “Root of All Existence.” By him the entire fabric of creation is sustained. In the interior of the cocoanut shell, at its very bottom, lives a female demon, So narrcw is the space into which she is crowded that she yours. Then you reali ta it great length and terrible privation, haunting | 2 Vrietia are'on ther: was ne carlo the legislative balle, living on the bounty of | you stand there, hat in by . their friends or the sympathy of strangers, | ent worshiper, inentaily sta ting out with renewed hope every morn- | fr their pioty These ong the pleas: ing for ten, twenty or forty years and retura- Qntest of their sex, both as to the phrsical at- ing each night weary and despondent to @ bed that grows harder and thinner month by tractiveness and wi manner and character, Th & rule, mor tends half way across South Americs from the terviewing a fat old duffer about the condition petite of the Riverside orange crop. I felt vaguely is obliged to sit forever with knees and chi are the parents of innumerabie generations, month and year by year, and that he finally | than those of Itaiy and Spain, but are very That shot from Gordon. for they construct no temporary lodging places, | touching. Her name is ‘The Very Beginning.” | passes away, leaving the claim as a legacy of = — of ponpertion nd natural “Not so much mixed as your account of the | that we would never see our girl reporter Atiantie ocean—a vast | Dut their posterity continues in the” qtuet pos: | And from her are sprung nemerous spirits | stortane dragging om the neck of the mext | Ce, Theil carriage is sup ity poreae bt to know Calyforma, near | De Puey-Simpson runaway match,” fired back | again. plat © wieeibas iictts, bession of the habitations bequeathed to it for They inhabit dive, diferent floors, into which rapa fe rare whch ever les oe ; 1 ; ait 4 = 234 pet ote, ° - - bs with pradery heir fe poe Tunzie, | Jobnon. “Hen you married the girl to the | “Aud wo never did, Takes or rivers, bearing | MME UIs BURROWS. of these epirite mankind ie Gescended: The | | This, briefly fe the traditional etory of the } handsand beads are very smal; their thoes ho alway - - eX = re 5 ‘ islanders, regarding themselves as the only real | traditional claimant, But the public can | round rather thay oval; their « iligration to be written up, was ‘he repented and wrote to him. Two or by the construction of his burrows, which oniligration to be en Up, Wai A Movement to Mark the Starting Point of Christian Civilization in America, A movement, first broached by Mr. Thomat H. Cummings of Boston and taken up by the regard strangers as evil spirits in the guise of humanity, whom they kilied when they could, offering them as sacrifices. HOLES IN THR SEY. retting out their lives or have settled down in the philosophy of patience to the en- | Joyment of an exciting race between hope and | despair around the courses of their nerves, ward, confiding and « faces that is very winsor They are not ge etill, th © contented ho features of variety the region has no aspects of grandeur and the dead level affords no appearance of exiended | space. At ea, # person's eye being six feet three letters came to her in return, vowing that the cause of their tronble hud been re- moved—-be had sworn never to look upon the fiery fluid again, and was coming out before efore snow-capped Skasta, per attitude to Prove usefui to other species, both of beaets and birds, Certain little “swallows use the excavations to breed in, and the fox and the 0 men. ual, but, better ne Makers and are Serer like birds of song in ude joy, Feascl of the pampas dwell almost altogether | According to their belief the eky was a blue esthasimerengmanct They mate early, bet fouttee jong to marry her and take her back to New | Sucred Heart Review of that city, to erect | above the surface of the water, his horizon is in them. Several kinds of insects feequeut the | youit of eke stone, around the bottom of | “f° fallof records in dry official form of FO- | and "prandmotints at tlarty, when thee sare York. é | monument to Columbus on the site of his first | only two miles and four-fifths distant. On | holes that are seldom found anywhere else. | TC) Ot ber of holes, Throngh | ™#8¢es im real lite which would outdo imagi-| stil Southral and « During the pep tod at fall, before the election, the girl re- P Habel at ar mee | Among the most remarkable of these are a oe Seen Si, | Bation’stfinest fights, ‘The history of thoclaim- | reign ot the kn shits « veracy of nation in | Porter didn’t make any great headway with her | Settlement in the new world, ut Isabella, in | jand, in a perfectly flat country, the Limite of | genus of diminutive wiugicas sps rge | these the wind spirits blew, The gods first : ¥ mon rps Say bank account. As I have said, there wasn't | Santo Domingo, has progressed so far that | observation sre equally contracted, People | predacious bug th t flies by nigh: rese and erous on the mouuds that there be collected on any i ht for elsewhere weulth and nobility for Population epra | ants themselves | full of strange adv love, chapters of inirigu touching periods. Many am ach for agirl todo on the staff just then, \d. as you know, you can't depend on Sunday sup stuff fora living. But she got along. Her frienals of the local room would Lave helped her spoke to mau through certain stall birds. but, beowuse of their indistinct voices, an order of priests had to be set apart, the gods taking up their abode in these sacred persons. Priests | an area and committees are actively at work, and the statue is being modeled vy Alois Buyens. ‘The figure represents Columbus in an attitude on the pampas when they first Visit a mountainous district experience painful ions from viewing tho widely extended others are so nun ne and thoughts, beauty A t es - he middle dingiy Very commonly | were accordingly named “god boxes.” From | Muy toud de have been postponed, entil | ap > te 'y through anything if she'd havo let them, but | Of thanksgiving to God and pointing tothe} earth xround them. each burrow is further inhabited by a pair | the ‘eluttonous habits iu which they induigea | P° ger enge bit, to that time | #8 gy sacl — m ae ir a ~~, y independent, first settlement in the new world. The statue | Que of tho most plentiful apecies of mam-| of burrowing owls. The most deadly und | the phrase “to gormandize like a god” is a ‘tien this claim is settled. urift, frugality many other excellens ‘ : in’t think to tell you about Johnny | and pedestal are made from designs drawn at | mals is the ‘one of the most | voracious enemy of the vizcacha is the puma, | rived. Some of the older claims have themselves * the crowaing glory ol te vit,” v " S aasenier aaa he meant | Madders. te was the hardest smitten of the | the State Norma! Art School by Mr. E. Andrew, | anc’ h was cc whole staff, and would for her. Often whe | ment he would cut | w hall or elsewhere and | office, and somehow he ge see her home, too, atter 8: report. Well, John was telling the story. ex and e her sate! was on e had handed im ber «4 g00d boy and so the laad, or, rather, of ber heart, and Idi feel like spoiling his cream by telling him of ‘alethor pe w York. ht when the wind was howling drift moved so jaz: ne wood-> 2 we had come cud the a tue so much more a's that we let all to himself. Bat, had caught y did not fit sed up. The us be believed, was to peneils Tm a was ull bundied up im her rubber g: and her wi showed through the dark ness Like « wraith’s, and [ am sire that all the specks of water ou her drops, it took me white face—and I don't know whether or not i nodded ss I passed. Iam sure she did uot see instrodactions, John- just he your copy. A good line fora starter . ‘That's what Pensiow lon: Thad walked half a block further I turaed about and ran back to her. What's the troubie now? TI asked, as I walked by her side, putting as little as possible of my usual bearish tone inte the query. She said nothing for a while. Something seemed to be choking her. I thought she grew whiter as she said at last, in her low sweet voice, but with none of its old cheeriuess or confidence of ton ‘ou have been kind to me, Mr. Jobnson, but I do net know why 1 should further burden | you with my troubles. Still. if you feel exough interest in me to kuow, I will tell you. He's he: Fenslow was Johnson's city or, but to him would cut short the story. om and finally came to the piace realiy began. It was abou, ly,” a8 Gilvert calls her’ to Fenslow in the beginning of wer three years ugo.” seid huson, ‘Her name was Sav- “I was the ‘id Banzie. the ‘Tribune thea, and im it that year.” > much economy then, That was the $ ; between puffs: “but the eity news, though ening papers for all “I think she must have felt me start, for she was lightly clinging tomy armas we walked along the street, That was the trouble with the whole crew of us—-we all thought toomuch of that ¢: Not too much, either, for devil take me if she wasn’t worthy of all our adora- tion aud a good deal mor ‘ou mean Palethorpe? I put in, been to see you?’ ‘No; but I have seen him, and—he was very much intoxicated. I did not dare to make my- self known to him while he was in such a state. And yet I would like to know where he is now. Perhaps I could help him.” “Then indignation, strong and deep, laid hold upon me. Why, in the name of ull her worshipers, couldn't she leave that fool Pale- thorpe to work bisown ruin? Lfelt very much like blurting out the question. But then s! was so deadiy in earnest I know she would have asked me to go and bunt him up if she dared, but 1 was not equal to that. Silence iay betw us all the way to her door, but I thought she seemed more at ease when sie said her ‘good night,’ and I knew in my heart that in my rough,blundering way I had belped her. Sympathy goes a long way in such cases, you know, though my sympathy wouldn't carry me so far as to place her in Palethorpe’s arms, even if he bud been as sober asa mule ina treadmill, “Next day the girl reporter was among us as usual, but she was no longer oue of the boy: As I viewed ker she looked te be more of woman than before, and—yes,the gang of us worshiped ber more than ever, Johnny Mad- dern aided flame to. the fire by proposing to her. Though she let him down as easily as she couid,. that this was another pain for her ‘semi heart. From that timeshe. seemed to. aloof from wt Perhaps she realized the fact that such a oge as she might worl ong a lot of men im the way that suffering; butthere may have been another thought in ‘her miad—that she should keep in ‘the darkness with her trouble, and struggle there with herself aloue. Iu those days I'am sure she passed very closely to the fires that try the souls of women, and of which « great brute of aman can know nothing. Still he did not come to her, and sent no word, though she knew that he was stil in the city. It was mighty rough on her to sit at her desk, grind out her copy and keep herself within herseif, aud yet. so far as her real trouble went. she gave nosign. The boys thought she was waiting for the Maddern atfuir to cool down and then she would come back and be the merry girl she had been before, But I, who knew that it was deeper than that, was only praying that Palethrope would hark back to where he belonged, for then she might feel some peace of mind. “Well, wimter came on in earnest and the weather reports, which are very wet affairs at that time of the year, showed more inches of rain than we had had for aseason. There ‘was an all-fired lot of work todo and it kept us flying about like so many ants around an overtarned stone, One night, when the oflice was bare of men, there came in a telephone message that there had been # suicide out at North Beach. Then the night editor wanted ‘some one rushed out to bunt up something about a St. Louis scandal with a local side to And, to cap it all, in came a report of a shooting affair on Stockton street. “It made Feusiow tear his hair when he saw there was no one to send out, He rang up the Press Club, but there wasn’t a Shield reporter there. Then he sent outto a meeting that Maddern was covering, with ap order to hustle imto the office at once, for it was 11 o'clock, \d there was notime tolose. But Maddern bad heard of another meeting, nobody knew where, and had gone off to get that. Fifteen past, and nobody came. Feuslow was getting —— ratuied. His assistant would not be back until midnight, and there was no tel! ing where toxend for him, He telegraphed for the man on night police, and found that he had gone after the suicide. ' But who was there tocover the shooting? That was the awful juestion of the moment, and it made Fenslow y mae up and down while ly struggled with it. ‘Then in came the gir! reporter. “Fenslow swore. ‘if she were only @ man, he growled. -That’s the deuce of keeping wo- men about a place like this; you can’t do any- thing with them when you want help the worst.” ‘The girl noticed Fensiow’s agitation and ask aot the matter was, the & there's been « shooting up on hill, sad perhaps ther abig story in it, I suppose the Trib has had four reporters dig- ging on it for half an hour and here I haven't a man within call.’ Vhere is the place? “He told her, and cursed @ little under his breath about « woman's curiosity. “The girl sprang up from her chair. ‘T'll g0,’ sue said, quietly, b ter, for it was raial “Yo wd jd hash up the ev they were worth.” a5 We were now deep in the shop again, as you vine scente and the smoke drift aus, Noteven the grandeur of Baasta coud avail against shop. was a rattling good reporte; Johuson went on. “Lnever saw a better. She tone of those wio run around with a > oa and try to be mannish rin the stuff for the paper. was modesty itself. She walked ‘ows desk very timidly when she m. appearance. I way his assist- ant then, aud so, of course, I heard ull that was said. ~ “There isn’t enough work for the regular rs, let aloue extras," said Fenstow, after application for a job im tones over a grizzly. and yet nothing brassy + Fil see what I cum do If_you are from Boston ve worked on the Precipitator you ought able to suit us.’ Thanks,” she said, and smiled ‘I know enough not to bring a’ serap book, or I could show you some of my articles written for the Pree . May I go to work tomorrow?” ‘Let's see. Yes; you can take that women’s temperance meeting in Briga’s Hall at 11a. m. It is on in the afternoon tog. Keep itall in five hun “d words, pleas “Ske puiled out asmall note book and with & dainty pencil put down the memorandum in ather shy way. as Ithought, But that is what i liked about her—nothing manuish, not the least. Though it's deaced race among girl reporters, “Why don’t you say women reporters?” put in Bunzie, on whose fine ear “girl” grated. “Because this one was nothing but a girl, andaslipofa girl at that And then you never heard of a woman reporter. did you? They're ali girls. Don't try to ring m your ry on the profesh, Buizie. Devote that ‘Has he went on the Late Mr. ‘California journalism has many quips urks that are not known toour brothers ef the east. Sometimes it’s very hatd for a Rewspaper man from there to make it go with us, aud i enced sight harder for « gitl ‘There was one thing that favored Ger- trude,however. She was not in the office a week before every man there fell in love with her. ‘Yhat's a big thing for a girl reporter, because it means no end of poimters on what to do and ‘where to go to zet the news in the easiest way, So she got along swimmingly. 5 newspaper office is the place where you see the scales fall off the shams of life. This is instanced by the pursuit of the newspaper man by the conceit-stuffed fellow who wants his virtues made kuown by your types and paper, and who thinks those types and paper were made for the express purpose of Lifting him upon a gede Yut there was no sham about the devotion of the Shieid staff to Gertrude Savage. You couldn't blame them. Her bisck eyes were so darkly lashed, and her cheeks we achily fleshed—so round— and her brown hair fell so carelessly and so lightly upon her brow, tha “Who's getting poetical nor shot, came Bunzie’s ce: “As I was saying,” went on the Late Mr. John- sou, as if Hunzie's interruption was uo more tha the dropping of a pine cone from the branches above us—“as 1 was saying, they couldn't help adoring her. Im a way she be- ame one of the boys. hing and talking with them as if they were all her old chums, and yet demure evouzh all the time, and the very soul of aiady. Nothing that ever struck the local room, not even Feuslow’s savage lec- ture after the outbreak against the coin-bor- Fowing rule, ever did the men so much good &s the coming of the girl report We had ouly had one or two of them before, and they Were no earthly good—checky things from Hill's Seminary, who drove the copy reader to the ragged edge of despair by their essay style of writing up. Gertrude knew the ropes too weil to put anything but pure newspaper En- fish into her stuf, and when she banded im z wad of copy there was precivus little work iu it for the desk man. “The way she sized up the fellows that tried to ring in ads on her when she was out getting news. and the way she tumbled the hopes of self-impertant ones who were itching to be interviewed, wou Fenslow over almost as re: fly as did ber clean copy. He gave her all the ‘Work she wanted and i think sie bit the busi- Ress office pretty hard on pay duys, for, be- wides her regular assignments, she got in yards aud yards of space. Feusiow said it used to anake his arm tired measuring it all. This went Aioug for several months and then campaign Fot crowded out so much of the other local Taat sie bad to bang hor hopes of a good sack op Sunday supplement speciale. For. as you now, there are @ good maay kinds of work You can't give toa giri reporver, and hustling ‘boat among werd politicians and round among the clubs before the fall elections is one of them. “1 didn’t know for « long time after she came to us that there was 4 mystery about the Qirl; but there was. Not that she could be put down with the people for whom the ciumate of California works « change of name, as they say it does in habit. Nod sort. “But that she bad, for some “And she pinned her on her it ‘a badge that was always respected, feataver it was shown, though she had had occasion to use it but rarely. Gathe: some sheets of paper, she was Die e. He other, run away from New York I managed to learn in the course ef time. I found out through—no, I'll not tell how I found out.” As we knew the Late Mc. Johnson bad a way ‘about him that would have drawn confidences from the furniture in the office, we did not doubt that he hed obtained bis information from the girl herself. So we merely asked, What the mystery was, ‘Way, she had been engaged to a ner Wan Lack there, aud be bad thrown off [ ren i fh have goue through fire | she had a might assign- | It contemplates a figure eight feet two inches ort his own work to go to | hi to the | iy managed to | biind.y in love that he couida’t see the luv of | cated with readily granted the t | necessary me, for she gave no sign of recognition. When | under the direction of Prof, George Jepson. h, including the plinth, mounted on a py ‘dof coral and limestone twelve feet high, which, in its tarn, is crowned by a capstone of dressed granite, on which the statu rest. ‘The Domi overnment when communi- ad the rivileges, including the free entry | of matcriak With these concessions in had w | offic: suppor reau of American republics, was added to the monument committee. Acommittee of citizens has been formed at Puerta Plata to co-operate with the Boston com- ittee iu appropriately celebrating the quadro- entennial, ment on the site of Isabella over the ruin of the first Catholic church in the new wor! In view of the increasing interest in the ob: feet for which the committee are working, itis hoped tomake the monimenteveu more worthy of the event celebrated and to have a colossal | statue im bronze the cost of which will be about | £10,000. The original plan contemplated an expenditure of $3,000 or $5,000. This monument is intended to mark the starting point of Christian civilization in America. PEOPLE WHO THROW PENNIES AWAY A Superstition That Benefits the Sharp- sighted Street Arab. From the Chicszo Tribrne. Have you ever picked up ‘a penny on the street? If so, vou probably have not stopped ‘8 minute to think how the copper coin came to be lying there. It probably never entered your mind that the former owner of that penny threw it away purposely. Your natural con- clusion after finding the coin was that some one had accidentally dropped it. It is a fact that Chicago has many men whose superstition takes the form of regarding the possession of copper coins as unlucky, ‘These men will never keep a copper in their pockets if they can help themselves, for which newsboys are profoundly grateful. Should a stray penny find its way into the clothes of these superstitious creatures it is quickly flung away with a sigh of relief—and as quickly picked up unless invisible to the Chicago eyes, This habit is common among politician speculators, gamblers ot the ordinary kind. actors and some business men who would rather lose a good dinner than be among thir- teen at the table. ‘Iheve men, who look upon the despised but usefal copper a8 a ‘hoodoo,’ are the same men who carry the left hind foot of a rabbit. a horse chestnut or other supposed charm in their vest pocket to ward off the evil genius known as bad luck. Some of these cranks go so far as to keep pennics out of their homes, and as long as the children get pocket money in more valuable metal is no objection to the boycott on copper. ‘Vhere are men in the city hall and county building who honestly think they would be beaten ut the polls or lose their job ifa penny got into their pocket. gM a a Written or The Evening Mesperus—The Evening Star. © Hesperus! son of the Evening— ‘Thy plume was the brightest that night, ‘When the tempest ued edme like » herald, To drive every cloud ou: of sight- And 811 chose bright legions on high, Like an army with Launers marched by. As Lucifer—son of the morning— Thou art sowetime the heraid of day: But Hesperus now in thy «lors, When the daylight has faded away— Like a Jamp on the arch of the Weat, To light us so sweetly to rest, ‘No wonder thy sunile is the brightest, ‘Where it Kindles afar in the West, Like the ligt in the eye of the eaxle, ‘When his tlicht is so near to his nest— For thy daughters are soon to appear With the apples of gold at the Fair, ‘The Hesperides fs e Americas— ‘The North, aud te Central, and South— ‘The three sisters who dwell iu the garden, In the fresi.ness of beauty and youth— Now guarding the apples of cu! Where the blessiugs of freedom unfold. oon the signal will tell of thelr meeting In you city, fair queen of the West, In the Fail, when the harvests aro ripening fn the garden so happy :B biest— And the clock of the centaris sound ‘Yor the years since the garden was found, Ostar of the West! if thy splendor May be less when the Av *Twiil be only becaase im thy By our side thou art uearont of ll— As the Father in heaven draws near, ‘Though no sound of His footsteps we hear. OQ Hesp2rus! star of the Even. ns— ‘To teil you of the sun in the West: © Lucifer! star of the mornin, To herald the #un iu the Fast, Avd the light of the sun and the star ‘But the shadow of Go from afar. 3. . Curuperz, pees Ales ‘The American Czar. From the Chicago Times. Itwasona suburban train coming into the city few mornings ago that a number of men were discussing the present conditions of the wage workers. A well-dressed man whom no one else seemed to know declared: “The working people of today have things entirely too much their own way. ‘They are too independent, and they should be put down.” His autocratic manner and the strange senti- ments be boldly expressed awed those about him. Here was a purse-proud czar who spurned the lower classes, Having risen above e common people, he had evidently forgot- ten that they were mortals somewhat similar to himself. “I shall do all Tean.” he continued, “to It is proposed to creet the mon- | todon an gatherium. It figures conspicuous; scurrent among the natives, being | represented as a creatnre fertile in expedie dt daping otner anim: | Jast as “Beer Rabbi ous or otherwise. arg its favorite prey, and it Jniis them by actually sawing them i | the serrated edges of its sharp. bony shell, ‘The bites of the serpent make no impression n its encmy, probably proof against the | venom, lke the mougoose. Snakes of the Pampas have many toes, Herons and storke tbem whole. ‘The suip t icks up the young serpent b; and uses it ike a flail against « branch or stone until its life is battered out, Another de- stroyer is the great iguana lizard, which kills snakes by striking them with ity powerful tail, dered invuinerable by its coat of ‘he iguana has been known to assail t forocity a lasso trailed from a saddle along the ground, mistaking it for a giant ophidian, THE WRESTLING FROG, Frogs in other parts of the world are among the most inoffensive of animals, depeuding upon their jumping powers for escaping, but there is a species found on the pam postesses an extraordinary m Dr. W. H. Hudson telly of an adventure he had while out snipe shooting one day, when, peer- ing into the disused burrow of some rodent animai, he saw a burly looking frog sittin ‘Though it watched me attentivel; 8, “the frog remained perfectly motion- less, and this greatly surprised me, Before I was sufficiently near to make a grab it sprang ight at my band, and. catching two of my fingers round with its fore lezs, administered a hug so sudden and vioient as to cause an acute sensation of pain, Then itmesiately it released its hold and leaped away. I flew ulter it and barely managed to overtake it before it could guin the water. Grasping it behind the shoulders so that itcould not attack me Imoticed the enor- mous development of the muscles of the fore- legs, usually small in frogs, bulging out in this individual like a second pair of thighs and giv- ing it a strangely bold und formidable appeur- ance. On hoiding my gun within its reach it clasped the barrel with such energy a bruise the skin of its breast and leg, ‘That this singular frox is able to seriously injure an opponent cannot be supposed. but its unex- pected attack must be ot great advantage, How Breat must be the astonishment it causes an adversary by its leap, quick as lightning, and the violent ‘hug it admiuisters. In the contu- sion it finds time to escupe. I think that ‘wrestling frog’ would be an appropriate name for the species.” Natives of the pampas Delieve that the milky secretion exuded by the toud is a specific remedy for shingles—a malady which is com- mon among them, taking a puinfui aud d: gerons form. Physicians would probably la at si just as they formerly did at s utihzed mare than two ceuthries ago by the “gunchos” of South America, who were accustomed to swallow the lining of the ostrich’s stomach, dried and pow- dered, for ailwents cauxed by impaired dig tiqp. At present the ostrich huncer makes a We protit—one from the feathers of the bikdd he Killsyand the-other iyi dried stomach, with which he supplies. thdSapotu- ecaries of Buenos Ayres. ‘tue road's seerction above referred to affords to un otherwise de- fenseless auimal an excellent protection, It is attacked and eaten only by snukes, lizards and the single venomons xpecies of its own kind found in the region described. ‘This poisonous toad, singuiar among all memivers of its family, ix extremely hideous, Its body is iumpy aud ger than a man’s fist, It bites savagely at anything that comes near, hanging on with the tenacity of a bulidog and injecting its venom into the blood. When te itscit to such anextent that ope almost expeets to seo it burst, Very often its Lites are fatal, THE JAGUAR Greatest among the curnivores of the pamp: are the jaguar and puma. ‘here is slso the Tass cat,” not unlike ihe domesticated ani- mal, but larger, more powerful! and frightfuily savage. Yue pugia, aithouch the most. blood thirsty of flesh-eating creatures and eatremely 1as ONL Very extraordinary ehar- it will never attack man and cuanot be induced even to defend itself aguinst him, ¢ ix the only large Least of nv sinall child may go out in. safe pon the plain, Yet this same creature commouly utteoks and kills the formidable Jaguar, harassing the latter by moving about it with such rap.dity as to confuse it, aud,when an opportunity vecurs, springing upon its back and intleting terrible wouuds with teet! and claws. It kills cattle and horses in great num bers, breaking the neck of each ani ed with « single blow, Pumas have been oceasion- ly kept us pets, uever showing the whigisteyt iil temper, “They ure the most playrul of ani- mals, and are always delighted te gambobwith a spool tied to a string. Dr. Hudson speaks of a “gaucho” of his ac- quaintance who went out one day to lonk for | cattle. A puma made his appearance wid re- | fused to walk away, even when the herder threw the noose of Nis laxso over its neck, ‘ibe gaucho then dismounted. aud, drawing hin kutfe, advanced to kill it, still the puma made no attempt to free itself from tie laeso, but it seemed to know what was coming, for it began to tremble, the tears ran from its eyes nil it whined in the :nost pitiful mauner. killed it as it sat there unresisting, but, after | accomplishing the deed, feit that Le kad com- | mitted a murdec. 1t was the only thing he | had ever done in his life, he said, which ocen- sioued him remorse when he remembered it, although he had slain several men in dueis fought with knives, Ali who have killed ur | witnessed the killing of « puma agree that it resigns itself in this pathetic manner to death ie hands of man, When attacked by the latter its energy and daring at once foreake it, and it becomes « weak, inoffensive animal, which, trembling and uttering piteous moans, ampicres compassion from a generous enemy. But the enemy is not often generous. SKUNKS IN ENORMOUS NUMBERS, The most drended animal of the pampasis the skunk, which is found there in enormots numbers, One terrible characteristic of itis such confidence in the means of defense sup- tied by nature that it will never run away, ba the contrary, it seems rather disposed to court the society of man, and it will very often advance upon dogs, stamping its littie feet in rage, jumping up and down, spluttering and hissing and flourhing ite brash like a warlike ‘hose of the cpeeast terveltye hay even those of + askank, Wh Hej to whose bloody He ostrich, petite nothing comes amisa, t of wild things, the male bird by snr- | prise ou the nest; little birds he captures with the dexterity of a cat and hunts for the arma- abroad in the day time. To bi a falls an easy hrough chas in wild | and comparatively rare, but | hes where they find protec- ad are fearless ey have been farmers, inci- ig fund uuder cultivation newly, ‘The most eflective method for dispos- of them is to szmply cover them up in ws, when they die, being unable to dig their way out . unless dogs or othe ployed to’ keep ot cachas come from a distance and dig out in time to suve their lives. ther remarkable rodeus of the pampas is oypw rat in sh and as big as an otter, Itis aquatic, and lives in holes in Ground. Inthe evening these animals are all out swimmiug and playing in the wate Versing together in strange tones, which s like the moans and cries of wounded und sut- fering men. Among them the mother coypa is soen with her progeny, numbering eight or nine, with as many of them on her buck as she cau decommodate, while the others swim after | her, eryiug for a ‘rid au was much more abundant fifty years ago than now, and its skin, which basa fine fur, was largely ex- ported to Europe. About that time the dic- tator, Rosas, issued a decree which mad» the lling of a coypu acriminal offense. ‘The re- sult was that the creatures increased and mul- tiplied exceedingly, and, abandoning their aquatic havits, they became tergestrial and migratory, swarming everywhere In search of food, Suddenly # mysterious malady fell upon them, from which they perished in ehormous numbers, becoming almost extinct. STORMS OF DRAGON FLIES, Among tho extraordinary phenomena ob- served on the pampas are storms of dragon flies. They come before the southwest wind, which blows from the interior. It isa cold wind, exceedingly violent, bursting on the plains very suddenly and lasting only a short time, Moving ahead of such a gale the dragon thes, apparently flying in dread before it snd moving in clouds at the rate of seventy or eighty miles an hour, fairly darken the air with their swarms. Most of them are blue in color, with here and there an individual #0 brilliantly scarlet as to be conspicuous aimong tho others. ike » poppy or red geranium grow- ing along in an otherwise flowerless field. They come without warning. the air to a height of ten or twelve feet above the ground being all at once secn to be full of them, rushing past with astonishing velocity im a northeasterly direction. Men and horses in their path are quickly covered with clinging masses of them, ‘Shey are about twice the size of the dragon flies that are kuown elsewhere, being three or four inches in length, ‘The guanacos—inimals o} which have been largely di South America—have » “dying place’ gouthern extremity of Patagonia. It is a spot to which all cf theso Leasts iubabiting the neighboring plains repair at the approach of death to deposit their bones, Darwin first re- | corded this strange instinct of ‘ti aud his observations have since been fully contirmed by others, the regions a on the great tion they destroyed in great numbers ’t dentally to bringi i 08 rivers, where the valleys are covered with dense thickets of bushes aid trees of stunted growth, ‘There the ground is scattered thickly with the Loues of countless dead generations, the animals in most eases having crawled, be- fore dying, beneath and among the bushes, ——- A Generous Hero. From Life. What one likes in Archibald Forbes’ “Bar- racks, Bivonaes and Battles” is the air of free- dom, the robustness, the jauntiness of these episodes in the p: tof war, Men do brave deeds without parade and without false hum: ity, but with just a touch of aseumed careless- ness, Of course, no man rixks his life without caring, unless he is tired of it—and in that case there iy no special merit in running after de: But really to enjoy life to the utmost, and put it all in peril for a sentiment or through am | tion to wear a bauble of a cross that m honor—that takes nerve, and to do it with a smile, as though it were one of the polite co ous of life which are expected of every genticman, requ:res more of that physical m- perturbableness which we cxll “nerve”—it de- spirit. ies, when we read of Lora William Beresford riding into the very face of death to snatch a wound:d sergeant from t! oncoming Zulus, we fell admiration for hi homanity. And when we read that the wounded man refased to go with him) beeause t would endanger two lives instead of bring- table death to onc—we way he also is a But when it isadded that Lord wore with clenched fist that he would punch the wouuded man’s head if he did not allow ix life to be saved,” the touch f humor brings the whole scene’ within the range of our sympathies, It ix not a play any longer with actors of another race, but # bit of every-day life made ideal, Then He iy a her hen a third man appears, Iris’: Sergeant O'Toole, and he shoots down the pursuing Zulus, who are at the very heels of the ove! burdened horse, and the three comrades to- gether at last reach safety. Byand by the British troops sail home, but the news of the brave deed had long preceded them. Lord William is summoned to Windsor to receive the Victoria crow. Surely be has | earned it doubly, Lut there is room for even more “stuff” in such a hero, He will have no honor that he eannot share with O'Toole, and the qacen kuows valor when she sces it and given two Victoria crosses, ‘hen we sai lere is @ hero whois not only humane and brave, put generous and modest, and withal he has a sense of humor, Why, he is not what the books cail a hero—he is a man, every tock of him, and I would like to take his hand and teil hima so,” — From Life. | | I venged upon tho while. ‘Their power was well nigh unlimited. dy whom they disliked they couid desig- ice. Human sacrifices were very common, some families being devoted for g: ion after generation to furnishing such o1 terings, 3 Oue popular myth expresses the very poetical belief that the Island of Tongareva was fisie ont of the bettourof the sca bye god. wire used for the purpose the tail of the constelia- tion “Scorpio.” baiting this remarkable hook With astar. Another divinity accomplished « work of great beneficence by regulating the sun, ‘The orb of day used to have a trick of setting almost as soon as it had risen, so that it was impossible to get through any work. Zvenan oven of food could not be prepared and cooked before darkness came on, So the deity Maui carefully plaited six great ropes of and with th of the sky throuzh which the sun climbs up from tho nether world each morning. At this point of exit from the land of ghosts into the heavens the six nooses were placed. They en- trapped the sun and that luminary was glad to agree to be in future more deliberate m his movements, 6o as to enable the mhabitan‘s of earth to get through their employments, Originally tho heaveus almost touched the earth, but Maui and another god named Ku pushed them up to their present lofty position, However, the work was not complete. for the surface of the sky was very irregular. So they each took a big stone adze and with them chipped off the rongh parts of the sky, th giving it a perfectly oval appearanee. ‘Then they procured finer adzes, clipping away with them at the vauit of bine stone until it beeame faultiesaly smooth and beautiful, as it is now, ‘There are ten heavens, one abov another, which are the abode of warriors whu have perished in battle. ORIGIN OF THE CocoANUT. To these natives of the South Pacific the cocoanut ia a vegetable product of the utmost importance. Its origin was divine. There was .a young woman, daughter of a goddess, who lived 1m @ cave, clove by which ran a stream that was filled with eels. One day while bath- ing she was surprised by a huge cel, which presently assumed the form of a handsome youth, He informed her that he was the god of the eels. ‘They became lovers, but finally he was compelled to bid her farewell. Before doing #0, however, he appeared in his eel shape and directed her ‘to cut off his head and bury it, She did so, aud it sprouted into a tree. From this tree all the cocoanuts in the world were derived, aud on each nut are invariably found the two eyes and mouth of the young man. The white kernel 1s commonly referred to as his brains, Giant killers and destroyers of monsters are found in the folk lore of these islanders as well asin that of other peoples. In the fairyland of Kupolu lived the renowned chief, Rata, who started op an exploring expedition ‘in a great double canoe. He took with him a youth, named Nganaoa, who was a famous hand at slaying monsters, and this was very fortunate, because on the third day of their voyage an enormous clam rose out of the deep, its shell wide open to grab them, One shell was ahead, the other astern—the canoe and all on board lying between, | In another moment they would have been crushed between the two fearful valves, but Ngauaoa quickly drove bis spear down into the animal, so that it sank to the bottom: Scon afterward an octopus of. extra- ordinary dimensions encircled the boat with ita tentacles, bnt Nganaoa thrust his spear through its head and killed it, Next « mighty whale attempted to guip down the canoe, buf Ngunaoa broke his long spear in two, and at the moment when the monster was about to crush them he inserted hotivsticks inside the gaping month so that the encmy could not close its jaws, Having accomplished this feat Nganaoa nim- bly jumped into the mouth of the whale Jooked down into its stomach. Lo! there sat his long lost nther and_mother, who bad been swallowed alive while fishing by the monster. ‘The old lady and gentleman were busily en- gaged in plaiting palm leaves, and gréat wa; their joy at seeing their son, Nganaoa re- solved while rescuing tus parents to be re- Accordingly he tock out one of the sticks, the other sufficiug to hold the whate's mouth open, and broke it into two pieces, ‘These he rubbed together and thus obtained a tame, with which he set fife .o the fatty part of sa monster. ‘The latter, in agon: nearest land, where, on reaching the sandy Leuch, father, mother and son quietly walked out, THE LAXD OF GHosTs, Hades, or the landof ghosts, is supposed to be inside the mighty cocoanut shell, beneath the surface of the earth, which ts merely a thi crust over a vast hollow, Some of the islands, being of voleanic origin, are honeycombed with caves aud frightiul chasms, down the deepest of whieh the corpses of the dead are thrown. so that the strvivors not unpaturally imagine the entrance to the nether world to be down one or more of these pits. Existence in this stranze spirit land is pursued by the im- mortals very much us people live on carth, hey are Very numerous and their ways are mostly far from engaging. Some tribes of them ure cannibals, whose delight is to entrap aud feed upou the ‘souls of mortals, Others have only oue eye apiece, Each liumau soul, upon leaving tho body, is compclied to climb upon a branch of a tree of supernatural origin. ‘The wretched spirit looks down to the root of the tree, and, to its horror, sees a great net sproad out beneath to eatch it, At iength is falls into this fatal net, and is at once submerged in a lake of fresh water filied with captive ghosts, which exhaust themselves by wriggling like fishes in the vain hope of es- cape, | Eventually the nev is paled up, and tue half-drowned sp rits are brought into the pres- ence of ahorrivle ogress named Miru, who superiutends au ever-burning oven, This bag feeds her unwilling Visitors with centipedes and carth worms, which they are compelled to devour ‘They ‘are next obliged to drink from bowls of kaya, stupefied by which they are put into the oven aud ‘cooked. Miru and her daughters subsist on these spirits, Such a fate. however, ouly awaits women, children aud men who ‘die a uatural death. ‘They are anmihilated. Not so warriors slain in battle. ‘They leap into the sky, where they are often seca ia the form of small tloating clouds, Immortality is their portion. ‘They are adorned with garlands of dowers aud their emplovment iw to iaugh, dance and look down with disgust upon the uuhappy wretches in hades, Such a belief naturally con of violent Aged warriors, scartely able to hold used often to be led strong cocoanut tiber, making nooses in them, | ho sought tae hole ut the edge | grown out of adventur a cloud of romance, AN INTERESTING DIPLOMATIC CLAIM. There is now before Congress for considera- claim which may rival the “Bassett claim” or the claim of Win, MeGurrahan, It wd are enveloped in wl matrons, and to know this Pores and of their affectionate, truc-hearted and tn- assuming lives and ways ts to find in every ex Pression of Maltese female loveliuess an added and lasting charm, dee The Arizona Kicker. From the New York Su Goxe Home. —As will be seen by an obi notice published elsewhere Dayton, one of our earth ou would never suspect it fro obituary, He played a squan but as an offsot was quarrel aud giv say ti gain anything by the change He was the first man in this | | injus- of ‘# foreign government io an American, and it belongs not to legislation, but to diplo- Its antiquity gives it an interest, and is a claim a exempliti peculiar manner in which the British Lion mantains his character asa beast | of prey 9 the case may be apropos and instructive at this time, though ug the of poke mpera ting. We can't or that he will reli . wn to shoot us, I one We ever fired at who didn't drop when the gua wentoff. 0: sick he d on our trail and wou B possession of New Zealand. For ‘ears it has remained unsetded y ant, who still live has been the subject’ of corresponde tween this country and Great Britain di and indireetly since 1858, Amon, ueys employed in the case was Reverdy John- sou, and the oficial correspondence between at Britain on the subject Edward Everett in 1843, then minister to England, and bas been continued up to the presoni t:me. IN NEW ZEALAND, This claim grows out of an adventure fall of romance. Mr, Webster went to New Zealand while a very young man to make his fortune. At that time New Zealand was inhabited chiefly by canurbala, and, except as to a very limited portion, was uot a place sought by traders or men who had commercial enterprise. But young Webster quickiy won the friendship of the savage chiefs, learned to » their lan- Guage, and, being supplied with a conmderabie capital, he invested im lands, selected for their advantageous location, by the expenditure of some $75,000 in money and merchandise dar- ing the course of four or five years, and got deeds from the native chiefs for some 500.000 acres of land. He established lar mg stations for ale of merchandise, and begau trade in timber, ship building, and’ also estab- ished shipyards for the building of whaling Vessels, laying the foundation for an immense fortune. “The natives, whose dispositios to- ward white men generally was to eat them, took a fancy for him in a different way and be suceceded in establishing a sort of civilization, which afterward opened the country to more general civilization. WHEN ENGLAND TOOK POSSESSION, His enterprises were successfal until 1840, when the British took possession of New Zea- land, proclaiming sovereignty over the domain and disputing the right of transfer of property except by the approval of her majesty’s gov- A theatrical company, travele ing under the title of “The Madison Square Uncle Tom's Cabin Comp: opened here day evening to acrowded house, As the play pulled along it was discovered that there was no Uncle Tom, no dogs, no Legree. Five Poor actors were tryiug to carry wii the parte and the only secnery used was of Koman ruins, The larg ence sat still until the midd and then made a rush, ‘Ths were ruined forever and the actors got such « bouncing about that two of them are still hid- ing in the underbrush along the river. ‘This is another proof that this town can’t be longer imposed on in theatrical matters. We ‘want as good as they have in New York or noth ing. There must be nothing left out, If there are ten parts we want to sce ten actors walking around the stage. If there's « mule iu tue play then show him up and he’ kicking. We are ar up-and-up people. We pay cash and want the vaine of it, We appreciate a good thing and have no use for secoud-class materi, » Wr Suart, or Covnsr.—Our contemporary is out with the suggestion that the coming Fourth of July be celebrated in old fashioned style, and wants to know if the governor can't be induced to come here and deliver the ora- tion, We don't think he can. We think he has more sense than to entertain # thought. If thero is any celebration we shall, as mayor of the town, bein it. We shall lead it. We shail deliver the oration, lead the pro- cession aud probably boss the fireworks in the evening. There is no salary attached to our office. “We were elected for the honor there is ernment. In 1840 Capt, Hobson of the British | 1 it, and to squeeze the oid machine navy was proclaimed lieutenant governor of the | perfectly dry. There may be some mayors in British settlement iu progress in New Zealand, this territory who are satistied with the title, nt everything connected with it, If mpotary—cireulation 4 —wants to be the means of getting somebody shot, let him encourage his idea as set forth above. and proclaimed the extension of the former boundaries of New South Wales so as to bring that which had been acquired or might be ac- quired under the sovereigaty of Great Britain, and on the same day issued another proclama- tion to the effect that her majesty's govern- ment did not deem: it expedient to recognize as vulid any title to land in New Zealand which not derived from or confirmed by her majesty. The Lritis: government disclaimed any intention of dispossessing owners of land acquired on equitable conditions and not im extent or otherwise prejadicial to the ive interests of the community, and it was pro- vided that persons claiming titles to fd should present tueir claims before the British commission. DISPOSSEESED OF HIS LAXD, Mr. Webster, as an American citizen, insisted that he could not be disturbed in rights ac- quired before the Britis: government declared her sovereignty over the land. His first pro- test was to the American consul, who commu- nicated with the United States government and afterward submitted tho claims to the British commissions established from time to His title to some 17,000 acres of land was confirmed. but confirmation of the rest was refused because of its extent and he was dispossessed of all but the 17,000 acres, which was conveyed by him to his creditors, His ¢ crumbled away before this action of the British government, and he was for a time contined in the debtors’ prison. PRESSING HIS CLAIM, He was afterward released and spent some time in England pressing the British govern- ment for an acknowledgment of his prior title to lands, and during the many years clapsing since then has inade many journeys between the United States and England, first appeali to one government and then to the other, without success, the claim being of such mag- nitude that the Lritish government refused to give the claimant justice, and the long round- about way of diplomacy delaying it through the mediation of the United States from year to year. Qrom 1540 until 1861 it was pending in one way or another The war breaking out then it was lost sight of in the United States, but at the close of the war was agai and nas been the subject of discussion engthy correspondeuce between the foreign relations committee und the State De; mt and between this country and England up to the present time. The claimant has grown old in the prosecution of the case, and is still prewing it with the prospect that, though it as been the subject of secret negotiations during all these years, it may now become a case of very great importance and celebrity. —— A Woman's Error, Frot the Chicazo Times. She happened into her husband's office one afternoon last weck. He was out at the time, and the young lady typepriter in the front office said he was gone only for a short time and would return soon, So the wite sat down at hia desk to wait for, bim. apeeetans letter lay before her, and intersting] eyes foliowed its lines, Dear Jack." it read, “rou want to know eomething al typewriter. I want to to you that she is daiey. Sd The wife ciutched ber hands convuisively |. and for breath, Her first impulse was to rush into the private office and assault the ” “Bato,” ube reasoned, “it is mot her fault entirely, My husband is the one to receive the _—- censure. Oh, that I have been so lind. Fool that I was to trust him. But he From the Buffalo Comm: A Buffalonian writes from Nico that in the smoking reom, which is frequented chiefly by English people, the after-dinner talk is very apt to drift toward American topics, and any gusst who has visited that country sete up at ‘once as an aathority on the subject. One gentleman, education and breedin, kuow you Americans pretty states some twenty-rix years ago. d him most during bis visit he said: “I found great laxity in the ad- ministration of the la realiy felt thet it was um strects after dar Louisville, Chicago and particularly im Buf- falo, where I saw iundreds of the aborigines going about without restra: ‘Our Buffalo friend pricke and mad» some increau yes,” eaid the other, in blankets aud ali that.” Our friend observed that Buffalo happened to be bis plac dence and tha: the ouly sava bered seeing there were the occasional offensive venders of sassafras root: Scotch gentleman knew better. Buffalo was @ wild and dangerous border town, aud he did not hesitate to let his Americ. see that his statemenis concerning the present commercial greatness of that city could uot impose on him. He had been there. — ee Ladies’ Bonnets in Theaters, From the Jewish Messenger, While aping so many English customs, why do not the women who occupy good seats at the theater adopt the foreign habit of dofling their bonnets? And why do not the managers meke it @ rule that the ladies in tho parquet should remove their headwear? Half of the ploasure of a theatrical performance is lost when one catches only stray glimpses of the stage or a part of it, and has his vision inter- cepted by feathers and ribbons that are wholly, out of place. -No wonder that the men crave for front or aisle seats, and look with favor upon whatever yan sits hatiess or wears one of those sweet little things that fit snugly ‘on the head, the size of «small postal and no appreciable height. Why is it that some wouien wear their bighest hate to the theater and those of less dimensions to church? — pean Her Cloak, ‘From Puck.