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CHARTER III.—fCoNTmc*D.> j had young visitors, and there was, at I “Perhaps it would be better for me J the dullest, the hope of release to connot to change my dress, if 1 am likely sole her. Now she was “settled in life,” to infringe upon the dinner hour,” said ' could sit down with idle hands and

spend her days in contemplation of her

Constance, at her chamber door, j "Oh. I do not think my cousin would Approve of that!” exclaimed her emphatic conductress. Then she amended her inadvertence. "Of course, Mrs. Withers is the proper judge of her own actions, and I would not appear to dictate, but my cousin is punctilious on some points, and the matter of ladies' attire is one of these. I have known him so long that I am conversant with all his amiable peculiarities. I am confident he would be pleased to see Mrs. Withers assume the head of her table in full dinner toilet. But as I remarked, I do not presume to dictate, to ad-

grandeur. She had married well. Nobody looked askance at her when old maids were the subjects of pity or ridicule. The most censorious could not couple her name with the dread word “dependence.” She had no household cares. Mr. Withers and Miss Field re-

lieved her of all such.

And the mistress of the mansion was left to her own devices? By no means. If her husband were fastidious, he was also tyrannical. He dictated not only what dress his wife should appear in daily, but also what laces and ornaments she should sport; at what hours

vise, or even suggest. Mrs. Withers is she should take the air; whom she

undisputed empress here.” Having run trippingly through this speech, she inflicted a third remarkable courtesy upon the novice, and vanished. “She is underbred and a meddler.” decided Constance, while she made a rapid toilet. “I hate to be addressed in the third person. I thought it a form of speech confined, in this country, to kitchen maids and dry goods store

clerks.”

Before she could invest herself in the dinner dress that lay uppermost in her trunk the bell rang to summon her to the evening meal, and three minutes thereafter the footman knocked at her door with the message that Mr. Withers had sent for her. “I shall be down directly. Tell him not to wait for me,” she said, hurriedly. She did not expect to be taken at her word, but upon her descent to the dining room she beheld her husband seated at the foot of I he board and Miss Field at the head. The latter laid down the soup ladle and jumped up, fussily. “Here she is, now. I resign my chair to one w'ho will fill it more worthily than I have ever done.” “Keep your place, Harriet!" ordered he r kinsman. “Mrs. Withers will waive her claims on this occasion, since she is late,” designating a chair at his left as that intended for Constance’s occupancy. “We would have waited for you, Constance, had I been less faint and weary. My physician has repeatedly warned me that protracted abstinence is detrimental to my digestion. Harriet, here, understands my constitution so well that I am seldom, when at home, a sufferer from the twinges of dyspepsia, that have afflicted me in my

absence.”

"Those horrible public tables,” cried Harriet. “I assure you I never sat down to a meal w'hen you were away without sighing over your evil plight in being subjected to the abominable cookery and intolerable hours of hotels.” “I did not know you were a dyspeptic,” observed Constance. “You seemed to enjoy good health during our tour.” “That was because Mrs. Withers does not yet comprehend your marvelous patience—the courage with which you bear pain, and the unselfishness that leads you to conceal its ravages from the eyes of others,” explained Miss Field, ogling the interesting sufferer, who was discussing a plate of excellent white soup with a solemnly conscious air. “Now that you are safe under your own roof, we will soon undo the mischief that has been done. You do not know what a prize you have won, Mrs. Withers, until you have seen tom in the retiracy of home. His virtues are such as flourish in perfection *.n the shadow of his own vine and figtree; shed their sweetest perfume upon the domestic hearth.” "As you perceive, my good cousin’s partiality for mo tempts her to become poetically extravagant in her expreseions,” Mr. Withers said to his wife, in pretended apology, looking well pleared, nevertheless. “1 could not have a more patient auditor than Mrs. Withers. I am sure,” rejoined Harriet. “Mrs. Withers will never take exception to my honest enthusiasm.”

CHAPTER IV. ONSTANCE nnswered by her sterK eotyped, languid sm: ' p - wondering only at the complacency with which a man of her spouse’s years and shrewdness hearkened to the bold flattery of his parasite. The exhibition erased to astonish her before she had lived in the same house with the cousins for a month. Within the same pe- { riod she was gradually reduced to the I position of a cipher in the management ,of the establishment. After that first lay Miss Field had not offered to abdi.eate the seat at the head of the table, except at the only dinner party they ■ na d Riven. Then the handsome Mrs. BWithcrs appeared in pearl-colored satBin and diamonds as the mistress of cerJemonies to a dozen substantial citizens and their expensively attired wives, endured the two hours spent at table, and the two duller ones in the great parlors, where the small company seemed lost and everybody talked as If afraid of his own voice. She was no gayer than the rest by the time the entertainment was half over. The atmosphere of re•pectable stupidity was infectious, and this pervaded every nook of her new fcotue. In her brother’s house she had

must visit and whom invite; what songs she should sing to him when he asked for music in the evening, and when the day should close—the day so wearisome in its similitude to all that had preceded and those which should follow it. “My cousin is a man with aspirations above the frivolities of fashionable life, and excitement is injurious to his health,” Miss Field notified the bride that day after her home-bringing. “I fear Mrs. Withers will tire of the even tenor of our way.” “I like quiet,” Constance replied. But she did not mean stagnation. She was married in April, and on the first of July the trio removed to Mr. Withers’ country seat. Here Constance was to find that the dead level of her existence had yet a lower plane of dullness. There was not a neighbor within four miles, hardly a farm house in

sight.

“We recruit here after the dissipation of the winter,” Miss Field said, enjoyingly. “The solitude is enrapturing. One can sleep all day long if she

likes.'

This proved to be her favorite method of recuperating her exhausted energies. Mr. Withers, too, liked a postprandial siesta, “prescribed by his physician as eminently conducive to digestion.” Constance was not more lonely when they slept than when they were awake. The horrible sterility of her life was not to be ameliorated by their society. If commonplaceness be a crime, Mr. Withers and his cousin were offenders of an aggravated type. Harriet’s affectations and Elnathan's platitudes were to the tortured senses of the third person of the party less endurable than the cicada's shrill monotone through the hot summer day, and the katydid's endless refrain at night. Her chains, which had hitherto paralyzed her by their weight, began to gall and fret into her spirit. She grew unequal in temper, nervous and restless, under the restrictions imposed by her spouse. An insane impulse beset her to defy his authority and set at naught his counsels; to rush into some outrageous freak that should shock him out of his propriety and provoke the prudish toad eater to natural speech and action. This madness was never stronger than on one August afternoon when sha escaped from the house, leaving the cousins to the enjoyment of their recuperative naps in their respective chambers, and took her way to the mountain back of the villa. She had never explored it, tempting as was the shade of the hemlocks and pines that grew up to the summit, and the walls of gray rock revealed through the rifts of the foliage. A current of fragrance, the odor of the resinous woods, flowed down to greet her ere she reached the outskirts of the forest, and the lulling murmur of the wind in the evergreen boughs was like the sound of many and wooing waters. The tender green tassels of the larches tapped her head as she bowed beneath their low branches, and the wide hemlocks were spread In benediction above her. She was alone with nature—free for one short hour to think her own thoughts and act out her desires. She laughed as a bushy c“dar knocked off her hat at the instant that she tore her dress upon a bramble. “They are leagued with my legal proprietor in the commendable business of repressing tin* lawless vagaries of those who cannot get their fill of natural beauties through the windows of a state chariot. But I shall have my frolic ail the same.'’ Another and a higher peak tempted her when she had sat for awhile upon a boulder crowning the first, revelling in the view of valley and hill, including the basin in which nestled the house, and the plain opening eastward toward the sea and civilization. The second height was precipitous, in some places almort perpendicular. From treading fearlessly and rapidly from crag to rrag, she came to pulling herself up gravelly hanks by catching at the stout underbrush, and steadying herself among rolling stones by tufts of wiry grass. But she kept on, and forgot aching feet, scant breath and blistered hands when she stood finally upon a broad plateau hundreds of feet above the house, that had dwindled into a toy cottage, and the environing plantations of trees like patches in an herb garden. “This is life!” she cried out in a sudden transport, and she sat her down upon a cushion of gray moss in the shadow of a cedar, to gaze and wonder and rejoice. She made a discovery presently. A spring, clear and impetuous, burst from between two overhanging rocks.

and chose the shortest route to the valley, babbling with all its little i might. It was joined, before it bad gone many feet, by other rivulets, and from a point midway in the descent, t where the cliffs were steepest, came up i the shout of a waterfall. This, and the tireless murmur of the evergreens, j made up the music of this upper sanctuary, until Constance’s voice rose from the rocky table, sweet, full, exultant:

“The wild streams leap with headlong sweep In their curbless course o’er the inountain steep; All fresh and strong they foam along. Waking the rocks with their cataract song. My eye bears a glance like the beam on a lance As I watch the waters dash and dance, I burn with glee, for I love to see The path of anything that’s free. I love—I love—oh, I love the free! I love—I love—I love the free!

"The skylark springs with dew on his wings. And up in the arch of heaven he \ sings— 'Tra-la-tra-la!' Oh, sweeter far Than the notes that come through a golden bar. The thrall and the state of the palace

gate

Are what my spirit has learned

hate.”

The strain ceased abruptly, and, in place of the rapt musician, borne above the power of earthly woes to crush and petty vexations to sting, a woman grovelled upon the mossy cushion, weeping hot, fast tears, and beating against the rough rock with a child's folly of des- j peration the white hand that wore the ! badge of her servitude. What was she but a caged bird, bid- ! den to preen its feathers and warble the notes its master dictated between golden bars? A slave to whom state and thrall meant one and the same j abhorrent thing? What had she to do henceforward with dreams of beauty and freedom—slie, who had signed away her liberty of spirit and person, j voluntarily accepting in their stead ! the most foul captivity a pure and upright woman can know? She felt herself to be utterly vile—plague-spotted in soul and flesh in the lonely sublimity of this mountain temple—a leper, condemned and incurable, constrained to cry out at the approach of every passer-hy, “Unclean! unclean!” It | would have been better for her to beg her bread upon the doorsteps of the wealthy, and. failing that, to die by the wayside with starvation and cold, than to live the life of nominal respectability and abundance, of real degradation and poverty, which were now hers. The tears were dried, but she still sat on the gray carpet, clutching angrily at it and the wild flowers peeping through the crevices of the rock, rending them as passion had torn her; her bosom heaving with the unspent waves of excitement and a mutinous pout upon her lips, when a crackling among the brushwood thrilled her with an uncomfortable sensation of alarm. Before she could regain her feet or : concert her scheme of defense or j flight, the nearest cedar boughs were pushed aside, and a man stepped into the area fenced in by the hardy mountain evergreens. With subsiding fears, as her quick eye inventoried the various particulars of his neat traveling suit, gentlemanly bearing, pleasant countenance and deferential aspect toward herself, Constance arose, visibly embarrassed, but dignified, and awaited his pleasure. The stranger betrayed neither surprise nor confusion. Walking directly up to her, he removed his hat, bowing low, with a bright, cordial smile. “Unless I am greatly mistaken I have the pleasure of seeing my brother’s wife. And you are more familiar with my name and my handwriting than with my face. I am Edward With, era!” (TO DB COXTIMCBH.t

Coining of Peniitas. It is not generally known that all tht minor coins of base metal, such as pennies and nickels, are made at the Philadelphia mint, and that nearly 100,000,000 pennies are coined there every year. This large number is occasioned by the fact that thousands of pennies are lost annually, and the government has some difficulty in maintaining a supply. The profit of the government on their manufacture is large. The blanks for making them are purchased for $1 a thousand from a Cincinnati firm that produces them by contract. Blanks for nickels are obtained in the same way, costing Uncle Sam only a cent and a half a piece. Gold Is coined In Philadelphia and San Frr.rclsco. Not enough of It comes into the mint at New Orleans to make the coinage of it worth while. Gold pieces are the only coins of the United States which are worth their face value intrinsically. A double eagle contains $20 worth of gold without counting the one-tenth part copper.

Ket rot:rading. Lord Nocount (proudly)—“I can trace my descent from William the Conqueror.” Cynicus "You have been a long time on the downward path.”—Truth,

Good Advloe. “Mr. X has threatened to kick mt next time he meets me in society. If J see him walk in what should. I do?” “Sit down.”—Standard.

Gormandizing Invert!*. The caterpillars are great eaters, tht different species consuming from five ' to twenty times their own weight ol food each day.

GIANT OF THE OCEAN. OCEANIC WILL BE LONGEST VESSEL EVER BUILT.

Will Ilnve Tliree Screw* 1’luced on Dry I.and the Ship YVouid Tower Above a Six-Story lluilding—Longer Than Great Eastern.

LARGE force of workmen is to-day busily engaged on what will be the biggest and longest vessel that was ever constructed. Her launching will take place next January. A year from this time she will be voyaging

between New York and Liverpool. Contrary to custom, her name has been i selected in advance, and this queen of the ocean will bear on her stern the letters that form the word “Oceanic.” She will be 705 feet long, 25 feet in excess of the length of the Great Eastern. Her depth will be little more j than 50 feet, her mean draught being 25 feet, and her beam a trifle less than 83 feet. In this latter respect only is she the inferior of the Great Eastern. While the speed power of the Oceanic will be tremendous, the ship will be | built for the purpose of affording accommodations to passengers superior to any that now exist. The Lucania and the Campania are supposed to be the ideal floating palaces, but the Oceanic’s state rooms will give that one Improvement for which transatlantic travelers have in vain sighed—plenty ! of room. The additional space which the greatly increased size of the vessel will afford is not to be utilized toward increasing the number of state rooms as much as toward making the state rooms larger. It will also be possible for a traveler to secure a room to himself. In fact, the Oceanic will be arranged as greatly as possible upon the basis principle of a great modern hotel; not the floating hotel that so many lines advertise, but the bona

fide article.

In very many respects the Oceanic will merely be an enlarged counterpart of the Teutonic and Majestic, two

flBTllit i] rr

steamer Northwest, which travels the Great Lakes in the United States, the dimensions which I have read of her— depth, length and beam show that she is hardly half as long as the Oceanic will lie, and of depth and beam proportionate thereto. She will be more than a third larger than the steamships which ply between San Francisco and Japanese and Australian ports. She will possess but two smokestacks, It is true, but either of these are of sufficient size to permit of an opening being made through them large enough to admit of the passage of a double team from a farm wagon. Her promenade deck is ibree blocks long. There Is almost sufficient space to play a game of base ball, and certainly hand hall could be played without difficulty. It is among the plans of the builders of the boat to so arrange a portion of the deck that golf can be played thereon. Twenty-one lifeboats, each capable of carrying forty-five persons, will be secured to davits on each side of her upper works. The captain, or whatever officer may be upon the bridge, will have a promenade of an eighth of a mile, when he wishes the exercise. There will be as much room in the main saloon as in an ordinary theater. Regarding her fittings, a representative of the White Star line, to which she will belong, told me the other day that in point of elegance they would far exceed anything now afloat. The arrangements for the comfort of the passengers in rough weather will be such that It will require a very heavy sea indeed to make one uncomfortable. It has been a common source of complaint among transatlantic passengers that the furniture of a steamship was built on the land principle—that is, as if the traveler was never going to receive any shocks or be likely to be thrown about. It is the intention to remedy this difficulty in fitting up the Oceanic, so that there will be no hard corners for a passenger to be thrown against, something that would be very greatly appreciated.

CATCHING PRESIDENT’S EYE. An Opt Irian Who lla* Kitted Chief Executive!! with (ilanees. There is none of the instruments of government of the United States providing for a presidential optician, yet private enterprise has gone far to establish such an office, says Leslie’s

SHE MARRIED A VAGRANT. An Old Crone Persuaded Tier but Her Parents Took Her Away. A pretty member of one of the best families in Orangeburg, S. C., has married a vagrant just out of the almshouse and gives as a reason for her conduct that the man's mother, a fortune teller, persuaded her that death would soon claim her if she did not marry the son of the old crone, says the Atlanta Constitution. Eva Easterlin was the name of the unfortunate girl, Jim Courtney being her husband. The couple went to the residence of Justice Brinson and asked to be married, Courtney representing Miss Easteriin as a factory hand from an adjacent cotton mill. They were married and proceeded to the shabby room where Courtney had been living. But the honeymoon of the ill matched pair was of short duration. The parents of the girl, hearing that their daughter had been seen with Courtney, quickly ascertained the truth and, giving chase, found their daughter and took her home. When Courtney appeared on the streets he was met by ugly looks from citizens, so he left town afoot. It was thought the young woman had lost her mind and her explanation of the reasons and fears which influenced her marriage indicate that her reason was impaired. An effort will probably be made to get the legislature to annul the marriage, but there is no precedent, and it is unlikely that it will be done now.

SPEECH SUDDENLY RESTORED (Tiild Mute for Two Years Startle* People by a Song:. The medical department of the Arkansas Deaf Mute institute is deeply puzzled over a ease which occurred at that place last week, says a special to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. T»m years ago Jennie Childress, aged 9 years, whose parents reside in Izard county, had a severe attack of the measles, which seems to have paralyzed the voral organs, rendering speech impossible, although her power of hearing was not in the least affected. Last October she was sent to the deaf mute institute. For several weeks she had been under the care of the institute physician, Dr. Gray, but he became convinced a few days ago that there was no hope for the little one and wrote

THE “OCEANIC,” LARGEST OCEAN-GOING VESSEL EVER BUILT.

of the most popular passenger steamships that ply between New York and European ports. There are no startling innovations from a structural standpoint, and no effort will be made to place her at the front of the fleet that are known as ocean greyhounds. Nevertheless, her engine capacity will be sufficient, it is believed, to take her across the Atlantic in four days. The present time record is a little more than five days and four hours. The total combined horse power of the Oceanic will be 45,000. That of the Lucania and Campania Is 18,000. She will have three sets of triple expansion engines, the capacity of each of which will be 15,000 horse power. She will also have three screws, one more than the usual equipment. Therefore, although a much higher sea speed than that not contemplated is quite practicable from an engineering point of view, it has been determined as far as possible to aim at a regular Wednesday morning arrival, both in New York and In Liverpool, making the Irish Channel and Queenstown by daylight, and enabling passengers who may be traveling to places beyond the port of arrival to proceed to, and in the majority of cases reach, their destination with comfort during the day. At the same time the vessel is to be so constructed that the motion of even the winter seas will not be felt with anything like the severity that ordinarily afflicts those who travel In winter by steamship. It is expeeted that the service of the Oceanic will be continuous, regardless of seasons. To read of the dimensions of the Oceanic hardly gives an adequate idea of her tremendous size. Her model shows that she will be beautifully proportioned, and so, like a very largo man of fine physique, she will not look her size unless some object be placed beside her enabling comparisons. For instance, the Ethiopia, of the Anchor line of steamships, that plies between Glasgow and New York, could be almost placed between decks aboard the Oceanic. While I have never seen tb?

Weekly. When the usual introduction has been accomplished the optician astonishes the president by the re-

mark:

“loook me straight in the eyes.” His business being known beforehand, the optician is not summarily ejected as a crank, though he sometimes astonishes the man he addresses, as he did Garfield, who playfully remarked: “Confound you, don’t you think I can look any man in the face?” Then the optician investigates the eyes of the nation’s chief executive. He puts them through all sorts of tests, measures them, and fits them with

glasses.

An optician of New York and Pittsburg, Pa., who does all these things, is known among scientists as the inventor of various devices for overcoming astigmatism, or a tendency to see things longer or broader than they really ought to be. His theoretical studies In Europe equipped him to qualify as an oculist, but one can not claim | the titles of oculist and optician both at once without acquiring a third and less desirable one, spelled quack, so he merely calls himself optician, and combines with the mechanical knowledge | of that calling the scientific inforraa1 tion of the other. After fitting President Hayes, Mrs. Hayes, President Garfield. President Cleveland and President Harrison and his first wife with glasses, the optician feels that he knows the inside of the white house

fairly well.

Shot with Ill!i Own riMol at Prayer. While praying in church at Tirzah, York county, S. C., Jonah Crosby, colored, found a big pistol in his hip pocket uncomfortable. In removing it the weapon was discharged, wounding him seriously and causing a stampede of the congregation.

The Unite. Young Mother (on train)—O, dear, Y don’t know what to do with you, baby!” Kind Bachelor—Shall I open the window for you, Madam?—New York Journal.

to Mrs. Childress that he could give no encouragement whatever in Jennie’s case. Her power of vocalization seemed to be utterly gone beyond recall. One day Jennie was with a class of girls, some of whom can speak slightly. They were singing the familiar church hymn, "At the Cross,” when all were astounded at Jennie, who broke into the chorus with a clear, perfect tone, the first words she had uttered for over two years. Later she pronounced her teacher's name, and remarked “Mamma will be so happy.” Superintendent Yates immediately telegraphed the good news to her father.

A lluzzurd With u Bell.

Georgetown (Ohio) correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer: With the approach of spring comes the old and widely known buzzard, which has for a few seasons past been given up for dead. The bird is known to hundreds of people all over the southern part of Ohio, and when it is known that this long-lost fr^ak has been seen with a party of its companions flying slowly up the Straight Creek valley, ringing the same sheep bell that was fastened to its neck years ago in Ross county there will be a very general lookout kept for its appearance everywhere. The bird is now known to be very old, and its (light now is in the direction of its old haunts in Ross county.

Answi'reU Matrimonial Ad.

J. J. Balienberg of Dallas county, Mo., and Miss Pearl E, Wagner, the age of the couple being seventy-six and twenty-fours years respectively, were recently married at | Davis, Ind. Balienberg advertised for a wife. Miss Wagner proved the favored claimant for his affections and a courtship lasting just one week had its sequel in marriage of the couple.

G low wonus anil Storms. Glowworms are much more brilliant when a storm is coming than at other seasons. Like many other mysteries of nature, this curious circumstance haa never been explained.

ELEPHANT ON TRIAL.

"CHARLEY” WAS ARRAIGNED FOR MURDER.

Remarkable Kvrnt In Court History— Arqnlttml of the (rime After Dna Legal Process—Victim was Cruel to Ibe Brute.

N ELEPHANT accused of murder has been ex- ^ onerated by a cor7 oner's jury. Th« occasion was tho ' Inquest on the body of a man who had been killed by th® animal. It took place in Ixmdoa and is probably th® most remarkable event in natural history on record, says the New York Journal. The elephant is of Asiatlo birth, is known as Charley and is th® star performer in a circus. He held that position before the tragedy in which he recently became involved and will continue to do, thanks to a jury of liberal-minded Englishmen. Charley is an animal of phenomenal sagacity and dexterity. He can stand oa pegs with the ease and grace of a first-class acrobat. It is a pleasing sight to behold him standing on two pegs, with two feet and holding th® other two gingerly in the air. For an animal of the elephant’s build this is quite remarkable. Charley also stands on his hind legs and waves his fore legs in the air. He waltzes with much grace and takes part in any kind of procession with admirable precision. He has been in the business for thirty-one years and knows much more about it than the average keeper. It is said that he is as highly educated as an elephant can be. Having so much education and experience, Charley exacts a considerable amount of respect from keepers. He regards only a first-class elephant trainer as his superior. For more than a year Charley had a keeper who beat him cruelly. About a year ago the man was discharged from the circus. Recently h® was re-engaged to W’ork in another department. He visited the elephant’s quarters the other day to speak to the keeper. Charley was eating his supper when he saw his old enemy. Hs Immediately seized the man with his trunk, pushed him against the wall and crushed him to death. The owner of the circus was the great witness in Charley’s favor at the Inquest. H® said he was the kindest elephant ever known. He added: “Elephants do not forget injuries or kindness. I remember several remarkable Instances. On one occasion, when I had been separated from an elephant for twt» years, the elephant, on seeing me, seized me round the waist with his trunk and would not let me go until he had hugged and caressed me for a long time. Tears of pleasure ran down the brute's cheeks. Some years ago a nephew of mine, a child of 3, was playing around Charley ami climbing up his legs. Charley gently resented this, but the child continued. Charley then took the child up, shook him gently and put him down some yards away." Others testified to the good character of Charley and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death without blaming tlie elephant. There are persons experienced with elephants who will not agree with this decision. They hold tho views expressed in Charles Reade’s exciting story of an elephant trainer’s life, “Jack of All Trades." Chief among these views is that th® elephant is the most cunningly malignant animal in existence. Charles Reade’s elephant was always on th® lookout to smash a man. He was so clever than he would knock a knot out of a partition with his trunk and kneeling down peer thruogh the hole to see what was going on in the next room. Those who hold the theory of elephant perversity say that the only way to keep the animal in subjection is to thrash him unmercifully. A pitchfork is often used. A punishment which tho elephant fears very much is beating on the soles of the feet, which are in him extremely sensitive. According to this view of the elephant’® character the homicide committed by Charley was willful murder and should have been punished by death. Th® enemies of the elephant explain that, while he was in the custody of this keeper he never dared to attack, because the man was always on the alert, knowing the evil character of th® beast. But when the elephant was in another man's care the old keeper naturally forgot his precautions and the animal took a cowardly advantag® of this and killed him.

Oernian Mannfactare of Needles. The Germans during recent years ar® said to have made very remarkable progress in the manufacture of needles. Last year the Germans exported 2.800.000 pounds of these small but Indispensable articles, as compared with 1.830.000 pounds in 1895. As showing the rate at w’hich the export side of the German business has grown, it is stated that in the eight years, 1880-87, th® shipments were 11,615,000 pounds, and in the following eight years, ending with 1895, 15,425,000 pounds. The factories of Aix-la-Chapelle alone produce 50,000,000 needles a week, and they ar® said to be for the most part of superior quality. The best outlet for these goods is China, which in 1896 took 60 per cent of the whole export, as compared with no more than 20 per cent in 1894. Other markets of considerable importance are British India, France, Great Britain, the United States. Austria-Hungary, Italy and Turkey. Every freeman must expect to look out for himself