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i) mi The Official Correspondence Made Public. Full Text of Mr. Blaine's Reply to Rudini. A Shrewd and Uncompromising Document, Which Holds Out Small Hope for Indemnities. Official Relations "With Italy Not Yet Broken OCT. "Washington, April 15. The following Is the correspondence between Secretary Blaine and the Italian government since the secretary's note to Marquis Imperial), acknowledging notice of Baron Fava's departure : Royal Legation of Itai.t, WJJSUISGI05, April 2, 1831. Mr. Secretary of State: I hasten to acknowledge the receipt of the note which your excellency did me the h'-uor to address to me oo the lit instant, ia reply to that whereby Barou Fava informed you of Lit departure rn leave. I have laid the content of your excellency's aforesaid note before the government of the Xing and his excellency, the president of the council. Iiis majesty's minis er of foreign affairs bus jnt directed me to address the follow in communication to yon: "The governn eut of the king of Itsly hue asked nothing beyond the prompt institution of jud.cial proceedings through the regular channel. It would have been absurd tocla.m the punishment of the guilty parlies without the warrsntof a regular judgment. The Italian government now repeats the same demand.. Not nr.til the federal got ernment shail hare explicit!? declared that the aforesaid proceedlogs shall be promptly began can the diplomatic incident be considered as closed. Meanwhile his majesty's government takes note of the declaration whereby the federal government recognizes that an indemnity is due to the families of the victims ia virtue of the treaty ia fore: between the two countries." I have, therefore, the honor to bring th foregeiaf to the knowledge of your excellency, and I avail ay self of this occasion to of er you, Mr. Secretary of State, the assurances of my highest and most respectful consideration. IMPEKIALI. Ilia Excellency, James G. Blaise, Secretary of State. Department of Statu, ) Washington, April 14, lfc'Jt. f The Marquis Imperial Charge d' Aff aires, etc, etc: Sip. I lave the honor to acknowledge the receiot of yovr note dated Thursday, April 2, 133L. It contains a second te esrram from the Marquis E'.'dini, a part of whicu I here quote: "The government of the kins of Italy has asked nothing beyond the prompt institution 9i judicial proceedings through the regular channel. It would have been absurd to claim the punishment of guilty parties without the warrant of a regular judgment. The Italia. l rovercment ro rpats the same oe and. Not until the federal government aha 1 have explicitly de!ared that the aforesaid proceedings shall be promptly begun can the diplomatic incident be considered aa closed." This government certaibly Lad no desire whatever t? i-hanse the meaning of the Marquis Kudmi's telegram of March 21. It was del.vered at the state department by Baron Fava in person, wr tten in his own hand and expressed in the English language. The following is the full text of the telegram: Rome, March 21, 1S91. Italian Minister, Washington: Our requests to the federal eovernment are very simple. ome Italiao subjects, acquitted br the Amerirn; mauiairnies, hive been murdered in prisr n while under the immediate protection of tne authorities. Our ri'jht. tfierrjore, to demand and obtain the j'unihmrnt of the murdtrert, ami an itu.'emnty tor the vctin:i, u vwjvM'onable. I wish to add that the public opinion in Itnly is justly impatient, and if concrete provisions were not at once taken I should find mysef iu the painful necessity of showing openly our diiatifaetioii by re tiling the minister of his majesty from a country where he is unable to obtain, justioe. SignedJ RcdisL The words underscored are rreoisely those which I quoted in my forrutr note, and I am directed by the president to express the satisfaction of this government with the very material qualification of the demand by the Marquis Kadini, on behalf of it Italian government. You quote in your note another part of the Marquis itudiai's telegram of April 2 in these words: "Meanwhile his msjesty'e government takes note of the declaration whereby the federal government recognizes that an identity is due to the (amities of the victims in virtue of the treaty in force between the two countries," If the ilsrquis Kudini will carefully examine my note of Apri. 1 he will riiteover that I did not rec goize that an indemnity is due to the families vt the victims in virtue of the treaty in force between the two countries." V hat I did aay waa in answer to Baron Fare's assertion that the U. & government refused to take this demand for indemnity into consideration. I quote mr reply: TL United States, so far from musing, baa distinctly recognised the principle of indemnity to those Italian subject who may have been wronged by a violation of ttie rights secured to them under tbe treaty with the United States concluded Feb. 26, 1891." The Marqais RodinI may be assured that the United States would recompense every Itaiian subject rro might "be wronged by a violation of a treatv" to which tbe faith of the United States is pledged. But th.s assiranc) leaves unsettled the important question whether the treaty baa been violated. Upon this point the president, with sufficient facts placed before bim, has taken full tibie for decision, lie now directs that certain considerations on the gen ersl snbj-ct be submitted to the judgment of the Italitn government. Aa a precedent of fT-at value to tat ease under d.sousston the resident recalls the conclusion maintained by r. Weoster in 1351. when be waa secretary of state ooder Presideut Filimor. In August of that year a mob in New Orleans d-molislied the building in whieh tbe office of the Spanish consul wsg located, and at the same time atWlte ware made apon co;le houses and cigar eijepskept by Spanish subjects. American eitisens were involve! in the losses which la the aggregate were large. The supposed cause of the mob was theiotellicence ef the execution of fifty young Amtricans in Havana and the banishment to the Spanish mice of nearly 200 citizens of the United fetates. Tbe victims were all members of the abortive Lopes expedition. In eor.seqneties of these depredations of the nob upon tbe property of the f-panish consul, aa well as against the Spanish subjects, Don Calederon de La Parea, the minister ot rpain, demanded indemnification for all losses, both ofUcial and personal. Vlr. Webster admitted that tbe Spanish consul was entitled to Indemnity, and assured the Spanish minister that if tL injured eonsu', Mr. Leborde, shall retorn to his post, or if any etber consul for New Orleans shall be appointed by her ealhoUe majesty's government, the efSoers of this government resident In that city will be instrncted to receive and treat bim with courtesy and with a national salute to tbe flag of his shir, if he shU arrive in a Spanish vev eel, as a demonstration of reepeet, such as may signify to bim aid to his government tbe sense entertained by lie tovernmeot ef the United States of the gross injustice dene to his predecessor by a lawless mob, as well as tbe indignity ad inialt 9ii9ifi by it to a fotiga state, waa

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whioh the United States are and with ever to remain on terms of the most respectful and pacdie intercourse." Hut when pressed by the Spanish minister to afford indemnity to Spanish subjects injured by the mob, in common with American eitisens, Mr. Webster declined, and gave hie reasons, as follows: This government supposes that the rights of the Spanish consul, a public officer residing here under the r rot po

tion of the U. S. government. are I quite different from those of the Spanish subjects who have come into the country to mingle with our own citizens and here to pursue their private business aud objects. The former may claim spec. si indemnity; the latter are entitled to such protectiou as is granted to our own citizei s. While, therefore, the loties of individuals, private Spanish subjects, are great? to be regretted, yet it is understood that many American citizens su'Jered equal losses from the same cause, and these private individuals, subjects of her catholio majesty, coming voluutarily to reside in the United States, have certainly no cause of complaint if they are protected by the same laws aud the same alminisrratioti of law aa native-bora citizena of this country. They bave, in fact, some advantezes over citizens ot the state ia which they happen to be, inasmuch as they are enabled, until ihcy beoomi citizens themselves, to prosecute for auy injuries doue to their persons r their property in the courts of the United Stales or the state courts at their election." It is proper, however, to ad 1 that two years after Mr. Webster wrote tlie foregoing note congress iu recognition of certain magnanimous e 'iiUi'ct ou the part of the queru f Spaiu on, pardons t-estoweil on Americans who hal unjustifiably invaded the island of Cuba, euacied a joint resolution, approved by President Fillmore March 3, l!53, the last day of his terra, ioileinnitying trie Spanish conaal and other Sp:iuiu subjects for the losses sustained in the New Orleans mob of 1851. The considerat ous upun which this resolution was passed were held not to contravene the original position of Mr. Webster, shared a) so by President Fillmore. The right to judical remedy which Mr. Webster assured to the Spanish subjects is likewise assured to the Italian subjc.s. The right is specially guaranteed in tbe second taction ot third article of the e institution. AnJ, a Mr. Webster points out, the resident alien has a privi ee which is deuied to the citizen. The widows and children of the citizens a ho lost their lives by mob violence may sue the leaders and members of the mob on y in tbe courts of the state of Louisiana; while tbe widows and children of the Italian subjects wbo m iered deaih, have the right to rue ere .i member of the mob, not ou;y in the state court, but also before the federal tribunals lor th district of Louisiana. Provision is made iu the revised civil code of Louisiana for redress of such erievauors as the widows mid children of the victims of the mob may plead. 1 quote: "Art. :',3l4. fcvery act, whatsver.of man that causes cmage to another obl.gea him by whose fault it happened to repair it. The right of this action shall survive, in case of death, in favor of the miuor children and wiiew of thedsceased, or eithr of them, and in default of these in favor of the surviving father or mother, or either of them, for the space of cno year from the death." "At. 2,315. Every person is repcnihle for the damage he occasions, not xutrely by his "1, but by his nlic'i;, his lmpr auenca or his want of sk'li." 'Article 2, '62i. He who causes another person to do a j unlawful a.-t, or aslUi or encourages iu the cumai.'i aa of it, is answerable in sciiJo with that ptrson for the damage oaused by such act," The government of the United States woul I feel justified in resting on the argument and conclusion of Mr. Weiister if tbe mou of March 11, 1SJI, did not in s-roi of its clmrte.eristioi didr-r troin the mob oi 1S31. But it is due to entire candor, due to this gvverr.iaent and due to the government of Italy to point out certain di..erencs of which the government of the United States is honorably bound to take notice. la the case of the mob of 1T1 Mr. Webster asserts that "No personal injury was ot.erei to any one; that the police ami other legal authorties did all t! av was possible to preserve the peace and arrest the rioters; that tiieiuob ao'ed in the heat of blood and not in pursuance of any predetermined plan or purj. of injury or insult; the mob was composed of irresponsible persona then, the nainrs of none of whom uti known to the government of the United States, nor, as far as the government is informed, to its oiEeers or agent in New Orleans." As promptly as passible after the lamentable occurrence at New Orleans the presideut directed the ettorner-generai to cause, through his department, a fuii inquiry to be medo i:lo all the facts connected therewith, ar.d solicited bis opinion whether any criminal proceedings would lie under the federal I.iks in the federal courts agniust persons o'.ared with the killing ot luliau subject, lie I at not yet received the otiicial report. It it be found that a proecutiou can be maintained und r the sututes of thd United Stites the case will be presented to the next grand jury, sccoid eg to the usual methods ot cr.minal a imini.tratioD. liut it tt should be found, as seems probable, that criminal proceedings can only be taken in ihi coir.a of Louia.acs, the pres dent can iu this dirrcuon do no more than to urge upon the state ffioers the duty of promptly bringing the olienders to trial. This was done in hit telegram to the governor of Louisiana as eirly as the 15th of March. If it shall result that the cast can be prosecuted ooiy in the state courts of Louisiana, and the usaal judicial investigation and procedure under the criminal law is not resorted to, it will then be the duty of the United States to consider whether some other form of redress may be asked. It is understood that the slate grand jury is now iuvestigatir.g the aCair. and while it is poksible that the jury may fait dictments, the United States to protect incannot assume that fcieu w il be the case. The United Mates did not by treaty with Italy become the insurer of the lives or prop- ; erty ot tne lunaa suijrcts resident within our I territory. No government is able, howrver j high its civilization, however vigilant its police supervision, however severe I s criminal code an I however prompt aud iufkxible its criminal administration, to secure its own c.tizcns azains; violence prompted by individual maiice or a sudden popular tumult. The foreign re.iirlenu must be coa ect. in such cases to share the same redress that ia o.!red by the law to the o tizeus, and has uo just cause of romp aint or runt to ak the interposil:on of hia country if tne courts are equa ly open to bim for the redress of hia injuiies. Tbe treaty iu the first, second, thirl and notably in the twenty-third articles, clearly limits the rights gnarauteed to the eitizens of J the e mtracting powers ia the territory of each I to equal tie uraent aud to free access te the i courts of justice. Foreign residents are not made a favored i class. It Is not believed that Ita'y would dej sire a more tricgent construction of her duty I under the trea y. Where the injury inf? e d ; upon a foreign resident is not the act of the j government or of its oSoers, but of an indiviuuai or oi a moo, it is ueiievea that no claim for indemnity (si justly be made unless it shall be made to appear that tbe public authorises charge I with the pec i of the community have connived at the unlawful act, or having I m-ly notice of the threatened danger, have been guilty of such gross negligence in taking the necessary precautions as io amount to connivance. I therefore, it should appear that among those Ki:l-d by the mob at New Orleans there were some 1'aLao subjects who were resident or .dome led in that city, agreeably to our trf aty with Italy and not iu violation of our immigration laws, and wbo were abiding la the peace of the United Mates and obeying the laws thereof and ot the Hate of Louisiana, aud that the publc officers charged with the duty of proieotiDg life and property in that city eonnived at tbe work of the mob. or upon t proper not.ee or information of threatened I danger, failed to take any steps for the presi ervation of the publio peace, and afterward to I bring tbe guilty to trial, the president would, under such circumstances, feel that a case was I established that should be submitted to the i consideration of ingress with a view to the relief of the families of the Italian subjects who bad lost their lives by lawless violeuoe. Accept, sir. the reoewed assurance of my high consideration. James G. iiLAixK. There are several figniGcant features in the correspondence made public today in addition to the diplomatic argument profer. It will be obBervetl that the Marquis mperiali personally acknowledges the receipt of jIt. Rlaine'fl letter respecting

Fava's departure; that while he transmits Rudini'a views they are over hia own pignature, and that Secretary Blaine, in hia last letter, April 14, add rease. himself to the Marquis Imieriali. Theeo facta may o regarded as final evidence, that so far from diplomatic relations between the two countries having been interrupted, they are on practically the fame footing aa if the minister had not quitted Washington, for the marquU eeenis to be diachartting the full functions of charge d' a:. aires, aid fo, aa minister, he received Secretary Blaine's note la?t night But its publication waa deferred until today in order to observe the proprieties and afford opportunities to the Marquis Imperiali to transmit the note by cable to his government in advance of its publication to the worid Secretary Blaine's note contains internal evidence that this government had not been threatened if aa answer waa delayed, or of a disregard for such a threat if it was made, in the leisurely manner in which he etatt-s that the president "has taken f u 1 time for consideration," ef the treaty questions involved. It ia also noticeable that the secretary promptly checks the attempt rande by Kudini to commit the United States to a promise to p3y indemnity by pointing to the guarded language of his first dispatch, and indulging in a number oiqualificutions, the purpose of w bich ia to requira a complete demonstration of several matters that may be very hard to demonstrate; puch. for instance, as the fact required to bo legally Ehown that Louisiana officials connived at the ki l.ng of the Italians, or that they purposely failed to peform their duties. "It is also nignificant that the secretary has so far found small authority for th R.uimtioti in some quarters that the United States may prosecute the guilty parties in its own tribunals; but it appears thnt the department of justice is still wrestling with the problem. BLAIN&'S R PLY AT ROME.

TN Important Letter Arrives la Italy and Its Effect. Rome, April 17. The reply of the TJ. S. fecretary of ttate, Mr, Blaine, to marquis di Ruaini's last note on the 6ubject of the New Orleans a.'lair U the only important subject of conversation and newspaper comment throughout Italy. The full text of the reply reached this city today. When it becsme known that the reply had reached hero tho marquia di Rudini, the U. S. minister, tho lion. A. G. Porter, and other persons holding positions which would enable them to express valuable opinior s upon the New Orleans dispute were besieged with interviewers. The substance of tho opinions the gentlemen reterreJ to ware able to express is that the controversy is in course of adjustment and that so far as the future negotiations nre concerned, the diplomats will seek chiefly to establish and maintain the correct construction of the various points of inU ruational law which bear directly or indiretly upon the subject. It is otlicially denied that there is any truth in the reports eoat from Rome to the Chwnk'e of London that tho lion. A. G. roru-r, tho II. S. minister to Italy, is upon tho point of der?rtins from Rome on a month's leave of absence. Tiio Me.-sigrro todsy Bays that Mr. B'.aine's reply to the marquis di Rudini'a last note evinces the treat desire of Mr. Blaine to e'u le the demands of the Italian government, to escape from indemnifying the families of the men lynched at New Orleans and to refrain from acceding to tho Italian government's riht to intervene in the Kew Orleans alTair. The Poj'oh liomano. also discussing Mr. Blaine's reply, says ttiat in view of tbe tenor of Mr. Blair.e'a answer t the marquis di Hu-lini's noLe. it is difficult to form any idea ad how or wtiero tbe matter will end. "STIFF AND DISCOURTEOUS.' An Italian Organ lu New York Grinds Out nit Attek en Mr. lUittne. New Yokk, April 17. Dr. Luigi Roversi, the editor of Jl Progrrsto Italo-Americano, writes a on:z editorial this morning on the note of Secretary Blaine to the Itaiian government. It reads as follows: This note, cons dired objectively, does not give the least aat siaotion, and it clearly reveals a strong disinclination to give any or to admit that Italy has the right to demand satisfaction or reparation of any kind. The note of Blaine is stiu and not couched in the usual courteous language of dip oniatio forms. It is almost discourteous. Perhaps we are mistaken as to the object that Mr. iiiaine has in view; still it is known, and well known, that several ot the men ro.issaered did not fulfill all the demands iu regard to character and putt lifu that the new immigration laws of the United Mates exact. We, for our part, do not see what the home government will be able to answer, what line of reasoning it will find to anawer Mr. Blaine when the attorney general of Louisiana with papers and esrlified penal documents of the kingdom of Italy w.ll have proven that the victims of the lynchers had no le.ral iuLt to residence in New Orleaus, and that the collector ( that port had a perfect right and authority to prohibit their landing, and could have returned tbem to Italy on the same ship by which they came if be were so disposed. Mr. Blaine's theorie on the protection of aliens in this country are simply stupefying in their crude and eynical aadaoity. They conflict with every accepted theory ot international equity and will cause an outburst of indication ju the whole civilized world and spread abroad the suspicion that treaties signed with America are not worih the paper upoa which they are written. This republic which the glorious declaration of indepeudance placed upon the highest pinnacle of ideal jutioe, liberty and fraternity, has, through cvsuudetetanding, through egotism, and pride, lieeti led away by a false and fool'ah feeling ot national pride and bonor and now makes for its owu the proverb of the tyrants that it was the first to denounce la Force I'rime le Droit. An Iruportnnt L-lter. IMsdlsonvWle (Tex.) Messsnger.1 Technica itles of the law are being ned to advantage in the Walker count v court. A party WAschargud with the theft of cigars. The county attorney, in drawing tip the complaint, charged the accused with the theft of "nin" cigars. The defendant's lawyer succeeded in Laving tbe case thrown out of court because the letter "e" was omitted from the word "nine," and showed that the accused did not appropriate "nin ci.-ars" belonging to soma one else to his own use.. tx First linking-. iJestsr. Yonng nnsband -"Did you bake this cake, Maria?" Young Wife "Yes, George." Young Husband "Well, you take the cake" Young Wife (flattered) '0h, George I" . Young Husband (continuing) "And throw it away." A Social Pleasure. IK. Y. Recorder. "Did you bave a good time at Eva's party?" . "No," replied little Maud, "I didn't expect to have." "Why did vou go, then?" - "So I could come home and laugh about it with papa like mamma does."

IIOW ROB FLED TEMPTATION

IT WAS A PRETTY TOUGH JOB THOUGH Otlier Stories for Toaag Folks Afraid of the Result Oar Blrti davr Totsey ami the Moon Tbe Gam of ThirtyFour Knotty Problems. The "blue-line" 6treet-cnr stopped at the corner, nays a writer iu the Youth' Companion, and a rather anxious-looking young woman put a small boy inside. "Now, Rob," she said, as she hurried out to the platform ajrain, "don't lose that note I gave you ; don't talce it out of your pocket at all." "No'm," said the little n an, looking wistfully after his mother as the conductor pulled the 6trap, the driver unscrewed his break, and the horses, shaking their bells, trotted off with the car. "What'a your name, Bub?" asked a mischievous-looking young man sitting besido him. "Robert Cullen Deems," he answered politely. "Where are you going?" "To my grandma's." "Let me see that note in your pocket." The look of innocent surpriw in the round face ought to bave shamed the baby's tormentor, but he only said again, "Let me Bee it." "I tan't," said Robert Cullen Deems. "See here if you don't, I'll scare the horses and make them run away." The little boy cast an apprehensive look at the belled horses, but shook hia head. "Here, Bub, I'll give you this peach if you pull that note half-way out of your pocket." The boy did not reply, but some o! the older people looked angry. "I say, chum, I'll give you this whole bag of peaches if you just show me the comer of your note," said the tempter. The child turned away, as if be did not wish to hear any more, but the ycuug men opened the bat: and held it out jut where he could tea and emetl the luscious fruit. A look of distress came into the 6wcet little fare; I briiee llo was a 'raid to trust hiuiself and when a man left his peat on the other side to got oif the car the little boy slid quickly down, left the temptation behind, and climbed into tbe vacant place. A pair of prettily gloved hands began almost unconpciou6y to clsp and then every body clapped and appiaulcd nntil it might have alarmed Rob. if a young hidy pitting by had not slipped her arm around bim and stid, witu a sweet glow on Her fac: "Tell your mamma that we all congratulate her upon having a littlo man strong enoujh to resi6t temptation and wise enough to run away from it." 1 doubt if that long, nard messi'ge ever reached Reb's mother, but no matter, tbe note got to h:e grandmother without ever coming out of hi; packet. - AFRAID OF THE RESULTS. Why a Little Girl Refused to Say the Fimlllir Evening Prayer. Uoutekeeper's Weekly. "Now, mamma, I " Thus the child began, and was stopped short by her mother. "Lottie, how mauy times I've told vou not to begin with 'Now.' It is 'Now, mamma,' 'Now, I can't,' "Now, I will,' 'Now,' fcomclhing or other continually. Don't pay it ntrainl The very first time you do 1 will ff nd you to stand fi.teen minutes in the corner." Little Lottie knew full well the terrors of that punishment. What an eternity tt sevined to her to stand Ihtt length of time with her face to the wall, not a'.lowed to turn arvund or speak till told that th time was out; for always after about three minutes she felt eure that the fifteen minutes must be passed and tbat she, forgotten, must stand there always! So cautious Lottie retreated with her doll out of mamma's heating, and it being already late in the day, escaped condemnation. When the little nightgown had been donned and mamma said tendeilv: "Now, darling, say your little prayer' Lottie failed to notice bow the catcher had been caught on the "Now," but answered : "I can't I mustn't." "Lottie! Why not?" 'Cause if I any my ' I lay me,' I must stand in the corner." Tbe 0me tf Tnlrty-Four.

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The remarkable fact about the above arrangement is that not only do the columns foot up thirty-four vertically, horizontally and diagonally, but the sura of the numbers in any square of four blocks is also th'rty-four. And the sum of every third number around the margin, or of any four alternate figures, in any direction is also thirtv-four. In the twocombinations that follow, the numbers in any square of four blocks will make thirty-four, and also the four corners foot up the same.

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Oar Birthday. I've a seeret to tefl yea, Dolly; bl mo whisper it in your ear; Tomorrow wll be our birthday Y ar birthday and mine, aiy dear I As soon as the sun peeps orer The bill where the blackberries grow, I'll be tigbt years old, ray Dolly, And you'll be one, you know. ton't yen remember. Dolly I'm psrfte:ly sure you doWhen I wot lut birthdsy morning Tli first thing 1 saw wss ' on T T"U sat on the edge of a workbox, , Walt! or, you loselv ehlld. And when you saw I was looking You stretched out your arms snd stall- L And you're just ss loTely ss ever, 1 hough your surls sre very thin. And your poor leirs wabhle t adly, Andyeur left era's fallen in; And, if tomorrow rooroiu Anotbsr doll comet here. We'll be kind to her. but she sbstl Dot Supplant you, iiolly d- ar. Little Men aad Women. Totsey and the Moots. Little Totaef was fcrlrn-futl of questleas, Aed kei't aklng "the what and the why,' When be saw the full moon lie asked very snea, "What's 'at yellow tU ia the sky?" Then Susan, nts name, who tu wearied With his questioning, said, "Totsey, try Te go to aieep, Kinase;

Foms wy It's gren chfese, ' And some sty It's a big pumpkin pis." Not many nights aftor the question Totsey saw tbs half moon in the sky, And cried with delight, "Mine one's too a bite Wite out of the bii pumpkin pie." St KlcboUs. Quaint Ideaa. "Oh, mamma!" exclaimed little Maidie, as a bright-winged insect passed the door, "here goes a flutter-by V Judge. Teacher ( reading) "The Hun clubbed out the brains of the children, and ." L'ttle Lord Fountleroy "But was not that very vulgar?" The story is running the rounds of a little maid who recently graduated from the infant cla.a in tho Sunday-school, the pass examination baing her ability to say tho ten comu.anduient'. A while afterward a friend of tho family happened in and asked the young lady if she could say the ten commandments." "No. I can't say the ten comuiaudmfnts,'' said Mips Rose, with a toss of the head. "I've nothing to do with the ten commandments now. I'm out of tho infant clase." Jeu-ith Meuenger. KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

fOur V'a'te rs are Invited to furnish origin,! en Is? mas.ehara tee, rldilas, ri isei. and other "Ka'ttty Problem," ad dressing ail connvinfoationsrslaUvsto this ddparttuent toK U. Chadhoura.Lewtston, Jts. ffo. 3,509 Ualgtna. EoUrei for prize. 4SSL ICO Ft O TPT. ANGLO BT. Once oo a time in Afric'i land, A stoae wss found beneath tbe sand. And on its face was this Inscription In laoguage seemiagly Egyptian. To learned men it was submitted, but all confessed tbeowe ves outwitted, Kot one of tbeai could tell its meaning. With all their searching and their gleaming. At length one w thout erudition, Thought he could give its definition; "'Ti plain ss A, B, C," he said. And instantly tho puzzle read. And now, if rou hues to objection, I give it bre for your lu'pection, And if you are cic ;Jing smart You'll know its meaning at the start. AlDTU ', 3,370 Diamond. TEutered for prize. 1. A letter. 2. To thrash. S. A hind of New Z-a-lsnd fireM :re !. 4. I'ertaining to rrtln. fi. Argil no. on .auditories iouui in in. lis. fi. Hiring a boiiii bcsli. 7. I'us.eiii by a eity in Michigan. 8. Those who sit. V. Th ort d.srorered ateroil. 10. An at breTinti ,n. 11. A letter. Bill. No. 3,571 Store. Lljlit. I w?s fool.'nj with riiil Kearney, Fresh from trin o'er tbe sea; From the beauties of Ki!larcy And Oleruirrif wild and free. Ho bad bot'n to bigot baadoa; I'auoed a jig ou GiTh-yoweo; Heard t lie Jauous bells ot than Ion; Zvou khsd the ULirney stone. Ar il he t'nnujht his wit the brightest. Hi t I know 'twas notio U keen V hen I n.ki Uim name the llhti st IrUL county ta had seen. "Cork." c:iei I'hli;" 'twill floston water; Ahl you thought you had uie there." But I ald, "It is uo inatwr; Thc-rc's a lighter Coals on air." V. WllSO.v. No. H,.-,7 My Visit. Being at the capital city of a certain state I visited tho l.?ie.aiii hat s, and thesa ere Mini) of the tilings comowhal transposed that I taw taero. ' Tho iittX thwij that caught my r ye was ih rrek tag lu which 1 tens much iutreted, as It reminded me of icy line crove of rock miri'sat hime. ft ceeroel to iue tha. the firmniers were not ruucti interested ia wtiat was ftoiv-K ou, Xor 1 saw a great ui jut inpr i dur1d niy stay. I saw some p?rle who loons ! as if esch or.t'it'ar wers in the ascendency, snd there W' re some who looked as li the renal viper ret on thin. On the whole it seemed to m like acre mr, and I eunie away feeling well content thst my lot was not cast aiiioug theoi, and hoping that oo vol. would ever te cast to scud iue auioug thorn. Liuvt. No. 3,573-Kings WIMiln st Ring. A word that well describes a ring Contn;ni wi;hln Jta bounding lines Part of a ring, however small, As con' moo use the word define It aio h lds 'nK.ng other thinys, Wha we rosy call successive rings. Mas, E. No. 3,574 ansgrams, Entered for prise. 1 Shut tkrb'ark rmru. The place where the highest chimney In the world has jut ben Cnisht-d. 2 Try Uiiin park. A ccl- tr-t d American who was uncle to a celebrate 1 confederate. 3 Diivrp cr ar bane tex. A celehrnted preacher. 4 A'i loop mrf.k cake. Lake in ilaiue. Drr. No. 3.575 Clmrade Entered for prize. TO IKON MASK. Now answrf Jlrt!, kind powers all A simple puzzle, nothing more, Is here portrayed, you to aj pall, If you're not apt in mystic lore. If you have habits that are bad, lhtte wouldn't dUe you wrong, my boy; Get tuo of the in at once, my lad The sweotsof life you should enjoy. Thin wbon you've rescbrd tbe srAo(e of llie, Latl honored name and conso eneo clear, A darling, sweet and pretty wife Will all be thine, and te yea dear. Bloomlngton, Ind. Bill. V-. S.57G Numerical. There was or.ei a wise and prudent eld farmer who always ma le U a rule never to leave a 1 t 3 down, or oat of place ht nUht. lie always told bis larm hands that tliey would 4 3 8 7 much time, and avoid much annoyance from mar hieg cattle if they would make his rule theirs. At ieniah he made a 1284567 with them that every time a 123 wss left out of plaea, the one who so left it should pay a fine of fi out. So well did his plan work that he never bad occasion to speak of It 2 4 5 6 7. Etdyx. No. 3.877 Kiddles. Latered for prize. L Ismslnnous snd slender, never straight, yet not awryt If the curve's the line of beauty, doubly beautiful am L Aa I'm serpentine In figure, so I'm sibilant la spree h. And though beginning softly, I am beard io many a screech. I've a share in all your sentiments your sighing and your kissing, And though I'm wot a by-word, X am certainly a hissing. IL It has various uses, but this may be said Though It ofteu is drlren, It can not be led; A fastening, measure, protection or guard, There are five to a foot, and sixteen to a yard. Consider a moment, you'll soon understand. For each of yon keep an assortment oa band. , IXL C S. The l-rlt.es. Tbe twenty prizes offered by the editor ef ''Eootty Problems." and for which r aders are now actively stilting, era the following: For the best sixteen lota et three or'crlnal t.eiiie. of enr kind, a valuable gold waich. 910 and fourteen fine book: for th best two lots of three original, squares, diamonds, or other "forms, S3 and cZ; ama lr tn imi two lets of three orizlnal picture puzzles, V and li. There vlll be twenty wiuners, for esch soeeessful eempetltor will reoetre the best prise te which be Is found entitled, ana no otner. ins eompetmoa win close June 30. Answers. j ' a.iwnrroserplne, Apollo, Paa, Satava, Bygelt. a.v;2 Preleie. relate, elate, late. ate. S..V3 1. Felony; 2, tunder; 3, shop-lifting; 4, lorirery; a, arson. l.SU rij.-e-lay. ,.. Vale, lave. v 8,5C7 Sr artacns te the Gladiators.1 B,5o O-btmb-ake.

SPRING LIFE IN NEW YORK.

'BAB'S" NOTES OF THE METROPOLIS. Tbe Fashienab'.e Girl In a Studio-Egyptian Crase la Art Dene Writing; for Posterity llow Society TToiuen Keep Tt'ell Eucouraclog People. New Yoke, April 16. Special. The usual spring desire for visiting stuJiop and dining in bachelor apartments has takea firm hold on the fashionable girl. Tbe possession of a ntudio does not necessitate that the host should be very much of an artist. Indeed he usually simply dabbles at paintimr, buys other men's pictures. makes his apartments a veritable house beautiful, and he is always pretty certain of having the ptrls he knows drop in to yuit him. They come in twos, in threes, and in greater numbers. They discourse learnedly about harmonies, symphonies, and drink his tea, or choke over his Turk ish coffee, and go away feeling that they have given a fresh impetus to art, and that in the years to come they will be looked at in the pictures painted by this man and greatly admired. Next to having a photograph taken, a woman likes best to be painted. It would seem that she ought to like being perpet uated in oil best of all, but the doesn't. What she likes is to have it done quickly. and the innumerable sittings required for a painting are rather upsetting to her. She can never understand whv an arlist can't copy her from a photograph, and no matter if her knowledge of art extends, as the darkies say, from A to Izard, she cannot comprehend why a living model is preferred to a paper one. But to return to the studio which my young woman often does. It has its Egyptian room and it has its French room, and the picturesque girl may pose aa a languid Egyptian or aa a chic Frenchwoman, as eeems most desira ble to her. The Egyptian room has its walls hung in red deep burning red, and tho cushions are the eaine color, with here and there, by way of contrast, a yellow one that chines like the rands of the desert. The pictures represent the sphinx in every view possible, and all the dreary, tiresome desert scenes with a solitary figure, or a property camel in the foreground, and everything that belongs to the yesterday of a thousand years ago. It's impressivi! ; but when it comes to a question of living iu it, you miht as well go to the tombs of the Ptolemys and have a wake. It is woeful'.y, wcanfullv, and wickedly depressing: and the young woman who seeks the brightness of the French room has a healthy frame of mind, and ia likely to find a great deal of pleasure in life. I do not wonder in the least that the Egyptians did eo much killing. Whenever they wanted to have a thoroughly good time tliey went out to kill somebody ; whenever they wanted to have a better time, they looked at their enemies being embalmed, ami w l.enever they wnntod to reach the bight of blis they went and tat where nil the mummits were aiid looked i;t them. 1 bave often wondered if thero was any connection between the Fgyptiao and the Irbsh liking for funerals if scni?, relativo of Cieopatra'3 could liave n.arrkd an O'Connor, or an O'hiui ni ey, or a Moriarity who introduced a l:tt e liveliiieiss into their funeral inaiitiert-. But tho French room, th artit:e French room has its windows rli'ied with boxes of bright flowcr.s. J'tiere aro pretty little table with bits of line china upM them. There are easy-chairs with jmIj roes and white cushions upon th 11, and there are deiightiul yellow-rovervd Looks here, there, and everywhere ; vrhilii on the walls there are paote.s and wuter-co or?, and oils that are pictures of people, not sphinxes, not Hands ot the desert, but what you and I like people, men and women. iou can stand ia iront ot a pretty ballet girl, laugh for ten minutes over her coquettish attitude, then suddenly realize how perfectly ccirect her figure is aud how welt thj colors ure laid on. You can find delight in a group ci merrymakers who are having a picnic, and after you have noted each r-peeia! ligure, it suddenly dawns on you haw well the trees are done, and you think that ui.tn, if he hadn't the eens you know him to poseess, might have given you a tiresoina old landscape with not a ngure in it. When will makers of books, and makers of pictures, and make'." f plays realize that what mankind wants to read, and ei, aad hear is the never-tiring picture of humanity? that landscapes grow tiresome, that desert eauds and animals pall upon one, but that the picture of a living, moving, breathing man or woman, presented as it may be, showing intelligence and heart, is the most interesting thing in the w ide world, and one of which nobody ever tires. The books that have lived have been heart stories; the pictures that were painted generations ago, and which today are revered, are almost invariably portraits of men and women; and the plays that hold the stage year in and year out. and of which the world never tires, are not stories of motive, are not analytical Etudies, but are t-ptaking pictures of the passions of men and wo't.en, portraying their suuerings and their joys, ;e ling of envy, hatred, and malice, but also of Lope, goodness, and love. Most of all about love. Wy dear soul, it not only makes the world go round, it makes everything else go round every other planet A Frenchman says: "Speak of love aud you love." lie says nothing whatever about writing about it, specially about typewriting it, so one may rush in and not altogether count one's self a fool. Love hAs been defined as a torment, a delight, a bore, a bother, the sole ta6ie of either parad.se orthe other place. It may be taken for granted, however, that given two people iu health, with a keen enjoyment of sunshine and the spring weather, attracted for some reason to etch other with a charm of novo ty about this attractiou for the love of today is curiously enough always different from the love of yesterday the most perfect of lov 0 will be possible if only one loves, and that one the man. A man very quickly wearies of the woiunn who loves him. For awhile adoration is delightful, then it is like too much awcet and cloys him. A woman is wiseat when she has a 6incero affection for a man, and her wisdom is that of the serpent when she always keeps an attraction in reserve for him and he is never quite ure of the charm that may come next. "When he next meets her she may greet him either with the words he baa not longed for, or a perfectly dressed salad. He doesn't know whether there will be a sweet invalid who can make h s heart swell with joy, because his band

only can make the po.r head stop achir.gf or whether a brieht coquette wid o"er td pin a rosebud in Lie coat. Never to let man be quite pine is the jcret, forcer tainty and satiety are twin sisters. Love and ailection are unlite ia one thing; affection bhould be tha tin ordi naire of life, love thtt curious llqueut called parfait amrur, which jou take ia X tiny glass just after dinner. Tbeu it it appreciated, its flavor is enjoyed, and there is just enough (o mke hie piquant. Somebody anid: "The l itory of lov would be the history ct huina'ity; il would be a beautiful book to wri.e." And yet, with the exception of a loug-ago writer, whoever has attempted to wnta the history of love has always made tha mistr.ke of makinz it the hiotory of woman. Why? vVeli, one is to t"eth never-underetood creation, the other tb never-to-be-analyzed emotion But, after all, this sermon on loe i3 besi summed up by quoting what a clever man fv.d long" ago (by the by, how much c ?crer things, men say than women that ia, how mnch better worth remembcrirg are the thing" they say): "A woman Ly whom we ar loved is a vauity ; a women whom we love is a religion." There w one reason why the smart New York woman looked well on Latter Sunday she was thoroughly and beautif ully clean. For four days before, at one time or another, at one bath or another, she bed been stubbed and rubbed, showered and sprayed,, and cam out feehng herself like a new ecit of flower prepared to look its best on Easter Sunday. I see the usual wail about tbe cociety women breaking down is going through tho newspapers, and it is as exactly untrue as tbat the farmer's wife leads an idyllic lifa. Tha woman of the world is as well taken care of as a thoroughbred ho: fee. She is rubbed until her satiny bkin glows, takes her beef tea when she comes in at nigt.t, in the place of a warm mah, and while sh" enjoys a good dinner, sue docb't allow her self to eat too much or too often. hh& is too wise to devour quantities cf sweets and ices, and while ehe i very often the wit, she is just as often the wisdom ot an afternoon tea, and she is the woman who is going to look we'd when ehe is fifty or sixty because sha uoe3 understand the art of taking care of herself. The ltussian batu is her greatest fc?'p in this, and once a week ssf her religiously going through the ceremony, making a dash into tuo plunge, being sprayed until ehe gbws, bund ed up in blankets until ahe is thoroughly warm, then rubbed dry, and out rhe comes looking as bright aa a new dollar, feeling as if she bad cast elf a ferment of dirt and waa in her right mind. Ki le? Not a bit of it. She has learned lrom the couthera women and the dogs that after her bath she wants to walk oa tho sunny aide of the street, aud if tbe eun does put a freckle or two on her face it will make her eyes clear and her skin healthy looking. The extremely athict'c young woman isn't as wise as this one, ior hanging on bars and trapezes and doiig all borts of things that they do at tne circus ars rot exercises calculated to maite women beautiful in form; they make them muscular and a littie bit masculine, bat you are not par. ticularly anxious to hrva your daughter that way, tie youV There wera soma pretty Easter souveaire at a luncheon the other day that all pointed a moral. A party of ten women resolved to make over their lost spring bennets for Easter and giv the money for tho now tosome young giris to whom a new bonnet ou Eaetcr diy would moan perfect delight. A ma:i who hearu of this give them & luncheon, and tho souvenir vere in the shapo of wihow hats gilded and filled with hyacinths and jack roses, while the broad wf.i'.e ribbon loops had the uamo and data in geld upon one and on the other this twisting around of aa old quotation, "She did jrood by btsalth aad blushed 10 find it fame." These girls were perfectly delighted at the thoughtfulcesd of tho man. Vou know it is very nice to do good ancV then have fcomebody bud it out. In fact, all o us weald be a great deal gooder if we were enconmgel more. Wh-t kind of encouragement? There is an immense amount of encouragement in a pleasaut greetinc a greeting that means you're here, and I'm here, aud it is a happy world. There an imminse amount of enconragement in two or tbies low: g words

the Lttle allectionate words tnnt dent count for so much, apparency, but that make cold ones and stern cue? easier to bear. There's an immense Amount cf encouragement in a few written lines of hopefulness; it's giving a drink of cold water to ecmehody who ia perishing. There's an immense auouut cf encouragement in a loolt or a pressure of th Land that means, "I know your Itoabla and sympathize with you," but people so often forget ih'13. There id an immense amount of encouragement to be given by you ar.d me every twenty four hours of the diy, given to men, women, and children. Let's do it this way. There are twenty-four hours of the day, and you and I may resolve to gay the positive word, the judicial word, or the cross word, but we can stop for one minute in the twenty-four hours and change our minds snd eay the pleasant and the sympathetic one. Chacsre our minds ? W by, of cours we can. It's the privilege of every woman ad over tha world. It is your privilege, and it is also the privilege of lixs. SUlClDS. Self-Rilling the Crime of Iotelieetaal Peoplea. William Matthews, in Korth Airsrican Beriew.) Besides imitation there are other social influences which lead to suicide; but tha most powerful is that which we denote by the general term civilization. Self-killing ia emphatically tho crime of inteliectoal peoples. Almost unknown to aavagec, rare among Mohammedans, it rages among the nations most advanced in culture and refinement with a fierceness exactly proportional to their mental development. It is said that Home knew nothing ci this curse till after the establishmt nt ot the empire. It was whea the Roman legions had carried their eagles trie r.phautly throuea the world, and brought back the means of luxury in the spoil of Europe, Asia and Africa, that life ia the Eternal City began In be weary, ftale, liat and unprofitable." Today the Germans, who are the profoundost thinkers and the most cultivated teople, are also the most suicidal race in Europe. Fraaoa comes next, England third, Italy sad Hungary fourth; while on tha other hand Spain, the most backward c European nations in culture, Ireland, Portugal, Corsica and Dalmatia rank lh lowest in the suicidal scale. Of the different regions of the same country, the north and northeast of France outrank in cult ture and in suicidw the cer.ter and south west; the north and center cf Italy cutrank the south and the idlsnds; and Saxony, which in it scbooia and general culture surpasses the rest cf German r, surpasses it also in the number of suicide, in short, so universally does tbe rule bo'd that the strength of the tendency to ecifkilling may almost be regarded as an index to a people's civilization.