Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 8, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 March 1878 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

PAPBR FfliR THE fopPLE.

TKRRE HAUTE, MAilCH 23,1878

THE TWO VILLAGES.

ftvertlie river, on the hill, Lleth the village, white and still. /vAll around it thte forest trees

a«8hiver and whisper In the breeze. Over it sailing shadows go Of soaring hawk and satlingrcxow,-

And mountain grasses, low and sweet. Grow in the middle of every street.

Over theriver, under the hill, j* Another village lleth stll 1. WJS There is seen (a the cooling night

In that village on the hill Never is sound of smithy or mill. The booses are thatched with grass and flower, gf? Never a clock to tell Jhe honr jrPThe marble doors are always shut, sU Yon may not enter at bill or hut. All the village lie asleep, Never a grain to sow or reap Never in dreams to moan or sigh— Silent and Idle and low they lie. If j,

In that village under the hi,l, When the night Is starry and still, I Many a weary soul in prayer ,! Looks to the other village there And, weeping and sighing, longs to go Up to that home from this below— Longs to sleep by that forest wild, Whllher have vanished wife and child

And

beareth 1 prayeth the answer fall, Patience—that village shall hold you all,

Tbe third morning of our iourney we had a little controversy, lint and 1, about our route for the clay. We wanted to get on to Chatelousse, where I bad letters of introduction, ana. where Flint hoped to tind out tbe whereabouts of a Monsieur Bernard, in whom I was also interested, as Flint had told me he had been a dealer in skins. We were told there was a short cut across the country, but it would be safer to take the public road.

Flint was rather in favor of the latter

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ilan, being a and prudent although the words of our senior partner came into my bead, they only seemed to push me the other •way. 'Never take a by path when you can get a highway were tbe parting words of Mr. Frost but I considered them only aa some of his oracular oldfogy isms. •It's only twenty miles, Flint,* I said to him. 'Twonty of these Canadian miles/ be added. •With fresh horses,11 went on 'and our host here has pointed ns out the way.' 'Yes, yes,' *aid the innkeeper 'straight ahead, gentlemen, till you see a .big cross set up at the end of a three cornered field. Turn to the right, and you'll soon see a forest ot fir trees that is the beginning of Chatelousse, and olose at hand lives Adrian Bernard. There is a house a little this way, messieurs, that is all black and empty, and has about it the melancholy of the grave. It is—

SardondevU.messieurs—it

me. is given over the They say that it is haunted.' •Ves, yes,' broke in Flint, craning his neck eagerly forward 'what is it about this house?'* 'It is that a crime has been committed there, messieurs—that lights are seen, queer noises are heard, groans and awtal shrieks of terror. I have It for a fact that night after night tbe tragedy is repeated over and over again.' 'Let us go on,' said Flint, 'in the direction of this house.'

Six hours later we bad reached a big bar of wood that had fallen and was plunged fathoms deep in the snow. As for roads, there were none, neither to the right nor the left.

That imbecile of an innkeeper most have known that at this season of tbe year ordinary landmarks were obliterated. We had long sinoe been gilding over an unbroken surface of snow but dimly shadowed upon thebnrison I had seen the forest of flrs, and I pushed tbe jaded beasts onward. But it was weary work, as we were perceptibly going up hill.

The short Canadian day was drawing to a close. If you want an idea, my friends, of complete and utter desolation take a campagna or that sort when day ia expiring at the hands of a pitiless ana unrelenting night the vast sheet of white, unbroken tey fence or forest, becomes in the shifting and hiding light like a pail drawn over a dead world. .From early morning we had not passed a roof or seen a living creature. The bitterness of cold was somewhat ameliorated, bat this was another source af anxiety, as It hinted of snow, and to think of this was to shudder a snow stortn would be utter and Inevitable ruin. To add to my alarm, I could no longer distinguish the Hoe of fir trees. •This must oe snow blindness,' I said. •Can YOU see those fir trees, Flint?' •No,' be replied, oalmly,

stant we white, nee 'My GodtFlint, in the sled ?wo ate lost!'

Twinkling stars of household light Fires that gleam from the smithy's floors? Mists tbat curl on tbe river's shore And in the rosd no grasses grow, For the wh els that hasten to and fro.

The Ghosts of Chat-

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elousse.

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Talking about ghosts (said Jack Scott) the toughest ticne 1 ever bad witb gentry of that sort, was when I was travellog for Frost A Co., up in Canada. We /were in the lur line, you know, and I "happened to fall in with a gentleman by the name of Flint, who agreed to go across tbe conntry with me. He was not at all the sort of fellow one wonld choose for a traveling companion, being extremely taciturn and grim but, apart from sharing expenses, there was tbe necessity for some sort of sympathy and affection in such a confoundedly bleak and forbidding country.

Our sturdy team of Canadian horses took us farther and farther from civilization hostel ries of any sort were few and far between. But an honest sheepdog would have been a jollier compan Jon than Fliut his thin lips couldn't seem to take the shape of a hearty laugh. Without divulging any commercial secrets, 1 told Flint what I could of my errand Into this wilderness, hoping to get some little confidence in return. He aid go so far as to hint that he also was connected with hunting and trapping, but he was extremely olose mouthed aad reticent as to particulars, and after little spurts of chat on my part, tbe conversation languished.

have not

•wen them for some time. They'll probably come In sight when we get to the top of

the

hill.'

But having rt*cb*d the summit, and beginning to deeosnd. said again, 'Can you see them now, Flint f'« •No,' he replied.

I reined in the horses, and got upon my feet. One unbroken glittering desert of snow surrounded us. In tbeyellow light of tbe western sky It glistened like the folds of a snake further on, under tbe stormy clouds thst scudded along, It grew livid and Meet oolored, ana looked more tyurible to mo than tbe wildest and blackest of seas.

At that moused a filmy particle, soft as down, touched my cheek. In an inSt

He took a pull at the brandy flask and handed it over to me. He was as cool as the climate, my friends. In the mean while the horses, feeling the reins falling loosely from my fainting hands trotted rapidly on. Heaven help those egotists that hold tbe Unman intellect supreme!

The ponies chose the right direction In less than ten minutes those blessed ponies took us within sight of the line of fir trees. I was transported by the felicitous view of some fidnest smoke wreathing up between the Scraggy branches which sheltered a louar, low, strangling building, red roofed, witb diamond shaped panes in the windows, through which we could see tbe red light of tbe household fire. The squawk of a fowl suggested its speedy conveyance to a neighboring spit the grunting of pigs near by was more melodious to my ears than the music of tbe spheres yonder in tbe storm tossed, blinding snow. •We're saved, Flint, my boy!' I cried 'Thank God, we are saved!'

This must be Bernard's,'said Flint, looking about him with his keen gray eyes 'and over yonder I think I can see tbe outlines of the haunted house.'

Five minutes after, wo sat in a long, low ceiled apartment that covered half the ground floor. The oaken rafters almost touched tbe head of a tall trapper who was lodging with Monsieur Ber nard.

He had a long blonde beard and a singularly melodious voice. There were quite a number ot guests there—all of them trappers, so Monsieur Bernard said but this tall fellow they called Cameron bad the shoulders of a Hercules with the face of an Apollo. I suppose 1 was somewhat dazed with tbe sudden relief and rescue, for it appeared to me that a young woman who sat by the fire paring carrots the very color of her long braids or hair, was as beautiful as an angel. Her eyes were soft and luminous, her forehead low and white an indescribable air of tender melancholy shadowed her face. The chemisette she wore was as white as the snow upon which it was bleached her bodice was of homeSpun the knots in her knitted stockings must have been made by her own little bands tbe big buckles on her shoes could not hide tbe pretty arch of her instep. She sang under her breath a little couplet, of which the refrain was "Jamais, jamais!'

Hungry as I was, I could scarcely touch the fine grilled fowl prepared for us, but my soul devpured the daughter of Monsieur Bernard. The' tall trapper and his companions were sapping In a neighboring room) we could near their glasses rap upon the. table or clink against each'other scraps of songs and disjointed sentences reached our ears. Flint picked the chicken to the bones, in the mean while talking in a low tone to Monsieur Bernard, who basked in the beat that poured from the crackling sides of the sheet iron stove, and blinked at Flint like an ancient lizard. He was a little dried up man, with a close cap upon his head his leather breeches reached a little below his knees a warm furry jacket, high woolen stookings, and wooden sabots completed bis costume. An hour or two went by the trappers in the neighboring room had finished their meal and apparently gone to bed. Flint and the little Frenchman pursued their conversation.

As for me, I had drawn close to tbe beautiful young woman, who was washing some quaint yellow mugs at the end of the long oaken table. Her name was Marie.

In this primitive region conventionalities were set aside—an earnest paesion glided along like snow-shoes. I got over a good deal of ground in a very short time.

I began to believe this journey was marked out for me. I told Marie so, atid lifted one of ber long braids to my lips. I was just thinking what a sensation that peculiar oolored hair and her remarkable beauty would create in our circle at home, when Flint called out to me that be had resolved to go over and sloep in the haunted bouse. •Don't you want to go along, Scott,' be said, 'or are you afraid?'

The latter part of his sentence held a peculiar sneering intonation. I said I was not afraid, but thought it a very absurb and infernally uncomfortable thing to leave a warm fireside and go plunging over there in the snow and the ireeeing air for a freak of curiosity.

Marie clasped her bands, and besought of us, for the sake of the Redeemer, not to go tbat in that room up stairs, upon that verv pallet of straw, the murdered man had been found and nobody bad ever slept there since, or staid iu the house. •Except the ghosts of Chatelousse,' said her father, in a dry, wheezy voice.

But Flint got his lantern rsady. Ot course I had to go. If one man ventures upon a foolhardy freak, another must follow, or rest under tbe Imputation of cowardice. Monsieur Bernard helped us on with our overcoats. I looked into tbe sweet eyes of Marie they were dilated with tbat expression of terror one sees in the eyes of a lawn. I took her oold hands in my own. •Rest tranquil, my sweet child,' I said, for I was touched by her tenderness 'I will return to you.'

We made our way through the blinding anow, and found the bouse blsck ana empty. Tbe door creaked on its rusty hinges, the shutters banged, a melancholy wind howled through the corridor.

Ws shall have our labor for our pains Flint,' I said, as we entered the room up stairs 'there is nothing remarkable in a few broken chairs and an old boodle of |trmW 9 'We must be patient,' said Flint* throwing the buffalo robe upon tbe bed, and blowing out the lantern *we must wait for tbe boor of midnight.'

There was nothing tor me to do bat to creep in beside him. took the inner side, and, worn out with countless emotions, must have feUen asleep before the hay seed touched my hair. Iwasawakened by a peculiar mocking laugh, seemingly close by my ear but. upon regaining the aHivity of my senses, I found distant snd hollow. Again and again it seemed to come from the very bowels of the earth. I began to feel a chill ran down my vertebra. •Flint,' I whispered, reaching over tor Uta, *do you bear that?'

But my hand wandered over an empty space at my side. Flint was gone. I was alone in this accursed house. Strange noists came to me. I fancied I heard a groan, the clanking of a chain. Heaven knows what terrible vagaries beset tne. *j, ,-3 4

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,«ioki£g back

tUFliuV I&ried,*it djfwoate test!'

I'm afraid soj.£a^jl JTlldfc 'Great HeifWnlVlI exdahnAd, '•our bones wilpie bleaching here for months. Our famll&s vn't even know what lias becomeofn$.'./ ..'I haven't any family,' said Flint. •Neither have I, for that matter,' said I. 'But that doesn't make it any pleas* anter, does it) todite hdre iikfe dogs!* /. 'Of course not,* said Flint. 'YouM better take. Aomfi brandy,. Scott. It's unfortunate I'd like to have hunted out that Bernard, but it can't be helped.'

TERRE HAUTE KAlURDAY EVENING .MAIL

IV flint has been

Bragged away my turn will come next.' distinctly I hejwrd again tbat hollow piocking Isugh, tod stop by step a foot Mcendioft the slafr. A oold Sweat burst mtn every pore iu my body. I sprang from tbe bed, snd ran out the open door down tbe stairs. It seemed to me a shadowy form fled bqfore me, and vanished in tte corridor. I plunged across the field, and at last buret into the low tbe jfti^erafWK

«eiledi^«o, HaberejlfteunjL th ^le, M&fcL »nd my companion. --iOtoryott-WMa-awayv-then** said™ to. 4ogly oold Flint. •VflS/'beSitfd quietly, 'I thought it best:ndt to awaken you.* •So you left me to be murdered, perbspfe?' hat was what I wanted to avoid,' he said. I SsWitbat be was pale, and his bands shook a little. •£.shall push on to Chatelousse at daybreak,'be said. 'I thought yOu nad more nerve, Flint, I replied. 'I wouldn't myselt sleep in tbat house agidn to be jpnior partner with Frost & Co. but there is no reason for neglecting business opportunities.

From a few words I exchanged with that tall trapper—I think they call ».itn Cameron—' •Yes/ said Flint, with stiffen eagerness 'what about him?' 'I think he can put me in the way pf a lucrative stroke of business here.' •How In what way?' said Flint. 'Iu the trapping way, of ooarse,' I replied 'in the way of skins.'

The light died out of Flint's face. He sank back ib Ws chair, and stroked his thin beard contemplatively. 'Suppose you remain here, then, till I come back,' he said. 'I shan't be gone more than two or three days.' 'All righV I said, with alacrity. In truth, I bated to leave Marie.

At day break Flint drove awav, with a stable boy of Bernard's for a guide. •He's the la9t man in the world I'd take to be such a (toward,' I said to the tall trapper, Cameron, some hours later on.

I invited bim to breakfast with me, and. related to him our adventures of the previous night. 'I don't know anything about ghosts,' I said, 'but I certainly heard,the metallic clanking of a chain, and a hollow mocking laugh—a footstep, too, mounting the stairs and as I fled down, a' phantom like form disappeared, bsfore my very eyes in the hallway.' •There are more things in heaven ana earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy,' said Cameron, 'All we can do is to keep a clear conscience and lead stainless lives.'

He- went on talking in this way till I began to look upon bim as a kind of evangelist. His face bad the guileless look of an infant, and yet he had a keen eye and brain for business. He explained to me a method for curing skins that was very interesting. Even Marie paused at her work and listened to him her eves were fixed upon his face with an eager, yearning expression, so beautiful tbat I wendered it did not attract his notice but he was absorbed in his subject.

Tbat short Canadian day was tbe sweetest of my life. Before nightfall I was fully persuaded there was but one woman in the world for me but all I could get Marie to say in return was, •Oh, monsieur!' This she repeated over and over again, each time with a different inflection, till it formed a whole sweet language in itself.

At nightfall of tbe second dav Flint came back looking rather pale and worn. He said the air was freezing he hoped it would be milder in the morning that we mast get off as early aspossible. •If you go to-morrow, Flint,' I said, 'you'll have to go alone. I must remain a while.' •I shall not go alone,' said Flint 'I shall have plenty of company. But why must you remain

I.didii't care to speak about Marfe to a man like Flint,*but I told him of tbe opening in trade offered me by Cameron.

The tall fellow with the blonde beard?' said Flint, going ovAr and shutting oar chamber door. Then he came to me and whispered in my ear, 'He is the leader of the gang. Hush! be quiet don't reply. I have unearthed a troop of counterfeiters. I saw them at work tbat night in tbe haunted house. In six hours we shall have help. To-morrow we will all start off together. Bernard gave them up. That was my business out here.' 'Trapping I said. •Exactly,' said Flint 'In six hours everything will be ready. Tbe officers will come armed be prepared,' and tbe wily Jesuit slipped out tbe open door.

I sat there for I don't knew bow long, completely stunned and bewildered. When I gathered my senses again, I resolved upon one thing—not to go without Msrie. We could get married at tbe nearest town. I would not leave her in this wilderness with ber traitor of a father, perhaps to fall a prey to some early vengance from an unseen hand. I sought her out, and found her feeding tbe fowls in the oourt yard—a gray dove

Eey

arching upon ber ahoulder, and a turcock stretching bis red neck and strutting by her side. I drew her under tbe archway. •Marie! Marie!' I said, 'you know how I love you!' •Oh, monsieur!' she said, hanging her

'LUten to' me, Marie,' I said 'b* no longer a child, I entreat of you. You must go away with me to-morrow morning. At tbe nearest town we will be married. I will not leave you behind me. There will be trouble, I am afraid. A gang of counterfeiters have been discovers over in the haunted bouse Cameron is their chief. Yon have thought these men to be honest trappers, Marie, but they are counterfeiter*, my own one, and they are the ghosts of Chatelousse. A tew hours more, and we shall have help. They will be taken Marie—' I stopped, for I found tbat she was growing aeadly pale. Her hands dropped at her sides the wheat fell out of her apron upon tbe ground tbe fowls came calling and clacking after it. She grew whiter and whiter, till ahe was like tbe snow outside the stone wall. 'My God! my God!' she kept saying, clasping and unclasping her hands. 1 tried to take ber in my arms. At fiat ahe resisted then she listened. The gray look went out of her face, and she listened eagerly. •Yon will go with me darling I entrusted 'the hanMuare already harnessed.' •Where—where are the boises?' she said. •In tbe shed, my sweet one. Tell me tbat yon will go/ •Yes, yes. will go,' sbe said 'and now I must get ready.'

Her face looked so set and rigid in ffce cold reflection of the snow—tbe beautiful face, no longer that of a child a woman's face, lull of resolution aa4 sMagtli. •Kiss me before you go,' I said, holding ber doee to my heart.

She pat her cola lips te mine. 'God bless you!'she cried 'God in feeeven blew yon!'

Night came en hour after boar passed lights began to flicker in tbe hanoted bones. Flint gloed hie fsoe

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the windo# an*kKied^ itefufSNwHnto tbe darkness. did n* daretell bitn I jf had regret fbr OsmJtm. The fellow was so lovable, and had such a gullelesa facet bUrVoioe wis aamelOdloua *9 a woman's/ At IssP be turned from the window and went out of tbe .room, makjpfl- quick gesture for me to followT^rbe" men had come. Soon we were-marching across tbe field, the officers of the Taw crunching through with ttoir heswpts, and Sq&jSg 4&Wdictious ifirou^h Meir chattering teeth. In truth, it was pierciaolyookU -We bad nearly reached tbe house when an old half witted servant of MotKiefcr Bernard1*camerunningout tonseetas. •Mother of Heaven, but I am glad! he cried.

'jT

Was Soared to stay there so

long. They ire gone since this many 'hours.' •'Gone 1', shouted Flint. *'Who are gone?'

'The men folks yonder. And they took with them the sweet mistress Msrie. 'Marie!' burst from my lips and those of Monsieur Bernard. •But yes,' said the old servsnt. 'She cried all the way, but be took her in bis arms and hushed her 1 Use a baby, and put her under his cloak/ ./ si •Who? who ?'we cried."

'Who but Mr. Cameron?' was the reply. 'Anybody with wooden eyes could have seen what was going on.'

Bernard raised his hands to heaven, then sank upon the snow. I remained with him. In feet, I was unable to go on besides, it was useless. The men soon came back. The house was empty tbe birds had flown, and with them nad gone my sweet little dove. What a madman I had been! As the hostler had said, anyone could have seen the love in her ey63 when she looked upon Cameron. I remembered now a hundred sighs and glances. Poor little Marie!

Monsieur Bernard divided his wrath and wretchedness, as did the Jew of Venice, between his ducats and his daughter. Every mule and pony were taken from the sheds it was oven impossible to pursue the fugitives. Flint was livid with rage. 'Who could have betrayed us?' he

said

through his olinch-

ed teeth, and half inclined to suspect tbe miserable Bernard. A fortnight alter, we all went oar separate ways bot never shall forget, gentleman, the ghosts of Chatelousse.

SOME OF PRENTICE'S SA YINOS. A recent Writer reproduces from the files of the Louisville Courier Journal some of the late Geo. D. Prentice's witticism which were not dependent, as most of them naturally were, upon time and circumstances for their point and force. The following area few of them: •To keep your Iriends, treat them kindly to kill tbem, treat them often.' 'Ho who reels and staggers most in tbe journey of life takes tbe straigbtest cyt to the devil,' 'Men should not think too mnch of themselves, yet a man should be careful not to forget himself.' •A few days ago the freedom of New York City was presented to Mr. Van Buren in a gold snuff box. There was plenty of room in tbe box for all the freedom that New York has enjoyed for a a •A dinner to which a man is not invited generally sits hardest upon his stomach.' 'There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.' •The doctors ongbt to escape calumny. No man living has aright to speak ill of them.' •The working of a corkscrew is about the only thing "best achieved by ihdirectton.""' 'Tnere are two periods when Congress does no business. One is before the holidays and the other is after.' •Were it not ttngenerous to remind a man of bis natural deformities, we should intorin the editor of the Grand Gulf Advertiser that he is a natural fool.' •An opposition editor offers to bet his ears on something to our discredit. He shouldn't carry gambling to such extreme lengths.' •It the editor of tbe Isn't a rogue be ought to bring a libel suit against bis own face.'

THEORIQINOF SLANGPHRASES. It is very curious and interesting* te hunt up the origin of slang phrases-^or more properly phrases that have passed from mouth to mouth every day, and are as familiar as household words. In. this connection we reprint the following from tho current number of Harper's Weekly

In the phrase of "Letting the cat out of the bag," we are reminded of its thieving ancestry. "It wss formerly a trick amonv country folks to substitute a cat for a sucking pig, and bring it ins bag to market. If any greenhorn cbose to buv a pig In a poke—tbat is a blind bargain without examining the contents of the bag—all very well but it be opened the sack, be 'let the catout of the bag,' and the trick waa discovfred." And soJ.be p'arase passed into oomuion nse as applying to any one who let out a secret. "Who will bell the cat?" be came another popu ar phrase, and is taken from the fable of tbe cunning old mouse who suggested tbat they should hang a bell around tho cat's neck, so that due wsrnlug might be had of her approach. Tbe idea was approved of by ail the mice assembled there was only one drawback to it—who was to hang the bell round tbe eat'a neck or. In abort, who was to bell tbe eat Not one of them was found ready to run tlu risk of sacrificing his own life for the safety of others, which is now tbe recognised meaning of tbe proverb. ••I have a bone to pick with yon," is a phrase that Is uncomplimentary to the ladies at starting. It means, as is well known, having an unpleasant matter to settle with yon and this is tbe origin of the phrase: "At tbe marriage banquets of tbe Sicilian poor, the bride's father, after the meal, used to hand the bridegroom a bone, saying, 'Pick this bone, for yon have taken in band a much harder task.'" "Tbe gray mare is tbe better horse," comes wffll after this last aspersion upon tbe fair sex, to show tbat woman Is paramount. Tbe origin of this proverb was tbat a man wished to buy a horse, but bis wife took a fancy to a gray mare, and so pertinaciously instated Htft tbe gray mare was tba better borse tbat her husband was obliged to field tbe point. Bot then, no don bt» he saw tbat ahe waa right in tbe end, and in all probability boasted afterward of AiaselectioD-

A correspondent of a San Fraadaco poser relate* bow a man aaw a ghost while walking along a lonely highway at midnight. The ghost stood exactly in tbe middle of tbe roal, ind tbe wayfersr, deciding to investigate, poked at it witb his umbrella. Tbe next instant bo wss knocked twenty foot Into a mod bole.

Moral—Never

poke an umbrella

at a large white mole when, its backjs tamed. Ji.'V

8AFALZ TALK. I [Courier-Journal.]

The college booby^ hurr&hajpr haze. For "obstruct thieves'' 1cesf^JU»tract theories eays paper.

If Mr. Hargreaves, of Canada, who has been bucking and gagging his apprentices, will come to this country, he may hear of a good position as prison warden. It is rare that one hears of a gentleman so free from maudlin sentimentality as Mr. Hargreaves.

The women of New York have undertaken to reform the beastly voters of that state. "Coffee was served £*t the polls in Utica last Tuesday. The ladies of the various Christian temperance associations labored unceasingly in every ward, serving refreshments to candidates and voters —now sandwiches,now biscuits, now cake, now pie, now crackers and cheese, always cofiee, and never whisky or beer. At the various polling places 5,725 cups of coffee were handed to politicians and voters during the day. There was good order everywhere, and very few cases of intoxication were reported by the police." -.-K* jf., HEP AH TI£1£.

Vs^-.\»[\Va8h Mgton (D. C.) Herald.] If,*

A good thing is' told of one of our city belles, Miss L., noted for her wit. At a dinner party the lady in question, who is a daugnter of a distinguished judge, was seated next to a gentleman whom sne had not met before, and who was on a visit to the city on business which had brought him in contact with the judge mentioned, who had shortly before decided a case against him. At the dinner the gentleman, who had not caught the name of the lady when introduced, took occasion^ to vent his feeling and express his opinions of the judge in terms anything but complimentary. An awful pause in the conversation indicated something wrong,' and the Tgentleman took occasion to express to the lady his hope that the judge was no relation of hers, to which, to the infinite amusement of all present, she replied. "Oh, no only a connection of my mother's by marriage." A shout of laughter could not be prevented, and the gentleman, after a little reflection, came slowly to the conclusion that the judge's family were too much for him.

I FOREIGN MINISTERS. [Indianapolis Herald.] Gen.

Comly,

?sf?

IBSii

unhappy^Baltiniore

There is a gay Philadelphian who has driven a hearse lor forty-five years. His favorite paper w, of course, The Daily Ledger.

Geqrgs William Curtis thinks the woman suffragists are making considerable

headway. Perhaps he has seen sotnefa- ^be thousands who have been wreci of male barbers standing around the polls. When Cincihnatian meets an organgrinder, he takes him by thehagd, ^snd saya, "Welcome to the metropolis of music can you give me the Sweet By-and-by?"

Linderman's eagle recalls the convention at the show: Daughter—"Law, ma, look at thst heagle." Mother—"Vy, you hignorant gal! its a howl." Showman, politely—"Axes parding, mum, but it's a Wk." "Miss Evarts," writes a gaudy Washington correspondent, "moves with willowy grace, and looks and walks the gentle, refined, unmistakable lady, the breath of peace upon her lips, the shine of undisturbed quiet in her starry eyes.-'

our minister to the Sand

wich islands, says bis principal occupation is to call on the secretary or state for foreign affairs and take a drink.—[Item.

Very few of our ministers have anything better to do, and there is no way in which the treasurv could save more money with less difficulty than by the abolition of the whole preposterous diplomatic system. It is an outgrowth of the barbaric times when governments were the creatures of despotic whims, and ministers were necessary to cajole or control neighboring despots. We have no need of them, and never use them if we had. When we have anything of an international character to do we appoint special agents, or have them sent here by other governments to treat with us at home. The average minister is as useless as gilding on a gridiron, when he does not £et drunk and disgrace us.

KEEPING UP APPEARANCES. [Detroit Free Press.] A member of the sanitary police force came across a boy the other day who was wheeling home a load of oyster cans and bottles, and carious to know what use the lnd could put them to he made adirect inquiry. k« if. •*.-* tO "Going to throw them over into our backyard," replied the bo}'. "I, took two loads home yesterday." "But what do you mSe'em foir?" "It's a trick of the family," grinned the lad. "How trick?" "I'd just as lief tell," continued, theboy, as he spit on his hands to resume his holt of the barrow. "We're going to have some relash come in from the country. We may not have much to eat. but if thev see these cans snd bottles and boxes they'll think we've had oysters, champagne, figs and nuts till we've got tired of 'em and are living on bread and taters for a healthy change!"

Tire offices scratched his ear like a man who received a new idea.

HEP F.N TANTM VD1FEB. flwlliuiapoli* JIera!d,1 Since his last attempt to escape from the southern prison Rndifer has been docile ss a lamb. His health is very poor, and his obdurate and audacious sptrit utterly broken. In view of the circumstances attending this young man's fall, and the malign influences by which he was surrounded, it would seem that he had been punished enough, and is a fit subject for executive clemency. The officials, we understand, wonld sign a recommendation for his regUdlj

GOOD A VBRAGS SUCCESS [From Tbe Detroit Free Prsw) During the last year of the late war, when a call was made ior one-year men, there was a young man in West Virginia that had some aspirations for military honors. He wrote to the governor for a captain's commission to raise a company of one-year men. He was sent a second lienteiiai^s eemmission, witb privilege of captain if be got up a company. He put up a tent, hired a man to beat the drum, and in a lew days got one recruit, Mid this was all he got in a month. The governor, thinking that he

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