St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 October 1894 — Page 7

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C lIAFTEK 11 —Continued. He did not wish it at all; he would Infinitely have pre erred French. He thought that language, a she spoke it, in tones lower an 1 softer than he had •ver heard before, sounded like the tongue of the angels. And when, in the duet, after Mlle. | Reynier had sung a few bars, there j brake in, like a lark in the dusk of the morning, a clear, fresh soprano, the j I very voice he had heard behind h m in Church, Roderick felt himself literally . trembling. He war ini, ressionable, it wai true —almost as much so as a woman; there was a deal i f the woman in him for all his manliness rath.r, 1 should say, with all his manliness, since the best woman has always somewhat of a man's strong th, the noblest man a woman’s gentleness; but no im- ; pressionability could aceou it for the ; de ight—nay. the ec t isy with which ' he listened to t o song. It was not much of a song—the girl's ! voice made it all. but when it ceased ' he awoke, a* out of a d cam, and ! looke I round as for something ho had ; been in search of ail his lie long. "Mamma.” she aid, .'till in trench, । and cree ing, French girl fa hion, | clo e to her mother's side, ”1 shall j vo ve y happy t > speak English to I monsieur, when I think I have seen before—on the Terrasse at Herne to- j day. It is he, mamma, who, as [ told • you, did u* the honor to be so charmed ! wiih our beautiful mountains.” Then she, too, had observed him. ! But she had come home and told the ; incident at once to her mother. He | now could not have told it to any mor- j tai soul. “It is mademoiselle who hon rs mo by even a pa sing remembrance," answered Rod ri k. striving hard to infuse into his blunt speech how rude and blunt it seemed even a tithe of her gracious courtesy. “May I claim you as a country-woman? Your father was Engl ah'?” “No, Scotch. There is a difference, Is there not? though I fail to make ! mamma understand it. Papa was a Highlander.” She said this in En glish, speaking slowly, but with great purity and correctuo-s, pronouncing all nor "h s" and "th s.” “Mademoiselle has a perfect accent she must, of c >urse. have visited our country,” said Roderick eagerly. “No; I have never left my m mntains. I am entirely S viss; only papa used sometimes to talk to mo of 'coHand 1 and tell me 1 lo >ko 1 almost like a Scotch lassie. Do I'?” “Heaven forbid.” the renegade was , near exclaiming but contented him self by explaining in a very eccentric and confused manner that she had cer- । tainly the fair hair and blue eyes of the North. “So had papa: but ho wa* little, and 1 am tall—very tall —for a Swiss girl. That was why he tho ght I resembled the girls of his country, and especially a cousin he had whom he loved liked —is not that the right Engii-h w rd? j —very much. But here iam going on. I talking of ourselves and our affairs, j which is a e y impolite, you know. But : we are always so glad to meet any ; English person, mamma and J: 1 mu-t go and tell her. She will be so pleased ’ that y. u think me a iitt e Just a little — like papas countrywomen.” He would have told her that the thing she war mos like was an angel but of course such a point-blank truth was quite impossible, and, besides, she ha I already flown away on her invisible wings and hid herself among the i crowd o ordinary girl-. Thore was nothing for him, poor ma u but t> go and make love, or rath r politeness, t > her mother, with all the skill and the! best French of which he was capable. ■ “Mademoiselle has a most beautiful I voice and sings charmingly.” said he at last. "Ah, monsieur is too kind. But in- I deed it is true. And she dees everything charmingl . i a mother may bo pardone i for saying so. But she is the lasi of seven, and her father is <1 ad. We are alone t gether, she and I.” Then suddenly changing into bright- i ness, “Perhaps monsieur is of a numer- ■ •ous family?” “No, I have only three sisters and my father too is dead—my dear । father!” “Ah;” with a quick intuition: and -after a glance at his face, a kindly hand was laid on the young man's arm. “But monsieur has his mother still living? an i a happy woman in posse-Mog ■ him is Madame ; pardon, but i did not caicu iu u uu.u^." "Jardine —Roderick Jardine ” The Swiss lady drew back with a ' surprise th t he could not have failed to observe, had h ■ n t been wholly preoccupied in the difficult task of trying at once to e polite to her a d to see and hear all that was pass ng at ; the far e:.d of the room. "Madame, 1 percieve vouv daughter ' Is going to sing again and iam so fond । ■of music. May Igo and listen ” He was off a- if there were wires to * hie feet. Poor fol owl It was a very I bad case, but not the first, nor probu- i bly the last, that has happened, in this ! world. However, he maintained his compos- I ure very creditably, talked courteously ! to all the Demoiselles Reynier at o: ce. i turned over their pages, examined! their music, French. Italian and Ger-I man, and at last lighting upon an En- ■ glish song, he asked if any of them ; sung it Tho girls all shook their merry ! heads, pointing to the one whom he I had n t addre sed, scarcely even : glanced at, though he knew exactly ; how she looked, sitting there at the j piano with her blue eyes cast down, and a faint color, like a China rose, on her soft cheek. “She sings it: ask her.” “Will mademoiselle do me that honor?” said Roderick, quite humbly,

feeling more timid than he ever felt in his lite. “It is written for a tenor voice, monsieur. It i not a young lady’s song.” ‘A et I have often heard young ladies sing it, and verv badly, too”—remembering how ho bad hated it at Richerden dinner-parties. “Perhaps t also ” with an amu ed look which ho answered by another. “I will try my best.” It was a simple litt o song; most people have heard it • done to death” in many a drawing-room—"My Queen." This girl sung it in her pretty foreign English—not broken English, but of course with a slight accent, which rather increased the charm—sung it, not impetuously, but with a tender reserve, her China roses slowly growing into crimson ones as she did it, till at last she seemed to forget herself in the song : When and how shall I earliest meet her? What are the words that she first will say? By what name shall I learn to (treet her? । 1 know not now; It will c une some day. ; With this self-same sunlight sbinln; upon her, Shining down on her rlnuliti* sheen Sho Is -standing somewhere; sho I will h mor— She th it I wait for—my qu 'en my q ee >! I will not dream of her tall and stately; She that- I love may be airy and light. 1 will not say >he must speak sedately: Whatever sho does, it will sure be right. She may bo humble or proud, my lady. Or that sweet calm which Is just bat wee i: But, whenever she comes, she will fin I me ready To do her homage —my queen, my queen! But sho must bo courteous, she must be holy. Pure, sweet and tender, the girl I love. I Whether her birth be humble or lowly I care no more than tho angels above. And I'll give my heart to my lady’s keeping. And ever her strength on my own shall lean; And the stars shall fall and the saints be weeping. Ere I cease to love her —my q n® s. my queen! ‘Thanks," said Roderick, in English. It was a more word, sea rely au lible, tho briefest and most commonplace a knowledgmont, yet it seemed t > imply tho gr titude, the benediction of a lifetime, given from the man to the woman whom he at once r. c ignizes as the woman sent by heaven if he has eves to see and strength to accept and hold her to be to him his “helpmeet," his ;oy, his crown, and his salvation. Tho feeling was so sudden so sole un. so ove powering that ho never attempted to fight against it. Without another word he withdrew fro”* the group rum her, even: indeed, it seemed ea-ier to watch her from a ‘ distance than to sp-ak to her and waited till the mother ami daughter * shoull ret ire, when he wa* determined \ t<> find < ut from M. Reynier all about i them. At Uhm merit it was ahno t fidicnlrms ho a tuaiiy did not know i their names. Another half hour -jhmh Roderick scarcely knew how, except that ho watalking to half a do on pe >ple and j wate ing one other person all the i while and ho saw them retire passing him with the usual distant b>w He had I alf e t nded his hand I nglish fashion, but happily drew it lan k in time. "Au revoir, monsieur,” r< sponde I the mother, w ith a < ourtoms smile; but tho daughter merely is-ut her h a I without a w< rd. “A char t ing pair. ' observed Mme. | Reynier, after t ey w re ^one "My . husband thought yo i would like to ‘ meet the i. Mad moi-e' . --peaks Inglish so well." "Perfectly.” “And yet she has never quitted !Sw it erland. Her father lived in the vmy heart of the Alp-; a mo-t an-sl ■ and amia' lo man. bit eccentric He ; ■ left them poor. She is oblixe ito teach ; j - to give m isic le— >ns this dear j Mademoiselle Silence. ’' ; “Whit did you -ay? Wha’ is her • name “ cried Roderick, feeling all I j t e blood rushing to his heart to his j I face. "It is an English name. I will cal! 1 i my daughter to pronouuc • it E iglish I fashion.' And with an ama ement that even amounted to awe Roderb k discovered ■ that this g rl—the first girl in a 1 his ! lie who had won from him a second thought—-was his co sin: ver, distant. : Put still a cousin, and another Si once ; Jardine. In hi-uuixotic search he had done । nothing—had alu ost forgotten what he meant to do; yet here was all done I I for him. With a feeling as of a i man pursued by f..te b ind, ir esisti- ; ble. and y< t most blessed fate hi, w ithout asking a -ingle question more, : got away as soon as he could. One ' I outside that doer and away from' everybody’s sight, he ru-hed. alm ) t. j staggerin r as he went, down to Eo ■ water-side, and spout an hour there ; walking wildly to and fro in the moon- j light th ■ wo'-der A, sweet moonlight, i । b ight a- day -wh ch poured itselr in I : silver glory over the smooth lake and I the sleeping town. CH A I TioC II I. That one hour of ; assionate pacing up and d wn under the stars -ecmed to i have made a man of him like the sol- > itary vigil which the young esquires of ; old were lelt to pend", previous to bei ing dub 1 cd knights. When he awoke, ; quite curly, long befor ■ da . -break, he i ; was no 1 nger a dreamy boy, but a ‘ । belted knight ready to go out and i I fight, with his lady's token < n his helm and his la ly s love in his heart. I ‘-Ttie stars shall fall and the saints be I weeping I-.re I cease to love her—my queen, my queen!” i He kept humming the s ng to himI self in a pasMoaate undertone al! the ;wa to M. Eeynier's. whither he had I determined to go and explain what | Mr Black, in the ieeble French of his : letter of introduction, had left wholly • unexplained, the why and wherefore of young Mr. Jardine's visit to Swit :er- ; land. How he got through that explanation, as he sat face to face with the kind old professor, in dressing-gown and sl’’ppers, Rode ick never could tell. Nor what M. Reynier thought of it. though he veiled his opinion in most sympathetic politeness, and gave

at once the address which the young man asked, or believed he had asked, in the most business-like and indifferent manner possible. “Certainly, certainly, yes: and my wife and daughters shall "call at once to congratulate the dear ladies on their good fortune in being discovered by so excellent a relative. Stay, perhaps monsieur wmuld like Madame Reynier to go in advance and break to them tho good tidings'? It might start e them, and Madame Jardine is in very delicate health, and they are ver^r poor, mondeur knows'?” A eq ho knew it, but ho did not take it in—no more than tho young queen who, hearing her subjects lacked bread, suggested their eating cake. "1 think, Mon-neur Revnier,” he said, with modest hesitation. “I should like to tell them myself. It isafamily matter, and they would not feel my visit a liberty. They are my cousins, you see. If,’ f with a ‘sudden idea that almost made him smile—-"if you would kindly vouch for mo that 1 am—well, respectable, in short.” Kven if Monsieur di I not carry his letter of recommendation in his face, Mr. Black's g arantee would have been tpute sufficient,” answered the professor, with grave politeness. Another time Ho lerick would have laughed t > think w .at his mother would have thought o' h r son's owing his whole credentials of chara ter to Mr. Black tho fa -tor! but now he was in too great I a;te to linger an instant more than c.nu to \ deopan led; and it seemed hours rather twin m nut s before. armed with M. Roynier's petit billet, ho found himso’f Tn-tint ng the long stair so like a Scotch one, only clean, : orurmhmsl < lean, etage after ota.’o . Mme. Jardine lived au qua triem >, almost up to tho roof of the tall house. “Are they so very poor?" he thought, with a sharp pang, lollowed b a wild delight. To come as tho Deus ex machina—the g >od genius the protecting angel how delicious! Ay, even though it were actual want "ho was about t > fina. But no such discovery j re ented itself t > tho eyes of tho voting man. delicate in hi* ti t< s, quick, mo bidiv quick, t<» detect and revolt from anything coarse or >qu did. A little Swus dam el. in -alxit*. opened the d mr of the apartment and showed him into a salon — very foieign, ce hmlv: his mother would have be ri shocked at the a most carpetle - Hour a id eurtainle - win lows: but oxqiii-ite y neat, harmonious in color, refine! in arrang ment And when sheentered not madame, but mademoisel e he felt more than ever as if the whole thing were a vision of the night. She entered with a soft, silent g hc<> which male her Purilaniejnameseom t he most appropriate imssibie am! standing stid in thedoorwav, b >we I t<> him in tho distant foreign wav. But she s^olcc in English her sweet slow, precise English, very i correct in accent, though the sentences were sometime- arntn e I French fashion. and the “mons our,” translated into "sir." frequently appeared therein I in a funny un English wav. ■ Mamm ha- -out m>, sir, to pm-mt | her regrets that a>e rannot s< e vom " | Hie had announ ed himself merely as ; h trie .1 of M. Roynie-' - "H <t -n- is : suffering a little mor - than -lia: t<»- : day, an > she has not risen WHI yo ; -a. t . ne that whieb you desired to ! -nv t . h<-r? ' / "1 know I I It is I who ought to apologize," stammered Ko^g K. tee I- I ■ Ing it abedut -iy imp -Able WJa >e I those great, blm*. Jiuq«-enl Ignorant j ey-s “Hut I camo ouousine - nos- w ich e m’d not i e delate I Tne girl visibly shrunk "Oh. I ; hop. I hope it i- no more sorrow, mamma has -uffere I *o m e h Indoe I, no quite the contrary, I i trust Mnv 1 Is? p rmitu dto exp nin?" But he could ti t explain. His tongue seemed to rw<' to the r of of his i mouth. All his self-po session hi- [ gtxxi common sense, even nis good | m mm-rs. -< cm- i to have d iron 1 him. " am afraid I lu'd m. but if J mail'll., i « e won’d >'ond< -c nitotuxe i ti.e-o to mada • •• her m t:.> r,” -aid he, hurriedly, falling l>a k into French, j as if it- formal phra-e- of politeness j mad. a bar. i -r aguin.-t himself and his , irrepri ssiblo agitation. She rc.-cßed the ’•Cer and card without looking at him or al them; he ! felt a -light pang in noticing that tiu ugh evidently ree gnizing him. she . showed not the slight -te irios ty even , t > learn his name- and vanishe • frotr I , th * salon. to io: coxTtxcioi Rise and I'.ill of l.anilseers. A unique scries of thirty three ex- । amples came up for -ale with the col- ! lection of the lat ■ L<>rJ Chey’esmore, ■ i i May, I !Q. and affords an easy medium of comparison. The be t pict :res I a: pear t • in rea-e in the sa ..e ratio as ’ the le ” excel.ent exampes decline | "The Monarch of the Glen,” so well known through T. Landseer's very successful engraving, is a masterpiece. : a:.d is never likeiy to sustain any very pronounced ■oj recia ion in value, la ; the l ite Lord i ondesborough s sale it , I fetched t .-on guineas, whi h amount j was increa-cd by iUO guinea- in 1 ' On the other h.nd, the “Taming of । tho Shrew,” which realized 1,431 ♦ ffwrsso. now dr<>m> -n i.bx» mqneXS not a terloqs drop, perhaps, sidering vho numt or f piotures by tho . same ma ter .-old at the tame time. A much more serit us fa 1, however, was sustained by “Eady Godiva s Prayer,’’ which in I'7. wa- appraist*) at I 3,200 gain as, and wa new sold for l J > i gu neas. ’ The Highland( abin,” which, a the disper al of the Ducho s of Bedford’s collection in I'.'..'!, we. t for 1.70 guineas, now sold for 450 guineas: “The Sentinel,” which sold in l-* 4 for 240 i guineas, now realized is.l guineas, ana I “All that Remains of the Gljry of! William Smith,” which, twenty yea-s । ago went for 3:0 guineas, was valued ! , in 18!C at 2J > guineas. Tho ma ority j I of the other I and-eo.s in Jiis collec- I I tion wore purchased from the art st. j As further illustrations of iho rise I ! and fall re pectively in 1 andseers, we I | may mention “ raking a Buck,” which I I in the Manley Hall sale, 188 H, realized j 1,970 guin as, and dropped in 1-92 to 6.10 guineas, and “Braemar,” which in I8(js sold so • 4,0.10 guineas, and bad advanced at the Bolckom ale in 188, to £5,107. The celebrated work “Chevy ” for which i a .daeer is said to have received T'.'Oi, realized in tho Hemming sale in April last, 3,760 guineas —Nineteenth 1 entury. Outside of Poesy. In poetry violets are always “blue." But as a matter of fact only half of tlie twenty and odd varieties in the United States are blue. The rest are purple' i yellow, white, lilac and one green. ’ I

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the LessonThoughts Worthy of Calm RetlecilonHalf an Hour’s Study of the ScripturesTime Well Spent. I.es.on for October 21. ~“ He ,aught the! « °ne -M ark i a 2| horU ’ r ’ und ““t as the scribes. » I his lesson is foun I in Mark 1: 21-31 and may be entit ed “A Sabbath in Canlrna U m‘ a Aud went into Sabbath F ? nd ® trai « h tway on the Sabbath da. he enter d into the synagogue and taught” Ono day in our I ord’s life tho recbath I ' . d *N' ’but day the Sab tin, i * lUS soe how spent his d^ 6 ’ Vu U s See how ho ko P l 11 is holy day. hirst, we find him in the synagogue it is a good thing to go to Ev-'w' ^F 1 . Sl ' ndav - There he taught. I 'et ? ( hristian ought to be a teacher an i i ' , things he bus seen an l heard. Christian, have you a ciasi? Then ho east out the unclean s ’rit. This, again, is good Sunday w ’’k, good evorv qay work. Every t o Christia iis up exerciser of evil smritu lav * yo i| ever come in to ay the naughty d.»TSI ot a bad tomI 11. "or surlv mood* - Many such opp ri i«iities fall ae the Christian's ! pathway. Anon he wa> laying hh ' han lon a fevered brow an I healing the si k. Only C ri-t mn heal, but he minister , help a d healing often through just the s ft hand laid on tho brow or the kind face shining in the doorway. Try it. Mako your.-elf u good ph>s cian. No wonder tho whole | i’y poured itself out. an I that this : lav, this specime i day in <ur Lord's ife. closed wit i all that we o troubled and -ick gatheio 1 at hi* door. They a e there yet, wa Hng, waiting. And iwe ar his door-keepers. Aay rather Ids ministers. Let tho Christsp. uk through s. I‘o‘nts In the Lennon. Mark's goat el might be called “The Story oi tho \Vonder-Worker.” Hero he narrates one day’s occurrence in o r lo rd's Ife And what a day. it all took place at t aper, au n. Happy - apernaum to h »ve tho i o d thus visibly and potently in the midst InI appy Cape naum. for still she rovogai ed h m not Hear t hrist's sad, terrib ewa rds at t e last “And thou, aper-nauml ' .''hall it bo liette • with this city, wherein such mighty wi rks a edono' Cini-t entero i fir t o' all into the synagogue, thus recognizing the divine o i in and purp se of the s-abd hod faith. But pres mtly le wa *ou among tho ] eople in the home, at th d or -tep, on the -t eot, indicating that narrow bo mdarlea had lieen u away, the day of a broa I, spiritual ’ciig.on bad come He tmiglr them as no that had auth. rit ? . ' th- author -y of tie truth I list authority b long* t >every di-ci. In of tho l.erd Jesus < hrist, to- ! .lay. who has the truth In hi- inward |iart'. Have you never noted the ring if it In th- v tc > its g earn io th • eve, i's w hoh^^y sas J spirit in the attitude »■»*'* -V. ’d 11 .srtt « en tie -ad to TMi-^'L'. *rh*»«e things s|eak, and exh > t, ami yb ke with a ..Mh •; Ly Let no |t*n cs. <-no tldio It Is while he teach -- v J. |he next liniment it is n: n h i- deal ng with unclean spirits v 7. The same word is u- d In • ach • a~e. the ame divine power i* a-eri ed to him F- r doctrine or for disciidi e there is tho gift and gra e of a itle ri'v -till. Im th exhrt an i "rebuke" w ith authority— ’ not o! < m e bit of th • t u’h This a ithorily i* < hr; • - own. The Holy I Spir t _ea:o;i-l, Allard- it here, as elsewhere Thro g out this <ii, Chi st j < - t a- hing a id healing with autho - ity. n the - nagogue, in i ctor s , to u*e at the dtxir, where the people I gather with th -.r varied id* at the sunset, he stands f rth in regal authority, i< own mitm rity. And o.i t is acco.r t, । erhap . he "chid - the j devils at the close and offers them ; not t • speak b cau-e they know Him, nr a* in th • Margin, t • -ay that they know Him It i* aH hi ist. I I it* an I 1 lu-tration*. Bring everything t > Jesus to day. It i* a kind of fre -admission day. and । the gates are vv de open. You lemember h vv it was the other day when the authorities s mmar ly cut tickets dow n t > na ight, and the .-chool children were ad invited to come to the exhibitiotfreeof charge, what a pa taring o little feet and larg. r o os. too. for • a i"d • chi d shad ead them Well, it 1 is a high day in .ion here. E ery thing lopen. “Ho, everyone that thirtieth, : come ye to the waters, un i he th t hath no money, c > e ye. buv and eat: ! yea come buy wine ai d milk without ■ m >ney an I witho :t price ” \\ hy does not every on ■ res; ond ai d come? If only they knew who was calling, and । what he had to give, the would I gather, all the city , at the i.oor. long : ere t ie sun v ere set H Id uip .’e-<" today. Show vv at he is I what ho det'H withjUiMske that will I'* Idm. Ask first, what is Jesus do- ; ing? Fee him on this sample day of i ! his ea thly life, ready and w iting to ' help, to help ever . body. Aot shut up in an inner sam t ary or office, but out in the open, at the do rway. his hands held out. inviting, breeching. Ask again. What has Jesus to give: Help, health, healing e ervthing worth ha'ing. ft is all in Je us and all in j Jesus for us. That is why ho is stand- i ing at the door, h s hands ready to I . bestow. And I have brought to thee Down from mv bouse above, Salvati n full and free. My pardon and my love; Great gifts I brought to thee; What hast thou brought to m?? Bring him—yours ?lf. Next lesson—“A Paralytic Healed." -Mark 2: -12. MNsintx The earliest beok in which copperplate engravings were used wa* issued j in 1470. The different games that may be i played with a deck of cards run up in the hundreds. When a person is hysterical oftentimes a portion of the body has abso- i lutely no feeling. A BURNING gas jet is unhealthy in i a bed chamber, as one gas light gives j ! out as much aarbonic gas as two sleepI ers. I

WASHING THE TAILINGS. A Ten-Strike Made in the Mint Where No Gold Was Expected. j The Denver mi thas furnished the public many mild surprises during the past eighteen months, says the Denver Republican. It has shown, partially, the increased production of gold in 1 he State and has grown, in a comparative short time, from an obscure branch ot the general business of the Government to a place of general importance to the entire country. Lrom a few thousand dollars monthly the purchase of gold at the mint has grown to a half million a month. With this vast Inc.ease of business has grown a demand for a coinage mint, and so strong is this demand that it can scarcely be denied by the Government. In the quiet roti. o f the mint there has been gradually accumulating an item of wealth that even the employes failed to realize until a short time ago. It has been the custom to make quarterly house cleanings of the assaying and relining departments. At such times the operating rooms were carefully swept and all of the machinery dusted. The dirt and dus thus coUe ted has been washed and the tailings thrown into a biu back of the mint buildmg where for years they have been accumulating. At ea h quarterly cleaning a snug sum, generally about SIOO in gold dust, would be washed out and saved. Only a few pounds or tailings would be left in the pans to be dumped into the open bin, but during the years this stuff gradually accumulated, until it now amounts to about four tons. A few weeks ago Assayer Puckett went out to the bin of "tailings” with a pan. which he tilled and began "washing.” The result was a surprise. so large was the quantity of gold he washed out. Without further ado Mr Puckett hired an expert and started him to work washing out the tailings. Mr. Puckett also had had some old melting pots that had been thrown out ground up and washed, and the result was thatfr an the scrap pile over j. ,600 in gold has been panned by one man in thirtyeight days. These tailings, after second washing, have also been saved, and Mr. Puckett says he has refused an offer ot >1,600 from ope of the smelters for them. He expects to receive at least $2,001) for them. In arranging for the improvements to be made at the mint, Mr. Puckett concluded to have the chimney of the furnace swept. In doing this fifty seven pounds of soot was secured. This soot was sold at >5 per jHiuud to one of the smellers, and the smelter authorities claim to have made a good profit on their purchase. The gold purchases at the mint for the past twelve days of this month have amounted lo over $400.00'. Tlie largest pur base of any previous month In t tie bistorv of the mint was a little ie-s than $500,000. Assaver Ppekett -ays that at the least rci-ionalle cab ulat ion the purchases for this month w 11 exceed $600,100. I ashions in Dolls’ Eyes. Who would think of such a thing as i queen deciding the color ot the dolls’ eyes w ithin her kingdom? Such a th.ng has been done, riot by royal edict, however, but simply by having Iler Majesty's own eyes -et the fashion. When Yictoria became Queen of England more than 11 Ity years ago, she was lair and young, with very blue eyes, whereupon blue eyes became all the ia-hion, and all tn loyal doll makers of her kingdom began sending blue-eyed dolls from their factories. hi Italy and Spain, where all the great beauties have olive skins, and dark, handsome eyes, a blond doll is not a common sight Japanese dolls have twinkling, beady black eyes set in their heads aslant, while the gayly dressed dollv from Singapore looks from hei cop; er-coloied face with a pair of narrow, coquettish black eyes quite different in expression iroin either the Spanish or Chinese beauties. The Mighty Dollar. There are several theories, each plausible enough, of the origin of the .American dollar mark. Some claim j that it is a combnaton of "U. b.” the initial of the United States; others that it is a modification of the figure 8, the dollar being formerly called a ‘piece of eight;” again we are told that it is derived from a representation of the Pillars of Hercules. consisting of two needle-like towe.s or pillars connected with a 9-roll. The old Spanish coins market! with the pillar device were frequently referred to as "pilar dollars” According to one writer the symbol of the dollar is a monogram of the letters. "V,” “S,” and "J,” the dollar being originally a "thaler” coined in the valley of Saint Joachim, Bobem a, and known as a "Joachin thaler,” and the monogram initials of the won’s "X alley Saint Joachim.” Divor 'c. In consequente of mental malady, ! a Georgia lady con reived it her duty ! ta live apart from her husband, and, ! in order that he might apply ior a ! divorce forged documents which would give him cause. The husband knowing they were not true, but i thinking that to humor his wife would cure her malady, presented the papeis to the legal authorities and a divorce was granted. The ex husband immediately began to make Jove to his former wife again and proposed marriage in due form, but, although she appeared happy in his company and would go with him to the theater and like places, she absolutely refused his proffer of marriege and expressed a wish that he would wed a girl whom she named. Now the man i is seeking to have the decree ot divorce set aside.

VILLAGE DECADENCE. , ibiuses That Contribute to the Crowding of Our Great Cilies. In discussing village decadence which has been going on very rapidly in this country during the last half century Frank Leslie’s Weekly says: Forty years ago each American village had a full equipment ot artisans —tailors, shoemakers, cabinet-mak-ers, carpenters, carriage-makers, clock-makers, gunsmiths, tanners, blacksmiths, brick and stone masons, and so on. Os this list all have now departed from ordinary village life save the shoemaker, the blacksmith, the car] enter, and the bricklayer, and from two of these the artistic part of their trade is no longer of much use to them. The village shoemaker is now but a mender of ma-chine-made slioes, a patcher of leather, a cobbler of b; ots run down at the heel. The blacksmith, once a worker in wrought iron, who delighted in fashioning quaint devices for house decoration, now confines his attention almost- exclusively to the feet of horses and to the welding together of pieces of broken farm implements. About the men who worked at these trades and their families centered the village life of the old time^ and the society was not o. ly good, bur^aj was dignified by labor that ennobled while in a small measure it enriched. Now the men in the country churches are clad in ready-made clothes, while they tell the t me by machine-made watches and clocks, shoot with ma-chine-made guns where any game is lett to be shot, wear machine-made boots, buy machine-made furniture for their houses, and t 11 their fields with machine-made implements. These once prosperous and dignified trades have been killed by machinery, and the shops in which these tra leamen used to work are empty now or put to other purposes. The youth approaching manhood sees few opportunities before him to be other than a farm laborer, and naturally seeks a wider field of effort. This takes from the village in these later days its best blood, and the decadence begun by the shutting up of the old shops is hastened till the time comes when either the village life is quickened by the establishment of some kind of a factory, or it settles down into a dead-and-alive calm which conduces to a sleep almost as deep as that afforded by the grave. Removed ttie Bird. If ever there was a voluble parrot it is the accomplished African owned by Landlord Edward Cake of the Hotel Normandie at Washington. As a linguist AV ashington probably never had his peer. He repeats with marvelous accuracy nearly every sound that comes in the range of his hearing, and it was this same facility as a repeater that caused no small amount of trouble recently. For some reason the bird had been changed troro his usual habitat and put in the Hncn-ioom for the day, the windows of which are almost in touch with the swell colored church that is iu close proximity to ibe Normandie on the n irth. The excitement began when the minister gave out a well-known text. The last words had but fallen from his lips when they were shouted back at him with a peculiar vehemence from the adiuining hou-e. ■ The congregation tried haid to preserve its dignity, for the minist r stood solemn, but the efiort was not a great success, and many of the younger worshipers tittered audibly. The preacher started up again, and again the bird sent back his utterance with the faithfulness of a graphophone A song was tr ed and Foil got in his work just the some. By this time it was eviuent that cither that panot had t» be suppressed or the meeting would have to break up. A little conference was held, and it was decided to hold up the proceedings long enough for a committee to wait on Mr. Cake and ask him to remove the cause of the trouble to some other part of his hotel. That gentleman willing y ac. ceded to the lequest, and therelgious ! exercises were resumed. Alter the Lo tves and the Fishes. His pushing ambition is another of the commonplaces of criticism in respect of the Scot Apropos of this, the oft-quoted or mis juoted remark of Johnson at a metropolitan tavern naturally comes up. "Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scot liman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London.” And, were the gieat ‘‘hogshead of sense" alive and among us now. no cause would he have to withdraw the observation, for 'the exodus of successful barristers, doctors, artists, and b siness^men. from the ‘‘Land o’Cakes” to the great southern metropolis is unceasing, and the Scot's determination to better himself has generally gone hand la hand with his efforts to acquire knowledge. "There is something noble.” said Johnson ot the Hebri ean fanner’s son who was wont to go annually on foot to Aberdeen for education, returning in summer and acting as school teacher in his native island; ‘‘there is something noble in a young man's walking 20J miles and back again every year for the sake of learning.” On the other hand, a more. ! critical view of the national peculiarities might incline to translate Scotch ambition as an eye to the main chance. Which at once brings to mind Dean Hole’s capital story as to why St. Andrew was selected to be the patron saint ot Scotland, and the Archdeacon of Calcutta’s suggestion that it may have been "beause he discovered the lad who had (he loaves and fishes."—The Scottish lieview. To admire a thing does not suffice to make it worthy of imitation.