Bloomington Telephone, Volume 10, Number 7, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 June 1886 — Page 2

MAT WIFE OP 311 NE.

She mot mf at the door last night, All dainty, fresh and smiling. And threw her ylump arms round me tight In manner most beguiling. Then in hrr sweet, impulsive way. She hugged me, as she kisseu me, And told nie how the livelong day bhe'd thought of me, and missed ma. fine helped me off with coat and hat. And lod me, etill close-clinging, Into the dining-room, and sat Down at tne table singing. The meal was perfect ; fresh-cut flow'rs, The firelight warm and rosy, Made all seem bright ; swift flew the hours, And we were, 0 1 so cosy t Then, after dinner, she and 1 Sang the old songs together We used to siug in days gone byMy heart was like a'featharl Our happiness made earth a heaven, ' And now, as I review it, I recollect 'twee past eleven Almost before we knew it, W flat there on tte sofa then. She nestling close beside me. Softly she smoothed my hair, and whoa I kissed her dfd not chide me. ie fondly piuched my cheek, and so, Her dimpled hand upon it, Bhe whispered : "Darling, do you know I need a new spring bonnet?" Somerville Journal.

MDEAR MOTHER'S GROWING OLD."

A queer sensation 'tis to me So queer it can't be told ; And really ft el that it mav be : Dear mother's growing old. These words to me from sister came, In writing round ana bold ; A world of idea? do they frames -Dear mother's growing old." I seem to see her old arm-chair. And 'cross the floor tls rolled; And picture her aa sitting there "Dear mother's growing old." Her hair that once shone o'er her brow With hue of beaten gold Is getting white as driven snow "Dear mother's growing old." Her eyes they tell of weary days And" lines of cara have hol.i; They say to me in many wars "Dear mother's growing old." Her feeble strength and wav'ring hand Can scarce her work unfold ; And as she braids she skips a strand "Dear mother's growing old." rm far from her on foreign sea, And by its blue wav?8 lolled ; Those words indeed are sad to me "Dear mother's growing old."

Some Detective Stories. Tricks in Detecting Criminals The Importance of Trivial Clues.

The writer spent several hoars in a country inn with several detectives, and the following ad-ventures are given just as narrated: wLuck has much to do "with success in our profession," said a short, tlick-set man with iren-gray hair, as he tilted back against the wall. ""Indeed, if you are following a blind trail you must depend upon luck to help you out. A few years ago I was summoned by telegram to a small town in Ohio to take hold of a murder case. An old lady living alone on the outskirts of the town had been found murdered, but the crime had occurred at least two days before discovery. That robbery was the motive was proved by the fact that the house had been thoroughly ransacked- She was known to have had several hundred dollars in money and some valuable heirlooms, and everything had been taken. The eearch had been so thorough that it was likely the murderer had spent several hours in the house after his .horrible deed.1" He ;had even taken the old woman's spectacles, snuff-box, thimble, and other trifles of the sort; but he had come and departed w ithout leaving a trace. "Well, the tirst inference was that he had come and gone in the night. The next inference got me into trouble at once. The sheriff and constables and all the townspeople had made up their minds that the murderer was a young man named John Winthrop, the old woman's nephew, who bung out around Cincinnati. It was known that he often appealed to her for money when hard up, and that only two or three weeks before the murder she had refused to advance him another dollar, and that he had gone away cursing her. It was a fair clue to work on, and I went to Cincinnati to work up John Winthrop. He could not be found, but I found friends of his who strengthened the case against him. The day previous to the mur

der he was hard up, and trying to borrow j

money Jl he day alter the murder he had plenty of money, and offered to lend some, tie was a gambler, a rake, and all that was bad, and no one would be surprised to hear that he had committed murder. To still further strengthen- the case, I discovered that he had been seen on the train running from Cincinnati to Elankville on the afternoon of the murder. He was also known to have returned to Cincinnati on the morning after. Better clues could not be asked for, but, hunt as I would, I could not turn him up. He seemed to have dropped right out of the world. For six weeks I went up and down ihe country, seeking everywhere, but all in vain. "There was one thing in the case which puzzled me. Why had the rnurderer packed up and carried away the trilling articles I have mentioned? A tramp wouldn't have done it; and what the nephew could want of them was more than Icouid understand. I had never met with anything like it in all my experience, and my mind was made up on the very start that the crime was the work of a lunatic. After nix or seven weeks of faithful work the case was practically abandoned. One day I was at the Ah Line junction, a couple of miles north of Toledo, and among other people there,

wailing for the train, was a lone woman about fifty years of age. As she sat readins? her spectacles fell off, and one glass roiled out of the frame. It was my fortune to sit near her and to pick up the glasses. As I did so she said: 44 'There they go again! Inevejsawsuch a pair of glasses in my life! u The optician did not give you a good fit I observed. K 'Oh, I didn't get 'em of an optician; I bought 'cm of a stranger while I was traveling, but I was never so cheated in my life.' 44 'Was it very long ago?' 44 'About three weeks.' 'Here?' 44 Oh, no. It was while I was waiting at Monroeville. I had lost my glasses and was fretting about it, when the man asked me to try these. They seemed to lit nicely and I gave him a half a dollar for them.1 "I was breathing hard about that time, and it required a strong effort to control my voice as I said: I think he was a cousin of mine. Can you remember his description?' 'Certainly. He was a smallish man, having black hair and eyes, and he walked lame. On the back of his right hand was an jnitial in India ink 'He's the one, madam, and I'm sorry he cheated you. Let me give you this two-dollar bill in exchange for the glasses " 'Oh, thanks! thanks!' "Well, I got away by myself to think. I had seen that man somewhere. Where was it? I began and followed my work all over in my mind, but I could not locate him. It was midnight, and I was fifty miles away hen I suddenly placed him. He was one of the jurors at the Coroner's inquest! Noxt day I was back in the vil

lage where the murder occurred. The spectacles w.m? identified by several of the neighbors, and when I came to make some cautious inqnhios about the man I found him to be a worthless sort of fellow Irving a mile or so out of town, and nuking a poor living for himself and family by digging wells and doing odd jobs. It was true that he was a juror on the inquest, and it was also true that he had been at jVlonroeville at the time named. "I went alone to arrest him. I called at his house in the evening under pretense of engaging his services, and as ho sat by his fireside, surrounded by his wife and children, I told him who I was., and charged him with the crime. He Milted like a weed in the sun as he comprehended what my words meant, but his wrfe was made of different stuff. An ax stood in a corner of the room, and she seized it and tried to split my head open. I had just all 1 could do to put tho handcuffs on her, and then she turned on her shivering husband, and reviled him until he stopped his enrs to shut out her voice. He turned out to be a weak-minded fellow, and it was plainly shown that she not only put up the job, but went with him to execute it. W hile ho was searching for tho money she packed up the other articles, even taking hair brushes, combs and towels. She had braced him up to appear at the inquest, and he had come through it all unsuspected. While it was a clear case for the hangman, some quibble of law saved their necks, and both are now serving long sentences in prison' 44 And how about the nephew?" I asked, as he seemed to have finished. "Well, on the day of the murder he took the train, as I have told you, but got off at a town below Blankvillc. There he fell in with some lo.al sports and won about $-100 at poker that night. Vpon his return to Cincinnati his lite was threatened by a woman of the town for seme grievance, and to be rid of her he made a clean jump to Nashville and was arrested there for gambling and sent to jail for three months under an assumed name." "Yes. luck sometimes plays into a man's

hands in a strange way," said another of the group as he elevated his feet a notch higher on the stove. Two or three years ago one of the lug distillers at Peoria, Illinois, was robbed of a goodly sum by his confidential clerk. I was sent down from Chicago to work uf the case. The name of the clerk was Charles Allbright, and he was described to me as a dapper little fellow without beard, and a voice as soft as a woman's. His photographs showed him to be a pretty good looking fellow. The money had been drawn to make a purchase of grain. It was to have been paid out on that day. but was not called for, and the clerk gobbled it some time between 6 o'clock in the evening and 8 o'clock next morning. "The first move, as you will agree, was to ascertain w hat trains had left Peoria during this time and seek to find which one Allbright had taken. The place is quite a

railroad center, but in one day I ascertained the thief had not left the town either on a freight or passenger train. Had he gone by the highway? I visited every livery stable, but got no trace of him. As a matter of fact, I was up a tree. He had gone, but how? "After two whole days spent iu fruitless search I grew desperate, took a train at a venture, and brought up in Decatur. On the train was a young lady whose home was at Decatur. As she Lad several parcels with her 1 volunteered to help her off the car. As her feet touched the platform she tripped and fell, and the result was a broken arm. As none of her friends were there to meet her, it seemed to devolve upon me to call a carriage, summon a surgeon, and accompany her home. I found her to be the daughter of a wealthy widow having one or two other children, and their gratitude was such that I could not well avoid accepting an invitation to make the house my home for a few days. I had given oik, you see, that I was a Boston lawyer looking up the titles to some real estate in Decatur. "At breakfast we were waited upon by such a trim, tidy second girl that my attention was attracted to her. The widow must have remarked it, for she exclaimed: It is a new srirl who has been with me but two days. She is very awkward, but seems willing to learn.' "The girl was indeed awkward, as I afterward noticed, but the idea that she knew anything connected with the Peoria robbery never entered my head until the third day. I had been at the depot to make some inquries about trains, and was leaving when I saw her enter the waiting room. She was closely veiled, but I knew her figure, and I reasoned she had given the widow very short notice. It was not impossible that this new girl was a thief, and I determined to speak to her and ascertain her reasons for leaving. As I started toward her she sprang up and rushed out doors- That was a sign of guilt which I could not disregard, and I gave chase. She led me a sharp run for half a mile, and when I collared her she struck out from the shoulder, and gave me a beautiful black eye. In return I put the handcuffs on her wrists, and they had scarcely saapped together when she said: " 'Well, old chap, I suppose the jig is

up. hat kind of a second girl do I make, anyhow?' " You'll come back to the house and be searched not yet tumbling to it. " 'The house be d d! I've got tho money on me, of course, and of course I'll have to go back to Peoria. You don't take me for a spoon thief, I hope?' "It was Allbright. and no mistake. He had left Peoria in the evening disguised as a female, and his make-up and appearance were so deceiving that he had made two, or three mashes before reaching Decatur. He knew that no effort would be spared to

hunt him down, and he had the cheek to take employment as second girl, hoping to have a secure retreat un4il the hunt had grown cold. My coming to the house was what had sent him away. He didn't believe I knew him, but he saw me watching him, and he argued that I would soon drop on his disguise." "It wouldn't be strange if luck had also helped me out occasionally, for I have been in this business over twenty years.1 said the third man, as he combed his long goatee with his lingers. "One of the most striking instances occurred last fall. A rich old fellow named Sumner, living near Louisville, wa found dead in his btd one morning. He had been married twioe, and had two sets of children, and you can readily understand what happened. It was known for a fact that he had made a wfll. It was a stronger fact that the will could not be found. The heirs taunted each other with having stolen the will, and pretty soon the law and the lawyers were called in and there was a big fight over the estate, valued, I believe, at over $200,0:10. One of the heirs by the first wife engaged my services in the case. He was sure that one of the heirs by the second wife, who was known to have visited the old mini tin day before his death, had stolen and destroyed the will. As he could show that tho will left the bulk of the estate to the i!rst set of children, his charge was a reasonable one, and T went to work to see what I could do. The nlleged offender was a pretty hard case, and all the information I could acquire went to show that he was none too good to do a stroke of that sort. "T spent a month on the case without, getting anything definite and then dropped it. The estate then went into court, each

side retaining enough lawyers to eat up

I every dollar, and I took up tho chase of a horse thief. Ho had stolen several horses ! in Ohio and run them into Kentucky. His headquarters were at Eli.abethtown, and I i had been there for a couple of weeks seek

ing for the right clue to bring him up standing, when one afternoon I had to visit a farmer living several miles north of the town. This man had purchased one of the

I stolen horses and had it taken away from

him, and was ready to give mo all aid and information. After a talk at the house we went to the barn to look over his stock, and in the yard I noticed a tin-peddler's wagon with a wheel missing. " I can't imagine what has become of the owner of that iig explained the farmer. 'Ho broke down out hero all of two months ago, and I let him draw his wagon in h- re and store his bales of rags in tho barn. He was to return in a day or two, but ho hasn't shown up 6ince "As we went into the barn we passed sis or eight sacks of paper rags piled up in n loose manner. There were a score or more of loose papers on the pile, and 1 picked up one, which proved to be a Confederate bond. I pocketed it as a relic, and picked up what I thought was another, but as I opened it out I read: 'Last will and testament of James Yancy Sumner." It was the will of the old man who had died near Louisville, and its production not only put an end to all further litigation, but brought me a reward of $3,000. 1 found tho owner of tho peddler's outfit at Lebanon, which place was his home, and where he had been very ill of fever for many weeks. He had bought rags of the old man, and through some carelessness the will got mixed in." There was still another detective iu the group, and after a bit he began: "About two years ago I was at Stockton, Cal., to which placo I had pursued an express robber fom Madison, Wis. It was an old trail I had been following, and when I lost it entirely at Stockton 1 didn't

feel so badly put out as I should if (hero had been a fair show for me to overhaul the chap. I had a photograph of the man, and was posted as to certain points in his description. He had one front toolu

which had been filled with gold; he stammered a little in his speech when confused; h was near-sighted. He had been gone from Stockton a full month when I reached there, and as there was no trace of the direction taken I gave up the hunt in disgust. When I got back to Omahu I had to take a man down to Topeka, Kansas, to see after an embezzlement, and on the night of my arrival I entered a bar-room in search of a Tom and Jerry. The barkeeper was leaning on the bar and reading a paper. The first thing I noticed was that he held tho sheet close tolas face. The first name of the robber I had been chasing was George. As I advanced to the bar I said: " 'Come, George, a Tom and Jerry "I don't know why I said it, but the speech was spontaneous, and was uttered before 1 reallv knew that I was speaking. "W-hat! W-w-hat's th-that?" he stammered, as he let the paper fall, and turned as white as chalk. "At the same instant I caught the gleam of gold in his teeth, and I put my hand on his shoulder and said: "George Johnson, von are mv prisoner " H-hbw d-did you f-ind me?" he queried, holding on to prevent himself from falling. "Well, sir, ho owned up like a little man, and held out his hands for the darbies. Out of the $8,000 he stole I received all but $1,000. He went to Stockton, as I had trailed him, and after a day or two he disguised himself as a machinist and returned to the East, and brought up in Topeka. He had not purchased the saloon, not daring to use his money yet, but had got employment for a few days as a matter of charity. In making the run back from California he had stopped off five different times and adopted new disguises, and he had no more idea of being arrested in Topeka than in Alaska. Of course, I didn't admit that I had blundered in on him, and to this dav he believes I trailed him step by step all those hundreds of miles. Yes, a detective-to be lucky must count more or less on luck, and there goes midnight and it's time we were in bed." JV. Y. JSun.

A REBEL SPY'S SCHEME.

riuying leaf

If We Want to Work We Must Sleep. The restoration of energy, which sleep alone can afford, is necessary for the maintenance of nervous vigor, and whereas the muscular system, if overtaxed, at last refuses to work, the brain under similar circumstances too frequently refuses to rest. The sufferer, instead of trying to remove or lessen the cause of his sleeplessness, comforts himself with the hope that it will soon disappear, or else lias recourse to alcohol, morphia, the bromides, chloral, etc. Valuable and necessary as these remedies often are (I refer especially to the drugs), there can be no question as to the mischief which attends their frequent use, and there is much reason to fear that their employ

ment in the absence of any medical anthoritv is largely on the increase. Many of the "proprietary articles" sold by druggists, and in great demand at the present day, owe their eilieacy to one or more of these powerful drugs. Not a few deaths have been caused by their use. and in a 'still larger number of eases they have helped to produce tho fatal result. Sleeplessness is almost always accompanied by indigestion in some one or other of its protean forms, and the two conditions react upon and aggravate each other. If rest cannot be obtained, and if the vital murhiun cannot be supplied with a due amount of fuel, and, moreover, fails to utilize that which is supplied, mental and bodily collapse cannot be far distant. The details of the downward process vary, but the result is much the same in all cases. Sleeplessness and loss of appetite are followed by loss of flesh and strength, nervous irritability alternating with depression, palpitation and other derangements of the heart, especially at night, and many of those symptoms grouped together under the old term ''hypochondriasis. " When this stage has been reached "tho borderlands of insanity" are within 'measurable distance, even if they have not already been reached, Fortnightly Jleview. A Remarkable Dog. There Avas once a remarkable dog in Austin. It knew its muster's step and his habits and would never bite him. His owner loved him and said he would not take $f)00 for him. One night laowner came homo perfectly ho her and three hurs earlier than usual. The dog, not having been notified of this change in the programme, mistook him for an intruder and bit him in nineteen places. Next day the ow ner had the dog executed by a policeman. All efforts to obtain a commutation failed, and yet it was a clear case of mistaken identity, and the dog had an unpracticed mind. Texas Sif tings.

and Dumb to Trick His

iiuartls. When Gen. Early made his great raid on Washington, writes an ex-rebel to the Detroit Free I'rcsa, I was scouting between his advance and the city, and was captured within the city limits tweiitv-four hours before his battleflags appeared in sigh.. I was dressed in citizen's clothes, pretended to be deaf and dumb, and claimed to have been driven out of lliehmond because I had written threatening letters to JcU'crsen Davis. I had been inside the fortifications for half a day, and was slowly working out, when a couple of young men, both of whom were considerably the worse for liquor, halted me and wanted to light. I had a pencil and a block of paper with me, and I Avrote : "1 am deaf and dumb." That made no difference with them. Indeed, they declared that it would be a novel idea to lick a deaf and dumb man. and one of them gave me a cuff on the ear. Jn those days T Aveighed lttO pounds and had the muscle of a prize-lighter. I tried to get away from them Avithout further trouble, but Avhen they seemed determined to have a row I gave them all thev Avanted, and wasn't mam minues about it. A crowd of soldiers and civilians collected, the provost guard came up, and the result was as I had anticipated. I Avas arrested and carried oil' to a guard-house. One of the young men. who afterward turned out to be lvhihd to a member of the Cabinet, followed me to the oiiiee of the provost marshal and charged me Avith being a spy. No one seemed to entertain a doubt that I was deaf and dumb, as I claimed, and my examination was carried on in Avriting. I Avas asked my name, age, Avliere born, and a hundred other questions, and then searched. They found nothing of a criminating nature, and I reasoned that I would be detained until after the excitement had passed and then turned loose. After being detained three days an officer entered my quarters one morning and said to me : "Well, dummy, you can pack up and go out. " The minute I heard his step outside

I Avas on my guard, but he spoke in such a natural tone that I came near giving myself away. On three different occasions during tiie Avar I played the part of a deaf and dumb man, and I tell you it takes all the nerve and presence of mind a man can call up. I sat facing the door, and, Avhile I heard his words, I made no movement. He came closer to me and said : "Come, pack up your traps; you are to be turned loose." I looked him straight in the eye Avit-h-out winking, and after a bit a look of chagrin stole over his face and lie motioned for me to follow him. He took me to the provost marshal's office, and I was ushered into the private room, where the marshal ami three or four other officials Avere seated. On the Avay to the oilice, as Ave crossed a wide street, the officer suddenly exclaimed: "There's a runaAvav horse look out !" If I hadn't been expecTing some such thing on his part I might have betrayed myself. As I gave no sign, continuing on Avith my head down, I beard him growling: "They think theyVe got a sucker, but they'll rind out their mistake' I entered the office knowing that every trick Avould bo resorted to to break me doAvn, and mv nerves Avene braced as if to charge a battery of artillery. I was left standing by the door for a moment, Avhen one of the officers looked up quietly and said: "Take a seat, sir, and Ave'll attend to you in a moment." I made no move, but I looked around the room in a stupid sort of a Avay. I Avas looking out of the AviudoAv on to a roof Avhen the same officer said : "You may come forward and take this chair.1 I stood like a stone, and he rose up, came over to me, and led. me to a chair at the table. When I was seated one of the others remarked: "Write your name, age, and last place of residence on a slip of paper." That Avas trick number three, and it-failed, as the others had done. By and by the

marshal wrote on a slip of paper:

are you,

ami where are vou

sug-

"Who from?"

I wrote in reply : "I am Charles Jones, of Richmond."

"But van are a I nion man'

gested one of the officers aloud.

I s:av his lips move, but he got no sign from me. The examination continued in this manner for a full hour, the men using every artifice to trap me, but they failed to score a single po;nt. I knew they would reserve the sharpest point for the last, and was therefore nervedupfor.it. At length the n.arshal pushed back in his chair, pointed his linger at my breast a::id angrily exclaimed : "Where did that Confederate button come from?" It was another failure. Then he turned to his companions and said: "Gentlemen, its no use. The man is certainly deaf and dumb, and a d d fool besides." "We havoAvasted our time," replied a seeend. "He is not only Avhat he claims to bo, but may be of great service to us. I'd have the officer take him over to the Secretary of War." "I guess I Avill," said the officer, and he rang a bell, and I heard a door open. Then he turned to me, cureless as you please, and said: "Go with the officer." It Avas their last shot. I never moved a muscle until tho officer approached and placed his hand on me. I Avas taken back to tho guard-house and kept a prisoner for another Avoek, and then the disgusted marshal turned mo loose in the streets. Tho importance of the Wet Nurse. Anent this subject of heredity: A lioness in WomhweH's n enagerie lately had two cubs, and one of Ihem was transferred to ix female dog and reared by her. The cub has lost all its mother's ferocity and has developed the a leetioimte disposition of its wet nurse. This curious fact opens up a new lield for investigation. Many of our hereditary legislators are exceedingly lot dish persons. The son of a man raised to

the peerage on account of his business qualities generally gives himself up to pleasure and ignores business. Noav, it would be interesting to know, in such cases, whether the son had a Avet nurse, and, if so, who his wet nurse Avas. London Truth. Envious Women's Tongues. If men talked of women as women talk of Avomen, if men talked of men as Avomen talk of Avomen, we should havo the early Florentine days back again, when every one carved up his dear friend before breakfast. So avo quote the old London joke Men's (and avomen's) co isrla rerti the misapplication of the Hosier's Latinity as the text of a fe,AV remarks on one of the great social evils of frhe clay, the slanders Avhieh Avomen dare to propagate about women a crime Avhieh rs to the nineteenth eenturv Avhat poison Avas to the sixteenth. When men speak against lvomen, they know well that, although the days of the duello are past, and perhaps no angry sword may leap from its scabbard, yet the horsewhip is not yet laid on tho shelf, and that men have been severely punished for allowing a word to drop from profane lips ment the honor of Avife or sister. Men are also constitutionally cautions. A bov learns at school, by the vivaeious instruction of a punched head, that he must be careful what he says, and he carries with him through life his sense of responsibility; but Avith Avomen there is no such responsibility. A girl is praised for telling a .story well, and she falls into the habit of amusing the company. A girl A ho has the fatal gift of imitation, and who can go through life Avith the power of aAvakening a laugh perhaps at her dramatic comprehension of Avhat is ridiculous in her frirnds, her talent at reproducing a lisp or a stammer is sure to be encouraged i:i this very dangerous abuse of power. Then the strife betAvecn Avomen is very bitter particularly amongst fashionable women for the possession of the appearance of belledom. Each woman wishes, such is the degradation of modern societv, to be notorious, either for the excessive extravagance of her attire or the reputation ot a successful coquette. Enyy is the natural folloAver of such ambition, and the business of detraction becrins. If

there is a scandal started about a young and pretty woman, men smile and ask: "What woman started it?" If there is an inuendo or a disagreeable name attached to unattractive Avoman, it generally comes from another woman. Societv is full of this kind of Ait, as: Three plain Avomen were once known as "Plague, Pestilonce, and Famine" too literal and descriptive for a masculine mot; t-Avo sisters, as "Scylla and Charvbdis ;" two others, as "Champagne, Sparkling and Extra Dry," and so on the list Avould be endless. These epithets adhere; they are of that small and vitiated currency that can be handed from hand to hand, receiving added soil from each not too clean receptacle. They do not injure character, but they do Irnrfc sensitive feelings. Sometimes a i)erfectly gentle and

good Avoman, the possessor of a tine voice or a fresh complexion, has so irritated a riA al that she has been hounded to death by envious tongues. No one should be so Aveak as to care, but unfortunately, modest and good Avomen are sometimes like the ermine, a stain means death. The only punishment which women of scandalous tongue receive is the one Avhieh is, after all, perhaps, the most severe. They groAV unpopular; people shun them; they are "left out." In one case in Noav York, Avhere a vivacious lady had attacked the character of another, the attacked party Avent to the ferocious extent of summpning the scandal-monger to court, but agreed to Avithdraw her sv.it if the aggressor would Avrite an apologetic note saying that she had manufactured the story. This Avas done, and the precious autograph lies open on the parlor table. It Avould be a gohler. day for society if women would gnard their speech. Boston Traveller. The tiirl We All Like. "The plainest girl I ever saw was the favorite in my native -town. Everybody liked her. Eoauaful? O no, she is not beautiful that is, outside ; but inside she is an angeL Nobody thinks of calling her beautiful. Not one of a dozen can tell a hether her eyes are black or blue. l!: you should ask them to describe her they Avculd only say: 'She is just right and there it Avould end. She is a merry-hearted, funloving, bewitching maiden, without a spark of envy or malice in her Avhole composition. She enjoys herself, and Avants everybody else to do the same. She has always a kind word and pleasant smile for the oldest man or woman; in fact, I can think of nothing sin resenibles more than a sunbeam, Avhieh brightens everything it comes in contact with. All pay lier marked attention, from rich ih Watts, who lives in a mansion m the hill, to negro Sam, the servant. All look after her wi,th an admiring eye and say to themselves: 'She is just the right sort of a girl! The young men of the town vie Avith one another as 1o who shall sIioav her the most attention ; but she never en

courages them beyond being simply r

kind and jolty, so no one can call her a flirt ; no, indeed, the young men ail denv such an assertion as quickly aa "Do girls love her, too?" I asked. "Yes, wonderful to relate, girls like her, too; for she never delights in hurting their feelings, or saying spiteful things behind their backs. She is alAvays Avilling to join in their little plans and to assist them in any Avay. They go to her with their lovo affairs, and she manages adroitly to see Willie oi Peter, ami drop a good Avoi;d for Ida or Jennie until tluur little diilieulties are all patched up, find everything goes on smoothly again, thanks to her. Old ladies say she is 'delightful The sly witch, she knoAvg how to manage them. She listens patiently to complaints of rheumatism or neuralgia, and then sA-mpathizes Avith them so heartily that jiiey are more than half cured Eli vh um. Tin; man Avho will not carry out his resolutions a hen they are fresh upon him can hardly have hope from them afterwards.

Col. Donati Struck at Last My exquisite AngeLciana! Her face, her form I (iet out, Kaphael! Hoos, Angelo! Scat, you Titian! You may daub on canvas, and hammer and peek on rock, till your esophaguses turn to bamboo fishing poles, till your hair turns to feathers, and your nails to pruning hooks, and your best performance will look, beside her, like a painted Jezabel beside a Madonna, lika dogfennel beside a lily or an orange blossom. Her face, her face and fom ! Out with you, Venus of Medici! Get down in the dust and be ashamed of yourself. You are pretty good looking, but you can't come in. Complexion as fair as the dawn of a summer morning lilies and roses and peaoh bloom combined! Eyes that drive the stars of heaven blind Avith envy. Lashes more gloriously silken than ever fringed the lids of Oriental hotiri. Hair ia which ten thousand clouded sunbeams seemed to nestle, darfely bright, wavy as the tresses of the tasseled corn, fine as gossamer threads, but forming a network Avhieh scores of masculine strugglers have found strong as the green withes that bound Delilah's Samson. Her eyes, her eyes! Oh, Cupid, you little cuss, you may as Avell throw away your arrows, and break your bow. Your day is over. Go to killing frogs for a living. Ybur sharpest darts are as blunt as a kangaroo's tail, or an average Senator's Avits. Slink off, you little gizzardsplitting imp, slink off, and shut yourself up in a cabbage-head. Her eyes, her glorious eyes ! Sneak into your holes, you little tAvinkliug stars; go into your holes and pull your holes in after you. Never, never dare to try to sparkle or glitter again. Pull the blue gingham apron of the sky over your pale, dim little phizzes, and keep dark. You can shine only when her eyes are A'eiled. Oh, her eyes, her eyes I Mother of Judas ! I am, yes, yes, I'm struck! Struck by a radiant and royal little damsel who won't be my valentine. And then her hand! That tin tapering, queenly little manus. Formed to do acts of love, and to render them ten-fold SAveeter by coming from such a source. That fairv hand formed to cling to a manly arm, and to nerve it by the electric touch to do deeds of deathless heroism and devotion; formed to clasp in sAveetest prayer that ever angel stooped from heaven to hear. That Avitehing hand that index to point my soul to glory or despair it haunts me, haunts irte, still. Oh, that I were her dainty kid, or rat or dog skin glove that I might press those finger tips forevermore. Ah-ah-ah, her waist! Sylphlike, slender. Oh, tell me not of wasp or fairy 1 Her Avaist, comely as a lime tree among the rough oaks, surpasses far in delicacy that of any wasp that ever hung nest upon elm of any fairy elf that ever tripped it to the music of midnight moonbeams tricking through the dark orange groves in fair SeAille or Italv. And oh-oh-oh, her foot! Her high-born, arched, ecstatiffring little foot ! Modesty, bashfulness, 6keepfacedness, preserve me. I faint, I faint! I'm struck, oh, I'm struck ! Struck by a cruel, eoquettish little damsel who won't be mv valentine. The daintiest, ravishingist, enchantingist of pedals terrestial. In visions of the night, before my moojistruek eyes, float in mazy dance, a long, unceasing whirl of tiny gaiter boots. 1 'm bewitched, I'm be-gaiter-booted. Oh, star of the stricken-hearted, beam softly doAvn upon me ! For I'm struck ! Hurly burly, ringed, streaked and striped state of pleasure and pain, of bliss and anguish, of uncertainty, and of doubt, contradiction and truth, despondency and hope, of ecstasy and of d esjuir, I endure thee. For I'm struek 1 Oh, chambermaid of Juno! I'mstrock! Stru-uck! Stru-u-ck by a remorseless flirty, peerless young damsel, who won't be my valentine, and the first six letters of her name- are ; but I hardly think I'll tell. P. Donan, in Blooming ton Eye.

Savage Map Makers In the collection recently taken to Denmark from the east eoaist of Greenland by Capt. Holm are several objects that have excited the astonishment of several European geographers. They are maps made Ijfr the natives. The maps are made by their rude cutting implements on boards that drifted ashore. They were found among the natives who live along the shores of a deep fiord near the mast northern point attained by Holm. Only ten or twelve of these 400 people have ever visited the Danish settlements in South Greenland, owing to a stretch of glaciers and ice-fields which have so nearly isolated them from the world that their existence was not known until recently. They had never seen a Avhite man until Holm and Dr. Knutzen came among them. Some of these curious maps, Capt. Holm says., represent quite accurately the contour of the coast, with all its many big and little indentations, along which they live. Other maps give the outlines of islands lying near the coast, and the explorers say the maps reproduce the shape of the islands with a good degree of fidelity. The existence of these maps among a savage and almost unknoAn people has aroused much iuterest, and some geographers have expressed the opinion that they were not the wort of the East Greenland natives. Mr. Hansenlilangsted, for instance, suggests the theory that some survivor from the ship Lilloise, which years ago started for East Greenland and never returned, may haA'e lived and died on the coast at Angmagsalik fiord, and that he may have made these maps. This suggestion is very far-fetched. We have long known that the Esquimaux have more talent for cartography than is often found among untutored savages. Dr. Hall, for instance, in his explorations north of Hudson Bay found one or two of the rude native charts of a part of that region somewhat serviceable, and at b ast one of them has bee reproduced in the report of his work published by tho United States government. Gon is absolutely good, and so assuredly the cause of all that is good, Imt of anything that is eyil he is no cawe at all. Sir Walter Kaleigh.