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QUICK X OP MX son BY FBAKCIB S. SMITH. Qneen of my soul, though far trom thee, I still may feast on memory ; Though thon art in thy Northern home, And I through Southern gardens rouni, Yet ever beautioua thing I see, Awakens some sweet thought of thee. I look tip in our Southern skies. And in the bright stars view thine eyes ; The opening rose, the lily fair. Are types of thy complexion rare. And in their perfume stealing by I catch the fragrance of thy sigh. The violet wet v.ith early dew, Beminas me of thine eye of blue ; The corn-top shakes its silk tress free, And then thy golden hair I see. And in the song-bird's wild notes clear The music of thy voice I hear. The murmuring ripple's tranquil flow Is thy west whisper soft and low; And in the placid crystal tide Thy purity is typified. Thou rt present to me everywhere In earth, sky, rivulet, and air. Bat, dearest, even while I look For thy rich charms in Nature's book, Words are but feeble to reveal The orerwhelming passion I feel. More vast than mine love could not be I love all sweet things, loving thee, -Ain York Weekly.

DEATH IN LIFE.

THE STORY OF A LEPER

BY WM. H. S. ATKINSON. One of tbe monster steamers of a fast and popular line plying between New York and Havre had just arrived at her pier in the North River. From it there emerged a crowd of noisy and, for the most part, happy people European tourists on their way to "do" the new world, and American sightseers homeward bound. When the passengers had about all left the fine vessel, there stepped from one of the largest cabins a handsome man of thirty or thereabouts. He was so sturdy looking, so athletic, so well-built and so distinguished in feature that none would have dreamed that he was the victim of a dread disease. The passengers and officers of the steamer had decided that the young man was a crank, for he had occupied his stateroom during the entire voyage, never once mingling with the crowds upon the decks or in the saloons. He had insisted upon the stew ard having the carpet torn up, and the boy whose duty it was to sweep and make up the bed reported to his chief that throughout the trip the couch in No. 90 had never been occupied. Hither the strange passenger slept upon the floor, or in a chair, or not at all. The voyage ended, the gentleman quietly waited until the other passengers had disembarked, and then stepped down the gang-plank to the the dock. As he walked along busy West street, he picked up his ears as he heard the' newsboys yelling, "Loss of the steamship Bordeaux ! Terrible disaster at sea ! One hundred lives lost P Our traveler stopped as though he had been shot. At first a look of horXQ SJtJ altera moment gave placel6 a cabinet lock, as though a happy thought had struck him which brought with it some satisfaction, if not of pleasure. As a matter of fact the S. S. Bordeaux belonged to the same line as the boat which had just embarked her passengers, and had not this man been delayed he would have taken passage in the ill-fated ship. "Why, in God's name," was hist mental ejaculation, "did I not make it? It would have all been over by now all the worry and all the pain.9 ,

Then he went on. 1

He made his way to one of tae

sniping omcesin lower uroaaway. xp

clerk he said;

"Ask Mr. Henningway to step ou

moment; merely say to him that Bo nald wishes to see him outside and not intiis office.9 Henningway was the New York agent of the French line of steamers, and soon appeared. "Ronald thank God! We all thought "Sh! Let us go the Bat tery Park arid talk No, do not shake hands with me." The two men proceeded to the edge of the sea wall at the Battery, and the man who had just arrived from Europe abruptly commenced. "You thought I was in the Bordeaux? Well, I did securer passage on her, but missed her. I was so engrossed in other matters that -I neglected to cable you or Laura. But, Henningway, old friend, I wish sincerely that I bad been on the Bordeaux. You know I went to Paris to consult expert physicians. I have done so and have learned tbe worse far worse than I or anyone had dreamed. My case is incurable, though I may live for ten or twenty years; it is leprosy. God only knows how it came to me, unless while at work in tbe Chinese quarter of our city. But that is now of little consequence. Listen, Henningway; you and I are friends and our wives are sisters. I am a clergyman, but at this present moment I believe I lie justifiable under certain circumstances under these present circumstances. To-morrow to-dav I must start away to hide myself from the abodes and haunts of men and women. I now make my last request of you. Will you grant it?" "Yes, boy, I will," responded the older man. "Well, Laura thinks, as yo all thought, that I took passage in the Bordeaux. My name was on her list of passengers. On the Boulogne I was known as Walter Marshall as I bought my ticket of a young Englishman of that name who concluded not to take the trip. Henningwa, 1 ifc 8 afc will you? You are tbe agent of the line; you need say nothing or at most a word or two in support of the theory that I am dead. There will be no fraud in any other way than in a kind and merciful deception of my poor wife. There is no insurance on my life, as both Laura and I had some means. Take good care of her, Henningway, my dear fellow, and treasure Tny secret until we meet where there is no sickness or cruel parting. There have beea strange and sad meetings and good-byes in the great city of New York, but this was, perhaps, one of the saddest. Three davs later there walked into

the large yard of a roomy country house in a secluded part of the State of Maine, a pale, weary man, whose Hplendid linios and physique are a striking contest to the deathly pallor of his face and the care-worn horror upon his brov '. He was met upon the porch by a man younger than himself, who was already however, one of the greatest and best known medical men in the "United States. He held an open letter iu his hand. Ah," he said, in tones neither kindly nor sharp, but measured and rather dull. You are Walter Jtarshall ?" you are on time. By your presence here. Mr. Marshall, I judge you are of the same mind as when I saw you in New York last Monday ! "I am," responded Marshall, M ho was once well known in Chicago, and to his friends elsewhere, as the Rev. Kanold Gordon. "Come in here," said the fivtt speaker, Dr. Frank Cai on. They entered a well-furnished room, one of a suite of three. 44 How will these quarters suit you, Mr. Marshall? Here are a sittirg room, a library and bed-room, with a bathroom, all opening one into the other. From this room you can step into a bowling alley which you can have for your exclusive use. Beyond the alley I will fence iu a couple of acres of the lawn and woods. If this is to your liking we will sign an agreement. What do you say?" "The quarters are liberal ones, doctor; I am willing to go ahead." So the two men each took a pen and signed two copies of an agreement, which they exchanged. By it "Marshal" was to remain a life prisoner in the quarters assigned him bv Dr. Carson. He was on no account

to pass beyond the bounds laid down, nor ever to communicate iu any way with the outside world. He was to have no medical attendant other than Dr. Carson, and all his observations and experiences in regard to the horrible dis

ease were to be imparted exclusively to Carson, who was more than anxious to become an expert in the healing of lepers. In return, Dr. Carson agreed to feed and clothe his patient and to furnish him with reading matter, writing material and amusements. It was a curious and wierd contract, but it suited both men, and they kept it to the letter. For nine .years the once popular clergyman, now a hopeless and incurable victim of the most horrible and fearful disease which can fall upon humanity, remained in the isolated apartments of Dr. Carson's - country house. The house was large and roomy and had once been a favorite summer residence of the doctor's father. After old Mr. Carson died, however, his clever and studious son seldom visited the lonely place, which was left in charge of an old Moose Indian This old Indian prepared food for "Marshall" and twice each day set it upon a table in a tiny room which was & oovi Ar "iwutral prpu$rlr . JBv the doci0i7 jt .: :t orders, Indian Pte never went beyond this little border room, and alwavs securely looked the door when he left the food there. About the two acres of garden and woods there was a high board fence erected, so that none need go near or ever see the afflicted prisoner. And there, as we I have said, the poor prisoner-patient lived (or existed) for nine years, gradually, but none the less surely, growing worse and worse. During all that time, every few weeks, the doctor visited aud talked with his patient, but never stayed, more than one night, and then occupied an apartment as far as possible from the poor leper. The house was several miles from the nearest habitation, and the few people who knew of its existence supposed that Indian Pete, the care-taker, was the only person who lived there. Once the doctor was summering in Maine. His wife, whom he bad recently married was with him. On a bracing autumn morning he rode over on horseback to visit his house where "M ttshaU" was confined. He hud not been iu the house five minutes before he heard the sweet voice

.of a woman calling to him.

Frank! Where are you, Frank? Much alarmed he hastily ran to the veranda. My dear Laura, how is this? I never dreamed you would come after me. Pray do not come into this place." "You see," merrily said the lady, who was perhaps thirty-cne or two years 6ld, u You see, Frank, it is such a delightful morning, that when I saw you ride away on your horse, I could not resist the invitation to do likewise and follow you. Yon had quite the start of me, and as I did not know your destination, I had quite a time of it. But I did well, did I not? I must have ridden much faster than you." Yeb, yes," responded Carson, almost angrily, "but let us hurry away from here. I have sick people ia this houKn suffering from contagious diseases. Leu us go." The next visit that Dr. Carson made to his house in Maine, some weeks later, he found his patient much worse. Indeed he was in the la,st stages of the foul and loathsome disease. Even the man of science, used as he was to terrible sights, quailed as he looked, from a respectful distance, at the poor wretch. "Doctor," said Marshall wearily, "how near is the end? Very near," was the reply which brought something like a smile to the miserable and ghastly face. "Doctor,'' said Marshall, "who is the lady I saw for a moment through a hole in my fenco, the last time you . were here?" 44 Mv wife. Why?" "She was a widow?" "Yes." "Her name was Gordon; her former husband a clergyman who went down in the steamer Bordeaux?" "Yes; what of it?" "Nothing, doctor only this: she was my wife. She thinks me dend; in mercy let her think so. I am Ronald Gordon. You can verify alL I say from the papers which I put into yon safe. I locked the safe the day I came here and the papers have remained untouched ever since. You have been

kind and considerate to mo, doctor; be so always to Laura. You need not toll hpr of this." "Good God!" ejaculated 'ho physician, as he locked the door and staggered away. "When next he visited Maine, the sufferings of Ronald Gordon, the leper, were ended.

Knocking Spots Out of a Eulogy, Not long since Little Falls, New York was thrown into a great commotion by the discovery in digging the foundation of a house of the bones of a Revolutionary patriot whom tradition had buried on or near that spot. The excitement wan groat. Hundreds of people rushed to the spot. The bones were carefully taken up and put into a box. A public meeting was called to deliberate as to tho proper course of proceeding in this important crisis. It was decided that a great public funeral and interment must take place in order to properly do honor to the ashes of the valiant dead. Rev. Dr. Gulick, who wielded "the pen of a readv writer." and who was not indis-

posed to appearance before the people! volunteered to procure a suitable eulogy. The arrangements were all made the solemn day arrived the public schools had holiday tho stores and offices were closed flags hung with crape stretched across the main street it was a day long to be remembered. Tho procession, headed by the city military, marched by the music of muffled drums to the large Court House. An immense audience rilled everv corner of the building. Brave soldiers, equipped and bayoneted, stood guard around the sacred bones, which had been handsomely coffined. The roverend doctor stepped forth, and for a whole hour spoke touching words of eulogy over tho remains of the honored dead, ending by a striking apostrophe to "the holy relics of patrotism," which drew tears to manv an eve. After the eulogy had been finished the coffin lid was partially removed, so that the crowd passing out might see the "holy relics of patriotism." They gazed, wiped away their tears and were satisfied. But by-and-by a plain, backwoodsman came along, and looking curiously and carefully at the bones in the coffin was apparestly disconcerted about somethiug. At last, after examining a bone or two, he spoke out as follows : " Who said this was a Revolutionary hero, indeed? Why, them's the bones of a bear!" "Put him out! Put him out!" the crowd nervously cried. "Wal," said he, "you may put him out or not, as you like, but I Bay them is bear's bones aud nothing else." A committee of physicians were called together aud asked to investigate, and they decided upon examination that the bones were those of a bear. Comment is needless. The eulogy, which had already been sent to the printer, was n3ver published, and the Rev. Dr. (who is still living, and now a bishop), has always been observed to scowl whenever the words "eulogv," Revolutionary hero" M ere uttered ig nis presence. A New England Trait , The grasping though not miserly-

nature ox me native xew xngiana

farmer is somewhat proverbial. It is

hard to get the better of him in a "dicker," and he very seldom gives any- . a ... T-r i -

tinner ior notnincf. .tus Keenness in

this respect was well illustrated by th

experience of a vounsr Boston man wh

recently spent a week iu New Ham

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young man wanted to nire

for the day, and the farmer owned

one which was moored to the bank of tho river. "Can you let me have your boat today?" he asked of the owner. "Wall, let me see," was the cautious reply. "I don't know's I can. You see thar's a man over here, Mr. So-and-So, that other feller, er know. He said 't other day he wanted my boat, and hC may be 'raound this morning." "Well, I'm sorry, as I should like it to-day very much. You don't think you can let me have it?" "No; cum ter think of it, I feel purty sartain the other feller'il be "raound arter it to-day. Aud if he wants it he crter have it." "That settles it, then, I suppose," said the young man. "But can't you tell me of any place near where you think I could hire a boat?" "Oh, you want to hire a boat, do yer?" "Yea!" "Wall, naow, seein yer want to hire a boat so bad come ter think on it, it's gittin' kinder late, and I don't believe that other feller will be 'raound this morning it's mos' 1) o'clock. You want to hire it, yer say?" "Yes. How much will you charge me for it for the dav ?" "The last time I let her out I charged 30 cents for her, but I kinder think that's a leetle mite high. I guess I'll let you have it for 25 cents," T,he boat was taken. Prepared to IJefend Either Side, Publisher Mr. Delver, have you gone over those statistics about the use of bicycles among the masses? Delver Yes, sir. "And vou have analvzed them carefully, so that you can give an intelligent opinion as to their effect upon the public health?" "Yes, sir." "Well, then, you may write it out. We want it as soon as possible.'" "Yes, sir; but you haven't told me which side I am to prove, whether they are healthful or the reverse' Boston 'I'ranscripL

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Hn't a Tarnal lglil Opposed to Matri"Is vour family oppo.se 3 to matrimony?" "Wal; no, I ruther guess not, seein' an how my mother has had four husbands und stands a pretty tmart chance for havin' another." "Four husbands? Is it possible?" "Oh, yes. You too my mother's christened name was Mehitablc Sheets, an dud's uatno was Jac b Press; and wl.au they got married, the printer said it was puttin' the sheets to press. When I was born they said it was the i: rat edition. An' you see mother was the tarualist critter to go to eveniu' meetings! Sho used to go out pretty late every night, an' dad was afraid I'd get in the same habit ; so used to put me to bed at early candlelight, cover me up with a pillar and put mo to sleep with a bootjack. Wal, dad he got up every night and let mother in. If he didn't get down and open tiie door protty darned quick when she cum, he'd ketch particlar thunder. So, dad used to sleep with his head out of the winder sos to waken up quick; an' one night he got his head a leetle too far out, an' he siipped out altogethar; an' down dad cum kerflumux right down on the pavement, an' smashed him in ten thousand pieces," "What! was he killed by the fall?" "Wal, no, not exactly killed by the fall. I rayther kinder sorter guess it was the sudden fctchup on the pavement that killed him. But mam she cum home an' found him lyin' thar, an' she had him swept up together an' put iu a coilin, an' had a hole di:.g in the buryin' groun', an' had him iut in an' buried up, an' had a white oak plank put up to his head, aud hat it whitewashed all over for a tombstone." So your mother v as left a poor lone widow ?" "Wal, yes, but she didn't mind that much. Wasn't long before she married Sain Hyde. You see she married Hyde because he was jist dad's size, an' she wanted him to wear out dad's clothes. Wal, the way that old Hyde used to hide me was a caution to my hide. Hyde had a little the toughest hide of any hide except a bull's hide, and the way Hyde used to -pour liquor into his hide was a caution even to a bull's hide. Wal, one cold day old Hyde got his hide so full of whisky that he pitched head first into a snowbank, an' thero he stuck and friz to death. So mam had him pulled out, an' had him laid out an' then she had another hole dug in the buryin groun', an' had him buried, and then she had another white oak plank put up at his head and whitewashed all over, an'-" "So vour mother was again a widow ?" "Oh, yes. But I guess she didn't lay awake long to think about it; for in about three weeks she married Sam Strong; an' he was the strongest-headed cuss you ever did see. He went a iUhiu' the other day an' got drowned; an' he was so tarnal strong-heeded I'll be darned to darnatiou if he didn't float right agin the current, an' they found him about three miles up the stream, an' it took three yoke of oxen to haul him out. Wal, warn had him buried along side o' t'other two, an4 had a white oak plank put up at his head, and whitewashed all over nice. So there's three of 'em iu a row." "And your mother was a widow for a third time." Y6s ; but mam didn't seem to mind it a tarnal sight. The next fellow she married was Jacob Hayes; and the way mam does make him haze is a caution, now I tell you. If he does anything out o' the way mam makes hiai take a bucket an' whitewash brush au'go right np.to the buryin' groun' an' whitewash the three oak planks, jist to let him know what he may come to when he's planted iu the same row and she's married to the fifth husband. So you see my family ain't a tarnal sight opposed a doso of matrimony." Some Kare Old Bonds. It was while Judge Folger .ras Secretary (said an old Treasury official.) One morning an old man came in to me who was from a New England State. He said that about twentv years ago he found some old stocks or bonds among the papers of an r.ncle (mentioning his name;) he had been a man os National reputation for ability, ami had a comfortable fortune for those davs that is;) from 1830 to 1840 and ho had come to the United States Treasury to find oul; if they were worth anything, as they seemed to be United States bonds. 1 looked at them. They were ten of the old debt" bonds, and were indeed curiosities. They were old and yellow fron. age, but were w:rth. principal and interest, in gvld $70,000, for there was ten years' interest due on them. You car. imagine the old man's amazement wher.

I toid him this. "Why. I wou:d gladly have taken $5,090 for them," said he. 'aud I offered them to a Boston banker for less than that, but he rather superciliously and contemptuously declined

His Claim liadlj Spoiled, What could make a man feel shabbier than to have his lost trunk come to light just after ho had convinced the railroad officials that it was filled to the brim with valuable goods when he committed it to their care? This was the experience of somebody in Maine the other day. He had presented a bill of $77 for a lost box when a railroad employe found it in the Bangor depot, and tho box contained a peck of peanuts, a monkey wrench and n juck for lifting wagons, only these and nothing more.-r-LeivUton Journal.

to buv them at any fisrure." I took tho

old man in to see Jude Folger, who was verv much interested in the matter when I explained it to him. He had never ween any of the "old loan" securities, and after these were paid and cancelled I believe he directed that one of them be framed aud preserved. Well, in less than half an hour's time the old Now Englander walked out of tho building with a check in his pocket on t o New York Sub-Treasury for 70,000 in gold. How that "smart" Boston banker must have cursed his ow n ignorance and stupidity when he learned Xltt.it till'

Ovnat ne naa tnrown away. ot. JjOUUi

JJiey Kiss When They Meet. "People in every walk ofliie come here to meet friends, and you can imagine we find the styles of kissing are about as plentiful as tho leaves that btrew the brooks of Vallambrosa, as it were. The people who give us the most trouble are those who get together, a$i we say in political circles, and cling. This blocks up the passage and makes trouble. It is a common thing for two souls with hut a single thought to fall upon each other's necks until 200 people in the line back of them are forced to a. dead stop. Of course, we yell to then:, to drop in and move on, but there are no iersons in the wide world ho oblivious to what is passing around "hem as & eouple of folks engaged in a kissing bee.

I think if the roof were 'allhig in some of them would wait till thej heard the tiling rattling about their heads. "We had a case like thi$ yesterday evening when the Chicago limited came in. I noticed a young dude standing around for several traius and when no familiar face showed up in the crowd he would retire very disconsolate At last the party he was looking for appeared. She was a young girl of the dudine order. He could barely restrain himself until she came within reach. As soon as he dared he made a dash from the line nud grabbed the object of his affection. " 'Oh, me dawlin'!" he exclaimed, and their lips met in a clinging kiss. The brim of her big hat came down over the dude's little head and completely hid it from view. They stopped the whole procession of passengers stock still, and the people immediately behind them who taw the cause of the blockade fired a volley into them like this: "'Breakaway, there!" " 'Come off the roost T " 'Ain't we all in it!' "These and a dozen other observations were made, bearing directly and indirectly on the sujbject. New York Evening World.

Prepared to Wade. 'For men on a long and wearisome march something to laugh at is a piece of downright good fortune. The Thirty-seventh Massacbrisotts Regiment had recently joiued the Army of the Potomac, theu in motion against the enemy. The men were little used to forced marches, and many of them were sadly exhausted befoi'e the3p were ordered to halt, shortly after midnight. It was toward 12 o'clock. The regiment was plodding wearily along, unable to see what lay before it, when suddenly there came a swashing, rustling, undefinable sound from a point just in advance, and extending some distance away.. Somebody cried out that the leading regiments were fording the Potomac, and then all hands heard or seemed to hear, the splashing of shallow water as men and horses were dashing through it Still there were no signs of a halt to prepare for crossing. The men were evidently expected to look out for themselves in this respect, and immediately the roadside was lined with soldiers pulling off their shoes and stockings and rolling up their trousers. The rustling came nearer and nearer as tho column advanced, and before long the smooth, shiuing surface of the river came plainly into sight. The officers were already riding iuto it. So it seemed. But as the barefooted stragglers came up, picking their way and looking for the "ford," they discovered all at once that the river was nothing but a big cornfield in which the bivouac was to be made. The sound of the waters was simply the rnstling of tho leaves as the troops in advance had pulled down the shocks, for bedding. The noise, it is needless to say, was soon drowned by shouts of laughter, Kuvr Feature for Church Fairs Home brilliant woman with a tmsi ness heSkd upon her shoulders has in vented a new feature for church fairfc called the advertising spread. Business houses and firms are visited, and requested to send in their advertise ments printed upon a twelve inch square of white cotton cloth. These are taken in hand by the young ladies of the church and the printed lettering entirely covered with the Kensington stitch in colored silks. The squares are then sewed together after the manner of a patchwork quilt, the border neatly finished off with lace and ribbon, aud the completed spread hung up in some conspicuous part of the fair hail so that he who runs may read. For this priv

ilege the advertiser is not taxed a crtain fixed rate per word or line, but is modestly requested to contribute whatever amount his pocketbook and bump of benevolence may admit of, the result being generally more satisfactory to the fair organizers of the fair than to the contributor, who has at least the consolation f feeling that he has been fleeced in a good cause. New York World. Another l'oor Yauderhilt. Quite a familiar figure on the streets is a litt e old man who wears a straw hat that once had a band, but loag since pcrted company with it, and now slouches down over its wearer's shoulders, almost hiding his head of curly gray hair. He is &.o round shouldered that he appears to be hunchbacked avid his face is covered with straggling gray whiskers. He earns magre wages as a collector and lives nobody knows vhe?e. Yet this poverty-stricken man is a first cousin of Mrs. W. H, Vanderbilt the widow of the millionaire railroad magnate. His father and Mrs. Vauderbiit's father were brothers. When iu un extremity he appealed to bis rich cousin for aid lie received a very polite note from her private secretary, stating that Mrs. Vanderbilt had so many calls for charity that she was compelled to re

fuse &me. Tenotomes Milwaukee News. His Little Uirl. They were on their bridal tour. She weighed the 199 pound, while he tipped the beam at about Ui). He left her alone for ten minutes while he had their baggage checked. "Oh, Henry!' she gasped out on his return wyou don't know how long it seems since you went away ! I was getting so nervous for fear something had happened to you! You must be so careful, dear! You will for your little bride's sake, won't you, dear? I know I'm a silly little thing, but I worry the moment you get out of my bight. Am I not a foolish, foolish little girl?" 44 My pet," he said, in return, 'what would your boy do without you?" Drake's Magazine.

Waiting for an Opportunity. Old Lady (on the limited) Does the train stop for refreshments at Canesawasfv? Pcrtsr Yes, ma'am. Shall I tele graph an order ahead for you? Old LadyOh, no. I've got a lunch here iu my bag, and I just wanted to know whn I'd have a chance to eat ii." lrakes Magazine.

NEWS. What It Meant in Sfcakflpf.' Hm Some IntereftMug Oertvytions. It is popular to say that this word ia derived from the initial letters of the four points of the compass arranged in a device in the form of a cross and placed at the top of some of the earlier news-sheets to indicate that their contents were derived from all quarter. But it is easy to show that this is purely fanciful. First, the earliest English newspaper dates from 1662, and we find the word news, exactly in its modem sense, in Shakspeare, who died nearly fifty years earlier, namely, in 1616. Thus we have (Macbeth 1, 7). How now? What news?" (Wink Tale, 4, Cho. ). Jiut let time's news be brought ! (K. John). "Even at that news he dies." This list, which might be extended indefinitely, from Sbakspeare and other old writers, would alone be sufficient to dispose of the Sorth, East, West, South theory; but a reference to the equivalent words in the tongue to whicji England is most learly allied will rarther show its fallacy. In German the initials of the points of the compass read in this order: N.t O., W. H,9 while the word for news is neuigkeiten, obviously impossible of derivation from these four letter, while it is derived from the word new. Again, in French the enitials are N., E. 0t S., while the word for news isnouvelles, once more simply the plural form of new. The true derivation does not seem difficult to trace. Some take it directly from the German das neue, which is an abstract noun signifying "the new" and equivalent to our news. The genitive is neuce, and the phase Was neibis neues?" renders the exact sense of onr What's the news?" Moreover, the old German spelling is new, genitive newes. Yet this, plausible as it looks, is not tho original of the word. When we find in Anglo-Saxon such a phrase as hwart niwes? (what news) we can be at no loss to determine that t ie word is of pure Low German or i ative English orgin, although the Freaoh nouvelles may have influenced its tse. The fact that the word is often ustxl in the singular confirms this. Thui we have in John Floria's "World of Words" (1598), "Novella, a Tale, a Neves." In the to Wit's Recreation," published in 1610, we have the following epigram: When news doth come, if any t ould discuss The lettor of the word resolve it t hua : News is conveyed by letter, word or month, And cones to" us from north, east, vest, and south. The little corps of tte newspaper fraternity were then beginning work in Englaud, and being tickled by the above ei'igrain, had it put at the head ot their paper as above stated. Skeat says that news is not older than 1500, ; and cites Bemer's translation of Froissart, "Desyrou'9 to hear news," and Surrey's translation of Virgil, "What news he brought. w But at least one earlier instance is to be found in the "Siege of llhodes" translated by John Kav and printed by Caxton about 1490. Before closing wo may state that some

contend that the German neues is not'a genitive, but the neuter nominative or accusative. We meline to think it is a genitive, and the phrase "Was glebts newes? an exact equivalent of tbe Latin "Ecquid Novi?" Notes and Querries The Garretts. Eobert Garrett's recovery of mental and physical health is the liirst gleam of sunshine that has come to the Garrett family for more than five years. No household with millions in its possession h )$ ever been so afflicted as the Gar rVifc. Within half a decade Mrs. John Tk Barrett has been thrown from her carr re and died of her injuries; her husbaai soon afterward succumbed to a malady that was aggravated by the death of his wife; then their elder son, Bobert Garrett, lost his mind, and while his physicians were taking him on a tour of the world in the hope that this would restore his mental powers, is brother, Harrison Garrett, was'drowned by the collision of his yacht with a steamer in Chesapeake Bay. But the friends of Robert Garret 1; have never ceased to predict that he would one day be himself again and re-en ber the railroad and finance field with vigor and wisdom. That prophecy may soon be realized. The increase of the Garrett capital during the illness of Robert Garrett is an accepted fact in financial circlos, notwithstanding that the family holdings of Baltimore and Ohio Kailroad stock have drawn no dividends for three years. This increase is due altogether to the sound business sense of Miss Mary Garrett, the only daughter of John W. Garrett and sister of Rob ert. It seems incredibly" it it is the truth' said a Baltimore sawyer to ft Philadelphia friend recently, that this young lady has virtually handled the Garrett railroad and banking interests ever since one of her brothers was at tacked with disease and the other lost his life. Sh is not yet thirty years of age and is a handsome woman of the blonde type. She obtained her business training from her father, to whom she was a constant companion in his later years and she turned it to good account when the Garrett family was actually deprived of a male head. No. woman has ever had such a responsibility of this kind placed upon her as that" which Miss Garratt voluntarily shouldered, and if tho whole story of her work could be told, it would be ft narrative of the mostlextraonUnary business qualifications that auy woman has ever shown. The millions of the( fai ily have been add&l to .during 10 stewardship. She possesses some thtee millions in her own name and she has made Robert Garrett a wealthier inau than he was when he inherited his father's seat as President of the Baltimore and Oluo Railroad." Philadelpiia Inquirer, LefU Smithers Why wern'tyou at the ball last night? Dashaway Didn't have a drcs suit. Smithers Why; I saw you in on the other evening. Dashaway (sadly) That was my brother's. He got home first yesterday afternoon. Vlolher and irurnUh0i