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LANE, LITTERATEUR

Vmt of n*. all n-nnderm In a atranRe land, nod nil rort *>)• some Imppy »ccid.-nt, ant aronod Ilia rmckliuc nr* «l Itouw. Tlia KomaD MTi-nnU IpOR ikk.1 and antlcn, mknl into (lame tin facoU Ratlirrod from tin A limn bills, for, brioK ilia l^of Mnrcb, our plptnaud Uvr wvn: notnuouRUto kn-p ns comfortable. Dick Richards was the fellow's name who told the tale. Ktfnd', but h* had a ► “eel voice, and I swear It brings the Man hack into my eyes bi think of tbs story he told ua In Ins ‘pilet, halting way between the pulls of hi. long stemmed pipe, the smoke curling up in unison from our individual howls as if It were incense for the memory of Jack I vine, litterateur.

'Poor J.

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“Jack was a good fellow.” Again we pulTed away in silence, and felt the terrific |s>rteut of his tone. “A good fellow.” Puff. puff. A window rattled, moved by a light spring bmwe: the Roman servant brought in more beer. “I will tell you about him." We brand up; the story was coming, and knowing Dick, we knew it would be good. “Jack was from the lllue Grass rountry. and as line a looking fellow as you would wish to see; eyes Tike pieces of sky, and clear cut, noble features, and yellow hair that krraulied ubout his bend lu a way that drove the girl, distracted; a fine horseman, maghincrut shot, a crack ebrm player, a gambler, a duelist, and twenty-live years old when he died. Not a .had fallow, you win understand, but full of the soutlieni love for adventure, and with a dash of wild poetry iu his composition, inherited some blue eyed uncastor, who hail life and Its up. and downs erv bo was a bis aunt gave '• 'You aye the only respectable relative ft.' she said, and sighed as she thought Iter lamher. who had just fled to India escais- the oonsequenooi of his four util duel. 'Jack took the money and khsusl the mtefally Then be went oat--the is pocket, the words in his mind. ".■So! The only lUccnt mistier left; ncI lonely fcellnu.' ilerruptcL -- 'j um inejnan I want. I urn Ustkiog for you. l-uie.' Vs '"Oh. hclln. TVaiiel Wliaf. upr ~ 'We tinvv a sih. me on hand; gc imulrvs.m nod niwd niore e want you b. go into it, if you will name mwl i«.t Is- oonn.ctcl tvlUi "Jack |hi his I>and In his picket, the touch of the money I be words of his aunt came tripping buck to him on the " *1 will go Into it,’ be said, and palled out the money. 'You can take it. I expect some from a play next week. Never mind to thank me: It is all right. I will he around tonight.' “Night came, and at t lie first hour of dark Jack lame entered the door that led him to ruin. The associated managers had told him he need not be connected with the affair, hut be came so fnstuently that b was soon estimated, not as a aluckboidei hut a patron. •'One night the aunt, who hail given hln the money he liad Invested In the sebetm died. Just before she closed her eyes, ah ■uurmund: 'Jack, Jack, you were tb only n»|sx-tal>le one left. 1 gave you th money that led you into evil. PurgivVfouod Jack ia the

PatscjiUro. named by the olklngs __ Tslnlxuusnii. and meaning place of pleasure. lie was sitting on a stone bench near • fountain. Wmlering the plats, a glorious eyed Mexican maid was by his side, a pale blue scrape thrown about her lieaiL “Her luiir rivaled any night 1 ever saw for blackueaa; it was like a storm si sea. alive In Its fury of gloom soil grandeur. Her skin was of olive tint, her mouth was the borrowed Iww of Cupid, her figure a

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I 'Tfcrre Is one respect In which a , *'h° sleeps partly by daylight,” said a

whose busioeas keeps him oi are called “all hours,” “hi ] over him whose sleeping b<

dark one* of the twenty-four. Now I go

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usual. I lie girl was speaking to him in Spanish, her " urejv chonliug softly, rythmlcally with tlie night *wlr that came straight from the stare, with dewy goklen weight of dreamlike languor. “The mules were [iiMlering by. the bells tinkling like faint fairy vok»-v. Afar In long lines stretched the lifted lionflrea, for It was market night, and men, women and boys sal guarding their stacks of fruit “1 did not speak to him that night, but followed them. Next day I went to see him. It wen good to sec his face again, to feel his hand I sank Into a chair and ask-

ed him of himself.

“•Same old story.' be said dismally; ■dead broke, bad health—it was the swamiw that did it’ He got upand paced the floor; then suddenly he stopyied in front of me. The uldtime smile was on his face.

•The room wn. littered with w-riting raphcmalia: thrtiled floor rugged prowl)': pen and lok sketches were pinned dust the walls. From the window we

eta-gan to speak wo shifted, could look down Into the valley. We were ir feet uneasily, and the smoke gutlu our 'both looking out at the sky that stretched

way, a dch«o, live blue, skirted with rratbing rifts of cloud, each timed like a

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drinking heavily; bis wonderful eyes luminous: his ruffled hair lay liku a w

of gold alaiut his brow*.

" 'lN-.nl,' be vkiapend hoarsely, dealt the can!*, 'and all the money w

and Ibr codicil attached revoked the main purport of the beston iin-iit to thla slight degree: To my nephew, John Sure art Lane. I leave the w hitesiik kaiulkcrebirf, embroidered with a golden 1., for on it fell my hitter lean to think that I had given hint the key to bdl.' “Jack !*oatuok the handkerchief and put it in hie pocket Hr left Kentucky soon after sod went west again in Nebraska. He had been engaged to lay out some swamp lamia; he and bia men were hard at work. He looked alck, discouraged; be hated the work, and the air of the swamps was undermining his constitution. He waa gambling heavily, too, In the adjoining toa u, and the lamp of Ufa was burning rapidly.- He had the same hearty handshake, the same blue eyes and wreathing hair. "'Writing anyf “ •Some,' he said. 'Can't help it’ “1 invited him to come to my office—I was running The Chanticleer then—and told him to bring some manuscript with him. “He came one night with the manuscript. Tbeslodcut lamp rained down a gentle radiance u|wn us. He begau to rend his story l» • > olos resonant with pathos softening teuderoere. and as be procn t saw in the curling amoks of my .cigar the transient ihsaaotere of the'Witch of Um Swamps.' “ *A dream first, 1 be explained when be bad finiabcsl reading—'adream that haunted me. 1 saw tha. figure ooming toward lee down through the tarns and pools. Tuore waa siawnd bound about her, and Ilka a bannrr wared a limy silk above her head spangled with golden letters, and tears like brilliants showered about her, the swamps, and languid and low in tha sky buag I'hau mocking me.' “I took lbs story and paid him double

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“A light step approached the door, it opened, and the dusky sennrita stepped across the threshold w ith golden fruit iu her anna Jack did not move his eyes, hut went on smoking. She stepped across the room and laid the fruit upon the table, and then gathering the blue acrape from the chair she paased beyond Into a little hai-

* , “*Let us go Rested. He ai

possible she should have heard him, but slio came In an Instant, questioning In Spanish. He nodded his head to her in

quiry.

"Slie ran lightly away, and soon returned with Ids hst and cane. '• ‘Aillos. cam min.’ he muttered tenderly and kissed her. She opened the door “ 'Adios, Amorita.' “1 lingered in Palxcuaro fur many days, feeling that he could not live long, even in that soft air. “Sometimes I spoke to him of the games of roulette we had played, hut his only re sponse was a gentle, half tired smile. " Twill never play any more,’ he said; 'J am just walling for'—lie did nut asy death, lint looki.l it ’ll will come soon, and AmWliemvrr I.e Miln that name, and during my many raiublings with him I learned that she bad some little money. It was enough for them hnth. sl.c hail told him hi Kpouish. and so it l..-ip|M-ticd that the little blue arrnpc laid oeniu. the chair, ami Amorita snug bim S; aiiLh lullabjstotl stringed lute, or I eld him on her wan warm heart when he was III anil fearful. "Word came that i must leave New Me Ico aud return to the Slates. I went to b farewell to Jack and Amorita. fur I had learned to know her very Well, and loved to .or lo r dark eye* bright) for aliv told me 'the aenor waa always glad

i am not afflicted with insomnia, hut oooa alonally It happens that after one sound nap I grow wakeful. I bare formed the habit of taking a hook to bed with me and keeping it alongside of my pillow. If 1 do wske up It is almost always after daylight. “Instead of tossing about and getting in such a nervous slant that sleep Is driven hopelessly away, I quietly open my book and read forwjswtnlmnrearhalf aaboar. Then as a rule I am abla to drop eff gently ill slnmher. A man who gets wakeful in the night can't do that—st least he can't do It without making a fuss and lighting something, and then having to put it oat again. IC.be makes a light, reads awhile and then puts it out, he has to rouse himself up somewhat; and, besides, there is danger that the mere fart that, should the sleep not come, be will have to make another light which will react upon him and Increase his nervousness. I am not one of tha night workers who find it necessary to make my room as dark as possible In order

ire been glad ev did so. There is one thing atiout It In summer rsiwdally, ami that Is that If you shut out the light you shut out the air also. Of course I have oo sympathy whatever with threw who believe that an hour’s sleep before midnight ts worth two hours after (lie Invisible line lietween one day and another Is passed-”—New York Tribune.

A youtb iu West Nlucty-flrat street displays on aplltade for business rather remarkable for one of his years. 11. rgdl, stationery stores and solicits the privilege .. Of taking home all the second hand paja-r Covered novels the shoiikeepar may have, tor the pur|KM of covering them wilh wanilla iiapcr. Then lie canv-aaaes the neighboring stores along Columbus ami Alnments from' butchers. Inifikrrs, grocers, belllmugers ami soon at fifty ocula epeb These he places inside Use covers, writing them with a pen iu a buhl band and making them ucinspiruoiu by norel arrangement of the lines and the oddity of'the lettering. Hr charges the alalioucr nothing fnj the binding, and places the title of each hook on its front cover In attractive

style.

He Is dying a thriving bosincaa. making tuuuey enough to purcliaae bla own dpthIng, pays for his nosiest amusement, and has a bicycle besides. The lad lives with Lis parents and attends scIhsiI regularly. 3'lio i—i i——• *- ,o largely developed In

him that

with

all the assurance of one old at the busl-

Ikeaisire readily ace that it of their wares on^tbe

covers of these hooks repays them, as‘the books are. after covering, loaned on ' the circulation library pLm by the atathiiicra. and are In constant demand by the latli.-s of the neighborhood.-New York Recorder.

“I tupped at the •!<

softly. "Jack

silli pillow

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thrown lightly ovi-r him, falling against the transparent whiteness of bis lace. He waa ga>piug fur breath. The windows aero nil u|s-u. Amoritn, kneeling at his side, was moving a large fan slowly, " ‘Cara tula.' he uiurmcrcd in a gentle “'So kind, so true,' be murme

•wine, water, for Cod's'

“She llflcda wineglass to his llpt lovingly anjiportnl him us he drank, blue i-vcs fell softly igs'ii her. I cross Uieotlwrsldrotlhccuii.il He saw i

“ 'Yes. old man.'

“•Tin- Witch of the Swamps, yo

life. Amorita' —

Spam my lipw 1 on will n the la ml of souls, my “Wftii Immortal move he drew himself aouml of choking, and slowly—rigidly—ha fell into the pose of death. “Amorita removed tlie pillov bead till he lay quite at waa ■ranged tile hair wilh gentle piaml a prayer rug by tlie couch; then moved across tlie room, mid before a mirror draped a line mantilla about her aca storm hair, and taking a vial from her |«jckct. she poured the colorless contents into a tiny glass. “She nima buck to tbe couch and knelt ''•laid upon bis fate. Uirn turning into mine. GcuUy she iailnted to Hie door. Iier brail drooped, the glass held high above her head. I oiaryrd the silent eumuiaiwl. 'The btianiah guardsman found them late that night. A wreath of Bowers-was lying on their breasts Tlie fragments of a abattesed glasa lay giimuierinE ue the floor, as It bad fallen from her lip, and hand. Through the t>|*n wimlow swept the tinkling of many U.IU. aud the night air stirred the music to Hie room from the distant plaza, aud so i left Jack Lane. UP

William Heater, of spring Hill, Pa., has a large biown hat which he has trained to carry mesaagee like a carrier pigeon. One day Mr. Hester took tha uncanny Uid to Lis place of busioeas in New Cast la. and bar log made arrangvmeula at home to note the exact time of Its arrival let It looee. The hat flrw a mile In STM eeoooda. When liberated the quickness with which '

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“Talklag about spook raisers,” said a well known lawyer, “reminds me of ^ little incident In Kalausxoo while I was Stopping theta over night several yesra ngo. A dispatch was received anuuuutTug the death of ex-Scualor Rowxie Coukltng. I attended a Spiritualistic seance that eyculog. aud Hie mediuni, who was a very en-

hlm. Imaglue my astonishment the in morning hi learn that Mr. Conkllug was still alive, and, in fact, be did not depart this life nutll two days later. When 1 sought out the medium for an rxplanmUon I found b*r smiling ai«l confident. She told me that after I bad left her drcle she was aroused by the spirit of a New York Co roller who had died many years ggo. This celretlaljlsitor oommunlcaied to her the fact that thtsoul of Mr. Conkllng had actually taken iu flight, buTReturned to ‘““body In the course ef a few hours."—

w York Advertiser.

Degrees of Voracity. The Emperor Maximfo is said to |iave once eaten thirty pounds of sweetmeat, in Hm course of a single banquet; but the imperial glutton bad the excuse of being a giant in slse. and his feat baa hern equaled If not siirpaasad by the carnivorous hunters of CafSrland. A swamp otter, weighing about twruty pounds, will eat about ten pounds of p»h; the spermophile. or California gray squirrel. will rat ten ounces of fresh wheat in a day, though its own weight rarely exceeds tlui the champion gluttons of the mammat kingdom are the frugivorona bats of the tropics The kalong or flying fox of the Sutnla islands Is frequently brought to New York, where the Chatham street prt dealers sell him for three or four dolluca' apiece, and actual experiments have eslab lisbed the fact that the potbellied little, harpies can eat twice their own weight iu benauua aud boiled rice between morning and night —Philadelphia Times.

Mr. NestiifLil in lore with Ceylon, but ■ecnia to hare got mixed up as In details: > idle in Is this “pearl

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English eye. with lu temples and p groies. lu dauaniou gardens aud ever changing groupings of gentle faced natives. I thought myarlf an adept at telling Hie difference between male and female until I landed at Colombo, but now my Ideas on the subject are vague anil doubtful, for, like the lady who came here and took a maid, trusting to exU-raal appearsnor. 1 was forever making mtstakre and only difference bring that the inrii are more graceful and beautiful, having the least work to do sad dressing finer, while the women work lartbe fields and look coarser.

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onghly this morning.

Dedbroke—1 accoalcd a dozen fellows bom I met on my way to the city, and iksd each one for *-he loan of half a sovereign for a abort time tuly. Would you liethal not one of the twelve bad that y sum ia his pocket)—London Tit-

Mrlanchcly Stranger—Yon arc sure this poison will kill a maul Druggist—Yes, air. I can guarantee 1L By the way, if yon are going to commit suicide I wish you'd pat one of oar circulars In your pocket. It'll be a Ug “ad" for us when your body ts found.—New York Epoch.