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J V0LPME XXDC' v CAPE MAY CITY. MEW JERSEY. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1883. WHOLE NUMBER. 1532.

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A MAGICIAN'S WAND. "WhS cried Mr« Morwui, In dtirlll arccnu of diimir. "MAry Ben HanUot. Wby. Jmbud. yon Ain't neycr in mroetf, your' J whtiA MorwAlt'i brond. ctxxLbtnimred I Im* bwWnd into « «AiW. > "W«ll, I ntber Iblnk I be. 1 "At »ny rsle.rm ensiled in ber. and we ' *el Ihe d*y for Ibe 30th of SUy." "Without asking roe?" "Yoo're not one of tbe eootrscting par- . lies." laughingly retorted Joebua. "But Mrtntihly. motlier dtwr, it wa* only deft - nilelr Milled lael nighl. and I was coming In lo tell you when yon mcl me half way, wilii tbe niiik pail in your band." Mrs. Morwatl screwed up her lips like . billion.- ber little ?^ei sparkled with oirc- j trie lire. "She shall nercr come into ibis house! " i , "Mather, don'L" pleaded Joshua; wlih a pained look in his honest fao*. "110. , nietnber when you and father were , "But )#hr father had a Ulllc common ' moC," sharply retorted Mrs. Mora-alt. , "and I wai a liatd-wnrking farmer's r dsughier— not one of your dancing, froh

gypsies who spend their whole lime in candy polls and aprou parties, and all . "And you will Bod. mother." urged the young man, "thai Bess will bo j uc as good a wife as you were." "Pshaal" was Mra M-irwali's curt rejoinder. "When you know perfectly weli that il was Ibe dearest wish of my bean thai n I tie dearest wish or my bean

J see you married to your cousin. Nancy i. Simpson." - Jnahua shook bis bead. ! "Nancy oeeer would suit roe," lie said. "Site il one of those cold, serpeol-iike ; w omen that go gliding about like the ghost ( - in the play. .And I'onot vain enough lo j I suppose that I cmretpood with her Ideas | 1 any im we than she does with mine." "Well," said Mrs. M irwatt, aeverely. , ! "you've made your bed and you mutt lie , 1 on ii. Joshua. That's all I've grit to say "But you will oome and see ber, moth"No, I woo 'tl" ! "You will welcome lier.to a daughter's ( place lo your bean? For my sake, moth* , erf" agherocntiy pleaded Joshua "For nobody's sake," mid Mrs. Mori watt. "I don't like Bess Harding, and 1 never liked be." And if you marry her. you deliberately separate you reel f from all Joshua Morwatl turned away, deeply ( pained and stung to tbe very bran. , "Jl must be as you my. mother," mid ( he. "But if there is any estrangement, it ^ shall be neither Bern' fault nor mine." j Mr-. M -irwatt kept ber word. She never . looked upon Bern Harding, although tbe girl, deeply wounded at tbe idea of thus . being shut out from tbe bean of Joshua's ^ mother, ottne more than once to beg ad- , mitts nee lo the house. She tent no met- ( sage of alfectioo, no bridal gift— she would ; not even lend the grace of her presence to the simple wedding. "They shall see what . il means to offend me."' mid she, with a f quiet vindiotiveaem. But pretty Bess, a girl of twenty, with soft, gaxelie-llkr , brown eyes, curly hair, and a genuine j "sunrise pink" complexion, was innocent j ly happy In tbe little farm bouse which t Joshua hired, where she playe-l at bourn- , with her cliiua which bad ooce txen tfer mother's, gathered ruses for eases , and cooked all manner of delicious dishes her husband's delectation. t But hard times come. skeW-Uio like and , ghostly, as they osne to alt. Toe sue- j Cording summer was unosusUy dry. Crops t were (wrcbed and shriveled tn tbe grouod. ( Tbe cows ceased to give rich streams of milk; the bees could not find wild (lowers t tn sugk hooey from. And, to crown all Joshua fell from a beam In the second ( story ut Ibe barn and broke his leg. '-Send for my mother,' said he, with - white lips which betokened his suppressed agony." "Ycai ere not strong cn-iagh, . to endure this y outsell 1" "Mra Morwa'.t. however,- refused to > cntne. . v "My sou! married to suit himself," she , mid, "now Jet bis fine lady wife uuree him , up." 1 d all the while her heart yearned for , look at ber son's face, one sound of , bis voice. Hit bad ooi been for BesaAif . ocly it bad got been for Bern— how gladly , would site lisve hastenal to hU tide' , And now ensued real trouble. Tbe lit- ) tie mooey which the young couple bad j saved was aioo aoatlrred. Everything t went at loom ends, and Bern began to ; oouat Ibe very pennies ml the bottom of , ber puree. a "But, Joshua." she mid. "I tbooghl v Mra Monratt was rich." I "My mother is well off." Joebua an- , » wared sadly, "but tbe property is all in ] ber own name, and ebe hat never offered f any of iL Can't you tee. Bets, dart- , ing that 1 would rather die than aak ber , itT' , Bern looked nt him with troubled eyea I "What shall I do?" she asked bererlf , "Can I sit here and see him suffer for the , very necemkiea of life? ' a letter from a city friend who had once t spent t rummer in Bletwlw Vale. t "Darling Bern," wrote Mre.-Jmnyn I "don't be amased at whsi 1 am greug to | ask vnu. Bet I am to have a C'hristmss . party for my little girts- and I dB «o Ions fnr-trene of thaw cream rapdies, an^u- 1 gared outa, delicious ebneniste caramels f that you lied to make when we haaided i with your aunt at lU-^mine Vale. 1 enclose a ten-dollar bill. Please seed the ••goodies' by express. Just a* soon as you on possibly make tbstn. mad obljgs ever- ' Wlngly. Yoor friend. j "Lacaa." ■ Tbe joyous tears came into Bern Mor- t wait s eyes as sbe rdt knking at tbe crop ! r - bill, eewily folded into tbe letter. It wa* • ( j not only a irn-d-Jlar greenback— it represented health and mm for Joshua— it t-t 1 srrsmri to open to ber the gatca of escape ' I , from eU the petty tklliufa this poverty- , i | "Whv have I never thought of it fee. I I 1 fore?" sbe qneeHcwed bervrif.

She maje baste to prepare thccarsmela closed ln'a erysul garment of translucent aweetneaa, nod with them sbe eodosed a ' ■' letter, begging Mrs. Dare to openen agcu- • cy for her with one of the prominent confectioners of New York. And then she ' a ordered a larrel of sugar. aU mannci uf '■ girret and cracked all tbe butter and Lick- ' ory nnu-Rihlch were left from ll* last - antumn's store. *"To be sure, it is only an experiment." she thought. "But 1 hope— 1 believe- it i 1 may succeed. Tbe doctor mya that Joshua I win not be strong enough to go oat doors < ! until spring. Oar expenses are continual- j ' ly draining us. and there is nothing com- ! ing in. Oh. it must succeed , < :j ft did succeed. Mrs. Morsratt's delicate ) " I home ofafectlona, In pretty hand painted • , 1 boxes tied with colored ribbons, became ■ ' the fashion. Everybody asked for them t — everybody bought them. I Bra* wfr obliged to hire assistants end transfer her working quarters to the Old , I unused wing of the house. Money came 1 with a promptness and steady flow ; wldch seemed to the young wife almost a j t There wai no lack of good L refreshing fruit, and strengthening food A rei resiling iron, ana strenguiemng looa

" for tbe invalid. Tbe farm houM was uc*-^ ' needful machinery was ordered for farm 1 purposes, new furniture cwror in. and Bern even indulged Id the — lo ber unheard uf • —luxury of a black silk dress. "Bess, you're • good fairy," said Joshua exultantly; "a regular enchantress!" But one day Bern came in with a sober ' 1 Dee . k "What's the matter-'' asked Joshua. matter**

"Has our new bank failed? b the maple candy scorched ? Or las tbe kitten 1 ambled into the kettle r* boiling chocolate?" "Oh, Joshua don't Jest," said Bern "It's your mother! Sfcc has io vested cv en-thing in the new railroad that was to 1 cut through Walton's Pass— and it's a holders are mm .»f straw, the presklent vested in the coocern are ruined totally:" Joshua grew pale. "W.iat are We tQ dor said Ik-. "Tbere.is'bul one thing to Bo," Hess, bring ber here. Our borne must henceforward be ber home." "Bern," cried Joshua, in s husky voice, "you are an angel." "Sbe it your mother, Joshua," Mid Bess, gently, "and being yours ebe is also Mrs. Mor watt. hatf-stUDDCd by Ibe suddenness of tbe blow which bad robbed her of her all, scarcely knew where she was wbcu she found herself sitting in s big urn-chair by tbe fire in the farm house j parlor, with her hand in Joshua's, while Best tenderly removed ber bonnet ud "But 1 hare no right to be here," she said, pitoously. "J refused to recognise wife— I bare withheld from you your | birthright, ud squandered it away. Why . don't ibty lake me where I belong— to the "Mother, don't talk so," pleaded Soabua. "Here's where you belong now and henceforward: Here, by our hearthstone." "Your are my mother now." softly w hispered Bets, ud the touch of ber soft ' lips on tbe old woman's withered cheek the floodgate of ber tears— the blessed Icare that wash away all bitterness and pain. "And ynu," she sobbed, "are ray daugh- ; ted" And ibctefart the three were blissfully ! together; croc though th|new rait- j. shares were to much wA paper. managed tbe farm. Bess kept up tbe oanfectiooery branch of the business, and Mrs. Morwatl did tbe housework. But she looks sometimes at lies* and say* with tears in ber eyea." "What would have become of us. dart- ; ing, if it wasn't for you." The Death Blow- to the Bona of In oinnectloc with tbe death of Beoer.1 man. who instituted Ihe Order of the Snot of Alalia in lafayeue, the following is lute retting: George Harding, u employe of the wholesale grocery establish- j meat of Reynold*, Earl A Hatcher, a brave ud brawny Scotchman, dssiied to become a member of the ofder, and the order was . ton glad lo "take him in." A night was { Mt apart for bis initialkie. and a* he was particularly powerful man. tne gathet- j of the dans was unusually large. The* proceeded amid uproarious fun to the elevated railway and a plunge into the seething waters of tbe lake. A wet blanket was in the hand* of a dosen strong men, in which the aspirant was to*scd about until they became exhausted. was u intensely earnest man, and took tbe initiation to be a aerioua affair. told by the Grand Conductor that from Ibe elevated railway be should be plunged into a lake bc"Shd contracted his rnuw-les and nerved himself for the battle Witn tbe waves When be strpdt tbe tbe abocfc was too much foe his nerves, lie was taken lo bis horn* a paralytic- He lived a year, suffcrlig iptawely. and died in great agowy. The order paid out over JJOOO in his behalf. All that medical skill could do was done, but no purpose. He was a noble man and bore bis suffering like a hero or a martyr. He sever oner complained or spoke harsh- i ly of thoaejs ho caused italL Hisanffero and death were tbe death-knell to the Scan of Malta, aot only in Lafayette bet throughout America. "I believe Til have lo reduce your John," said a miserly Boston employ® \p ope of bis help, the other day things are coming down. The otoevtaries \ of life are cheaper and you eu afford to get along on smaller pay." "I ahnuid like | to know what nccnsnules u( litearecbeap-j-rr." mid John ; beef la m high as ever, j floor hasn't dropped s cent and coal is m j dear as eve,." •• Well." add the em - p^yer'."* ^ t*I*od »"V- " «l soy rate. -| .heed «KMbbd.--6Mwrekae /*wn»t

; ! The Milwaukee Bad Boy. > j , | uk "as a itasp or nteraut tryixo to I t ' " Hell# ! Hello ! Hello I" yelled ihcgrr- j [ ccrytnan lo the bad boy. as he pn-pi-J 1 ■ - through the elwdtie from The outshJe to i . see if soy cnsiomcit were in, •• Oisne in t and let me look at tbosi- bruises you are . carrying. Great bravrns. haw did you ' get that italic style on your nose, and did 1 Ihe same blow blacked both eyea T and i the groocrytnaa laughed at tin broken up condition of the boy. j " O, you laugh if you want to, hut j when you get walked all over by an infl- . del, and bare tome teeth knocked doou throat, you won't laugh So much," j and the boy pouted as much as be could I With his mouth swelled, and looked 'at the grocer as though be would like to tip ■ tbe stove over. i "What about an 'Infidel. You haven't flghkng with a Heathen, hare you : i me all about it, because you are on i your last legs, and confession is good for t I 'he aouL llcVQal to me the cause of that i tower of Pha oner, and that Aj> I jooft colored eye," and the fcroeerym&n t 1 yuurr rxHorea eye. ana tut- proccryman

w w inked at a carpenter who came in to fill i I . his lobaoco box. ■ " Well, you are one of tbe boys belong- 1 f ing to our gang of widow helpers, his pa 1 is an infidel, and be don't believe any- ' t thing, but be can a> loore wood fo? tsid- 1 ows than any of the boys He is a good * r fellow, only be don't go to Sundar-achgij, r and li -n 'tabs' leer there is any God, w I durii, orlmylhing. He has made us boys ' l or Imyl king has

I- been sawing wood, talking about things 1 *' , l list we believed ln that be didn't. lie 1 I said tbe idea that a whale swallowed Jonah ' was all boob, and Elijah going up in a 1 o chariot of fire was boppycolic, and every- 1 t j thing was wroog. I went to a deacon of 1 ;- , our church, a regular old hard shell, and ' t ; told him about the boy, and asked hitn 1 i- wast ought te be done about it, and lie 1 " was mad St Ibe infidel boy, and Mid he 1 0 ought lo he scourged, and we should smile 1 him, sod best him with many stripes. I 1 * asked the deacon if it would be right for ' it us good boys to pile on lo tbe infidel boy, 1 and make him believe tfainga, if we had to I choke them down bini. and he said it 1 s, would be doing a service to humanity, 1 j and .would wia for us everlasting fame I 1 and glory. Well, here's your glory. Gaze I 0 od my left-handed nose and you can sec 1 the faiqc. 1 tell yon, I dou't take no more 1 1- jobs converting infidels. I want to do r everything that ii right, but hereafter if s an infidel muts me un the sidewalk 1 g shall go across the street, and let him have ' e the whole street. You see, we got the in- ( e fidcl boy up in the hay mow of the bam. 1 and while the boys were talking lo him 1 , supped s Clothes line around his legs and ? lied them, and then tied bis arms, and ' j we had him so tight he couldn't . r wiggle. He tried to got away, but he | r ; couldn't and then 1 commenced on hitn e aiiout Adam and Eve eating tbe apples ; At first be wouldn't believe anything, bul . 1 choked him until be admitted that the t devil got tbetn into the scrape. Then 1 asked him if he believed that the Lord cut | y s spare rib out of Adam, and took a lot of t dust sad puttied It up in the sun to dry. ; ' Tbe darned infidel kicked on that and said e j be never would believe il, bul 1 sal down ' i on lila stomach and tickled his nose with s straw, and finally he caved, and Mid 11' . j believed iL but be was mad, and tried to ( ! chew the clothes Una around bis arms tn y get away. Ml we held him tight. Then ' a^I tackled him on the children of Israel • . j walking through the sea without gelling i their feet wet or catching cold, and he , j said that was s blasted lie. I gave him . two minutes to believe that, and when the I , lime bad expired be said be couldn't sw-ai- , low II ao I look bold of his ran and tried , . to pin them together at Use back of his bead. , and finally be weakened and said the story | . began to look reasonable, and he believed { f iL We were getting along splendidly. | and I thought what a triJmph it would lie | j lo bring that boy into Sunday school a firm , I believer, s brand plucked from the bume j log. We look a teceas, and played mum- , g ' bleSy peg, all except the infidel, for ten ■ . ' minutes, and then 1 tackled him no Joshua - ' commanding tbe aou to stand still, and he , e said that was all nooaeasc, that ll could- , r nt be done, and I began lo rue timntby j ■ hay and- tickle /rasa up bis trousers legs, . s and finally be weakened and admitted that , s Josh was all right on tbe sun achrvne. He , . ' kicked on Bolomoo having a thousand , e* wtvts, and said be never would believe a i man could be audi a blasted fool, bul I , ■ took a hay rake and parted his hair In the ; L middle, and filled tbe inride of bts nnder- ; a 1 shirt wltb oats, and when they Ivrd to a hurt him 1* mid the Salomon story was - true, and be eree went so far as to believe 1 boicssoe bad twelve hundred wire*, so 1 got hitn to believe two hundred more than 1 t there was, which la pretty good for an in- 1 e fidel He %ouldnY take any stock in Jonah 1 a and tbe wlsale, uotil we buried him up in 1 e -the hay and made him he Here we were go- 1 e ing to set the bay on fire, when be aid be 1 S believed that whales were used in lh(« 1 up w ills stale rooms on the inside. Thin I 1 r tackled him on tbe Hebrew children bring I 1 rest into Use fiery furnace, and not being i scorched at all, bul be said be would be- • 1 litre anything but IbaL *o I pot on my . roller skates sod began lo walk on hitn, ' - 1 and skate, and Tall down no hitn. and be 1 y btggnl aad said be coane to thiak of it e that fiery furnace story looked the mast I reasonable of the whole tot. Then I thought he was getting to be converted ' enough for one day, and I unfed the ' r rope and let him loose. Yos wouldn't - believe a toy could be so base, but as ' soon as be wax loose, «n»ihe good work I e had done cm him seemed to be lost, and a be became an infidel again in kaa tban a ' o minute, and scared tbe other boys down 1 e stairs with a pitchfork, and oonieret', me. >- and knocked me down, sod walked on 1 r, roe, and pounded me, and before be got • through with uiq.be made me .wear that , >- I didn't believe anything in lbs Bible. He L was Just aa saean as be cnald be. and I e- don't dare be good unless I go off eotneI wbere alum . I showed my nose to th?

1 dear ui. and told him Ihe infidel mauled i me, seffthe Ilraom said I was no good, i Ssy what would yesi do if you were in i my place ?" , "J would go sod soak any head." Mid tbe . groccrythsn. "You have got to learn one - 1 thing, aod.li'al is, miml your own husi. 1 1 new about j- or rehgiuua viesra . Tbe to. I 0 I n-lci h't li S< much enutfc.i to his belief j t as yoo are. and the days of choking j s your vicars down people who do not Is-- j 1 here as you do are pawed. Alter you get ; 1 mauled a few time mote you will he I i pretty smart. You mend to doing good, I 1 Whenever you see a chance, but don't try ■ to stem in the tide of infidelity by brute ' i lorce, and -you a ili le happici. I "Ail right, that let's tne out." said tbe i boy as ire looked in a mirror to tee how black his eyes were, and tried to posh his I note back square in front. "Hereafter I people can believe as Ihcyjtleese, but 1 i will get even with that deacon, or my i« not Hennery. I bet be knew that infidel boy Was too much for me. IWi it seem strange to you tliat au infidel boy should be endowed with ^nuscie enough knock a Christian boy silly. I can't account for it. 1 qbopld' thiok the good boy ought to have Ha- most inuacle." and the boy went off thinking bow to get even hoy off

wiih ibe deaeun. The fact i. that g..|ng"\Ves: has erased be the serious undertaking that it was years ago. There are yet bard, ship* to be encountered, of course, and it requires industry and'economy towecomplish anything ; but il is n .. longer a flight ' into the desert and a farewell to eiviln*.

. lion Some of the luxuries of life must 1 , be dispensed wiih for a season, hut all 1 . necessary comforts and conveniences an- ' i within reasinahle reach, aad the luxuries . conditions f.e tbeir enjoyment are provl ■ did. A man cannot succeed there oj any - I where else unless be is willing to strive C , and save the study to Invest at- •- • I . uu gains to the best adraotage. But he q . need not make a slave of himself; he need , no; destroy his health, and he need not . miss a fair mAsure of happiness. TliC J opportunities are still abundant ami invit ing. notwithstanding the great number of - I people who have gone West since the war, and It is quite probable that the immigru. ■ tlou will not stop as long as unreclaimed . . prairie remains and men continue l > have _ , pluck and •enterprise enough to change . tbcir residence for Uie tokc of 'xucring . their prospeds. Todo honor hi tome great nccsnlou a " German lady ordered a "costume" to the ' very latest Parisian style from a fashions. 1 | it on tbe night of the fete. A- universal 1 titter greeted her entry into tin room 1 Ladlca hid their faces behind their fans, ' and tbe pattern of the paper oc the seal Is 1 suddenly been tne an object of interest to " the gentlemen, moat of whom turned ? round to examine it. -The lady's monifi. • cation was naturally very great She or- ' •tired her carriage at once, and drove to > , tbe dressmaker's to ask for an expisnatioo 1 of tbe mrfrimcnt which she knew must ' have been due to some peculiarity; in her ' attire. The "eouturicre" no sooner saw * her distinguished customer than she broke ' ' into an uocoalrollabh^ fit of laughter. 1 "What! you toorssld the lady .wild with 1 rage. "Pardon me, rooilainr." said the 1 tnidlocr, "II is too much for me. I do not 1 wonder at their laughing. You lisvu put 1 00 your dress on the wroBtway, you ' have put the "pouP in front." . — I A Scat h I ng Cri 1 1c i s m . , ' Tessa Rituos*. " l What is the meaning of the seaotials. i depravilieo, and criminalities that are daily ■ chronicled ? It means that the weak mem- y of society ore too frail to stood its , protests ; they are secret, silent, and slis- t ' attempu to escape from a boo- ■ 1 dsgc that has proven unbearable, but , which, having beeas imposed, they had not i the rourai courage to rebel against opealy. , 1 light ester in in which the honor of i ' women is held, tbe crimes that prove of t ' almost hourly occurrenoe. fire only the t symptoms of that corruption whicli exists , society, and mill at law rood it to the t centre. This coutoe of social action ( and government con have but one end, t sod that is mental, moral, aad mcial t There is a higher law for society ilian t selftshneas and coovenience, aafi that is i the protection of character aad reputa I ■ tioo. , Wasn't Afraid to Die Then. A , ["Johnnie Chime" la Texas sum*, Fred be aed I smoked like aa old boss t sod I made np my mind to stick it out before the cigar was half finished a t cold sweat broke out oo my forehead and stnmok got sort of unresy and then c the furniture begun to climb up on tbe I criling nod the doors swopt places with the windows tod I remember seeing Fred a silting at a table up over the mantel piece ii and tbe oex time tbe table came round I grabd il sad Ud my bed down on it and g wailed for detta 1 usto be frtld to die bul 1 wssnt afraid to die then. V Tbe vragis of sin is deth but a 5 crnt cigar -can give ahf nhgrn ten yards start p and beettTTtosyrela! trr.'v ' - fl A Chicago man picking up Lis paper the other day after breakfast, was sstnoishrd to read that his wife had just oh- u tallied a divorce from him. Never having p been summoned tn tbe case, he had a p right to be astonished. Tbe partner of bis bosom, who bad left IL as sbe raid, for K „ | few days to visit ber mother, was asked about the matter when sbe returned, and smilingly said the bill iras an old erie.fll^d when tbe thought she hsda grieviocc,and (hat it bad bora withdrawn. Although' ii t she had boatoo him with a hairbrush, d thrown a slipper at him and dooe other b nnwifely things, the victim of a vwnet j ' woman and tbe Chicago divorce laws Is now trying to have the decree of divorce ' vt aside. A better plan would be to ^ ^ conn the lady again and get married ooce f

d How Bull Bun Looks To-Day. | '• Although many Americana arc familiar 0 with the battlefield of Waterloo few" know anything about our own battle r fields A Mr. Miller, who has written * some poetry, visited Boll Run, scdea>d : The firs; battle of Bull Run stands first " , in the alphabet uf gmal Aincrican haulm. ; ' I Greater bsulcs have lioeo I ought btreaf - | ler. a great® battle, indeed, on this same j ' ground. But the Drat has 'fanned Itself I ' <41 us There is s savage fascination j r about it which we who lived un that day | r terday. I saw lounging agi'into a lamp 1 c lost here at Manassas, not an hour a*v a ■ handsome ypong boutherner pulling at his | ' mustache. I approachtd and asked him \ ' ol the battle. He had been born since it | 1 was fought. So you are it was nut fnaght i ' yesterday, this battle of Hull liuo, when | the cannon shook" the earth even to the j I shores of Oregon. And do you know the ' ' North played the air of '• Dixie" in this j 1 first battle ? il is »x The Houlh ht-l i ' not yet learned it. but played "The Gir! 1 1 Ix-ft Behind Me." 1*1 us lot* in upon this ballleflcld aa we look upon Ihe face of ' one whom we knew well nearly a quarter of a century ago. By a wide, acll 1 kept country toad, through corn fields and

clumps of oaks, chestnut, 'wslcut, hickory and half s doxen other kinds of scrub trees, some of them badly shot to pieces, wo were driven toward tbe muddy, alng1 gish. crooked and oggiy little stream of BuM Run. Id tbe drive of four miles we mil one man on horseback ; we pawl one man on a hqrae and a barefoot negro boy on fora, drivings little flock of sheep. my oo lev*, drivings little float of sheep. '

Overhead I beard a single raven : not a I bird, not a squirrel no either hand : but ' the crickets and grasshoppers In tbe corn 1 fields and dumps of wood on either side I of us chirped and mng incessantly. 1 At Ibe end of four miles we Uirot-4 ' through a -gate to the right into a fie'd: I were scattered here and there around ' .He at a loot frame farm house ; back I of th'.sjioiwe a link brown stooe mono- I men! lo (he dead soldiers : in front ol it, ' thro* dooryartl, a gravestone. Tbe ' Iioum* whicli fonncriy stood there had 1 Iteeu torn to splinters during the battle. I lady buried in tbe grave in the dooryard was killed here. Sbe was tbe moth- < er of the kind old gentlemen who now inthis piste. This battlefield was his mother's farm. It is now his, and he ' shows you over iL He was leaching : school down at Alexandria at the time his ' mother was killed bere— a school teacher i for forty years. He and his sister live in this old gray house together ; no one lint i these two old deaf people for many miles around. The peach trees are breaking t down uuder loads of fruit in tbe heart of the battle-ficid. a little amy down on the dooryard. Loog strings of fat turkey > tread the tangled grass through tbe orchard. chasing the grasshopper. Below this orchard half a mile away aod curving around a muddy creseol, but bidden by a young clump ut trees, creeps Bull Run Ibe morning of the battle, the brad 1 Arid oo tbe other side aod away out yooder. miles sway over the foothills, lite < bayonets gleamed try thousands They were inarching for Uoatuivfeard'tt or rather for the Midland line, by which had comb up from the South. lie bad < up from Jtanasseo. four miles awny, t stop this movement, as all the world T«* North was not to be stopped. Hence the battle here. But this is trenching oo history, and we must draw < tbe line. Y'ou can see where the Smith ' retreated to where stood Jackson, "liko s eume wall." Back of this house, where ^ tbe ohl school mast® livc^with his oldest 'trier, about a hundred yards, and-almost at the top of the gently sloping hill, oo the out® edge of the tali, rank corn, and against a young growth of pines. Is the place wbere Jackson got down to pray. woaoded, held his men in stubborn line : that day, while the storm of battle beat 1 agpoat them, and so won his singular 1 On the front of this sloping hill tint lies here, between this house and Ihe place whre Jackson tat on his horse dur- ' tbe battle, tie dead lay thickest when 1 the fight was done. Tbe corn is rank and tall. But I do Dot see, as sooie pretend to 1 when locking ov® tbe field of Waterloo, list toe blood of brave men have put any < particular mark of vitality upon JL The lo you all this you would know nothing whatever of the battle of Bull Run. Ne. turn covers up all suck scars ; time licala ihe wounds on the breast of our common mot Iter, as well at our own. Wby doos that gentleman rise from his tioo. Rut we hare not gut oesr the next st» t lion yet. 1 beg your pardon. From an American point of view, we art very man it. h less thanagiUc awty. , Bee, be iRsSei wildly towanl Hie door ; . sad bow he is on tl* platform, is be not , in danger ?n Tbe only danger be dreads it the danof losing oae -quarter of a second. Ah, we on almost si the station now Will be not watt uotil the cart stop ? ■ -\> indeed , that would be a waste of precious lime. ■ Three be goes. Good hMvros 1 lie has . fallen : The ear. have ruu over bliul Yes, such things friqueully happen ln a America ; toil you know, where ooe msn „ is killed, half o dozen jump off surer** , The chances of death are only ooe ( six or thereabouts. They have picked him up. His tips j Hs is speaking. Yea, be rays, "I die a true Americas." ' — Boston Transcript. { When doctors disagree : "Good mornMr. Wattrrana, aod bow It Mr. Tilthese days?" "Robust, sir: quite ro- a and athletic, thank you." "llowdy, ' Kelly what it the condition of Mr. " TUdtnf "Four, sir, poor. He is rerv i fragile. Duo't speak Lo toad, sir: tbe t vibration of the sir might koock him into c a cocked hsl." -Tcxm Sl/Ungt. ,

— r — t'rx^fy ^ A Bokus Lord. ,r Tlie I/Kiiiville -Kentucky, Journal ssyt v* that on the Sfttii of last mouth a disfln le guished i» 4.ii4k Isillvlduti appeared at 0 the Grand Kxpraulina Hotel. Ins loedly, blue- blooded way he took up the stubby .1 iK-n which tbe room dtvk handed him, 1 »hd. with A ware id a dJUBind riMCd I hand, signed his came as Captain Edward : Smart, Iwnn'ove, Bcotlsod." He was r ; slmwn into the hwt rooms that Ibe bote! n afforded, and during his short slay was r j treated with the utmost eonsldermion. He c | suoa confided to the gcols'l landlords that p ! he commanded the Sixth dragoons. Aft® * day or two letters with foreign post a marks and in distinguished looking hinds a j began to come in, addressed to Lord Ed. It i ward Stuart. These things were all taken it J note of by the affable clerks, who, in turn, Q mentioned It to tlielr proprietors. Lord „ J Stuart, though an English noblemg>.dee ■ veloped into s remarkably pkanng and s affable guest, and tbe hbtel management j i |iiaced themselves and their establishment at his disposal, figuratively speaking, s Such a flrstin guished guest could not have f too much honor done him. He was invir ted to little dinners and introduced to the II leading young bloods of the city, by whom I lul aorietv was vmtlv affected, 'lie was his greatly 'He

r invited out, and in turn entertained libti ersilv, giving seven! wine suppers and . otherwise mealing tbe impression that Lwd Stoart, "Captain of H® Majesty's [ army, was a very desirable guest, indeed. ■ He was going out one evening in Ibe early I part of lust week, and just before leaving -i Ihe hf4il happened lo find that be had no wiey with him. This was s mere trifle. 4iey witn mm. i nis was mere trine,

.which Mr. O'Brien, tbe gentlemanly proprietor, was only too glad to supply. He kept np this genial way of growing in grace and favor every day, until Saturday night. He had been out with some of tbe fascinating dodea of the clubs until about one o'clock, when be dropped into tbe hotel and in a friendly going out, to hare a little game of draw poker he explained to Mr. O'Brien, and needed enough to run biro through the night. The other was only loo glad to be of service to I ft* ixwdahip and preaacd a goodly sum into Ibe noble Briton's fist. It »>i received wiih many demonstrations of gratiludo by Lord Stuart,. who clapped Mr. O'Brien on the back and shouted, " lAndlord -aw— begad! I wont be in till morning. 1— er— want lo see more of yoor friends here." The gentlemanly hotel man bowed, highly pleased, and then tbe British Lion stole affably out of the house, first kissing his band te tbe smiling clerk, who waved an an revoir with the stubby pen. That was tbe lost seen rf Lord Edward Stuart, Captain of H® J Majesty's Sixth dragoons. 1 IVoJOKOi . rtWIICLKs or MlTTatt. Well ma* Darwin speak of tbe brain of an sot av one of the most wondrous particles of matter in Ihe world. We are apt to think thai il is impossible for ao minute a piece of matter to possess the necessary - complexity required for the discharge of surb elaborate funetiona. Tbe mlcroacope I will no doubt show some details in the sul's braio, but these fall hopelessly short I of revealing tbe refinement which the L ant's bmiu must reatly have The microI se ipr Is not adequate to khow ns tbe tex- . ture otitic great discoveries of modern tiroes to enable us to form some numeri. esl estimate of the exquisite delicacy of i the fabric which we know as inert matter. , Wat® or air or iron may be divided and : \ub-dirided, but the process cannot be I carried on -indefinitely. There is a welll defined limit. We arc even able to make i some approximation lo tbe numb® of I molecules in a given mass of matter. Sir . W. Thomp* 4i lias estimated that the number nt atoms in a cubic inch of air is to be i expressed tiv lire figure 3. followed by no , fewer than twenty cipher". The brain of . the ant doubtless contains more atoms ■ than an e-.pm! volume of air ; but even it we suppose litem to be the same, and if . we lake the size of au ant's brain lo be a - tilth- globe one-thonsantb of pn inch in ! diameter, we are able to form some estitaln. Tbe number is to be expressed by writing down 0 and following it by eleven ciphers. We can imagine these atoms . grouped in so many various ways that even the complexity of the ant's brain . tnsy be intelligible when we hove so ' many units to deal with. An illustration will perhaps make tbe argument clearer. Take 1 million aad a bqlf of little black • narks, put them in s certain order, sod we have s wondrous result— Darwin's 1 "Descent of man." This book merely consists of shout l.SOU.OOO letlus placed one after tbe other in a certain order. Whs lev® he the complexity of the ant's brain, it is still hard lo believe that it fold not be fully described iu 400,000 volumes, each as large aa Darwin's work. sin's tirain •« at least 403,0>J limes as great as the numbers of idlers In Ike ipeuaorabia volume in question. Agricultural. " Father," be Mid as the two.stood urn Jefiersoa avenue looking around, " that the Board of Trade bnildtog or® there." "Yes, yes—I sec ; good big place te trade " That's where they speculate. " "Tbeydo, eh?" "Yes, If you were to give ine $1000 In cash I'd go over there sod buy wheat at ho. wait a lew days and sell fgr a dollar, and divide the profit with you." "I declqr' ?" said the okl man he reached into his pocket. au esisy way to make mooey, father." "Yea. il looks that way, but aft® all I don't anc as it beats plaltin' six acres of ground with #35 an acre toto a baryta' ground of 300 lota at 03 a kg. Guess trait Frae Prrm. Another good word gooe wroog: "No.' •aid tbe landscape paint®, ."I don't call myself an artist now. if yon want to see an artist you will bare to go ov® (*poeite. where you see that gentleman batotthe fence: or if that la too taoeh trouble, just drop into tbe new mot burnt cork minstrel show aad you will find «-• by tbe scuro.— liostoc Tmnarnpt.