Pittston Gazette

              E8TAIJMSIIKI)1850. { VOL. XLV. NO. i'i I Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. ititston, iDti: INK CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2li, 181(4. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. {•'■fi?I£?A?C5rM "Rented at your Hide. I cannot, rest, so I am seated bore. Listen. Many, many years ftfjo we met, when you were brought lDy (iuatemoo from Tabasco. Ah, well do I remember my first sight of you, the Teule, in tho court of my father, Moil tent Chapoltepee. I loved you then I liHiked ill the Spanish fa.,1 Indian, still hfaulii'uJ, lD much worn, as though with sicli • it C■ h.n a rD|iiiinaru it Knglitvb, which [ spare ioroneseeonu, wonucrmg if I should do well to declare lnyself, then bethought mo that if she would not abate her anger toward me dead her pity for me living would bo small. Nay, I was dead to her, and dead I would remain. WWm  - iWlMS'' i •• 'S 1V .'X :.TVr^-' "" (c°rrnio^ A SECOND HONEYMOON ItlIJi NYE'S MAILIiAG. Mo called the waiter to Him, ordered a big huiik of limberger, took a long inhalation of it, rose and Mid, 'I also haf inittag gehaben,' paid his bill and passed out." very I aid, ''have I the honor to who in bygone years was ior:; I.ilv Hozard V" Religion Il»il 15C*rt Them Apart, hut Lot« Them Together. sorrow HIS GIANT INTELLECT WRESTLES WITH SOME MIGHT* PR03LEM3. "Do you not know Marina, 'JVul said again, hut Ixfoore the word, 1 her lips I know her. "Well, I v this—that I should scarcely ha you, Tcule. Trouble and time their work with Ixith of us." I took her haml and kissed it "Where, then, is Cortes?" I " shf 1 Ml si 10 answered. Frank P. Rollins of Mountain Grove and Mrs. Luella Rollins, liis wife, sparked all over the station from 4 o'clock until tho Fresco train pulled out. Ho bought her popcorn and candy and lemonade, and then ho would take her hand aL.d squeeze It, and they would both smilo sweetly at each other until I.Ir. Rollins could contain himself no longer, but just hail to rush oil and buy some moro fruit or something as a relief to his feelings. And all of this after flvo years of matrimony.! It wis not hard for a curious person to worm himself into tho confidonco of the happy couple—they woro both only too oairer to tell anybody all about it. Ho was a stalwart, handsome young farmer In jeans. Luella was clothed in a more sophisticated manner, having had tho benefit of somo six months of city experience. as 1 have loved yon ever since. At lejjst I have never pone nsi ray after strange Rods," and she laughed bitterly. 7.11111; ir errand with me, sir?"' iribi»d afresh, but spoke on namr Now I was at the door, and my foot was on Its step, when suddenly a voice—Lily's voice—sounded In my ears, and it was sweet and kind. Or, should you be present when roligious questions are under yoa could gradually arrange the following programme: "Well, regarding various beliefs, I must say that they all hinge upon tho ou Teat question of nvam and punishments in a future atetk Now, for one, I am a believer la and punishments through muI that everything has been so arranged m to carry out this idea, even the animal kingdom aiding in this great plan. "For instance, I onoe knew a (Mb lieutenant on t'_o frontier who was MBt there right from West Point, and the prospect for promotion in his rrqliait was extremely poor, for all his superior officers were in exoellent health, and there was no Indian war on the "One day bo was In the foothills when he found near  a tremendous grizzly bear, with a starts bruise on his heel. The was la great pain and seemed to appeal to Ike lieutenant for aid. He was a toads* hearted young fellow, and so he took from his saddlebag a bottle at witah hazel, bathed the poor hot foot with tt, and pasting a yard of oourt plsator oesr it stroked the whiskers of the bear kindly, and lifting his forage cap to tha animal rode away. 8ome Directions A Itout Writing Letters and 1 answer, madam, forgive mo either question. Is this still a Few Remarks on the Kiss Jlespectful. I 1! ;*D\ Why do yoif talk of these things, Oto 1 asked "Thomas, "said tho voice,''Thomas, bofore you go will you not tako oount of the gold and goods and land that you placed ill my keeping?" The Proper Mourning to Wear ami Hon •'Heeause it. is my fancy to do ho. Can not you spare me one hour from your sleep, who have spared you so many? You re member how you scorned me—oh! I thought 1 should MjVC died of shame whei* I;ed Long; to Order Anecdotes, Now a great trembling seized her t tin nit nnnD" I am no married i." s!'(- .Mv.wored, and for a moment . - l ined to reel ahove mo and tho I to heave l-ene.-.th my feet like tho -list of Xaea. Hut as yet I did not lu v. i If, for I wished to learn if she Now I turned amazed, and, lo, Lily cair.o toward me slowly and with outstretched [Copyright, 18M, by Kilgar W. Nye.] Slfi* /ey* 9D " "Cortes is in Spain, pleadinf; 1 Ho has vsvd a new wife then-, Many years ajjo lie put inc uv. ny. mo in marriage to Don Juan Xji who took mo because of my po.v for Cortes dealt liiieraliy with mo, his din cardnl mistress." And she I Tho following inquircjrs refuse to be put off any longer: iC  •f- ETC." •-ts arms! ioyn.rrir.r. AVTh ufi r I 1i;h1 caused tayself to be given, tC»C- j'C11 us wife, the wif • of Tezcat, you told mo of the maid across the seas, that Lily maid whose token is still Set U})on your iig-. ger. IJut 1 lived through it and loved you the hotter for your honesty, and then you know the rest. I won you because I was brave and lay at your side upon the stone of sacrifice, w here you kissed mo and told me that you ioved me. Hut you never loved me—not truly. All the while you were thinking of the lily maid. I knew it then, as I know it now, though I tried to deceive myself. I was beautiful in those days, and this is something with a man. 1 was faithful, and that is more, and once or twice you thought that you loved me. Now I wish that those Teules had come an hour later and we had died together there upon the stone—that is, I wish it for my own sake, not for yours. Then we escaped, and the great struggle came. I told you then that I understood it all." You had kissed me on the stone of sacrifice, but in that moment you were as one dead. When you came back to life, it was otherwise. But fortune took the game out of your hands, and you married me and swore an oath to me, and this oath you have kept faithfully. You married me, but you did not know whom you married. You thought mo beautiful and sweet and true, and all these things I was, but you did not understand that I was far apart from you—that I was still a savage as my forefathers Lad been. You thought that I had learned your ways; perchance even you thought that I reverenced your God, as for your sake I have striven to do, but* all the while I have followed the ways of my own people, and I could not quite forget, myown gods, or at least they would not suffer me, their servant, to escape them. For years and years I put them from me, but at hist they went avenged, and my heart mastered mo, or rather they mastered me, for I knew nothing of what I did some few nights since, when I celebrated the sacrifice of Huitzel and you saw me at the ancient rite*. Liillo, ' Oh, foolish man," she whispered low, "did you think todeicelvo a woman's heart thus clumsilv—vou who talYed of the beech in the Hall garden, you who found your way so well to this dark chamber and spoke the writing in the ring with the very voice of one who has been dead so long! Listen. I forgive that friend of yours his broken troth, for ho was honest in the telling of his fault, and it is hard for man to live alone so many years, and In strange countries como strange adventures. Moreover, I will say it, I still love him as It seems that ho loves me, though In truth I grow somewhat old for lovo, who have lingered long waiting to find It beyond my grave." Esther, Warm Springs, N. C., writes to know what is proper in the matter of writing letters, especially as to the order in which tho pages should be writton.d inv mi inorv death. I knev lint a to weep " i .-..ill, * J am a Spaniard who tin; Indian wars of Cortes, of [contini KID.] nt, 1 should not 4.11, i gh the Then lDy degrees I learned tin- slor_ I will not write it here, for il is known to the world. Win n Marina had serveil his turn #,'«d her wit was of no more service to him, the conqueror discarded her, leav Ing her to wither of a broken lit art.. She told me Jill the tale of her anguish when she learned the trutl and of how she had cried to him that thenceforth he would never prosper. Nor indeed did lie do so. but liapM you have heard." ril her heart, mid I went on: "In I mi i it mail who was named ■ who hurt anot her name in torso lie (old me on his deathbed CHAPTER XXXIV jiUmo \v;h oiuD which I hiul surely shrunk bom cliniMiiK lit any other time. All this whilove hart been travi ward Xaca's liery crest by the brig!' but. n Tbero are various customs in this matter, and variety is really tho chief charm of arranging pages, so that as 80011 as one gets used to ono style there will bo another ono introduced. You can, for instance, write the first page on tho insido of th«i sheet, Cskip t pages and write, then come back to page 3 of your paper and write again, then stand on your head and write tho VEXGKASCi fJinpc to Daring thut meal Mcrnal Diaz spojci-of our first meeting ou tho causeway, and of how I had gono near to killing him in e* ror, thinking that ho was fcxirceda, and then he askod mo what was my quarrel with Sarceda. "We've got a pretty nico farm down to Wright county," said Rollins, "and it'll bo a sight nicer now wo'ro going back to It. Won't it, LuV" "Yes, Frank, it will." on the mountain top. and the flame died away in the heart of the pillar of sinoko. It was wonderful to see tho red glory that, shone upon the iee cap and on us two iddenl.v laei'" s'le a ked in a low voice. Wingfteld." I.ily 1 ltd ttloiul and in her turn the pales to savo herself from In as few words as possible I told him tho story of my life, of all the evil that l)e Garcia, or Sareeda, had worked upon 1110 and mine, and ;Df how it was through liim that I was in this land that day. lie lis teued amazed. men wlio crc;pt 1 ikDC flics across it, while tho mountain's breast and the world I low were plunged in the shad' For two hours or more wo talked, and when I had hcanl her story I told her mine, and she wept for me, since hor faults Marina's he. rt was e\ r ''And we've been getting along pretty well over since wo were married in 1889 up to last winter, when La sho joined the Baptist church, all oCDr folks being Methodists, you know, although I ain't a professor myself. Well, you know how old folks is. Thero was Lu's ma and my ma and the rest of tho women, and I guess I hecrd more about infant baptism and 'mcrsion and falling fiom grace in about •ix weeks than would puzzlo a Philudelphy lawyer. Lu she argued one way, and tho other folks they argued tho other, and I couldn't chip into tho play without turning the whole paek of 'em onto mo. I just got so every time they'd get to talking I'd sneak out in the barn, whero I had a jimmyjohn hid out, and lay round there till I'd eeo tho candles blown out. : C1( .1(1 Utcso 18 years." she ned in the Indian seas, of night Will Thus Lily spoke, sobbing as she spoke, then my arms closed around her, and she said no more. And yet as our lips met I thought of Otomie, remembering her words, and remembering also that sho had died on this very day a year ago. Let us pray that tho doad have no vision of the living! "Now we have a better light toeli comrade!" I c alled to IV Garcia, i ml my il) bv Then Wo parted, never i Before I went she I'fussed (krgii't "t money on me, and I was nut ashamed to t.-.ke it who had none. i at ludcrid." aiy that he was ship "Holy Mother!" he 8ai(l at length. "I always knew him lor a villain, but that, if you 'drr*uot lie, friend Wingfleld, he could bo such a man as this I did not know. Now, by my word, had I heard this tule an hour ago Sam-da should not have left this-rtimp till ho had answered it or cleared himself by combat with you. But I fear it is too late. He was to leave for Mexico at the rising of the moon to stir up mischief against me lieeausc 1 granted you terms—not that 1 i'car him there, where his repute is small." VOlCt s thu ico ciiffs, whore uowr a man's voico hail echocd be foro. I y amor in tl seas, senora, but he es and fell among the Indians, :ih1 of him anil gave him the ieir king in marriage." And Now, 1 thought, ho will surely make n stand, for could ho have found courage it had been easy fur him to kill me with his sword, which ho still wore, as I climbed from the ice to the hot lava. It seemed that h© thought of it, for he turned lind glared at me like a devil, tlu'ii wi nt on again, leaving me wondering where he lielieved he would lind refuge. Home 300 paces from the tdge of the ice the smoke and steam of the crater rose into the hir, and Iwtween tho two was lava so hot that in place.- it was dllTicult to walV upon it. Acrosn I his b»sl, that trembled as I passed over it, went I)e C iarri.i somew hat slowly, for now he was weary, and I followed him This, then, was the history of Marina, who betrayed her country for her love's sake, and this the reward 'if her trcui and her love. But 1 shall always hold lu memory gftcred, fur she w to me, and tvv iee D1 would she dvsert D taunted her so cruell. 1, then said in n hard voice: I listen to you." id Teule took the yart of the is lieing the husband i : their priiuvsses lie must do in #i;d fought hrave'.y fur them for rs. At lenffth the town that he I w;j cnntuled, his one remaining .} ;s imvi'dcred, and his wife, the . slew herself fur sorrow, mid he w;e: t.".UC n into captivity, where )i iieil nnd died." CHAPTER XXXVII. AMEN. "Inside of six months the grateful grizzly had imprcfVed his opportunities to that extent that he had Wiped oat ad the young man's superiors in th*a^D ment, having eaten the oolooel *-* gradually removed, one by one, tU ofe. stacles to the lieutenant's promotlesL " You will, if you tell thia vrall, be itvited to come and ding ' same place. llD: saved I even when Otomt lift;, nor i in the v Tho tidings of my return and of my strange adventures among the nations of tho Indies wero noised abroad far and wide, and people eamo from miles round, aye, even from Norwich and Yarmouth, to see me, and I was pressed to tell my tale till I grew weary of it; also a service of thanksgiving for my safe deliverahcoe from many dangers by land and sea was held In the Church of St. Mary's here In Ditchingham. And now there is little left for me to tell. CHAIlKtt XXXVI THOMAS COMLS BACK KKoM Till JJoW, Oil tllO morrow of 11 Jkfarina tho C:i|i(;:iii IDi:iz C■ • »nd told mi: that a l'tiend command of a wunk nail from tho port of within 10 days, iuvs : willing to give me a to lcavo Mexico. I i and said that 1 wouli night, having I.id fan Diaz, whom may D .1 j iv go(nl man anions: ir.: out from tho city for I In company of some it:• journey took lis .ly tains to Vera Crii/, a h t, . town, with an imiiflYivut and exposed to the fierce n ;■* Here 1 presented my !■ niendation to the c ; u who gave me pa — laying in a stork », At length our v.D Biid on a certain 12t.'i self in the mighty  in ijonaon i ii-uzn IDKA!D. ''I do not lie 'indeed." I answered. "Much of this tale I can prove if need lDe, and I tell you that 1 would {five half Abe life that is left to me l*D stand face to face in open light with him ;; .".in. Kver he visit to "'Well, one day I came liomefrom Hartvillo and found a note from Lu, saying she couldn't stand it no more, and that she'd up and quit, and that nono of us needn't never expect to see hide nor hair of her again. I was pretty near crazy, and I lit into both fho old woman and sister Dosha, who'd been making her share of the trouble too, and I got that house so trimmed up that I ain't heerd a chirp about faith or works from that day twell now. Tho women wero skeered anyhow, and sorry, too, for Lu was mighty popular with 'em outside of church matters. And then I set out to hunt Lu. I tracked her to Memphis, and there I lost her. That was in April. Well, I've been to Louisville on a false scent, and I've been to Vickshurg and Littlo Rock. Last week a neighbor met up with Lu right on tho street here and talked with her, and she said she'd come back If I'd come after hor. Well, may bo I didn't como a-running, didn't I, Lu? And what's more, stranger, she has the consent of the whole family to believe what slio dumb pleases from now on. You see, she dono give us the worst scaro any one of the family over got." liich h s v. as ii. due t I was. (■jr." f-!ie said, with a little i.rnfii) laugh that was half Estelle, Rofiebank, EL L—You did wrong and will not be sskqd f fear. Yon should have had sense enough to know without writing to m* ahant It, I cannot be at your elbow mbmbI pumping etiquette into your smpty noddle. Doubtless It was a doily thai you used with such freedom, notabwdkerchief. Don't they have dollies yak on Staten Island, or were your family kon Jersey street? Possibly your early Ufa was spent in back of Linoleumvllle, where people go on Sunday with their lunches to commit suicide and nak things. Some one would make noMy out of you, Estelle, by putting a Mai little silver ring in your noee, and with a cute silver chain lead yea aroud to dinner parties to show people what yen could do. Guests oould feed fan nadai the table or throw yoa the drumsticks of their canvasback ducks front to time. Excuse the clumsiness of a veteran, Estelle, but you injured the reputation of Staten Island also when yon burled your snout in the watermelon and Inhaled the seeds, so that yon ted to be pounded in the back by an equerry. I wish he had thumped yen iakksensibility. From your letter I gather that you are the star chump of the Soloides* Retreat is long. has esea'HHl me, un-1 l at my ease, pi tting my breath again. "'At length, IJo tiarcia! ' 1 said. "Now let us make an end. You have your sword. Use it if you can. It will Ik; easit r tCD die When that ceremony was over and all people had gone to their homes, I came back again to the empty church from the hall, where I abode awhile as tho guest of my sister and her husband, till Lily ®nd I were wed. Now as I spoke tlitis i that a cold and dreadful a ied to inC i.. sad lalo, penora, but one that i d. While he lay dying my iild me that in liis early life ho had I'll'-Hi vviiii a certaii. Kngiisli maid D, and I ll to the of present evil crept i' my hand* and brow over I cannot," he groaned. ''.My doom is lie was s, I set • in tho coming mo so that I could not stir or \gpoak for awhile. "Let us go and ro if lie Iuls gone, said Diaz presently, and summoning a guard ho wax about to leave tlm chamber. It was at this monicnt that I chanced to look up upon mi' '* 4 A fly !;;ul you will," ami I cnmo nt him •fKults last, tii I kfiw tlio iiriiiie. Continue." lie 1:1(1 nir that tiiough lie had been iirt'l Jovtxl his wife, the princess, :-j a very royal woman, that many •i.l ]: -1, -C1 her life forliis—aye, even at his upon the stone of sacihl of her own free will—yet the Dry C f this maiden to whom ho was troth"! li: 1 companioned him And there in the quiet light of the June evening I knelt in the chancel upon the rushes that strewed the grave of my father and my mother and sent my spirit up toward them in the place of their eternal rest and to tho God w1kD guards them. A great calm came upnn me as I knelt thus, and I felt how mad hod been that oath of mlno that as a lad I had sworn to be avenged upon Do Garciu, and I saw how as a tree from a seecj all my sorrows had grown from it. Put even then I could not do other than bate l)e Garcia—no, nor can I to this hour—and after all it was natural that I should desire vengeanco on the murderer of my mother, though the wreaking of it had best been left in another hand. Without tho little chancel door I met Lily, who was lingering there, knowing me to bo within, and wo spoke together. "Lily," I said, "I would ask you something. After all that has been, will you still take me for your husband, unworthy as I am?" last page, or write it diagonally across the paper. Some prefer to write tho first page, then tho third and then the second, and so forth, but in any event the more confusing you can mako it for tho reader tho more apt you are to be right in tho current of fashion. The reading of such a letter gives a kind of exercise which boating, bicycling or baseball cannot equal, bringing into play all the muscles of tho entire system. A long waisted style of penmanship, with capitals on the run, is now most popular and ornamental, legibility being a secondary matter entirely. THE KfSS RESPECTFUL. sword up. Ht! Kin from before me, moving backward anil kCDejit»g his eyes flxcCl iijmD11 mine, ns I have mscn a rat do wlicn asnako is about to swallow it. Now we v •thlcd and see awom'.n standing 111 the doorway "All these years you had been~true to me, and I h:td borne you children, whom you loved, I' ll y - : Joyed them for their own sake, not in: ;; ;uo. Indeed at heart you hated the liuli n blood that »v«» mixed in their veins with yours. Me also you loved in a certain fcwhlon, and this half love of yours drove iuo well nigh Iliad. Such as it was, it died when you saw mo distraught and celebrating the rites of my forefathers on the teocalli yonder, and yon knew me for what I am—a savage. And now the children who linked us together are dead. One by one they died in this way and in that, for the curse which follows my blood descended upon them, and your love for me is dead with them. J alone remain alive, a monument of past days, and I die also. much Her hand re»t«#L'jjn the doofpt mt; her head, from which- Jjio lonj? hair streamed, was thrown IkmV, ami on her face was a look of such anynjtab that ai iirst, so much was she changed, I did not know her for Oto mie. When I knew her, I knew all. ()nC thing only could conjure up the tt llir ttijA' of thr cvatc;', ami 1C •C Dkif» s:;\v an awful si.-ht, for tlio-u, feet. tvneath us, tlio mllmt lava, (.'lowing sullenly Ix'TK-at!) a si:il'tii"r lD ill of sinoTf rollcl and r-jn•:11■ i like a thing nlivo over I SOllle 80 upon ii.-rly wim rrs C•! r r of the C (im rak, »n, 1 ige \vi ho j lul w.is CitrD upon him now lii' inviywl mo for lCi si t-k her out when should sho still live, n;e from him uud to iiu li:s behalf." :i' and what prayer?" Lily Jets to UJ1 CT.C1 of sfasim flew upward i it with a unc 1 found London. wnnv t-.huD "hiirut in htr il.fl) I'.Vtli*. Dr and sorv-aming sound; li vapors, '"What haschunccd to our son?" lasted "Dead, Ui'iul!" she answer per that seemed to pierce my marrow I said nothing, for my heart told me what hiid happened, but Diaz asked, "Dc;ul —why, what has killed him?" "Do Garcia! I saw him go," replied Otomie. Then she tossed her arr.:s high and without another sound fell backward to the earth. surface, .and n hot. uml Ii rrid stench poisoned the heated air. - Ko indeed wassuch a gato its I could wish for Do Garcia to pass through to his own abode. I looked, pointed with my sword and laughed.. He looked and shrieked aloud, for new all his manhood luui left him, so d 011 Its through tlio kind off Inn, anil on tlie morrow at davbivu out upon the Ipswich nDad. i p'Wi nr host of my 1 in a whi k Ik I rode hard nil that and my horse lieiiu: 7:30 o'i!C k (if tIn-. . on tlic little hill w!ieD my last on Hiuij.-a* front Yarmouth with BJO lay fit* red r r to tho right were the out- - * and tho beautiful towC r • church. Yonder the stream wandered, and before me streti meadow lands, purple and ;■ :i marsh weeds in hl"Dnii. AH was lDecn. I could see no cl,;;iip at ill' only chnnge was in myself. i;d, and piinir to a j" D1 of v.;;:- r n. roadway I looked ,.t the i •'! own face. I was changed • d. S .n, should I havo known ii (■ r that of the h.i. who luul ridden up this hill £0 years ago. id the i That he loved her at the end of he hud loved her at its beginlie liuml.ly prayed her forgivouse he h.ut broken the troth y two had sworn beneath tho "But how did you get along in the meantime'!"' tho wifo was asked. oi:t unil swift I i.'j:; I [ml' s li "I had a pretty hard time, but I'd a-staid away till I died before I'd a-given in," Mis. Rollins replied. "I had about $100 that I'd saved up, and I came direct from Memphis here. Then I went and saw a clergyman, whoso name I knew, and he got mo work with ono of tho families in tho church. I tell you it was hard work, though, and I was lonesome for Frank all tho time. But it's all over now, and I'm goin homo to stay.." Maudie, El Paso, Tex., writes to know what a kiss on tho "forward" signifies. A kiss on tho forehead, which, I presume, is what you are driving at, signifies respect and esteem. You say that you have been tho recipient of such a one from a gentleman who has been keeping "co." with you for four years, and I would think that in such a case it signified that at that rate ho might in tho glorious ultimately learn to love you in case his longevity held out. Much has been said first and last re: garding the significance of the kiss. I hardly feel competent to pass an opinion niMtw. th»a —U—» w " • « that the surrounding circumstances have much to do with its competency. A kiss that is lost in midair by an amateur may be of more significance than a well directed and methodical one which alights liko a warm fritter on the plate of a boarder, for it may como from tho breast of a genuine lover, true, but inexperienced. Its very awkwardness may be its strongest point, coming as it does from a new blown affection. Dost twig, Maudie? up I ;.s bi-c, ich tl , w! I •( :nj father I bad 1 M bcech a Ditchixigham cried, 'what C|q you know In that moment I think that my heart broke—at least I know both ing has had tho power to move me greatly since, though this memory moves lrni day by day and hour by hour, till I die and go to seek my son. "Nay, I xi silent. Listen tome, for my time Is short. When you bade me call you husband' no longer, then I knew that it was finished. I obey you. I put you from towi Ther t i !ia (sm b 1 § ' n iisrha my friend told mo, senora." ''I promised so to do many a year ago, Thomas," sho answeted, speaking very low and Mushing like the wild rose that bloomed upon a grave beside her, "and I have never changed my mind. Indeed for many years I have Rooked upon you as my husband, though 1 thought you dead." "Perhaps It is more than I deserve," I said, "but if it is to be say when it shall I*?, for youth has left us4 and we have little time to loso " of Wav friendship must have lx-en close, r nn mory must Ik* good," she me. You art* no more my husband, and »otDn I shall oeasi) to bo your wife. Still, ■d I had he 1 si done," I went on, "un iinstances—so strange in (1 to hope that his broken renewed in some better Ills lint prayer was that o T'ie, his messenger, that and still loved him, as to "Say, Vernal Diaz," I cried, with n hoarse laugh, "did 1 lie to youC*moeming this comrade of yours?" \ Teu!e..I prny you listen to mo. Now, it seems to you in your sorrow that your days are done, and that there is no happiness left for you. This is not so. you are still but a man in the Iteginning of middle ape, and you an- yet strong. Vou will escape from this ruined land, and when you '"You In-t your lifo you are, honey," said Frank, "or if you have to run again we'll just run away together."—St. Louis Ulobe-Dcmocrat. Go to a night school, Kstefle, unless the police should arrest yon en  but do not write to me to ask -wfcto etfc v quette is. You do not need etiquette So I dl .- i Then, over Otomle's body, 1 left the chamber, followed by Bornal Diaz and tho others. \ he f Without tho door I turned to the left toward the caiii]D. 1 had not gone 100 |DaCt-s when, in the moonlight, I saw a small troop of horsi*iiii;H riciiaic toward us. It wa« De Garcia and his servants, and they headed toward the mountain iDa:,s on their road to Mexico. 1 was not too late. "Halt!" cried Bernal Diaz. '"Who commands me to halt?" cried the voice of De Garcia. Iii? di iii.it lit- lu\xjliicr " . . ]•.:«- i .hi ,-uc'li ft"r".:!vciK'w or such »S'# (li .L.l IJlju keenly llmmph the tho dead tlicn eyes to "When you will, Thomas," she anairur«». iiiituiiiK nei -iimxl in mlno. Within a week from that evening we were wed. WB6B f was n little (toy, my playmates at a country school in southeastern Indiana wore "skeets" and went "skeeting," though the village boys said skates/ 1 counted "skeet" a curious corruption. Kancy my surprise at meeting an old ac qunintance in a faroff land, and in strange company, when long years afterward I read the passage in Kvclyn's "Diary" for the year ltHM, in which ho speaks of "having secne the strange and wonderful dextority of tho sliders on the new canal in at. James' park, perform'd before their majesties by divers gentlemen and others with Scheets after the manner of tho Hollanders, with what swiftness they passe, how suddainly they stop in full carrlere upon tho ice," and so forih. The ch in "scheets" is Dutch, and therefore sounded like k. Pepys tells of being at St. James' park on the same day, "where I first in my life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skeates, which is u very pretty art." I here discovered that the country boys in the hills of Craig township, when they said "skeet," were only one or two centuries behind the fash- Ion and were using tho word as pronounced by Charlca and his courtiers when they brought the '"very pretty art" to England. A New York journal of 1784 complains of the time wasted in "skeating" on Collect pond. Nowhere is it truer that "all which is partakes of that which was" than in language.—"Folk Speech In America" in Century. "Skal£b" or "Siri ' *- " / shako tli" dust of it oil your Toot lis curse th»ll fall from you. You will return to your own place, mid there you will find ono who hus awaited your coming for mnny years. There the savage woman whom you mated with, tho princess of a fallen house, will liecomo but a fantastic memory to you, and all these strange, eventful years will be as a midnight dream. Only your love for the dead children will always remain. These you must always love by day and by night, and tho desire of them—that desire for the dojul than which there is nothing more terrible—shall follow you to your grave And I am glad that it should be so, for I was their mother, and some thought of me must go with them. This alone the lily maid hus left to me, and there only I shall prevail against her, for, Teule, no child of hers shall live to rob your heart of tho memory of those I gave you. You swore that death alono should sever us, and you kept your oath in the letter and in the thought. Hut now 1 go to the houses of the sun to seek my own people, and to you, Tcule, with whom I have lived many years and seen much sorrow, but whom I will no longer call husband, since you forbade me so to do, I say, make no mock of me to the lily maid. Kpeak of me to her as little us you may, be happy and—farewell!" Now as she spoke ever more faintly, and 1 listened liewildered, the light of dawn grew slowly in the chamber. It gathered on the white shape of Otomie seated in a chair hard by tho bed, and I saw that tier arms hung down, and that «-r . * f—-» : 1 •«D»' At a cantor, taking the n I jia-t \V ford Mills, through thCifnrCl town, leaving Bungay uj 10 minutes I was at the id l'irtt Ilavi TirE KJTD. S V, V4 f C ;m I know, senoraf I do but In a Glasgow theater, at the close of the first act, the ourtain did not drop tho whole length, but remained suspended half way. Stretched out on the stage lay a solitary 4ead n»au. As all endoavora to lower the curtain failed, the corpse at length got up and said in sepulchral tones, "No rest in the grave," and went and dragged the ourtain to the floor.—Tit-Bits. A Voioe From the Dead. path thot runs from tlx' Norwich i half a mile or more ticncath the mC wooded hank u'"lC r tin■.-! •Iter of stands the lodge of Ditehlngham. N#w the lodge was Ik fore nie. I changed no whit, except that the ivy and creepers o?» its front, had gr to the roof indi i-d—and I c people lived in the house, for it kept, and smoke hung abuye : neys. The gate was loeked, and then were no serving mi 11 -ilmt, for night fell fast, and all had ceased from their la!«or. Leaving the house on tin- ri_-ht. I pas I round to the stables that are at the twk, near the hillside garden. Iitn lit ri' the gate was locked also, and 1 dismounted, 110 knowing what t*D do. Indeed 1 was h. unmanned with fear and doubt that fot awhile I S4i'ined 1h \vild« red. and having the horse to crop the grass where l e stood I wandered to the foot of the church path and guml up the hill as thou li I waited for the coming of one whom I siiouid 1 fur execute my • .-Mission." I.'jw ran I himw that you arc a It chanced thut I had ,s of the drowning of Thomas •i imy years ;ij*o, and this tale princesses is wondrous I'i'.rc like tfu se that happen in I ■ ii Dii in this plain world. Have .11 «.i your rCmkI faith, sir?" I !. e such ti'UD-n, st-nora, but the .i /lit iD tC faint fur you to see it. " "Then iollow me to the house. There "• li-rht. Stay." And, once I-1 the stable gate, she called U0 1 singer "I, your captain," roared Diaz. "Halt, you devil, you murderer, or you shall U cut down." hart \ ing His sword dropped from his hand, and he hit backviird Into the pit. great wis his terror of what lay lieyond the i nil. Yes this proud and haughty Spaniard screamed and wept and prayed for mercy. lie who hud done so many villainies beyond forgiveness prayed for mercy that la* might find time to rejx'nt. I stood and watched him. and so dreadful was his aDpect that horror struck mo even through the calm of my frozen heart. ' Come, It Is time to finish," I said, and Kgain 1 lifted my sword, only to let it fall, fur suddenly his brain gave way, and De ll liisjli I saw him start mid turn pale. "These are strange manners, senor," he said. "Of your grace I ask"  At this moment De Garcia caught sight of me for the first time, for I had broken from the hold of Diaz, who clutched my arm, and was moving toward him. I said nothing, hut there was something in my face which told him that I knew all and warned him of his doom, lie looked past me, but the narrow road was blocked with men. I drew near, but he did not wait for me. Once he put las hand on the hilt of his sword; then suddenly lie wheeled his horso and fled down t he street of Xaea. De Garcia lied, and I followed after him, running fast and low, like a bound. At first he gained on me. but soon the road grew- rough, and he could not gallop over It. We were clear of the town now, or rather of its ruins, mid traveling along a little path which the Indians used UD brin; down snow front Xaea in the hot weather Perhaps there are some five miles of thi? path before the snow line is reached, be yond which no Indian Clared to set his foot, for the ground above wan holy. Along this path he went, and I was content to sec it, for I knew well that the traveler cannot leave it, since on either Aide lie watercourses and cliffs. Mile after Mile De Garcia followed it, looking now to the left, now to the right and now ahead at the great, dome of snow crowned with fire that towered aliove him. Ho knew what.'was there—death in the sluqK' of a man! well Tho hurried kiss of a commuter who is liable to miss his ferry may ring for hours afterward in tho ear or hang upon the brow of beauty for all time, yet mean more than the well arranged and deliberate kiss of the veteran. You must be the judge, Maudie; you must be the judge. we will A Mystery, ii!CDrCt John An i. 1 man answered her, mid I knew the voiC • fur that of one of my father's serving nu n. To him she spoke in low ton. then led thoway by the garden path i D tin' front door of the house, whieh she ojiemrd with a key from her girdle, moo iuD' lu pass in before her. I did 'linking little of such matters at lent turned by habit Into the of t In? sitting room, which I knew ing my feet to avoid stumbling [i, and passing into the room way through the gluum to the lace, where I took my stand, ilmoenter; then, followingmo, • r ;it the lire which smoldered rth and placed it upon the table !• sueh fiishlon that, though Violet, Sulphur Springs, Colo., writes to know about wearing mourning and its etiquette. I have spoken of this matter before and tried to cover the 1 / 11 •ci;» went mad before my ev Of all that followed I will not write. With his madness courage cjune back to him, and he began to fight, but not with ground as well as possible. Yon should wear crape one year for your mother. A lightweight heurietta cloth will make the most suitable dress for summer. One yd&r for a mother, six months for stepmother or grandmother, three months for an aunt or cousin and 30 days for a pet cat would seem to be the rule, but much depends upon how well you look in mourning. Wearing mourning for your betrothed is a delicate matter to touch upon. As Mr. McAllister says very truly, I think, "Some does and some does not.'' There is no strict rule regarding it. much as you need a germ of mom. Tot write like Steve Brodie and spell Ilk* John L. Sullivan, who was recent)/ outclassed by a little one lunged inntaniaai keeper, with a cork arm. Please avoid inhaling tho watermelon, Estelle; also the mush. Carry a  hi von call ft- and don't denend on tfca doilies. There might not be any, aad then what would Estelle dot poor thing? Old Maid, River Falls, Wia.—Not you should not go there visiting until his wife and family get home, no mattor what he says, and wait patient}? lor them, and do not go there noK 11 yoa do, please consider our nrn napondwHia closed. A kind friend sends the following bona fide excuse, written for a ohild by the parent and sent to the teacher. It la written on the blank page of a Kftincp* wort Almanac: Pleaw excnse Lulu for being abaant tor w« oversleep* ouraolfa they children m awake so much nights calling. meet. the l) tDiD, ami He siM ined to perceive me no more, but neverthehss he fought, and desperately, thrusting at the empty air. It was terrf Die to see him thus doing Imttlc witn his Invisible foes and to hear his screams and nurses as inch by inch they drove liim back to the edge of the crater. Here he stood awhile, like one who makes a last stand Then suddenly there rD-CMipin my mind a vision of the splendid ehamUr in Mon tozuma's palace in Ti-noctil Ian and of my self sleeping on ii golden lied and diC am ing on that bod—I knew It now. 1 v.:: the god Tezcat, and on the morrow I jmu lxC sacrificed, and I slept in misery, and ; I slept I dreamed. 1 dreamed 11.;t; 1 ? ■ ■ where I stCKKl this night, that the scent the English (lowers was in my ni'Mril it was this night, nnd that the swivi t of the nightingales rang in my e. this present hour. I dreamed th::' ;•» J mused and listened the moon eanie ti over the green ash and oaks, and, 1-C! th she -shone. I dreamed that I h. r 1 sound of singing on the hill. doorw no well, 1 wiClo UrepI Lily wutelx slit' 1 Discouraging. The cannibal who lingered at tho land ing sneered. against ov«Tpowe.ring ivngtli, thrusting Twice he nearly a mortal wound, in tlif v and striking fiiriou-lv. fell, as though Iw-neatl but recovering him -11 nothingness. Then, wit face \v,!D .still in shadow 1 was in ii tCD tnkc otl uiy hat, my "Tho poor," he exclaimed petulantly, "are always with us." fungi on with s as ui Now, sir, your Token, if it pleases Nursemaid—I wonder making baby cry bo!—Skei whatever ia itch. h a s you. Tli Ho recalled with sorrow that every missionary thus far had been gaunt and bony and observed with bitterness that the latest arrival was no exception.— Detroit Tribuno. Putting black pillowshams on your bed and dressing tho parlor lamp in a mourning tissuo paper shade on the death of a husband is a neat method of showing grief, but is not absolutely necessary unless his loss is extremely tough and hard to bear. denly he thr does who is pi His sword drop] fell backward i I turned awn widi i I drew the jHisy riiiK from my Unit to her, iiml she wit iluwn id examined it in the light , and as she wit thus I saw she mid lu)W little ■ •it il her except for the sad - i . how she had seen ty winUTs. I saw also that :pt control of her features as Ready to Stay. liy l! In one of the more fashionable quarters of Chicago there Uvea a jovial eldelry Irishman who baa made a fortune as a oontractoi. With all his wealth and his fashionable surroundings he ha» uever forgotten the friends of his youth and likes to have them about him, especially one Casey, a boss mason who still lives in the Goose Island district f the C |ee no mo v. bo or \\ ha his death w But jiow I awoke from this visio the past and of a long lost dream, f-Dr stood the sweet voice of a v .'an to sing yonder on the brow oi»,»s hill was not mad; I heard it clearly, snul Bound grew even nearer as the singerC1 down tho hillside. It was so near i that I could catch the very words «Df i sCid sonpr, which to this day I rciiicinlx Now I could see a woman's shape in moonlight. It was tall and stately clad in a white rolie. I'io. ntly slie li her head to watcli lb • flitter of a bat, iow I le bad t I came on doggedly, saving my strength I was sure that 1 miibt eotch him at last It did not matter when. ss in It r "Sliipl/Digh," said (Jholly as ho entered his tailor's, ' 'I want you to iron these clothes extra well. I am going to propose to a girl this evening. *' "Don't you think," replied the tailor, ''that you'd better press your suit yourself?—New York World, He IDid Later. Cynthia, San Diego, Cal. — You should take the knife by the handle only, not allowing the forefinger to extend up tho blade. Whoever told you to rest the forefinger along the blade of the knifo while eating pie could not have been well informed. It is also wrong to hold the knifo between the thumb and forefinger, with the little finger extended into tho atmosphere, as though you were crocheting with it. Take tho knife firmly yet easily in tho hand, run the blade gently under the pie and toss it into the mouth in an offhand way, chatting pleasantly in the meantime. You should provide yourself with three or four good anecdotes for dinner wherever you gc\ and jerk tho conversation around till it fits one of your anecdotes. For instance, should there 1*D a lull in the conversation, you oould say: At length ho reached the snow lino where the path ended, and for the first time he looked hack. There I was some had ujkjii the rinn her breast heaved d her band shook. Thus, then, dill I The following is written by Alex Bell; who cannot spell. He spells by ear, and I somewhat fear, as I said bate* thai his ear is "pore." 200 paces behind him. 1, his death, was behind him, and in front of him shorn- the snow. For a moment lie hesitated, ami I heard the heavy breathing of his horse in the great stillness. Then lie turned and faced the slope, driving his spurs into the brute's sides. The snow was hard, for here the frost bit sharply, and for awhile, though it was so steep, the horse traveled over it better than he had done along tinpathway. Now, as before, then- was onlyone road that he could take, for we passed np the rest of tt ridge, a plait, as it were, in the garment of a mountain, and on either side were steeps of snow on which neither horse nor man might keep his footing. For two hours or more we followed that ridge, and as we went through the silence of the haunted volcano and the loneliness of its eternal snows it seemed to mo that my spirit entered into the spirit of my quarry, and that with its eyes I saw all that was passing in his heart. Now the snow grew stec[Der, and the horse was almost spent, forhecould scarce ly breatho at so great a height. In vain did De Garcia drive his spurs into its sides; the gallant beast could do no more. Suddenly it fell down. Surely, I t hought, he will await me now. But even I hail not fathomed the depth of his terrors, for De Garcia disengaged himself from the fallen horse, looked toward me, then fled forward on his feet, casting away his armor as he went that he might travel more lightly. aneo that I had would wre.ik up D■ token iD a true one," she said ut "1 know thi- ring, though it In hut v. ' i :i si 1 n'c last I saw it. It was I many years ago I gave hus did I Witt Otomte tm* Heated in a chtilr tDy the bed. her head was resting on the back of tho chair. Now I sprang up and peered into her face. It was white and cold, and I could feel no breath upon her lips. I seizi-d her hand. That was also cold. I spoke Into her ear, I kissed her brow, but she did not move nor answer. The light grew quickly, and now I saw all—Otomie was dead! lent;! Ii Casey doos not feel exactly at homo in the big house, bat oat of regard for his old friend often upends an evening there with him. The two commonly retire to the contractor's den, where they chat and smoke to their hearts' content. On a recent occasion of this sort a heavy rain set in just as it came time for the visitor to take his leave. "Look here, Mike," said the contractor as they reached the door, "there's uo need of your goin home in this flood. I have a shpare room up stairs. Stay overnight wid me. "• nthe end my mother's my hat \V1k n I il as a to a youth to whom I |iroinisii] myself in marriage. Doubtless 11 your t.*ilC• is true, also, sir, uud I thank l U'.vr in bringing it so far. ;i very sad tale. And now, k you to stay in this Am to llaldnrHS. Mr. Bell, it seems, has violated Am firecracker act by selling half a honah and been complained of by a city marshal who monkeys with rum.  please, how deftly Mr. Bell alludes to this: l tun J if "No wonder we get bald while wo arC young," remarked Hopkins to a group of friends who had mot in the office of one of their number. "There's Whittaker," pointing to a pian at a desk. "I'll bet his hat hasn't been off his head today." rd t you for It is a i sir, as ] It was m for the ro: By the p:d fC r I thither |v •) house, wli"Tf I live ulona, and thero is no inn m ar, I pro{K#e to send se rving men to conduct you to my brother's dwelling, that is something more than a mile away, if, Indeed,rt she added slowly, ''you do not already know the path. Then) you will End entertainment, and there the sister of your dead companion, Mary Bozard, will 1x3 glad to learn the story of his strange lifted their ir they had In respond of lost week News 1 notiead whore they stated I violated the tlllafa ftie crackers order thats only H a bunck I rail to get rid in my store. I treid to tell him but ha refuse to hear of course he didn't Beamed to good condition that evening 1 tell you 1 woeW just as won walk by a whiskey Barrel ma walk by m r tin drew Poh our village marshal It w*s 10 O'clock when this occur its was very D*U evening waaao horse in town at that time. A I »T tin J bonnets to i us I v At last I rose with a sigh to seek help, and as I rose I felt that there was something set about my neck. It was tho collar of great emeralds which Guatcmoc had given to me and that I hod given to Otomie. She had set It there while I slept, and with it a lock of her long hair. Both shall bo buried with me. I respi-et for my sorrow A Only Diaz spoke '•'That's right," said Whittaker cheerfully. "I put it on at 7 when I left home this morning and ate my lunch down town with it on, and it's beginning to feel as if it had a brick in it too." saying "Is the murderer dead?" I nodded and went on. I went on to "All right, Tim,'* replied Casey, "Oi will. The ould woman won't worry."our chandler, for then; I thought that I should find Otomlu. She sat in it alon(, cold anil beautiful as though she had been fashioned in mar bie. id ventures from jiiur lips "Why do you wear it in the pffice?" asked out) of tho boys. "Why, we seeiu ta bo, all of us, rather grave today." I laid her in the ancient sepulcher amid tlio bones of her forefathers o/nd by the bodies of Ikt children, and two days later I rode to Mexico In the train of Bernal Diaz. At the mouth of the pass I turned and looked back ujion the ruins of the City of J'ineS, where I had lived so many years and where all I loved were buried. l'"ii£iii)il earnestly I gazed, as in his hour of death a man looks back upon his past life, till at length Diaz laid his hand upon my shoulder. I bowcU my head and answered: "First, scnora, 1 would pray jour answer to my friend's dying prayer and message." The contractor summoned a servant and had Casey shown to the "shpare room.'' Then he returned to his den to took ovor the plans of a new it# had on hand The kepi hiiu ab sorbod till nearly midnight, when he was startled by a sharp ring at the door bell. Every one else had retired, and he answered the bell in person. When he opened the front door, there stood Casey, dripping wet, with a smile on his face. "Habit, that's ait I feel moro at home with it ou. However, I might as Well take it off now and give my head a rest." Kind friends everywhere who have sent me curios like the above from *11 over the Union will please aooepfcngr heartiest thanks. Let us see if we oannot eueourage good habits, good morals, good government and good spelling ty ventilating the poor kind. I have several new and peculiarly virulent and malignant obituary notices on hand, and they will appear later. "I havo buried him with the bones of his brethren ami his forefathers " she wild, unswerinn the (juegtion that my eyes asked. "It scorned liest that you should sck1 hin» 110 more, lost your heart should 1 ''It ieD well," I HtlS' And then add before any pie has a ohanoo to break in: "Speaking-of graves reminds mo of an incident that occurred after the battle of Austwlit*. A gravedigger who was employed in burying the dead at that time was suddenly interrupted in his work by an exclamation of horror from the officer whoso duty it was to superintend and who indignantly affirmed that one of tho bodios just consigned to the earth still breathed. "It Is [lead." liildish to send answers to the .Still I i fur them, as I was charged Ho removed it suddenly, and a batch of letters fell to tho floor. Ho stared at them a moment as if ho could not quite comprehend what they were doing there. Then he laughed, but rather faintly. "My wife gave them to mo to mail this morning, They are to invite some of her lady Jfrieuds to a 5 o'clock tea, or something, tomorrow afternoon. Say, boys, I'll put a special delivery stamp ou each blessed one, and they'll bo in time." Tt*i, ''I my Ik ;irt M •rC £ r How rC ; (!s tlie writing within this js broken already "In the murderer ClC ;ui cntly Jn the. very words of I)i;iz '"He is dead." mis .ho saiil pros T1;uUl'1( far iij-un," I snld havis bitten out ly, and next instant I could "How?" I told her in few words. "You should have slain him yourself. Our son's blood is not avenged." "I should have slain him, but in that hour 1 did not seek vengeance. I watched it fall from heuvC iVtwrd was content. Pcr- '"You are a lonely man now, comrade," he said. "What plans have you for the future?" * —- -w.%C .i-V. hut also, but doubtless "How's this, Mike?" exclaimed th« contractor. "I thought yo was to staj all night hetv." rail anil nUiti ii/nii'l i hi,l in a ii'h iti' ;he moonlight lit up her face. It w... hoe of Lily Hozai-t. my 1«•••» 1 ■ D\ C• i» ns« if as of yore, though irrown olderaml i ; ; ed with tlio seal of pome great saw, and so deeply was 1 stirred at t! sight that had it lint Ik n fur tin lm mllng tC» which I clung I must hav- fa ■n to tho earth, mid p . ' an in. 'ront piy iips. Jshu heard I In' gronu ami cea-ed ong. Then, ealehing III' I.I t' ire of a man, sin- pstCDJD|D• -C1 and tr hough to fly. 1 si' id i|iiili A'onder own-aim- her f. ,u nearer ami s|Doke in t hthat I ivmemli. red well, saving li ft of its glories except pome of wanders here so 1,1 e' Is it i„» D ancient cC*lar trees. Oil the eighth . ow^',('n h» ariHii r DiM'ak .ay of my stay an Indian stopped me in 1 *u\\' ,)on,'f1' ~ ' the fit reel, saying that an old friend had ° charged him to say who D\lshed to boo mo. , l'u J"'c* " 1 i loii.mwi the Indi.'n, wondering who "it., tho friend might lie, for i had no friends, | " I would not diM-owr mj i •k and In- led me to a fine stone house in a knew the truth. ad\an i her new street. Here I was seated in a dark- '1,ot BI' J,D ll""1 " vD' ened chamber and watted theto awhile the shvuli» whieh gn -.v In n im i, till smldenly a sad and sweet voice that jwy stand in sueh a lashion i hat the*. i seemed familiar to me addressed mo In the J'Kht did not .strike upon my f.a-e I !».* I V/ter lovunm k'W»Dlrytnm ThiiIo." '*? tho courtly Spanish fashioi' fOU ba\ f:i»d Icaj wo v. en 1 cheri , il.is rii; • ring for many months litiff! Well, sir, though iind though perchance mory of biiu who wore his remained nn- By tills time we had passed the snow and worn come to tins edge of tlx- ice cap that Is made by tho melting of the snow with the heat of the inner fires, or perhaps by that of the sun in hot seasons, I know not, and its freezing in the winter months or in the cold of the nights. At least then- Is such a cap on Xaca, measuring nearly a jnile in depth, which lies between the snow and the black rim • Df the crater. I'p this ice climbed l)e (jarcia, and tho task is not, of the easiest, even for one of untroubled mind, for a man must step from erark to crack or net-die to needle of rough ice, that stand upon smooth surface like the bristles on a hog's back, and woo to him if one break or ho slip, for then, as he falls, very shortly tho liesh will lie filed from his hones by the thousands of sword like points over which he must pass in his descent toward the snow. ' Indeed many times I Reared greatly lest, this should chance to pe Garcia, for X did not desire to low: my vengeance thus. Therefore twice when I saw him in danger I shouted to him, tell lng him where to put his feet, fur now I was within 20 paces of him, and, strange say, he obeyed me without question, for getting everytl»;22 in his terror of instant '"None," I answered, "except to die." "Never talk so," lie said. ''Why, you are scarcely 10, and I who am 50 and more do not speak of dying. Listen. You have friends in your own country—England)"' •'I hud." s tin "So I am, me hoy 1'' replied the smiling Casey '/'.That's why I went home for me pipe.' '—Chicago Times. " 'That shows how little you aro iu tho habit of doing this sort of thing,' coolly retorted the graved igger. 'If you were to pay attention to all they say, there wouldn't be a single dead man among them.' " [L,atighter.] Or yon could, on tho other hand, after the company had been laughing heartily over something that you had said, for instance, say: c« rDui»j Encouraging Him, Katie (aged 10, engaged temporarily in entertaining the clergyman)—Bag* you ever read "Viola Vane; or. The Hand of Destiny," Dr. Fourthly? The Rev. Dr. Fourthly—No, Kiss Katie; I think I have never read it ehaii«- it in best .so. The sC ance has brought all inv sorrows upon nit) Ycnxtiarux) )x lo Wxl and not to mini as 1 have learned too late." iiiKof von to tl i ni;wCl o£ some savage married and who bore In the Cyclone Belt. "You'll lxi bald just tho same, old boy,1' said Hopkins maliciously. —De- Detroit Free Press. Won bsit Iwing so, my answer DC.ur dead friend is that I ■d, lull I lllllst needs take bleb 1 swore-to bint for ver. since lie has broken i may strive to east ojjt in. since lie rejected and And, standing up, Lily be tore at her breast and r from her, and at the ( f;.I• the ring upon the "Folk live long In tho«o quiet lands. Uo Ki t U them. I will flyd you n iuissiigo "I do not think so," said ()t the look upon bcr fitce was that 1 to Spain Good Words For Clii hlinn Endeavor. I IukI soen when sJ Whcr 1 will tliink Cj{ it," { mibWttCvCt lie V President Tliwing of tho Western R» serve! university says: "The Christian Endeavor society stands not only by the sido of tho college, but also stands, before the college. It is tirst- to lead men to Christ, who, coming to the college and going forth from tho college, are themselves to loud men to Christ as their Saviour." sho tuiuiHul Marilift and wl In iiini' wo camo to Mexico, and l)iass round nie a lodging. 1 alxxlu in Mex-1 ico 10 days, wandering sadly about the ' city and up to the hill of  where Montezuma's pleasure house had ,lt' 1k-cu and where 1 had met Otomie. Noth- "Why, wo arc rather wild today, are Katie (with a pensive sigh)—Ah I Then life has a pleasure in store for you, doctor, that I can't look forward to any more. —Chicago Tribune. (lanntl Ufxm the pyramid, their naeriflec. "Had 1 lDepn in yC would have killed Mm by Inch I hitfl (lone with him, then thodC \vi' not?' swi't, lov dri'v tn.'Mii' n And then, beforo any one could ppeak, for that would spoil all, yon might say: uAwl speaking of wild rocalls an incident regarding Oscar Wilde when in this country. Ho went into a very swell restaurant in Milwaukee, and ordering a large bouquet of English violets lie buried his nose in them, took a long draft of their delicious perfume, and with a look of delirious joy murmured, '1 have dined,' paid his bill and went out. begin, not, lDefore. Hut it is Cif no account. Everything in dune with, all an; dead, and jnjr heart with them. Now oat, fur you The tramp entered the office and laid his card on the desk. The man the** picked it np and read, "Turnpike Wattcr, B. T." His Decree. it, ami i irt stood still. So Wi ll, she had tho D\v 1 fa'traii in wish ure wear ImKiiul. 1 iiml •Mi.ri' cimpli ti**DV lliinCl So I ate upon the 1 and afterward I cast i d anil slept. 111.1.1 I for sometimes Sir William—Aw, I say, is thoro nq wing shooting arouud borpl ■''•'Say, you'H just run over tu uiy cyclone, pit auCl keep your eye peelv'l, you'll kavo a shotjat \no6$ everything in the gouutry, from a killyloo bird to a house aud Ipt, in. about a payute.Correct. Jn th' .rkiioss I heard tho volw Awake, I would it' ot f till I hit llian such r. My tongue und woarlnesa down, X fumul Teacher—What is the meaning of the word excavate? "Um," hesaid, "youhare "Yes, sir." niio that sail . . 1111 v Cln\v of hollow ont. Teacher—(Jivo me a sentence in which the word is properly used. Scholar—The small boy excavates when his papa licks him.—Tit-Bita with you voico which sleep. nil there w:is that at tirrv«l me frnin in onk'ivil "The degte&ef B. T." "I see. But what does B. T. aftttA "What is it?."1 hca tjikin t iDn ysy finger I V S]Deak on," I said. ''Where are you .1 In \v 1th Cn l.ist glanco wimum wfi.ii rofust'd mo. Half way t l*o dC "A large, wide German sat near by and watched the u'sthetic performance. for?"" Otouik at tli "Bom Tired "—Detroit FsM Pri—i