The Golden Milestone. takes our train out, but the engine is with it and the perpetual thought that is Many Iowa towns have eleeted women anything to do with a daughter of yes putto it." i are the trees their purple branches being expended upon it, with all the added to the offiee of school director under the "mine." sad themselves abroad, like reefs of coral, The engine was on a siding,puffing ai appliances and wonders that ,the world new State law allowing womentohold Rising silent And in consequence a strict urjunctioin see' i spitting little jets ot steam,'and Die] has gained in the last half century. It to office. The experiment is reportedtobe lit fbc red sea of the winter sunbet girl"w was laid upon the Knight, a tall manly young fellow, wi sometimes seems, indeed, as ,if, even a successful one. more, which she violated Jurat asygften, as 8r"m the hundred chimneys of the \illatre, was coming at that moment down before our own threescore and ten years Princeton will send a partytoDenver, she-ould get out of the house. SET from the superintendent's room. He have been numbered, we might exppct to **y the Alfreet the Arabian story to witness the solar ecjjpsprincipally of Jul 28th. One day Mr. Bathrust enteTcdthe resttaurant caught sight of his old classmates, with Smoky column** 15 see a raceof men and women whose mentality occupied4 It will lae in which Mr. Garthman plied his nfammr aloft into the air of amber laughed, hesitated and raised his hand would far outstrip our own, whose spectroscopic work. brush, arid sat down in^ ffii ^taclto have to his hat. power to wring her secrets, from nature Jtfithe window winks the flickering firelight, his boots cleaned Mr. Garthman kept Here and. there the lamps of evening glimmer "Goingto speak to him, hey?" said would be revealed only by,nature's in. his face averted as much as possible, but Social watch fires little Billy McGee, anxiously. finite wealth in secrets amf who would f% POLISHOG CALF-Blftft. Mr. Bathrust observed him ihteriti?. He rernag one another through the darkness I say no!" sud Saulter, peremptorily. entirely fulfill the commandment to subject was shined, anda paid hishten cents and, Two years ago John L. Garthnian, of "If he chooses to leave the companionship the eaith. I hour came back Cfta tfe hearth lightedelogs are glowing, out.1 J&K & u&ik Ariel in th clove pine tree went Lewiston, Me graduated with honors at 4 of gentlemen, I shall not follow him. and thought his boots were yet clean he Doubtless in the past people loved Yale. As during his years in college he sig'h.For its freedom I talk to mechanics and that sort of VSBMUKS and 3 the air imprisoned in them. sat down again. 'At the conclusion of their children quite as tenderly as they had, in addition to his regular studies, people who Eever had a chance to be anything the ojperallon, he remarked: do to-day but it had occurred to them read law with an attorney of New Haven, better, but Knight is asocial suicide, BSytbe fireside the old men seated, ^Haljha.'^r. Garthman this' i the only in a limited degree toimprove upon it only required a year in a law office at Seeing ruined cities in ashes, sir!" polishing of calf-s'kins you do! Ha! ha'"' their own experience for those children. KokomoT Asking eadlv Ind., to fit him for admission to That's true," said McGee. How camet The way in which they themselves were And taking a coupe he hastened up the bar, after whc he immediatelv dfftfee past what it c&n ne'er restore them. well Saulter puts things!" he added asideSocial reared seemed good enough, on the whole, town full of the discovery. He had his to New York, and tried to get into practice suicide!' Well I shall not BfyQit hreside there are youthful dreamers, and if they ever thought of it at all, they nvai in his power. -Now [Miss Lillie Unfortunately for Mr. Garthman, JfeiMmg castles fair, with stately stairways, bring him to life." CSftfo future what it cannot give them would perhaps have held it as an irreverence would throw Garthman over: now the Asking blindly he discovered that there was already 6,- 1 Knight saw that the young men 4 to their own parents to change it elder Pickbam would insist that all connection 000 lawyers in this city, all tryingtoget wished to avoid him, and turned aside CI lldren was not regarded to them as oc between them cease, for, of course, into practice, and there was about as with a bow and a heightened color, while tfeefiresidetragedies are acted. cupying a position of their own, complete he would never permit his daughter to much chance for him as being elected to they hurried into the train. fern wfeose scenes appear two actors only and individual as children, and growing marry a bootblack. And he lost notime the Presideney. Office rent and boardbills It was yet five minutes until the time Wife and husoand tihngs, but as unfledged human beings in getting at the old man and tell soon consumed the little means he of starting. Aad above them God, the spectator notjworty ol much consideration till fully ing bis discovery. had and he was at the end at his string The train of passenger-cars was on ByQkefiresidethere is peace and comfort, plumed, and particularly was this- the As he was a month in arrears, his landlady *'Do you .pretend to say that John the main track (the engine still being V@Wesa.nd children with fair, thoughtful fates case of female children, who were taragbt commenced to regard him with looks Garthman is blacking boots in a base- Waiting, watching, detached) and the people were nuriying little or nothing but how to make the other W&r A. well known footstep in the passage. ment?" not altogether pleasant, and the prompt in, most of them coming direct Certainly I do I He has an old suit sex comfortable. Now, on the contrary, landlord who earned the office he occupied from the theaters and other places of IS&K& i man's chimney is his Golden Milestone, people live vastly more for, and to, and of clothes, wbieh he weass during the notified himtopay or get out Mr amusement. Inside of the cars and in Is tfee central point from which he measures in their children, extend the advantages dayr Every distance Garthman discovered that while there and then when his work is done, the depot there was a good deal of jesting acquired independently of sex, aBd appear T%nwagJ the gateways of the world around he puts on his good clothes and comes was plenty of room 0 the upper shelves, and gayety between acquaintances to recognize a certain new accountability him up here, imposm? himself upon us as a 'it would require a great many years of meeting on their way home, the train in the matter, and not taking gentleman He's an imposter." climbing,. and that he would probably being a local one and running only 6as ifiie. farthest wanderings still he sees it, wasnrt he?" them exactly as blossoms on a tree, that He was a lawyei, staive to death a great many times before through suburban villages. MAJS the talkingflame,the answering night bloom whether or no, and one day, undei wind "Yes." he could reach even the lowest of Just then, a shoit distance up the sun and rain, will mature into fruit without As he heard them "lillie'" yelled the old gentleman, the said upper shelves. So he determined track, there was a hiss and a cry. and much fingering and fussing, but ratheras Wteea he sat with those who were,but ai not. somewhat red in the face, comg here tp quit law and try something else a voice shueked out in horror- "A lunaway souls of almost infinite potentialities, You may take John Garthman as soon He was a sensible voungmaD^and so he Hau^py he whom neither wealth nor fashion, train on the main track! A runaway tor whom they are responsible, and with 3fic the march ofthe encroaching city as 'you please. I like the fellow. did not trair on the main track! Passengers a keen desiie to see some of those potentialities Duves an exile BathuB&t, if youl hacl been fixed as he in the depot! Out of the cars wrought out, and a feeling of Fhaoa the health of his ancestral homestead was, you would have bojrmwed of youi Ask for the management of a manufacturing out of the cars'" compensation for trouble as if they hoped friends, and thence, glided genily into corporation A runaway freight-train was on the to live their life over to these children "We saay build mere splendid habitations, dead beating, aad ended finally as a Apply Kr#the position of actuary in a track! The fireman had started it for ffi8s3*ttr rooms with paintings and with sculp It is quite possible that this loss of dealer of farot Johne didn't abouto any- life insurance cempanv. tures, the purpose of taking it into the freightdepot H 'set earn self in children may be carried too far, thing ofl the kind. But we cannot Ask for the Presidency of the board of By some accident, before it had %i*v ith.go.ld the old associations' that a hot-bed system may develop a ing a living honestly, and has succeeded Education. left the main passenger track, the man W IT Longfelou work lank growth without sustaining powei, a That young fellow will get on. Goodbye, Ask for the managing editorship of a had stumbled as he was at fruit without flavor, and that even with Bathurst, you have done us a favoi. daily paper. and had nearly fallen upon the ground supeiior powers, should they be reached, Garthnian won't black your boots a Apply for the cashiership of a bank, 01 Half-stunned, he naa "jumped up, but Brave. may bp nourished a vast conceit and selfishness great while." anylhihg of the kind could not catch the moving engine, pleasantly in consequence, which may make was1 And so the troubled .Mm which was gaining speed every second, But he did find somethiag- he could do One oi two young men came out of the generation to come as unlovely and received, and all resferictions were and had shrieked out his warning. Down in one of the streets close by Wall, tfee Academy of Music when the opeia unwholesome as it is brilliant. Yet we taken off the meeting of the two young under the sidewalk of a popular restaurant TOSS over, and lingered in the lobby to It so happened that the switch-tender, tiust that the very love and sense of responsibility ones, and Mr. Bathurst quit the house in "WKtfHi the passing of the crowd. Young he noticed a light, clean, open space that through flight, er from some unexplained wnich, by every means possible disgust, and the twain are to be made 3*Pee*l Saulter came up to them while was unoccupied. He wenfetothe proprietor, cause, did not move his switch in season in literature and art anl daily lite, oi very soon. Mu Garthman has resumed putting his pearl lorgnette in its case. to run the train off the main track, f the lestaurant and took that space stimulates the intellect, will also warm the practiee of the law. and as Mr and now the huge machine, with its tiain at a nominal rent, and, promptly pawning f*^.**ISTice house, dressed." eh? lie said languid- and nourish the moralities and the affections ~Wel Se Fann Swan Pickham has influence, it is probable behind, was rushing towaici the train in his-ulster to procure stock, opened business of the childien of to day that he will get on very well. the depot with a speed that promised fatal Wretched taste for young girls to wear there as a bootblack! This little romance ended properly disaster. dSaunonds! What d'ye think of the A\s a matter of course he did not desire We would not, however, advise all Education, ew tenor, eh? Miserable. I say." to be known as a polishe? ot boots up The few official whoweie near had young lawyeis to go to boorblacking, for 'F&e -ldei men answered him civilly town, for he was living in arather exclusive time but to gasp with horror. At the This is what Mr. Fowle says about then.that profession would be ovcidone, and walked on, leaving him with some boarding-house, to which only the momont when the ciy ot danger was cleanliness in a teacher. Perhaps in no and, beside, all old gentlemen might not Sasis of his own age. mos4r respectable were admitted. It was shrieked out upon the night air, Dick particular can a teacher be more usefu bf as- sensible as Mix Piekham How What would Miss Swan say if she no trouble to conceal his- identity Knight was attaching his engine to his to his pupils than by inculcating a habit evei, a few of them might try it to iBssam that cub criticizing hei?" said Some old clothes, a smutch 01 black passenger-train. From the cars and platform of neatness, and in no one thing, perhaps, the auvani-age not only of themselves^ Dr. Pomeroy. "The most insuffeiable rose a yell ot fiantic tenor, in which artistically placed on his face, his pantaloons will the impoitance of our example be so but the world.M. Y. Bhemnq Ma! cceature in the world to me is a conceited Saulter's voice was highest. Death seemed in his boots, and no human being distm-ctly felt. The superiority of female I oy, assuming the tone of a man rushing upon the people, who had not could iecognize(in Garthman, bootblack, teachers in this respect is,perhaps, one jl position when he has not yet proved time to get out of the cais before the tha fashionable and elegant Mr (narthman, ,Whimsicalities oi Isisamtj. the strongest reasons for the grow, of Ms right to be alive." ^ng diivmg train would be upon them. of Twenty-first stieet preference which is given to them. ey.1'I thought young Saulter paityhad mon- A literary*, gentleman jof. some celt His venture was entirely successful. The officials in the depot watched eveiy institute I saw young gentlemen said one of the bnty, who, in consequence of a slight He was something of a wik iahi way, and Knight with blanched faces. who, in manner and peisonal appearance, $EJve a fine horse, wear* clothes made affection of }he brain was for several entertained his patrons judiciously, while "He'll be crushed to atoms!" muttered were all that could be wished, but I sawalso fey "better tailor than I can afforoi, and uioaths the inmate of an insane asylum he polished thei" bootg. Attid then there one stout old man, standing by Di. Pomerov many who in these respects were far Caches at the best restaurant in Scotland, has leoently published his was something about him wnich attracted better fitted to be warnings than models *lMoney!" said toe doctor, angiily. impressions of lite therein. He says the young biokers who frequented the But Dick had put steam upon his engine for the imitation of youth. I do not wish that? one of the most singular of his fel Why, his fattier is head book-keeper restaurant, and he enterecb apon a careei Apparently he did not think ot the young teachei to expend all herearns low -sufferers was a gentleman who Rur Sra^er & Son, with a family of six. of piospeity that was delightful. His leaving his post There he stood with in dress,bnt I do wish to see every teacher aveiy beautiful billiaid-player, an old lie strained every neivc to educate this earnings frequently, ran as- high as six Lis hand on the level, calm and deteiniined. careful in regard to external influence inmate of the house, aaid quite a psy l*y, who now looks upon every practicable dollars a day, and his business in two alwTays be neat and whole, Hisclothes may ch ^logical study. Kfe seemed like a way of earning his own living as weeks increased so that he had to employ 1 His huge machine spiaiig forward. however coarse. His boots may always mttn in a waking dreoaa, and historical grMwean I'll warrant you the fellow an assisstant It met the coming locomotive with a be cleaned. His hair may always be events and personages, form the dream isever had twenty cents in his pocket of His changed condition* autoacted attention crash that threw both monsters upward, neatly cOmbed, his teeth perfectly white, laud of his memory, were pepetually at his boarding house It had Jus -own earning. His restaurant and as it they had risen to wiestle and throw his finger nails cut, his hat and clothes mirrored on his orain lie compliment become well known, that h- had been impecunious, SiwKr^-stablo bills come to his poor old each other. Then Dick's engine was brushed, and his hands, nose, eais and ed the wrker by supposing him. four and now the fat thac he fa*feer at the end of the month." thrown one aide,but the foice ot the runaway neck perfectly clean. Frequent ablutions thousand years old, a*ad considered the had better clothes and was again cairying JKeanwhile, young Saulter stood comftaaxsatlj train was overcome,and the machinery o.. his whole person, as well as of events and persons-of the present generation this watch, and and. paid all his bills twirling his opera-hat and ot the engine so injured that all movement his face and hands, are indispensable. unworthy ot notice. The following prompily, led to muchi conwaent. ateUmg the pretty girls as they passed. was stopped. Dick was hurled He must have a care as to bis breath, that is a specimen of his extraordinary Had "he abandoned law? Yes, and W*i caught a glimpse of his dappei little senseless several feet fiom the place of i it be not offensive to those whom he is business? reminisicenoes yes, Mr.I knew. gone into business. What figure in a great minorthe waxed the collision. obliged to face so often. I do not hesitate Id Noah very wwill I Theie were two Polishing calf-skin. And he was congratulated jousted? e, lavender gloves, wired roses The stout old man and Dr Pomeroy, to say *hat if I were on a school com Noahs whom I knew, but old Mr Noah, at hissuccess aad became a 'Ms Ms botton-hole, and looked pityingly with all the other men in the depot, ran mittee no man who used tobacco and who. lived some thousand years before the verv popular youne man, and was re after the doctor and his friends. to Knight, picked him up and carried spit on the floor, should ever have my Noah you referto)who built the ark. ceived into the very best boarding-house vsP'faw "I those 'old fellowsh must envy himtothe waiting-room, nere he was said Wine, wit life in its vote, if he applied foi a school and would I had a good deal to do with the con society. left with the physicians. teach for nothing." struction of the auk, and furnished* some Was it possible that a yoang man like jwurkle, and dregs, eh? Oh, by the way, Well, well," said the old gentleman, very useful hints,in regard to the admission John Garthman. should go thiough life S saw a curous thing to-day! Dick Knight impatiently, as Dr. Pomeioy, "came out, Laige committees of our ablest teachers ot ain anfii Light and s.f6rth He without love* Kever! In the same 5011 remember Knight in our class, "how is it?will he live?" after full examination have reported was a very resgectible man Noah, with house resided an old gentleman, a moirchant "who took the scientific course tofithim I think so. God foibid that I shouLJ that the complete introduction of the a deceate family,, but unfortunately hego who knew iuet when to quit, whs fee a civil engineer? Well, it appears have to take him home dead to his old metric weights and measures, now making inin.very dissipated habits in, his with his daughter occupied the best tfaaJt, times being so hard, he could get father'" so rapid progress in this country, old age, andv. ini spite of all*I could, say apartments in this* house. Lillie Piakham, rBB&jpropeT work to do, so he has taken to You know him, then? Who is he? would save a full year of the school-life, to him, he indulged in WMie to a- veuy the daughter, wa& a delightful gjiri, ^KS^roper. Instead of laying by as I Wiiy, do you know what I owe him?" of every child. hurtfui execs8. Julius Ceesac was avery ana Garthman and) she became very manca feave*one, waiting quietly for an opening and his voice broke. My little girl is In spite of all the efforts that are made clevea-m^NraAh, a baTd forehead. but I attached to each other, and there" was. a Sic an educated man to step into, he aboard that train." in the cause of popular education, illiteracy was more* intimate with Alexander, the decent prospect that ia that time they *eually isI'm ashamed to tell it!" Dr. Pomroy told Knight's story briefly, is increasing faster than our population. Great of Macedonia, as I was. long in. the would make up their minds te go What? What is he?" asked his informing the old gentleman that he was The year saved would be enough military profession myscAfi I one time through life together. But Garthmaorbad, Softeners. thoroughly educated, but that he looked commanded) three millions.of aaen. about to turn the scale. In a country depending as who has not had, abated rival. Broker upon any work as better than dependent Driving an engine on the Central three-quWeos of an inch* tall. N* they, for the safety of its free institutions named Bathurstvwho lived at the same idleness. T 3 1 fact! I saw him, all grimy with weie not Mltfptttians. knew Captain upon the education of the people, these house, had cast his ejesupon the gjrl, and smoke, in his little cabcose to-day. "He's the true grit^'sir!" was the"afr Gulliver very well. And they wert* inflamed by heir excellencies as well as facts are of the most serious importance. ^food heavens I' I said 'Knight are imated reply. "There's no work so humble smart enough little fellows^ Ibufc mj menfwine-a her comfortable fortune she was- sure to Such being the case, evety friend of ywnnad?" that a man cannot show the best qualities possess, determined to possess her. Lillie education, economy, and progress, must e^cpitent marksmenthey always ^JSTot so mad as to starve,' he said, of manhood in it, as we have seen aimed! -ai the eyes, =ahd mves missed favored arthman, and the father have a strong interest in the efforts now Jboaghing, to night. It is not the daring courage I VU telkyoa, Mr.1-,J favored Bathwrsfc and so it was. about an be mart extraordinary meeting-with so much success, to secure approved in him so much as the presence aikf him why his father did not t&Qg yOueVer ft&^d^Vfi&b. beats even race between them. {u these advantages for our .country. of mind, the keen eye, (to see what to 40 ssapport him aud keep him from such railroads. I was onse transported from BathUfft^jdj not ta&we ji*. -Mr. Garthlnan'sJjus^Svkfar The Printing Times says we must accept and how to do it." Request Mr. Knight, iegredation. Then he wasmy mad. .rstrdng the faartherestishore&sominutesttoothequentsceatareplIndinif,efthrenre|eaehAfric jliereJ.wlis ^Something *Do you think I with big the following data on.the authority if you please, to call on me at ten to-mor- tn of wha *4 aM mysterious about it Gartlraaan, when of the compiler, who has'evidently more row," he said to the stationjnaster. was, '*ody, will be a burden on an old man?' meaas?n business1 asked where his ^place of time than business on his hands: "A "Who is that?" asked Fred Saulter, "Atesaid and began to talk nonsense tion respecting hw, method of transit had 'always.' answered Vaguely, down, rapid penman can wirite "thirty words in breathlessly, of the Official. afeowt laziness degrading man, with more By a bomb t" In reply to my remaikj town," with a sweep of the city Batburst a minute. To do" this he must draw his "The President of the road. Dick df the same sort of bosh, all very ridicuftwsand on the dang- $- had searched a'l the directories fu pen through the spaGe of a rod, 16 1-2 $0 rapidlvl Knight, if he lives, has an open road to very disgraceful. You'll see him information in vain: 3S such njarae over -vastioce feet. In forty minute! his pen travels a fortune now and he deserves it." ^-4 uj5d,|Yes it "to-night if vou take the eleven p. m. appeared, and no such business eitbet WHS ItaH&led furlong. We mike otts an average sixteen Fred Saulter crept into the car to go JTftbjJ dang r^ team." And so he plied the old gentleman wtth, I op4j%e curves or tujrns of the pen in writing home. His lavender gloves were soiled, We ocea **Tut,tuti" the lads' said and "Poor suspipioas^ jntimutimj? ^hat proh|bly out WuSmt each work.v and the wrircd rose in his button-hole was essll. wbi hi Writing, thirty rwords a minute, Knight! he was a good fellow!" precisely the young man was a dealer in 4 Jaro eame"1tbfm.v we must make 80 to each minute, falling to pieces with a sickly decayed iSpiittued IAV s if he were dead. bask, a smuggler, a policy dealer^ and in an hour, 28,000 in a day or only ^ve smell. Life itself was sickly and decayed .journeytothe wilds of AfricaSometimes,tfheihwit, teft SnteBl Sn^eed, from the light brilliancy of the anfr all that/'fill both he and Lillie- were he thought, with a yawn, and he thiew hours, 144,000 and in a year oi 300 davs, & -scene about themthe music, the beautifirtl nearly, crazy. Finally the followingconversation-^ensued the wilted rose out of the window. Yes howevefi^^po^^genileman would 43.000,000. The man who made 1,000,- low-voiced women, themselves daintily seem doubtful of nig,oira veracitv or and to all conceited, effeminate natures 000 strokes with his pen in a mon+b, was mttired,that gay and happy part of the Mr. Garthman,. I insist, before you like his it is likely to prove whaj Saulter's not at all lemarkable. Many men, newspaper T*rfdthere was a gulf like to the grimy arr^dd*-!, are seen wittf'm'y daughter any more y imagination pictured it that night. a makes writers, for instance, make 4,000,- engine-driver in the dark depot, a gulf vhic upon luiowjng. wfo piur are. and ^what rc^the last hundred ^"%J^SF mo 000. Here we have, in the aggregate, a ea ky^ which none but a madman, they thought faile a yo^ ^fe mark of 300 miles long to be traced on 8 ^^rould willingly cross. STL-!! -r To-Day's Children. Ml itfr Ining paper by such a writer in a year. EEhe sauntered out ot the opera-house "Mr.Pickh^nJ! a$!Jbfcnffi.Garth* making each letter ofthe ordinary alphabet ^aod a few minutes before eleven reached an. 'I earn monev enousrhtosupport suonor It would seem as though the next generation money'enongfrfc wl^^ ma we must make from three to seven the depot, in time for the train that ran your daughter properly and for ,the res* 1 ought to be far better than the rpipe and at a earned IK3L 5? turns and a half to four." Perhaps some ttothe suburban town where they Pi *a**""*-* atten must deelinetoan^w." 8e:SaM!^ij^St generations that went before it, when we equally ingenious person will next inform 8 flared. ohM You decline, d* you? Nomanwho the n^b^hoodtSSL DOMlooa*ftac t* J? ns how muchg ink a journalist can think of the pains that are being taken ,H ^^There he is I'pwhiapcred Saulter, "He save by not dottin hi a "I'u."^ has anything to conceal shall have daut, ^||j|e^J^