es^sssaa liniwai'w I PIWIPIHipW ^fffiffiffiffi?*' ^^yy^^-! Religion in Russia. "XUZfS QT7AE8XE&X8*? but Forbes paid no attention to them enjoying the society of his lovely daughter Struggle With A Wol m^ A TEXAN XVCXDEtf "In Russia all creeds are free.' he was thinking of his lost wife and and her husband, who, but fox a So Alexander IL wrote to the Hoi For many years the trapper Cheney (VrLLANELLH.) child, and wondering why Heaven had timely discovery, would have left a Bow Gen. Sam Houston Samovea the fleet, not, 0 Maid to know Fathers in 1878. It was a barefacet was a "feature" of the northern New treated him so cruelly in wresting blood-red streak on the waters of the (Alaa! unblestthe trying!) Becords of the State. falsehood then let us see whether i them from him, and leaving him to blue Mediterranean. York wilderness. Every tourist "When thou and I must go. is true now. In Wolbinia there an About two years after the Texan revolution mourn their loss in utter desolation of through the woods reckoned his acquaintance No lore of stars can show, 60,000 colonists from Bohemia, Romai General Houston had his first heart. as one of the necessary adventures What shall be, vainly pryin~ A Philadelphia Esmond, Catholics to a man. They wantec difficulty with the people. Under the He was aroused from his reverie by Seek not, O Maid to know. Bees and all who returned from Lake Having1 priests, so the government got three Marrying" the Mother Aftr constitution the capital had been fixed one of the waiters saying harshly: Rejected toy the Daughter. from Bohemia. But what priests' Golden and Mt. Tahawns brought home Will Jove long years bestow? at Austin, but power was given to the "Now, then, out you go. We don't Or is't with this one dying, Philadelphia Times. Suffice it to say that they were al choice collectionsor collections of president to order the temporary removal want beggars here." ^That thou and I must go. married. The colonists did not likt forest stories related to them by "Daniel "I can pay you, your highness," sail A prominent minister in this city was of the archives in case of danger. that sort of thing, so the governmen* 2Tow,when the great winds b\f an aged Egyptian, humbly. "Do let The Comanches wore committing ravages Boone of the Adirondacks." Cheney asked whether he often had widows called together a "diocesan confer And waves the reef are plying me rest I am verv tired. Tell me, do within sight of Austin, and General was a man who knew how to face a wild Seek not, 0 Maid to know. come a second time to have a nuptial ence" of the districts of Dubno, Os you know Pasha Forbes I want to find Houston ordered the state record beast and never feared to do sowhether trong and Romon. The men who me knot tied. Bather lot clear wine flow. him he's my friend." to be forwarded to him at Washington at the conference to draw up a consti his antagonist was an angry moose, On no v.un ho~i relying I don't think I could strike an average "What, Abdullah!" exclaimed Forbes, (Texas). This caused much excitement tution of the church were worthy ol When thou anu I must go. or a wildcat, panther, wolf, or bear. starting up and seizing the beard of for you, if that is what yon want," in Austin, and four hundred men placed such "priests*' as they had. One mar One of the many close encounters out Ties dark then be it so. the speaker. "Why, you must have themselves about the State-house tc proposed that they should form he replied, "but widows do come veinfrequently -Now,now, churl Time is flying of which he narrowly escaped was a risen from the dead." prevent the removal. Colonel Morton, Catholic church without a Pope. An Seek not, 0 Maid, to know to be re-married. And why winter fight with a she-wolf which his The waiter waited to hear no more, other advised the adoption of the Lu When thou and I must go. a leading spirit of the revolution, was not? The second marriages of widows now that a great pasha had recognized first shot failed to kill. theran creed, but this was objected Old World IdylsAustin Dobson. at their head, and wrote to General the poor Egyptian as his friend. Like are rarely unhappy ones. because Luther was a German, anc As he came upon the animal, ravenous Houston, who well knew his character OMffiSckOF TIME. others of his class he was impressed by "Nearly thirty years ago I married a the Germans were the Dorn enemies with hunger, and floundering as a fighting man, that, if the archives externals, and measured a man by surrounding the Bohemians. A third held tha' very young couple in this city. The through the snow, he raised his rifle were removed, he (Morton) would hunt circumstances. the tenets of Huss should be aiopted husband, whom I will call Mr. Tomson, and tired but the wolf made a spring him down like a wolf. General Houston "Good night, friend," said a man in "My dear master," cried the poor fellow, At last they agreed to call themselves was not more than twenty-one and the as he pulled the trigger, an& the .ball replied in a note of characteristic sliding down to his knees and embracing Bohemian Brothers, and to reproduct a long cloak, with a broad brimmed did not hit a vital part. She then wife was only eighteen. They brevity: 'If the people of Austin do Forbes' feet. "Oh! the joy of a Greek liturgy in the native Bohenii rushed at him furiously. were very fond of each other. Aftei Lat shading his features, as he walked not send them, I shall come and this meeting. Allah has allowed me to an tongue. The resolutions of the Con He had now nothing but an empty three years of happy life Mr. Tomson through the streets of Alexandria, that get them and if Colonel Morton can to live to see vourdear face once more." A ent'on were approved of by the Ru* rifle to defend himself with, aud instantly was taken sick with inflammation of the kill mo, he is welcome to my *ar-cap." 'lioaie of the Pharoahs, "Captain Forte Raising him up, Forbes placed him sian Government. Most of the colonists clubbing it, he struck the wolf on lungs and died, leaving his widow, with The guard was at once doubled, patrolmen turned with a shudder from tht in a chair, and ringing for the waiter, s, or more properly speaking, Pasha the head. So det,peratelv did the a little daughter, in fairly good, circumstances. were placed on the roads, aud a new creed, and declared that they wil ordered him to bring a plentiful repast, creature fight that he broke the stock She was quite inconsolable at -Forbes, I believe." select committee went into peimauont live and die Roman Catholics, as then saying to Abdullah into fragments without disabling her. first, but alter a time became reconciled "Yes, but you have the advantage of session in the city hall. During a sitting fathers had done before them, and thej "Eat and drink first, then tell me He then seized the barrel, which, making and devoted all her time to the me, friend, "was the reply ,sj3oken in that of that body one who was' unannounced sent for Po ish priests to minister tc what my heart yearns to know." a hotter bludgeon, told with more bringing up of her little girl, who grew them. Thereupon the Russian Gov suddenly stood in their midst, "bluJI hearty way so peculiar to sailors. "How can I tell my lord of the past?" effect. The enraged animal seized the into the verie little fairy. She wa ernment decreed that none of the col having gained entram-e by mews of a said the poor fellow, whose looks and bard iron with her teeth and endeavored "To whom have I the pleasure of the apple of her mother's eye and the pet onists were to be allowed to acquire tall live oak which grew* against the general appearance were enough to to wrench it trom Ins graspLu+ it was of everybody, and very naturally became speaking?" real estate except such as had joinei window his garb and arms were tho,e touch the stonief of hearts. a matter of hie and d^ath ith Cheney, rather self--.\ llled. the Bohemian Brothers. This decret "To the Under Secretary of the of a hunter, and, being spoken to by "My wifewhat of her?" a3ked and he fought savagely. In the meantime is still in force. That's what they cal Hgyptain Admiralty. I was told I should Colonel Morton, he placed his fingers Forbes huskily. the wolf, by stepping on his snowshoes "When she was sixteen years old a religioiia freedom in Russia. Brooklyn Abdullah turned his face away to hide on his lips and remained silent. Colonel as she closed with him, threw him find you here. But let us draw aside, ii young Englishman came to this city tc Eagle. the tear-, that rolled down his furrowed Morton flew into a rage and seized over. I have an important letter to deliver to live. He made the acquaintance oi cheeks. him, when the stranger drew lu bowiekniie He then thought the wolf would conquer, Mrs. Tomson and fell in love with Nellie. you, v, ith instructions," was the pleasant "Enough, I am answered but the at the same instant that Morton's Earl Cairns. unless he could make his dogs, She had many other lovers, bul bpoken reply. "You smoke, I pre- child?" Lady Cairns' announcement written friend held him back. Another member which were scouring th torest. hear she appealed to prefer young Edward**, "She escaped, my lord." on a half-sheet of note paper and atlixed sume?" him. He called loud and sharp alter of the body spoke to the stranger, at least she flirted more with him than "Thank heaven! We may yet meet," to the outer gate ot Lindisfarne. them, and soon o:,ea oung hound saying the meeting v. as a private one, "Yes thanks," said Forbc?, helping with any one else. He as a member oi said Forbes fervently. "Abdullah, we sprAiig into view but no sooner did he which informed the inhabitants ol and that he presumed the gentleman himself to a choice cigar from the my church. Nellie would not engage must not part again to make you happy see the condition of his master than he Bournemouth somewhat abruptly that had mistaken the honse. At tin* he herself to him. She said she liked hei proffered case. "Shall we enter a cafe and comf oi table will be the sole aim hum din alinght, and fled into the Lord Cairns hid "entered into rest at alked to the table and wrote one line, freedom and didn't want to be tied down of my life." woods. 6:io" on Thursday morning, took *we can talk and smoke over our coffee "I am deaf." Judge Webb then wrote, to propriety just yet. At last Edward' ever} body by .surprize. He had taken They sat and chatted on, and when But at this critical moment, the other The pair entered a French restaurant, "Tell us your busines-.," when a went west and did well as a cattle raisei horse exercse on three la\ before, closing time came Forbes took his servant hound burst with a shrill, savage crv letter was handed him, addressed when Forbes, who was quick at reading in Colorado. and was walking about the cliffs on with him to his shipan Egyptian and a wild bound upon the struggling to the_ citizjns of Austin, which "He was away two years, and came character, saw from his companion's Tuesday. His health had for some ironcladnamed the "Kedive." group. Seizing the wolf by the"necC the judge read alouct, as back btill thinking of Nellie, who was time caused his friends considerable face, a handsome one of the true Greek Next morning Valescoe and his wife he tore her fiercely from his master. still unmarried. He asked her again to anxiety, and he had been for the past came aboard, under the escort of a file Turning to grapple with this new foe, type, that his mission was one that follows: "Fellow-citizens: Though be his ife. She took his presents and month under ii care of Mr. of marines, commanded by a sergeant. she gave Cheney opportunity to gather deeply moved him. "WTill you give me your parole not to helped him to spend his money, but was in error, and deceived by the arts cf Nankivell, a local homeopathic practitioner. himself up, and fight to better advantage not only as obdurate as ever, but was traitoi.s, I will give you three days more Both sat on in silence over their coffee, On Wednesday Dr. Kidd was attempt to escape, Mr. Valescoe?" said and soon, by a well-directed blow, very much faster and more of a flirt than to decide whether or not you will forward summoned by telegraph, but Lord neither caring to sieak as they Captain Forbes. he finished ono oi the severest battles before. Mrs. Tomson, who was at this to m^ the archieves." At the end Cairns was already sinking. The exlord he had e-\ er had with a wild beast. "Yes, sir," was the quiet reply. looked at the Oriental scene before time thirty-six years old, had developed of that time you -will please let me chancellor will be much missed "Good you are free from this moment After that lesson Cheney bought a them. into a charming and know your decision. Sam Houston*" at Bournemouth, it is somewhat remarkable to go anywhere over the ship but it pistolaud took good care not to go I was the occasion of a fair called beautiful matron. She took pity on The deaf man waited a few moments that both the conservative would look better if you keep to the hunting again with a single fire-arm the young man, whose age was about acd the liberal lord chancellors should for a reply, and was about to leave, JLbu-1-Abbas, which derived the name cabin until we clear the harbor. My barivl, and so run the risk of making eight and twenty, and appealed tc have devoted themselves in private so when Col. Morton handed him a note state cabm is at your disposal." -from the tomb of a great saint. himself defenceless by missing a shot Nellie in his behalf. Then he took hei energetically to church work. Like saying: "You were bravo enough to insult Mrs. Valescoe put out her delicate Forbes and his companion were seated mi into his confidence, and she was very Lord Selborne, Lord Cairns was an me aro you brave enough to give white hand saying, in a soft, musical What a Kentucky Burgoo is. on a terrace overhanging the sea, which, kind to him. Eventually, I am sorry indefatigable Sunday-school teacner me satisfaction?" The mute wrote, voice, "Please accept my best thanks Washington Letter to the Philadelphia Record as usual, was restless and rolled in with to say, Nellie disappeared. Edwards regularly, when at Bournemouth, presiding I am. at your service," and, after fixing for your kindness to my husband. "If you should go out to Kentucky over the bible class in connection an incessant murmur, splashing against spent hundreds of dollars hunting for terms, he left by the window. Morton Poor Charles has been badly treated about this time,"'said the old Judge, with Holy Trinity church, the her, but without success. He had the feet of the houses that lined the was told he ould be killed, as he was you are the first person that has said a i you would probably bo invited to a burgoo. young men crowding to his teaching. taken up his abode in Philadelphia at shore. kind word to him for months," to fight Deaf Smith, who never missed You don't recognize him by that He was also a popular president at Mrs. Tomson's house, and his heart was The moon was just at this time hanging his man but he could not he shaken in Valescoe and his wife disappeared name, do you? No? Well, a burgoo missionary and other religious gatherings, nearly broken at the loss of Nellie and over the hill of Kom-el-Dyk on the his resolve. The weapons used were down the companion ladder, leaving (accent on the first syllable) is a grand and he cordiall}* sympathized the terrible mystery which hung around opposite side of the new harbor, so that rifles, the distance Avas a hundred paces, Forbes deep in thought as to whafc his good thing. It is an all-day picnic in with the evangeJistic work of his sonin-law, her disappearance. it revealed the rushing waters, and allowed prisoner's crime could be. and why he and the time sunset. A vast crowd saw the woods, with a feast hich throws Hon. and Rev. Koville Sherbrooke. "It was about six months after her the gaze to extend far out across had been sent on board the "Khedive." the duel. Both men fired at the same the clam chowder and the barbecue into lie was also a firm supporter elopement that one morning, while I the sea on the one hand and to trace the in conjunction with that mysterious instant Morton sprang into the air the deep shade of obscurity. In fact of Rev. Canon Eliot, vicar of Holy was sitting in my study preparing my black outlines of the houses and forts sealed letter and equally perplexing and fell dead, a ball in his heart. Deaf the burgoo usually includes "a barbecue Irinity, the Evangelical church of sermon for the next Sunday, Edwards and batteries on the other. instructions. Smith quietly reloaded his rifle and Bournemouth, a place ot worship as a sort of incident. You go out to a came rushing in upon me, with a telegram Above was the placid sky, crested with However, he had too much on his walked into the forest. Three day? which had, one Sunday during the regrime corner of the wood^ where the thick in his hand. He was in a state of stars that vied in brilliance with the hands just at the moment to bestow afters ard he came with General Houston of the late government, the under brush has been carefully cut away the most intense excitement, as white moon herself, which shone over a landscape more than a passing thought on the and ten others to Austin, and th singular distinction to include four and where the trees are enough for as a sheet, and hardly able to speak, I that even a Claude would not sub]ect. archives were removed 'without furthei cabinet minister^ in its congregation. shade, but not enough lor gloom, and took the telegram. It was from Nellie lave disdained to paint. The huge ironclad left its moorings opposition. London World. there you sit and play poker and smoke and dated from a hospital in the city. "Hore is the letter," said the secre"fcjry, in the charge of a native pilot, and the finest tobacco in the world and It ran thus: handing him a square missive "Old Faithful" Geyser in Yellowstone steamed seaward past a shore dotted Average Humanity. drink oily ten year old sour mash and 'I am dving, Willie. Won't you mth the Egyptian official seal stamped with forts to the west, and lined at the Park. sniff the delightful aroma of the come to me The question is whether we shall on black wax. eastern end by an almost uninterrupted burgoo until along in the afternoon, The great group of geysers in the Upper 'We went together to see her. Well, take the average of humanity, and Almost mechanically Forbes was succession of white public buildings, when the niggers pronounce the burgoo Geyser basin beyond doubt attracts think of the few men who stand above we brought her home and she did die, about to break the seal when his companion including the pasha's palace, masked ready and ladle it out to you in big more attention than any other object in it as exceptional beings, or whether but not before she had seen something arrested him by saying: by a forest of masts, both of merchant bowlluls. The burgoo is "a delicious we shall think of them as the standardbearers the park. There aie not le^s than happen, which, I think, she must have vessels and men-of-war, abreast of it "X o, not now the letter must be broth which is a perpetual reminder of the great advancing army twenty of them that belong to the first anticipated long before. being the docks ^md arsenal. opened at the time and place named in of the aborigines who as the types and prophecies of vyhat class, in point of power and beauty of "That was nothing less than the marriage these instructions," handing him another An Eastern sun glinted on mosques handed it over to our pioneering shall sometime be the common attainment. action. And they all differ in action, of Edwards and her mother. I letter without seal. and minarets, aud made golden the The exceptions oi one age certainly forefathers when they began comin^ appearance and scructure. The most married them myself in her sick room. The captain ran his eye down the spiky leaves of the date palm, while become the average of the next across the mountains from Virginia. widely knowna sort of popular favoriteis She told me before she died that she missive, and at once saw that some mystery scores of native boats skimmed over the succeeding, and the next age throws You takeor rSther the darkies take "Old Faithful," standing prominent knew her mother had loved him from was attached to it. sun kissed waters like swallows in out its own advanced men only to be a gigantic kettle and hang it over a and alone on a mound of geyserite, the first and she believed that he had search of prey. "Humph! I am to sail to-morrow absorbed in the life that follows". The roaiing fire. A light broth is made built by himself, at the southern extremity only fancied he had loved the daughter, morning," he said "is anything in the Captain Forbes stood on the deck of words of John Milton, concerning tolerance first then they throw in young chickens, of the basin or valley. In almost because he couldn't imagine that he wind?of course I don't want you to his good ship, drinking in the scene in the seventeenth century, young ducks, sucking piffs, and all all caseo the geyser jet issues fiom was in love with her mother. They betray confidence but the affair is al.fcogelher with a keen relish, although it was as were then onders of sense and wisdom: sorts of small game, with fresh potatoes, a depressed oater or an elevated made a very hap]jy match and are now unexpected." familiar to him as was his own identity but they could not remain exceptional: green peas, string beans, com, cone or funnel-mouth, rising from living on the ranch in Colorado. They "Exactlyjust si," said the secretary, while there came over him one of those they'were but the prophecies i and every other vegetable. Every thing three to ten feet above the level. have three lovely children, are very rich 3rawin closer to h.-n: "you will have strange presentiments that come and go of that which by and by came to is cooked until the meat begins "to fall "Old Faithful" combines both features. and usually spend then- summer in two passengers a Mr. 'Valescoe and like the idle wind, that he was looking be common possessions of all men. to pieces. Then the waiters, with shining, The throat of its chasm is an Europe." Lis wifea charming Avonian." on the shores of the Pharaohs for the Hcv. Phillip Brooks. smiling, black faces and snowwhite irregular oblong, about three feet long I am fortunate but there, I suppose last time. A Hanover Girl Objects to Being jackets and aprons, bear great and twenty inches Wide, flaring open at I must keep my curiosity in check until Once out at sea, he had time to make Society Reform at Washington. bowlfuls of the toothsome stew through Called a Witch. the top. On the north side of the he proper moment arrives," said Forbes, the acquaintance of the Valescoes, to So Washington society has cut a the grove. Oh, how good it is! Mv Fiom the Han ibburg Telegraph. opening is amass of gey&erite, which \rho was too much the disciplinarian whom he seemed strangely drawn so young man dead for getting drunk at mouth waters as 1 tell you of it. Afterward was piobably once a part of the walls of Iinnself, when duty was concerned, to A curious action for libel will shortly much so, in fact, that he was never so a ball, dragging a young ladv up to there is more Inn goo, and then a funnelcone. One may look down into attempt to draw the other out. happy as when enjoying their society. be heard in the Hanover law courts. It dance willv-nilly, and fisticuffing a more burgoo, until everybods has actually the throat and see aud hear the boiling "Valescoe has incurred the displeasure Mrs. Valescoe was a charming lady, appears that a young farmer met a very gentleman that came to her ruscue, ha 1 enough. Then the darkies waves, swashing and lashing in the of the government. am putting gentle and winning, but with the fire of attractive girl at a ball, danced with has it? Then all that any one who has satisfy themselves, while you return to chamber below, with a force that makes myself in your power by saying so genius and courage in her black eyes her severai times and left early at night seen even a little of life *at the capital your pipe and your glass, until the the mound tremble. Professor Hague much. May I rely upon your forbearance. that swam in liquid light. to return homo by train. He' duly arrived can say is, that Washington societyhas shadows of evening gather sleepily sounded to a depth of seveutv feet in Captain Forbes?" One day Abdullah, who had been utterly at his destination, but some little had a sudden attack of virtue. It around you." His voica became "low this geyser last summer the greatest "Yes. I sm very susceptible where prostrated by sea sickness, crept time after leaving the railroad station will doubtless recover from it, and after and his look became dreamy. Suddenly depth reached in any of them. "Old warn on are concerned. May I tell you on deck to get a breath of sea ai-, aud saw, to his surprise, his partner of the the spasm has passed be its old he roused himself, and remarked as Faithful" plays twenty-four times each -B-iiy?" to look upon the bright sun, so dear to evening seated on a chair in the middle self again, only rather more so but.in xsIf you please, Captain." he turned away: A few weeks later day and nightthe intervals ranging his heart as a denizen of a torrid clime. of the road, with the moonlight shining the meantime the sudden access of the daikies hold their camp meeting on from fifty-five to sixty-five minutes. "Many years ago, when I first enterthe ''Well, old friend," said Forbes, smil-' on her face. She beckoned to him and goodne&s is being enjo\ ed as only a the same spot." When the eruption is about to begin, Egyptain service, I had a wife ingat the old man, I see you have he approached her, gasping out: "Why, novelty can. Last winter that same the boiling and sub-surf aca rumbling and childa lovely girl who was the found your way on deck at last. You I thought I left you dancing. How on young man could have gotten tio-ht -very sun of my existence." becomes very, violent, and soon a few of must look sharp and get your sea legs The Victim of Richardson. and misbehaved with inipunity: earth did you manage to get here?" ragged jets of water leap up from the Hereupon the speaker's voice became now." that I am morally certain, for a similar "Ha," said the girl with a mocking A estern friend of mine now in the Irasky, aud he turned his head aside to crater and fall back again. When this The sight of my lord looking well case occurred and no &uch row laugh, I am a witch." The young furtively hide a tear. city, told me a singular thing a few days has been repeated four or five times, a and happy is better to me than food, was raised as was last week.St. Louis man took to his heels, but the damsel "They are still living, I trust," said great, stately white pillar of steam and drink, light or air," said the grateful ago. Said he: Spectator. assumed the form of a dog and followed Ahe Secretary in a sympathetic voice. water slowly rises into the air, gathering Egvptian, his wan face irradiated with "You know Daniel McFarland, the him to his fathers house, where he arrived "Alas, I cannot tell. In crossing the strength and height every instant, pleasure. A Polite Cat. more dead than alive and told the hero of the sad Bichardson tragedy 1 desert we were attacked by Bedouins. and in twenty seconds of time the pillar Mrs. Valescoe was seated near her story to his astonished relatives. As a met him at Leadville some three years A member of the British Zoological I defended my wife and child to the becomes an enormous roaring fountain husband, trying to rouse him from the natural consequence the story soon got ago, a poor waif and rapidly drifting tc Society tells this story, so it must be death, but I was struck down. When of white, foam, streaked with arrowy despair that had seized upon him, when, about and the young lady found herself true: I once had a cat wno always sat I recovered conciousness I was alone. the condition of a physical wreck. He lines of pale-greenish water. Clouds starting up, she advanced with outstretched shunned bv all her former acquaintances. up to the dinnertable with me, and ]?irom that day to this I have never of fleece-white, steamy vapor re 11 away was so poor that i have known him to hands, saying hi Arabic On hearing the reason of the coolness had his napkin around his neck, and heard tidings of my lost ones duty has from this majestic column, and the falling be forced to sleep on the floor of one of "Dear Abdullah, have you dropped his plate and some fish. He used his she at once instituted an action for supplied their place hitherto, but in the water deluges like a rain-storm the from the clouds?" the lowest class of Leadville lodging paw of course but he was very particular defamation of character. .silent watches of the night I often lie laminate terraces of the mound for Oh! the joy that followed. Captain houses. I talked with him a number and behaved with extraordinary awake and wonder if they and I will many yards around. When this graceful Forbes found in the wife of his prisoner of times. He had wandered all over decorum. When he had finished ^meet again this side of the grave." A Nebraska girl writes home from column has reached a height of 140 his long-lost child. his fash I sometimes gave him a piece the Western states restless and aimless. California that the storie3 about rich "Pray Heaven you may, my dear to 150 feet, it maintains its action at But the bitter grief that followed of mine One day he was not to be He was given to frequent spells oi" and speedy marriages ior women in Captain, when the proper time arrives, that altitude for five to seven minutes nearly drove him mad. found when the dinner-bell ran*, drinking. On one occasion while in that state are all humbug. There are I think I may rely upon your hujtuanity and then gradually descends, a sculpturesque His instructions told him to open the we began without him. Just as the VH Kansas City I think he told me he had more men than women, but in her opinion and excuse my saying more." white pillar once more, into letter when a certain latitude and longitude plates were put around for the entree Wringing the Captain's hand, the most of them have run away from occupied a seat in one of the public its subterranean laboratory. The sobbing had been reached. puss came rushing up stairs and sprang Secretary left hurriedly, evidently too marital bonds elsewhere. A woman," and rumbliig and swashing is continued halls while his own wife, Abby Sage, The very day on which he found his into his chair with two mice in hil overcome to say more.' she says, "is of less consequence here until the great white spectre long lost daughter he opened the sealed was delivering a lecture. Of course, mouth. Before he could be stopped, he "What a strange affair!" thought than anywhere in the world. The Chinese again emerges in another eruption. letter. dropped a mouse on to his own plate she saw him but no sign of recognition Porbes. "Evidently the sealed letter do most of the washing and housekeeping, "Great Heavens! what do I see? and then one on to mine. He divided passed between the two." is connected with Valescoe. I mav be and work at about, the same his dinner with me, as I divided mine Valescoe is to be executed at this spot, At St. Peter's Eaton Square, London, "Where is McFarland now"? I asked. able to render him a service but honor wages that girls and women would find with him. and I, unhappy man! am to order his "In the cemetery at Leadville," he on Sunday week, the morning ami duty forbid that I should favor him, necessary. Thexe is mighty little marrying execution." replied, sadly. "Remorse, disease and 3ervice was rendered lively by a lady a stranger, against my instructions." and giving in marriage here. The His mind was quickly made up. That utter weariness of life wore him out. I The loss of cattle in southwest Florida the sat on, listening to the rude music who, while the officiating. clergyman men don't seem to be anxious about it, night, when darkness came like a funeral He gave up the fight after a wldle, and past winter is reported greater than in anj oi the waters, which to him, had a was reading in a slow voice, jumped up and the girls are so well up to snuff pall over the blue sea and shut out the he is now at rest." I other previous year, one stockraiser estimat sweetness all their own, for since his from her seat, and, waving her parasol that they won't encourage a man light, Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Valescoe, I ing his loss at two thousand head. Pneumonia, 'Tis a sad conclusion to a brilliant childhood he had never been absent about in an excited manner, exclaimed till they know all about his former life and Abdullah lowered themselves into a Georgia, paper savs, seems to havt life," said I. "McFarland was once one long from their subtle influence. a boat and made good their escape. and make sure he has not a surplus in an agitated voice, "Go a little faster, been the disease that played such havoc. of the brightest lawyers at the New Arabs snd Egyptians came and went, I England Captain Forbes is now wife or two somewhere east. I can read as well as that." York bar. Bat such is life,."