:'y MfFS CAPTUBI. A HARVEST SOXGt charity so ready attd unassuming. His Really, Maud will be quite content A NEW AMERICAN EDEN. asked "for counsel. The superintendent attention was so completely absorbed rit these!" rhe Ex-Confederate President Describes Htt looked grave, but simply promised by the approach of his new acquaintancethat $frotn the Western Christian Advocatd. "Tut, tut!" said the old man. "Are Arrest, and Speaks Pointedly. to make mquries, and communicate Queer legends of Turnips nd Pumpkins he hadnoearsforthequiekly" The odor sweet of new-mown hay j^st you the only person in the world who Jefferson Davis, after years of ommoas their result. The next day a Where Immigrants are Wanted. Is wafted o'er the land approaching step of a young man ton make a present to a young lady? silence, has at last opened his man walked into the shop, and ininquired Piled high, the sheaves of golden grain, Vew York Tribune. advancing in the contrary direction* I claim my privilege, sir. We old fellows for Mr. Glister. That gentleman mouth to put to rest forever scandalous Wait for the tresher's hand. The rural dean was just opening his There is a man here from Georgia have privileges, though you selfish confessing his identity, the lies which have been written concernni lips to reply to Mr. Glister's morning young fellows dispute them, and one burdened with schemes for making his Wide, billowy fields of corn uplift stranger gave his name as Green of pture near Macon, (2a. In salute, when the young man paused &f them is to show homage to beauty." ca Their banners broad and grt-en, Scotland Yard. To him Mr. Glister a Tetter to" The New York Herald of region prosperous. He owns land by precisely opposite the jeweler, and, With plenty's promise graven brigh* Mr. Glister produced a second case, recounted the nefarious deeds of the Sept. 9, he says: the thousand acres and thinks that if On each, in glittering sheen.t extending his hand, hailed the old dig-nity and the old gentleman, genially poohboohing rural dean and his nephew, and the Vi On my return after a protracted as "uncle." The reverend gentleman he can persuade immigrant farmers to his affectionate remonstrances, acts of Inspector Roberts. absence from home I received a slip The leafy vine bends low with weight turned with a qnick start and a chose various articles of a buy of him it will be to their everlasting Of juicy clusters fair. "There is no such name at Scotland from your journal, which I inclose for stumble ich, but for the young man's rich and expensive description. He Springtime's glad prophecies fulfilled Yard, sir. It's pretty plain. He was prosperity, and help him along in greater convenience in noticing its restraining hand, would have brought The buidened orchards bear. W ent ahead so fast, adding article after one of the ganga confederate!" contents: aft the world, besides doing a little forhi3 him to the ground. article to his selection, that the young Mr. Glister staggered as if Green had O'er all the land brown-handed Toil INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 16,1885. state. He doubts not that his motives "You young villain," panted the old man gave up his objections in a kind shot him. And patient Thrift have wrought At the iecent reunion of the veterans man, "you'll never be satisfied until of half comical, wholly affectionate are patriotic Day after Day, till dreams have been "But why?" he asked "why was he Ihe people of deor-, you've been the death of me!" despair. To full fruition brought. Lieut.4th Indiana cavalry commands in thi city, wanted? They had the good3, and Isgrigg of the who gia," hesays, "don't bother their heads th The young fellow expressed affectionate "You will never be happy until you were going away with them, when he was provost marshal at Macon, Ga., about immigration. Foreigners may Yet not to them all praise be given, contrition for his abruptness, but have ruined yourself," he said at last. entered." I at the time of the capture of Jefferson Not all to Toil and Thrift come there if they want to, but they've his venerable relative wae evidently "Andifldo," said the old gentleman, "Yees," said Green, thoughtfully. Davis, related the circumstances of "Who gives the increase," unto Him got to come without begging. "We more shaken by his sudden appearance "I think I know somebody who will "You didn't happen to you?7''em leave all together the capture. He described his particI Our grateful hearts we lift. than it seemed likely so robust an old don't mind their coming if they'll settle find me a corner to end my days in." in the shop did ipation in this affair as follows: I gentleman would have been by so slight Who can the richly varied store The young man silently pressed his among us and learn our ways, but Mr. Glister confessed that he had went out to the line of ray jurisdiction Of goodly gifts behold, an occurence. He trembled and leaned uncle's hand. The good old man blew done so, and gave his reason. we don't want 'em in colonies, bringing receive Davis. Two miles and a Uor say with Israel's prophet bard, upon his nephew's arm for support, a sonorous blast upon his nose, and their socialism and communism and "Have you missed anythinganything half from Macon he became my prisoner "Thy works, how manifold!" and was so evidently affected that Mr. inquiring of Mr. Glister the sum for their other isms with them to destroy more, I mean, than the man and I brought him to this city in ELIZABETH F. STARKEY. Glister begged him to enter and seat which he stood indebted to him, produced the peace of our state. Give us immigration, Roberts took away with him?" an old farm wagon. It was a vehicle himself in the shop until his composure a plethoric pocket-book and but not colonization.' That's "Yes six rings and a broach. I with a great deal to condemn it in the should return. The offer was accepted handed over the amount in notes, the way they talk and that's why we've couldn't think what could have become way of unsightliness. It had weaknesses BAVEXSTIIOBPE TRAGEDY. and the rural dean was bestowed an example which his nephew followed. had no agent to turn foreigners down of them, I'm sure they were not all over it, but sufficient in a chair. The jeweler made hospitable our own way among the purchases. Here is the strength to hold Jefferson Davis, my"and offers of wine, and of a glass of They were just in the act of bestowing note. But I see it all now." "What inducements have you to of- 1 self, his secretary. The rebel Mr. Glister stood at his own shopdoor water, which were refused, the old man their purchases in their pockets fer to farmers?" "Well, Mr. Glister, of course the chief sat between us, and over his and looked out upon the almost tapping himself upon the region of the when the door opened for the second yard will do all that's possible. I "Nothingextr'ornary, I reckon. My head, from a pole fixed to the seat, heart, and shaking his head, to indicate time, and there stood the broad-built empty Cathedral close. Things were know the man -with the scar on his region's the Eden of America. That's hung the hoop-skirt, calico wrapper, to him that his malady lay there man whom Mr. Glister had noticed cheek, and I dare say, some of our all. Ain't no place that can beat it and an old straw hood, which formed dull just then in Ravensthorpe, as and was beyond the power of such that afternoon with the tall white hat, men may know the other two. We'll for crops." his disguise when captured." they always are, except for the few mendicaments as he proposed. Mr. the tight trousers and the scar upon do all we canyou may depend on "Corn?" "So Jeff was disguised?'' Glister and his nephew stood above ^months during which the bishop is regularly his cheek. that but I'm afraid you'll never see "One hundred and thirty bushels to "Yes. It is no use to question the him with respectful concern. To Mr. Glister's utter amazement resident at the abbey hall, and your jewels again." the acre. Plant in April'and gather fact. The articles of his costume "You should be careful, Edward, my the benevolent ecclesiastic dropped And indeed, he never did. in November. One plowing, no hoe hung from that pole. Davis bore himself the two rival local packs contribute boy, you should be more careful," he limp and gasping into chair. ing. Fodder till you can't rest. Have with the fortitude of a brave man to make them brisk, and Mr. Glister ^ai mm said presently. The young man made a rush for the to pull it from horseback. Why: in trouble. He was courteous to me The California Gold Discovery. seldom had much else to do in the "My dear uncle," said the young door but the new comer was too quick Stalks so high can't reach to the top and to the guard talked freely on every man, "I was never more ashamed in for him. There was a struggle, a stumble, The man who discovered gold in long off-season but pursue such limited There's only one trouble with growing question but that relating to the my life. But you are better now?" a sharp metallic "click," and behold California in 1848 died recently and corn in Georgia you don't have result of the war." observations of the world's life in "Yes," said the old gentleman "I the prospective bridegroom and with a commendable appreciation of I enough nubbins to feed your steers.' "When we stopped at the International general as i he close offered material am better. It is passing. I am extremely the nephew of a rural dean tearing and romance, he died "broken-hearted and "Nubbins for steers?" hotel, and were about to get out for. obliged to you, sir," he turned cursing on the floor with apair of handcuffs poverty-stricken." His death will recall I "That's what's the matter. The of the \va20n, Capt. Thompson, of the to Mr. Glister "extremely obliged to on his wrists. Glister & Co., goldsmiths and jewelers, to the "old Forty-niners" and to 4th Indiana cavalry, drew his revolver ears are so big that a steer can't get your prompt kindness." all who remember the gold excitement, "Take it easy,sir said a white-hatted to fire at Davis. I saw his 'em in his mouth. See? You've got had a London house in Bond Mr. Glister begged him not to mention one "it's all right." one of the most romantic incidents in movement, struck the weapon with 1 to chop 'em up, and that takes time." -street. The London manager spoke potatoes9" it. Mr. Glister was all abroad, and history. When Marshall's child found my aroi, and the bullet tore my coat "Do you grow sometimes to his clients of 'our Ravensthorpe "But I must," said the rural dean. amazed and wonder-stricken. the first nugget of gold on the Pacific and shirt. At the moment Davis, seeing "Sweet? No. They grow themselves. branch," which was inaccurate. "It was extremely good of you." The new comer was as calm as man slope, Missouri and Arkansas were Thompson's purpose, cried out: I We just give 'em half a chance. Mr. Glister was happy to have been could be. the only States north of Texas and 'lor God's sake, lieutenant, save my The London house was only [Run a furrow in the sand, drop in of the slightest service, and deprecated "Get up," he said to his manacled west of the Missouri river that had life!' I got the prisoner out of the I your seed, cover it with your foot as thirty years old, and had been established further speech concerning it. captive. wagon and into the hotel with a good been admitted into the Union, and 1 you go along and leave the crop to itself. by the present proprietor (Co. "And what brought you here?" demanded deal of alacrity. Texas and Iowa were under their first It grows summer and winter and The young man obeyed, and sitting shad long since faded out of reality, the old gentleman of his State administrations. The bank of "Alter that I met Davis at the Louisville 1 you needn't ever dig it for a year or in a chair at the counter, glared nephew. "To frighten your old uncle, the Missouri river was practically our hotel in 1872, when he recognized I two. Of course, by-and-by the 'tater l)ut the old name of the firm was retained) at his captor. who thought you were a hundred miles me, and approaching said: '1 must ultima thule, and the region beyond get too big to be good. At 18 monthold who was the third of the dynasty "I'm Inspector Roberts, Scotland away, and more?" thank you again, Lieut. Isgrigg, for half a one makes a meal for ten the Rocky Mountains was Yard," he continued to Mr. Glister. in Ravensthorpe. "Can't you guess?" asked the young saving my life.' Wc had quite a chat 1 persons." an unknown land. The small settlements The rural dean groaned. He had personally managed theLondo man with an embarrassed little about the" war then. Before this I had on the Pacific coast were "And turnips?" "You know me don't'you? said Mr. laugh. received a letter ot thanks from him. but far off colonies. The tide of emigration house until satisfied of its growing "A few. It don't take many to do Roberts, smiling on him in recognition He was my prisoner eight days, together "Ha'" said the oldgentleman beamingly. from the Eastern States had us. We daren't sow the seed as your solidity, and then returned to his of his identity. "Come down here for with his wife, daughter, and He was quite recovered now, already set westward, but it was extending Northern farmers do. We cheek off native town and established himself a breath of air. Walking about, saw the commissary of his guard. These and had got back all his accustomed only as the cheap agricultural the turnip patch like a chess-board, these chaps, first one, then the other, in the venerable building of which his three we took into Macon in an old geniality. "Love's young dream lands attracted farmers. Rapid as making the corners eight feet apart, so then both together. Sajv 'em come in family carriage. Jeff was not sulky as eh? That's iteh?" business premises occupied the lowest the growth of the West had been that the turnips won't crowd. It here. Had dealings before with 'em, a prisoner, but one could see that the (Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky were yet don't do to have the turnips too The good old man so enjoyed his story. and know their playful little ways, breaking of the confederacy bore called the West) its growth* had been thick. How large do they grow? little joke, and so shook and beamed He was one of the fine old race of and so I thought I'd watch. Hand grievously on his thoughts." Well, I had 14 merino sheep, fine fellows prosaic. But Marshall's discovery of oyer it, that Mr. Glister could not 'em out, your reverence." The rural .country tradesmen now fast becoming Though accustomed to see slanderous they A\ ere, and I use to fold 'em gold gave it a romantic impetus. himself refrain from a sympathetic dean groaned anew, and deposited publications in regard to myself, I extinctproud of his business and of every night for fear of dogs. One day From every state the adventurous smile. He looked at the young man, his little parcel on the counter. "Now have read this with no little surprise, thuee of the biggest were missing and went to the new El Dorado, and the and felt somehow sorely disappointed. 'the long and untarnished history of you ,"to the younger man. "Oh, because of the total absence of any the whole farm turned out to find 'em. He was by no means a bad looking trans-Rocky Mountain country became the firm. His manner was that of a I forgot, you can't you've got 'emon. foundation or pretext on which to We hunted for 'em for two days, killed younster, but he did not look, known, and parts of it became certain stolid, genial politeness to all Begging your pardon." He inserted build the fiction. I avail myself of 17 dogs on suspicion, and gave up the to the jeweler's eyes, like a nephew as rapidly populous as the accessible his hand into the bridegroom's pocket, you,r usual courtesy in asking: you to men, untainted by any effort to ape search. The next day worthy of such an uncle. His states along the Mississippi, but with next day I found the and withdrew the packet of ]ewelry. the face had none of the geniality which the grand air of his clients, who reepected another class. In 1850 California three inside of one of my turnips. You j. Polish this seriatim refutation of "Notes or checks, sir?" he demanded made the elder's countenance so pleasant had more than 92,000 inhabitants, see they had jumped into the turnip I several statements of the story him as their forbears had respected of Mr. Glister. It is not true, as stated, that I was to look upon. His eyes were shifty, most of whom were adventm*ers and patch and eaten their way right into his. "Notes," said that excellent gentleman. turned over to the custody of one and young as he wasobviously in,1860 it had nearly 380,000, which one of the vegetables." He passed nearly all his time in Ravensthorpe, His amazement had lasted only Lieut. Isgrigg two and a half miles not more than eight-and-twenty was the most rapid increase of population "How could you feed such things to going to London on the a minute or so, and he had been hurriedly (or any other distance) from Macon. there was a hinted prophecy of coming in one decade that any state 1 your stock?" occasion of stock-taking and lo draw examining them during the inspector's The troops by whom I was captured crows' feet at their corners. But he has made. People went not only "Oh, we have to chop 'em up. I use the handsome profit, which went to latter proceedings, "and all remained my guard to Macon, and a appeared very fond of his uncle and from other states of the Union, but a 15-foot cross-cut saw on mine." swell his balance at the county bank, sham." detachment of them accompanied me deeply concerned at the result of his from other countries as well "How about pumpkins?" of which he was a partner. "Quite so," he said it languidly, but to Fortress Monroe in charge of their thoughtlessness. "Pumkins.' They fairly sweat, they Mr. Glister was a warm man. He own officers. with a shade of amusement in his How much richer these discoveries "You haven't seen Maud yet, I sup- grow so fast. There ain't no prettier looked it, with his clear, rich, rosy Equally untrue is it that I rode with voice. "I'll trouble you for 'em, sir. of precious metals have made us is pose?" asked the rural dean. music than the sound of growing punkins. complexion, heightened by his crisp, the said Isgrigg and my secretary (or They'll be wanted at the trial. So only partially shown by the relief they "No I was coming straight from the Best scare-crow in the world, iron gray hair and strips of silvery with anyone else) in "an old farm will they," he added, pointing to the gave the woild in its need of gold and station to call upon you when I met self-acting. Crows and blackbirds worI whisker, his portly waistcoat crossed wagon." My private secretary, Burton little parcels. "If you'll ]ust make a silver but the magnitude of this contribution you." ried us lots until I made the discovery. the modestly solid watchchain, and N. Harrison, Esq now a member note of all there, I'll take 'em and give is itself romatic. The estimate Plant one in your raspberry patch and the handsome diamond ring, which "And nearly frightened the life out of the bar of New York, was captured you a receipt." of the amount of gold and silver the birds won't come around. Why'' -was his solitary vanity in the article of me," said the old man, rising from with me, and rode on horseback to Mr. Glister, much shaken, by the produced in the United States in 1847 The growing pains and the groans of minutes set him of dress. the chair. I wa just on my way to Macon. I had for several days occupied lastfewr events of the was less than $890,000 in 1848, it the punkin frighten 'em away. Ever see her, and since we have met we will "Here he is again," said Mr. Glister. an ambulance with my wife and self to this task. Inspector Roberts Got its was $10,000,000 in 1849, it was creek9 I hear of Punkin Vine thank Mr. Glister for his very kind attentions A portly, elderly gentleman in the children, and rode to Macon in it. produced a toothpick and continued 40,000,000 and it reached its highest I name from a punkin vine. Years ago, and go together." And accordingly, dress of a rural dean, turned the corner There was no such cowardly attempt his conversation with his captives with point! in 1878, when the produc when the Cherokee Indians lived in after reiterated thanks of the of the close and came briskly along to otter insult to rae as would the calm playfulness which distinguished Z0r'1. North.Georgia, theywanted some sort ^nS^'T.'lA* warmest nature, they left the shop and the pavement. From his countenance have been shown by hanging over my him. $96,000,000 and our total production of a bridge across the creek. There went down the street arm-in-arm very beamed forth benevolence and good head the articles of clothing which Isgrigg of gold and silver since 1847, is "Didn't expect to see me, Jemmy wasn't a tree around, and they didn't lovingly together, leaving Mr. Glister will to all men, and from his gleaming falsely avers 1 had worn at the $2,074,545,000. This is little less eh?" he demanded of the stricken cleric. know what to do. An old settler said bowing his adieux upon the step. shoes and his neatly stockinged calves tune. Nor did my captors obtain at the than the total production of precious "Bit of a shock, ain't it? Never he'd fix it. He planted a punkin seed to his jolly port-wine face and. clerical time ot my capture the hoop-skirt, metals in Mexico from the time of Any strange face appearing in Ravensthorpe mind, old man you'll get over it in near the bank, and, when the vine began hat, his whole person seemed one solid etc., which Isgrigg describes, unless their discovry there by Europeans till during the dead season is time, in the quiet and retired retreat to grow, he trained it in the direction smile. As he passed Mr. Glister he they were found among the apparel 1875. pretty certain of remark, and that which awaits your declining days. of the water, In a few days it gave him a casual glance of such cordiality taken when the trunks of my same afternoon, Mr. Glister, from his You can't grumble you've had a tidy mm grew across to the other bank, and that the jeweler ielt emboldened wife and her female servant were pillaged. usual coign of vantage, noticed a long run, you know. Why, it's seven Priority of Invention. bore a big punkin on that side, which to salute him with a bow, a courtesy broad-built man in very tight trousers years since I seen you last on business From the Electrical Review. held it so that the Indians could cross. returned by the reverend gentleman by On our arrival at the hotel in Macon, and a tall hat, which gave him, to the seven years' Lord, how time flies' Any old farmer down there'll tell you The following are points in decisions a brisk "Good morning," and a yet a small body of troops in front of the jeweler's eye, something of a sporting And Joe, too," he went on, beaming that story. From what I've seen ol broader smile as he went by. on priority of invention: entrance were at open ranks, facmoinward. appearance, lounging in an unoccupied mildly on the bridegroom, "I've often punkins I readily believe it." When I got out of the arnbu^ Fate so ordained that Mr. Glister, manner on the other side of the thought about Joe lately. Let's see, The party who first reduces an invention nephewr, or your "Is your's a good fruit country? lance to enter the hotel they presented .during the next day or two, saw a narrow street which orened into, the is he your son or your to actual use is entitled to any apples?" arms while I passed through, and I received good deal of the reverend gentleman. Close. He took Mr. Glister's younger brother this time?" In the patent for it, although the other More'n we know what to do with. the salute as an expression of 'The same afternoon the generally eye at once, so completely unlike the church, too! That's a rise party may have first conceived it, if I turned my hogs and my neighbors the feeling brave men show to a fallen peaceful air of the close was rent by was he and the natives about him. for you, Jemmy. Why you was he did not exercise reasonable diligence into my orchard the other day to see foe. the despairing wails of a very small He rolled a little in his gait, and only a stockbroker when I saw in reducing it to practice. if they couldn't rid me of a fewbushles damsel over the scattered shreds of an yawned frequently, and he had a trick you last. Old lady in Maida Vale, The story of Capt. Thompson, of the If a party who first conceived a machine of the fruit. They didn't do much earthenware jug, with which she had of stroking with the tips of his fingers you know. Plate. You remember 4th Indiana cavalry, attempting to followed up the idea diligently, good. I drove through the next day /been entrusted for the conveyance of a ragged mark or scar, as of an old of course. Very neat it was shoot me as I enteied the Macon hotel and was the first to reduce it to 'actual with a horse and buggy. The apples vthe family -milk. The child stood wound imperfectly cicatrised, upon his done, too. You was always a good is wholly fictitious, and I leave it to practice, he is entitled to a patent were so thick on the ground that there above the ruins in such despair as smoothly-shaven cheek. Presently he workman. I'll say that for you. That that regiment itself to repel the imputation for it, although his competitors had was a regular sluce of cider following -only infants of her tender years in strolled away out of sight on the other the memorandum, that one of its otticers would sir? Sure you've complete working drawings of it previously N me wherever I went. Mashed out, you 'dread of an imminent beating can side of the cathedral, and Mr. Glister got everything down? There you are." have been guilty of so dastardly an prepared, and had obtained a know, by the wheels and the horse's know. The child was pretty, and forgot him. He remembered after He signed, and handing back the paper assault on a prisoner. patent. hoofs. That'll give you some idea oi looked all the prettier in her that the stranger's disappearance was methodically stowed away the little Upon that falsehood the narrator Whoever first reduces an invention innocent affliction and Mr. Glister our fruit crops. Anything else you'd almost exactly coincident in time with packets in an inner pocket. "Ready?" hangs another, that I met him at the to practice and makes an application know?" was a tender-hearted man. Already the entrance into the shop of the young he demanded of his prisoners. 'Off we like to Louisville hotel, in 1872, recognized ar of it to use, will usually be the prior towr he had taken a step fellow who owned the rural dean for go, then. You'll hear from the authorities "Is it all like what you've been telling him, and renewed thanks to him "for inventor. the little one, and his finger and thumb uncle, and had so startled the reverend in a day or two, sirprobably me?" saving my life," and that 1 had previously In order to defeat a patent the 1 were groping in the pocket of his portly gentleman that morning. to-morrowwhen you'll be "Every man for himself, you know. written a letter of thanks to him. courts require it to be shown that another waistcoat for the consolatory shilhng wanted," he said to Mr. Glister. I'm talking for my own region. 1 I have not been in the Louisville hotel The young man's business was soon not only conceived the invention which should repair the damage "We,ll spare you all the trouble we haven't traveled much." since the war I do not remember ever explained. He wished to see come articles in dispute before the patentee, and dry the mourner's tears, when he can. Now march!" "Do you mean to say" to have seen or heard of this Lieut, of jewelry suitable for presentation but was also the first to perfect and 'saw that his charitable intention had "Young man, I haven't got time to kgrigg any time or place, and it is to a young lady. Nothing too "I say, take these things off," said adopt the same to practical use, or 4ee forestalled. The self-same rural not true that, as he alleges, I was go into details. Do you want to go extravagant the simpler the better the younger prisoner, extending his was using reasonable diligence for that ideanwhom Mr. Glister had that mornling eight days in his custody, or that I to Georgia? Come down and start a but good Mr. Glister understood perfectly, manacled hands. "I'll come quiet." purpose. saluted was soothing the child's have ever written to him a letter of newspaper." and produced from the window 'Fraid I can't oblige you," said The par ties who first embodied an igrief with words of cheer and consoling thanks. I remained in Macon but a a case of ornaments, which the young the inspector. "I ain't much afraid invention in a machine which they pats of the tumbled" golden hair few hours, and was sent forward to gentleman examined, choosing therefrom of his reverence. He's getting a bit A wooden ship of 2,628 tons is a kept in operation afterward for actual through which the little damsel's tearful Fortress Monroe the evening of the" a collar and pendant, a bracelet too heavy even for a welter weight use, beside manufacturing and selling curiosity indeed, audit is no wonder eyes, already brighter at the sight day of my arrival there. and some rings. He seemed to have but you're another pair o' shoes." other machines, are prima facie entitled of the proffered coin the reverend gentleman that the people of the whole surrounding admirable taste, and his ideas of simplicity He paused and meditatively scratched to that patent. IP held out to her, looked up at country poured into Rockport, in matters of jewelry seemed to Of Coarse He Could. his head for a moment, and then turned ire He is the inventor, entitled to the fhim with shy gratitude. A pretty Maine, to see the launch of the big essence0" Air. Glister to be of a most aristocratic again to Mr. Glister. "Could you "You have peppermint protection of the patent law, who is picture, thought Mr. Glister, bowing four-master Fredrick Billings. elasticity. oblige me with the loan of a overcoat 3he asked, as she held out first to complete the invention and again to the rural dean as their eyes a pint to put over his hands and hide the bottle. He was hesitating between the different .met, whereat the old eleric nodded with publish it to the world, and not he 'cuffs? It's just as well to keep the attractions of a diamond and Benson's watch, the siae of a sixpence, a confused and somewhat shamefaced who confines the know ledge of it to his "Oh, yes." s, yokels off. I'll leave it at the station sapphire ring to complete his purchase, creates quite a sensation at the client. .aspect,, as though embarassed that "I'll take about five* cents' worth. i for you." when the door opened and his uncle -'his fmei&ed\fd .goo deed should have been wit- London "Inventions." There is another When an invention consists of a You may rinse the bottle and put in a entered. v* Mr. Glister went in search of the desired combination of elements, the date new cork, if you please.'' the size of a shilling, which shows Tbe'riext morning saw Mr. Gl.ister "Ah," he said, cheerily, "you here^ garment, and the inspector, having "Yes'm." 4.^g when all the elements are combined is the time, the year.the month, the day Vt eh? and on the same errand as myself, arranged it in a natural fashion the date of invention. of the month and week, and the phase "And say! Beinfas I am a regulat agahi J'aceustOmedofhour at his post observation, elderlyd an I see. Very pretty! very pretty!" over the young man's hands, civilly When one is first to conceive an invention, customer can't you afford to throw in a of the moon, It arranges itself to suit the ,*at hfe he remarked, examining his nephew's bade'him "Good day," and departed he throws aside all evidences few pinches of rhuba*b and a dozen ot the exigencies of leap year, and performs VJ Jl-f'eler?c Was agaijeweler descried alreadythe upon purchase. "Have you all you want? with his prisoners. of the conception, makes no efforts to so cloyes? I'm very fond of cloveianc Th had be all these various functions by ^pavement.1 Then, if Mr. Glister will be "so good, I Mr. Glister waited a daytwo days complete or intioduce it to the public, I want the rhubarb for the babv."- being wound as an ordinary but less Itgun to feel a' friendly, almost an and no summons to appear against and delays making an application for DetroU Free Press. complicated chronometer. It repeats, r- Affectionate interest in the old gentleps^l tne criminals reached nun frqm any a patent for nearly four years after when required,the hours, the quarters, man/who^e appearance was so iuvit- 'Now.my dear uncle," said flip young quarter. Rather mystified by this, he another has brought it into extensive The food for prtae-flghiera-Bound steak.-Botfon 4^\t wUeso^ \oiee so jo vial, whose and minutes on a deep-toned gong. It went to the local superintendent and man imme-iiately, "be modeiate." use, he has standing as an inventor. I Budget. is priced at 500. &* wn