vy i & 7#! I 1 it Ga-mbHag as a Science. THE MESSAGE OFLIFE. enson at his head-quarters, and after Spanish Civil Service Methods. your decision, and beg most humbly ^GambHmgis a scientific profession introducingmyself, and referring to the to take my leave of you." Spanish society in Cuba is composed 'founded injpon Ube foibles of mankind," morning's scene on Bolivar Heights, Next morning the merchants called From the Youth's Companion. of the officials who form the government .astutely remarked "one of them" to I I ventured frankly to state my suspicions, again the vessel was in the bay. "3fi Twenty years ago I was one of many of the island, their families and & reporter, the other day, as the two and ask if they were not wellfounded. Would the collector listen to reason witnesses of a scene that has left upon hangers-on. This is of necessity were seated in the main room of a and accept an amicable arrangement? "Not at all," he instantly replied. my memory an impress perhaps deeper ephemeral, for these officials are all watering-place gambling resort, and as The old soldier smiled grimly. "The men would have been dead had 3 Spaniards, appointed and sent out than that of any other occurrence "I gave my answer yesterday. WTien the reporter glanced down the vista of that despatch reached me two minutes the vessel anchors I willgo down to the by the home government, and any Turkish carpets and frescoed ceilings, of that stirring time. The sequel of later." quay I will see that every box and 1 change of ministry (and changes of -of wich draperies and costly furnishings, the story .which I learned some months "Were you not expecting a reprieve, bale and barrel is conveyed into the ministry are not infrequent in Spain, and saw the obsequious servants afterwards, is narrated here with the general?" custom house, there to be valued and where to hold a portfolio, if only for a laden with their viands and expensive "I had some reason to expect it last principal event and both together deserve levied on and if you attempt to interfere I day, entitles one to a pension of $1,200 night but as it did not come, and as wines gliding to and fro at the beck oi with me in the execution of my a larger audience than any that the line was reported down between a year) will disseat them all. It is the players, the thought obtruded that duty, I will call upon the commandant has yet heard them, because they here and Baltimore this morning, I commonly reported that these offi1 of the fortress to support me with hit if all this elegance and luxury were the touch the he&i-fc and arouse those feelings had given it up. Still, in order to give men." cials owe their positions not to merit, superstructure the foibles of mankind THE the fellows every possible chance for of sympathy which make the The merchants looked at one another I but money and that the surest way made rather a satisfactory bedrock. their lives, I left a mountfd orderly at BEST TONIC. and smiled, and the spoksman whole world kin. to secure a snug appointment is to "Yes," went on the card diplomat, the telegraph office, with orders to said: "it is a truism to state that the successful It was in February, 1865. I was a make your application to the mistress This medfchis, Combining Iron with pur ride at a gallop if a message came for "Ah, my dear sir, how do you know vegetable tonics, quickly and completely gambler must be a close student staff-officer of a division of the Union of the man in power. Such me from Washington. It is well I did! Cores Dysprptfcu Iadlgestian, Weakaeaa, that our worthy commandant is not of human nature. Of course he Army stationed about Winchester, Impure Bloni, aularia.ClUUaamdFevers., the precaution saved their lives." stories sound strange in the nineteenth equally interested with ourselves in and Netumltbu must, for,his whole business is an evolution, Virginia and military operations bein^then How the despatch came to Harper's It ii an unftLilinar remedy for Dinsaes ofthe* your paying the country a visit? Let century, but Spain is still in simple and direct, of certain practically over in that region, Ferry must be told in the words of the Kldaeya nnd IJrar. us beg you to alter your decision.' the eighteenth. It is said that phases of human nature. Why, the It is laTE'uable for Diseases peculiar to I had succeeded in getting leave of absent man who got it through. "It is made, and nothing will alter Women, and all who lead sedentary lires. in many cases the greater part of other day, while running down to New for twenty d^ ys. The time was Itdoc*nat injure the teeth, causeheedache^r it." THE TELEGRAPHER'S STORY. York on the 'special' from heie, I heard the salary is retained by the patron, shoit enough, at best, for one who produce constipationotlit Iron mtdieene* do. At a sisjnal from one of the merchantsfive Itcnricjesund purifies the blood,stimulates-, On the morning of the 24th of February, two or three rich old Jews talking had been I0112 absent from family and so that the official thus appointed, the appet te, aids the rsimilation of tbod, relieves or six soldiers rushed in 1865, I was busy at my work -about this very place. One of them friends, and two days were to be consumed Heartburn and lt lehmg, and strengthens knowing on what contingencies his and overpowered the unfortunate collector. in the Baltimore Telegraph Office, sending the muscles and nerves. was complaining that he had left $2,- each way getting to and from tenure of office depends, is fain to make For Iotsrinluent Fevers. Lassitude, Lack of" He was conveyed on board a and receiving messages. At halfpast 00 to enrich the house. my northern home. I lost no time in Energr 4 c, it has no equal the most he can, par la voie mdirecte. ship, and carried to an island on the ten o'clock,for I had occasion 'Oh1' said another, spreading out making the first staqe of my journey, *S- "ho genuine has Above trade mark and Pacific. There he remained for two A gentleman residing in Cuba told me to mark the hour,the signal CA Crossed rod linos on wrapper. Take no other. which was a brief one, from Winchester 'his pudgy hands, 'I felt more than months, until a passing vessel enabled we9fc itBotmctnifrji. co^*-'woi.. L, several times repeated, caused me that hehad been on terms of intimacy TllTFS to Harper's Ferry, by rail. that, much more,' with a chuckle. him to return to the mainland. He to throw all else aside, and attend to with a former collector of customs in 'But what do you expect, man? We I went back to the hotel after an hastned to Santa Anna, and related it. Cuba. This man held his post for two must have'our pleasure.' hour's stroll, wrote some letters, read the treatment he had been subjected That was the telegraphic cipher of years. He had to send home the "And that is just the keynote of the all the newspapers I could find about to. The old bandit listened tranquilly. tne War Department and telegraphers, PILL 'Whole thing. There is a large class of the place, and shortly after eleven whole of his salary to the patron who "My good fellow," he said, "you in those days, had instructions to i men who find their pleasures at the o'clock went out again. This time my appointed him and he left Cuba with have brought it on your own shoulders. put that service above all others. A gaming table alone, and it is this class ear was greeted with the music of a $60,C00 netprofit. But official speculation I gave you the appointment message was quickly ticked off from which supports it. No other form of band, playing a slow march. Several that you might make a good thing of the president to the commanding officer is part of the Spanish system dissipation so panders to certain natures soldiers were walking briskly past, and it. I have sent another man there and at Harper's Ferry, reprieving two 25 YEARS IN USE. every man that pulls an oar in the as a game of chance, and these I inquired of them if there was to be a I hear no complaints." deserters who were to be Shot at noon. make and'maintain the bank. military funeral. overnment galley thinks himself at Ta Grsatsst Medical Trinmpa of the Age: The message was dated the day before, The simple old soldier opened his iberty to dip in hU private bucket at "There goes a man now," he contrarued, "No, sir," one of them replied "not but had in some way been detained eyes. SYMPTOMS OF A the same time. The following anecdote, "passing into the restaurant, exactly. It is an execution. Two deserters or delayed between the department "Well, general, Ihavehad my lesson. TORPID LIVER. the truth of which I can personally who is a fair type ot the bone and from one of the artillery regiments and the Washington office. Give me another place, and you will avouch, will illustrate this. A sinew of these 'places. He does not here are to be shot up on Bolivar hear no more complaints on the score A few words to the Baltimore office, Leasef appetite. Dowels ccattve, Palaln medical man of high scientific standing come often, but with fair regularity. Heights. Here they come!" of my honesty." the head, with a dull sensation In t! which accompanied the despatch, explained and large practice, a Cuban by He was in ten days ago and made a The solemn strains of the music sae part. Pain under the shoaldcrfelade Santa Anna threw down his cigarette. that it had "stuck" at Baltimore, birth, was appointed to represent night of it. I took a" cocktail with Fallacaa after eating, with aI- were heard near at hand, and the cortege "No, sir, I have nothing for you that an officer direct from the laellaatioB to exertion of body or mind. the island at the Washington medical him just before he went to breakfast. moved into the street where we you have had your chance, I have no Irritability of temper, Low spirits, witav president was waiting at the Washington congress. The secretary, who Helhad'lost but $60, but had sacrificed stood, and wound slowly up the hill. a feeUasr e"haTin neglected some aaty* employment for fools," said the old office, anxious to hear that it had wrote to iniorm him of his appointment, his -sleaj), and would waste the Weariness, Dlrziuess, FlattsrlacattboHeart, First came the band then Gen. Stevenson, scoundrel as he hobbled out of the reached Harper's Ferry, and that Baltimore Dots before the eyes, lira each added that a sum of $200 would coming day in making it up, yet he the military commandant of the Ter the risbt eye, Restlessness, witH room.Temple Bar. must send it on instantly. be allowed him toward his expenses. confessed with entire honesty to having post, and his staff then the guard, Stful drcntus. Highly colored Urlae, an& Baltimore would have been very The physician wrote back decliningthe had a fine night's sport. He often preceding and following an ambulance, CONSTSPATiON. glad to comply but the line to Harper's appointment. Meeting the captain leaves $500 behind him, rarely wins, in which were the condemned men. A The Hair Merchant 's Story. TUTT'S Pitts are especially adaptoct Ferry had been interrupted since general, with whom he was on terms but he can afford it, or thinks he can, to snch rases, one dose effects snch a whole regiment followed, Inarching by "I had a strange evperience once in tnangnof feeiing *ito astonishthe sufferer daylight rothing whatever had passed. of intimacy, shortly afterward, he was and counts it only as paying for platoons with reversed arms, making They Increase tno %ppetlte,nndcansath So I explained to Washington. human hair," said a member of the asked why he had thus declined the 'pleasure.' body t* Take au F!e*ti,jl\i\i% the extern '3 the whole a spectacle than aoitrisrtert.aml bv their Tonic Action en The reply came back before my fingers offer, and explained that he could not fimi of John E. Lafore Co., human which nothing can be more solemn. Of course others than these find the Digestive Onrans.lCesular Murray_St..t*.Y._Stools*rDY TUTT'S mm had left the instrument. "You afford to leave his practice for the oducml _rrlpg_aSo. 4 Close behind it came, as it seemed to their way into this and similar places, h,ir importers. "A French lady of must get it through Do it, some way, meagre equivalent of 200. The captain me, the entire population of Harper's but they are comparatively few. Men noble blood, who has been my friend for Mr. Lincoln. He is very anxious, general opened his eyes. "There Ferry a motley crowd of feeveral GRAY HAIR or WHISKERS changed to a come to retrieve fortunes lost in natural for years, wrote me a few months ago, has just sent another messenger to us." GLOSST BLACK by a single application of must be a mistake somewhere," said thousand, embracing soldiers off duty, channels, to drown grief or disappointment, this DTK. It imparts n. natural color, act.-* I called the office-superintendent to he, "for I remember distinctly that inclosing a lock of hair which was a camp-followers, negroes, and what etc., but not in the instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, a my table, and repeated these despatches the amount of the grant was $2,000." sent by express on 1 eceipt of 9\. not. It was a raw, damp day, not a numbers that come to indulge in the, peculiar shade of drab and of silky Office. 4 4 Murray St., New York. to him. He looked at the clock. Upon iuquiry it was found that the ray of sunlight had yet penetrated the to them, [pleasurable rack of suspense, fineness. She wanted me to match it, "Almost eleven," he said. I see clerks in the office had agreed to offer thick clouds, and under foot was a the pain of loss, and the always-to-bebope^for and I set about doing so. PARKER'S just one chancea very slight one. the physician $200, or such other thin coating of .snow. Nature seemed flush-of victory." Send it to New York ask them to get HAIR BALSAM sum as they could induce him to accept, in sympathy with the misery of the "I inserted an advertisement in the "I'-suppose, then," observed the reporter, it to Wheeling, and then it may get and then share the modest remainder occasion. (quietly, "that when a man principal Philadelphia, New York and the popular favorite for dressing through by Cumberland and Martinburg. among themselves. the hair. Restoring the color shootslhimself through the head in a The spot selected for the dreadful Boston papers, offering a liberal reward wnen gray.and preventing Dandruff. Stick to 'em, and do what you gambling den the pleasurable pain of scene was rather more than a mile up This subject reminds me of an incident It cleanses the scalp, for a switch of the desired quality cam" stops the hair falling, and as loss has probably been a little severe?" the Heights, where a high rids*c of related to me in Mexico by a gentleman and color One day a woman of 50c and $i s'zes at Druggists. By this time I had become thoroughly sure to please "It is possible," was the reply, ignoring ground formed a barrier for bullets who has known one of the parties aroused in the business, and I set about 20 years of ago, shabbily thesarcasm, 'Nothing annoys PARKER'S TONIC that might miiss their mark. Arrived concerned. It treats of the times to work with a will. The despatch dressed, but with a form and face that a proprietor more than a tragedy. He here, the troops were formed in two when "General'' Santa Anna, after a with the explanation went to New The Bset Cough. Core 70a can use will take any imeasure to keep such Venus might have envied, entered my large squares -of one rank each, one successful revolution, found himself at Yorkand promptly came the reply emotional, high-strung temperaments and the best known preventive of Consumption. square withiha the other, with an open the head of affairs, andbegan to divide office. that it was hopeless the wires were PARKSR'S ION IC kept in a home is a sentinel to from hie (rooms. If all the sentimental face towards the ridge. Two graves the snug places of the government 'I came to answer to your advertisement,' keep sickness out. Used disci eetly it keeps the crowded, and nothing could be done and .sensational st,ory book frequenter had been xuag near this i*idge, and a among his followers. One of these was a blood pure and the Stomach, Li\er and Kidneys she said, and, removing till late in the afternoon, if then. these-places were eliminated I in working order. Coughs and Colds vanish before coffin was just in rear of each grave. certain cavalry officer who had served her hat, unbound a hi\uiiant coil of it It builds up the health. I responded just as Washington had the lbank would scarcely notice Twenty paces in front was the firingparty thegeneral well, and, to reward his devotion,Santa If you suffer from Debility, Skin Eruptions, hair that called from me an involuntary replied to me. It must be done it is their albsence. They are not the bone Cough, Asthma, Dyspepsia, K:dne Urinary or of si.x files, under a lieutenant, Anna appointed him collector cry of admiration. 'Will this do?' a case of life and death do it for Mr. Female Complaints, or any disorder of the Lungs, and sinew (Of the gambling harvest. It at ordered anms the general and his of customs at Mazatlan. Our she asked. Stomach, Bowels, Blood or Nerves, don't wait Lincoln's sake, who is very anxious is the great majority of average commonplaae staff sat on their horses near the centre. friend was not only a brave soldier, but till you are nek in bed, but use PA Hintit's TOKIC "I examined her yair and compared about it. And I added for myself, by imen that yields the profits." to-day it will give you new life and rigor an honest man he went to fill his new it with the sample sent me by the I HISCOX & CO, N Y. vray of emphasis^For God's sake, "Ifndaiibfcedly," assented a reporter, position with the firm intention of doing Outside the outer square, the great Sold by Druggists Large saving buying $1 siae. Countess. The two were so similar let's save these poor fellows! reflecting that the average commonplace-man his duty by the government which crowd of spectators stood in perfect that when I mixed them together I And I got the New York people helps along most of the "had appointed him. He had not been silence. The ^condemned man had could not distinguish one from the thoroughly aroused as I was myself. stupendous imovements of the world's long at Mazatlan before three of the been brought from the ambulance, and other. The answer came back, Will do what machinery. Then, not eager to discuss leading merchants called upon him, eaA one sat aa his coffin, with his 'This hair is exactly what I want,' we can." the moraaetlhics'Of gambling, a more and informed him that three ships open grave before ihiiira. I said, 'and I will give you $200 an It was now ten minntes past eleven. practical questionwas put. would probably arrive at Mazatlan in They were very different in their ounce for it.' 1,000 AGENTS, MEN AND WOMEN, In ten minutes more. I heard from New three or four days. The new collector "Can you tell ime what is the real aspeen. One, a man of more than 'Take it off,' she said, with a nervous York that the despatch (had got as far JnsfriaMlsartd"LSMMe thanked the merchants, and his visitors For JOHN B.GOUGH'S entirely nfrrrtinnlseriesHt percentage rflfmisk-the bar.k possesses forty years, showed hardly a trace *&*- trembling of her voice that at a as- Buffalo, and could not go direct to d tie"LIVING TRUTHS- retired. Two days later one of roo against theiplayer'" f Seeling in hifc pugged face but 'im,7-5, once attracted my attention. 'I am and Heart.** Wheeling it must go on to Chicago. them came again, evidently perturbed. "Well," was the reply, "theapparcnt vhcother was a au-eaie lad, of scarcely starving, I and my baby, and what Inquiries from Washington were repeated PZCTVSX8 as only "My dear sir, are you aware that percentage us small, and varies in the tweanty, who ga/ed about him with a you are willing to pay i^ a fortune to JOHN JB. GOUQH every five minutes, and I sent one of the ships is expected here tomorrow several gamesroillette, faro, andothi-ers wild, reckless look, as 11 he could not us.' what had reached me. morning?" carrying (different'ratesbu the yet fEnderstand that Hue was about to "I became interested and questioned Half-past eleven, the despatch was can paint tBem. It gives, in permanent Nreal percentage ,is enormously in the enduae the terrible punishment of his "So you gave me to understand when form, his beat thoughts.hfe her. After a little hesitation she told at Chicago, and they were working most sllrrinir anecdotes, tocethe* Ujank's favwr.. liesiin the same principle olfenoa. I last had the honor of receiving you with maaifold experience and per- me her story. Her husband had been "their best to get it to Wheeling. of huaman nature that I have SOBAI mainlaeence*, never below The [proceedings offahecourt-martial what of it?" a sea captain and shortly after they published. Ttie tendnnss of hie Something was the matter the ..just commeasted lupon. The average wereraead, reciting tllae-charges against pjtl os and the spiro of his bnniei The merchant looked surprised were married had sailed for the west Wheeling ofhee did not answer. are quiLo irreri-tible A nugahl jllayer if he win several consecutive these aaien, their tiibi, iconviction and then all at once a light broke in upon rent Royal Octavo Volume, coataining coast of Africa. His ves&el was never The next five minutes passed without neitrlv TOO pages and S*. Ibets becomes (Cautious, anticipates a senteooe, and then the order of Gen. him. "Do you mean to say," he said, fiuporb EngriAirgs. heard of after leaving port, and it was a word thenhuzza'New York life WANT l~mnor*nUnnU- dliange in luefc,.and ventures his money Sheridan approving the sentence "to "that you are not acquainted with the presumed lhat she had foundered at TIC If AN I i'i, bUeUlgent caavojiers says the despatch has reached Wheeling, .aerordingly. JlDhejresiilt.is if his aood be shottto death witDammsketry," and to Ktipil this book to the custom followed at Mazatlan on occasions sea and all hands had been lost. The and theoperatorthere says he can tons of thousands who anrreitina rfotiune conuaaufid his winnings are directing -it to be carried into effect at like the present?" fSr It No competition, and it Li noweut tonintr oil others I presumed widow had stniggled to g3t at through to Harper's Ferry it 10 to 1. Ministers Kdltont. Critics, etc give it thela email and unimportant. On the otsher twelve a -clock noon of tikis day. The "I must confess I am not, if it is anything unqualified endorsement and wipe it Godjpeed. Agvuta^, maintain herself and infant child, but time. Ifaaipd, let hint lose .continuously and see it f*r Umt to mo* moerv, and at the same time cvniafe whole aene was passing (immediately beyond the usual routine." a lUmtfttg frg-datt fcnk Lxclusire territory and very with indifferent success. Fmally.when 1 Jbe (becomes exoited. ,Hetoseshis head, At this point the r*ewtopped. New before aaa^-eyes for a*ta.flkiniform will Special Terms riven. Rend for targe il!ustraied-rcul*ra "Well, then, my dear sir, let me have buffering from the pangs of hunger, she I eontauiinir fullparticulars Address A XSTTiJB jaaatkpursuing time-sameline^of argument York "oul learn nothing further for pass its wearer aliwwst anywhere in TONosCO.. Puba.. 87 N. Clark St.. Ofclcaeo.112. the pleasure of instructing you. When had read my advertisement and 1 tifoat.it is a lonagft&newrHIch has no the armyn me, after several efforts, and I could ,and I had passed theguards a ship is signalled in the bay, it is expected hastened to my place of business, twirastaag, he increases his stakes. Th*3 and entered the inner square. only send to Washington that I hoped 'that the collector of custom^ NEWlOODS! LOWUST PHICESl praying inwardly that her hair, which poEqgr, with continued misfortune il was. all right, but conoid not be sure. will pay a short visit to the country, A chawlean knelt by iihe condemned had been her hiibband'b pnde, might endssaia large losses. Thus, when tht Later in the day the Hiae-was working lasting, say, a week or so. Our hospitable men and Tpasayed fervently, whispered be of the requited shade. baaakas loser it BE tfor-emall sums, but again to Harper's Ferry, And then friend, Senor Mendez, places a few woudtedn the ear s e&th, wrung Henry J. Luders, "Well, I bought her hair which weighed whem dvinning the gams areilarge. I leawied that the despatch bad reached his hacienda at your service his horses theirhahds,!?mdretired. Two soldiers four ounces, and paid her $800 for tLne office there at ten nairratesbef ore "Wftwafc the bank as.-afraid (de are the are at your disposal his son, a charming stepped forward with handkerchiefs to it. I sent the s\\ ich to my customer, I twelve, and that it was brought to the jonseivwtive, persistent -players, but young man, will, if you wish it, accompany ijibind the e^se, of the sudlerera, and I the Countess, and wrote her the history Dealer ia place of execution just in time. there sxe not many srf{them There is you thither and enliven your ^ineard the (officer of the ifiumg-party of the hair. She is a woman of a class tsd men at the IBrcropeaie gambling stay you will have a week's excellent give the eomsnand in a !k tone, JAMES FRANKUS FJITS. DRY GOODS, "Attention1shoulder'curms!" great wealth and goodness of heart. peaces, and a wery small class, sport. When you return hither, I The return mail brought me a letttr who name reduced tfeertihing 'to.a fine will 1 the honor, on behalf of myself ,1 looked at my watch it was a, minutve The Mother-in-Law Again. GROCERIES, authorizing me to pay the poor little point. "SEtese men risk^sery .evening and my brother merchants, of soliciting past twdkwe. The crowd 'outside sailor's widow $1,000 extra. I wrote An American traveler writes that a single Baet, always the ameamunt your acceptance, of the modest had been so perfectly siterat *!h.at a NOTIONS, ETC. an account of the affair which was while he was traveling with his family If the bet\vlius they contamue to^lav, sum of 1,000 pesos in token of our general flutter and a distvrbainee muming published. One day, about three but only long as their -profit will esteem." thovugh it at tOadfc instant fisS (everybody's through Syria last year an Arab offered Riesling's Block, weeks after the publication of the permit, ff, Ihowever, the iGtrst venture attention. My heart gave a him two camels and a donkey for The old soldier knit his brows. story, a man who was bron/ed and tfails they ^Mxt the table waafcU therfolUowjng great "jump as I S&SJSV a mounted orderly tfEWULM, MINN! his sister. Of course the traveler refused "And what will be the result if I bearded,came into my office ery much evening. In this way tfc&eir loss is urgjig his horse through tfin.onowd, decline to accept your generous invita- to sell nd true man, worthy oi excited. He held in his hand a copy fUmited to the original bfiefy wlhile, jf and vowing a yelhsw envelopettwieiihis tion?" the name of American would sell his of a New York paper and unfolding it fortune favoors /them they saafywin-a, head. "Senor, you surprise me' You surely sister for snch a price as that it's a pointed to my story. flajrge amount. This policy is gmrsuei The .squares opened for him. anfllhe are not going to raise obiections, or mighty poor sister that won't fetch 'Can you give me the address of daily, and a single night's winaafeig ivjM rode in *nd handed ifche envelope t give trouble, when all may be so well woman9' he asked eaqeily. 'She 5 this rfte furnish oajpcfcal enoughior #.ilong four camels and a pacuig mulebut, the geiwal. Those who were permitted arranged?" is my w.fe. I thought her^dead.'" period of bad fiiack. These mea.a not oh, that mam's punishment for a mean to see the despatch, read the ^'Oblige me by answering my ques- "While I wrote down the address he enl^F gambling, trot it supports ifchem, *act he did! The remorse that gnawed following tion." and have no doulbt that they.^cou- told me his story. His vessel had been -a his vitals all that night' His wife "Well, I must confess that we have WAWRXGTOK, D. FEB. 23,18G3L mulafte valuable statistics in the ratio shipwrecked on the African coast, and *$en. Job Stevenson, Harper's Ferry. Iheard him crying, and she said: "What considered that possibility, and in the and -proportion oi -games of ckaoce. he and two others of the *crew alone Deserters s^prieved tifcl Uurther "ordeas. event of your refusing to comply with 'is the matter? Why do you weep so They are detested iby the official* of managed to reach the shore. It was Stop the exeeotion. A. LINCOLH. our humble request, but only as an bitterly? "Oh, my darting," said the the plage, but their right to play as several months before they managed The older the 'two en had so extreme, a most extreme measure, to WKetched man, in a, toreent of sobs. whey please can not be questioned/* to reach a civilized port. He immediately throughly resigned hiniaetf to his fate, A,Ic*m which I am sure you will be unwilling so grieved that I refused tc sent word of the disaster to that be seemed unable now to realize i to compel us, and which our own good "But this be a fact," said the reporter/' fjrjing your dear mother with us OD the owners of the loundered vessel and that he was saved, and foe looked! feeling, and the respect with which we "why is not the practice wrote to his young wife. From the bewildered this trip. Oh, I eaa ne\ er forgive myself around him regard you, will make us most unwilling more universal?" dazed, former he received a reply, but he way. '"$ to adopt" aever, never!" But his wife al "Because*" was the emphatic response, heard no word from his wife, and when Not tfd the other he'seemeillor the tbotigk she secretely triumphed in his "Pray proceed." Wr "not one man in a thousand he reached Philadelphia he discovered first time to recover his consekxisness. peraite&ce, comforted dim and said he possesses tfoe requisite characteristics "Well, we shall be compelled to that she had mysteriously disappeared. force." He clasped his hands together, and conld take her next time. But he refused to so control himself under the spur One day in looking over a paper burst into tears. As there was no to lie comforted, and said yes, of such excitement as thegaming table "Use force to me?" *f? he came across my story and had hurried military execution alter this at Harper's e&a offer." but this chance would never come "I regret to say so, but it will be to my 6ffice to learn fuller particulars. wJDo professional gamblers,'as a Ferry, I have no doubt that the again, Bt she said ma would be just inevitable ifyour persist in your refus- tjp? I sent him to his wife in my carriage, sentence of both was finally commuted. as well pleased to got Saratoga and al." VJ^tiJc, always have money?" and you can imagine what occurred Newport next summer, and so she The old soldier rose, twirling his "The average professional gambler," at the meeting, for each believed Powerfully as my feelings had been tenderly hustled him to fcleep. And moustache. "t|w"&g the reply, "is dead broke nine the other dead. I wrote to the Countess, stirred by this scene, I stilt suspected when she wrote home didn't she teft "Now, sir, that I understand you, I ^months out of the twelve."New York giving the sequel to the story, that the despatch had in fact arrived bow dearly Harry loved ma, and hov SODA beg you to understand me. I am here iTimes. and the result was that the shipwrecked before the cortege left Harper's Ferry, lonesome he was without her? Didn't to collect the customs, and I mean to captain now commands her and that all that "happened afterward she? Oh, didn't she, though? Buf fulfill my duty at any risks. There is Mr. Blaine has only 150 more pages yacht, and the wife who sacrificed her was planned and intended as a terrible her husband never told what an offei p\y answer. What have you to say?" hair to buy bread sails with him on of his book to write. J& lesson to these culprits. he had for Ijis jwter until two month/ "Hotbing that I greatly regret every voyage."Philadelphia Times A* That afternoon I visited Gen. Stev- laterv tf& &M BestinthaWorlcL uw: