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NiT VOL, I I BRISTOL, BUCKS COUNTY, THURSDAY. Y. -K NO 42. Parting Ijovcrs. Toward a lender vino trro, I'linir rotin'l I he fort of Ilunft.

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TIIK MYSTKKY SOLVED. 'Nonsense! I shall not marry at all." "Why. you certainly moan to marry John lirant?" "Assuredly I do not Hois passable, that's all." "Then it will be Harry Uogcrs." Ham Rogers is not ondur- ile with bis mild ways and his monk courleiy." "That will do to toll mo, Miss May Sanndrrs, but wiit till cither of tho ntlemcn proposes to you, and you will "They have both proposed, and both icon refused witlnu the past twcnty- 'our hours. Them now! what do you i of a H-ivon't I just a littlo lit of spirit and independence?" "Why, May Sannders, you are a silly to refuse cithi of these gentlemen. You have made i first great mistake of life.

Reoi'tiiider what you havo lone, and accept ono or the other of them." 'I will do no snoh tiling. I'll livo an.l an old maid before I marry of them, or any other man, for matter of thai "Wo i both livo long enough to sceMhinri come out differently." I hope we will both livo to a ripe old age, but in tho end you will i i a I have kept my word." This bit of dialogue took place bet my i i a friend. May Snun- ami self on her twenty-fourth nrllidfn, and I hail boon rallying her cause only had ono more milestone lo pass i sho entered the domain of old maidilom--if allowance be innile for coining the word--and I lind icen aihising her to marry before she the bordei land. John Brant M.IS bookkeeper, aud larry Rogers wa- cashier in the bank il hcs'on and both were exccl- ent nen 1 knew that both were devoted admirers of May, but 1 was ('really nod to learn that they tli had propoicd, and still more lis- niijcd lo learn tli it both bad been re- ecfeil. me, a I a i "what ob- ection rould yon to Harry Kog- He is an exceptionally splendid oung man, and no one stands higher tho public esteem in tho whole town it Dayton." "I presume," she replied, "that I lisTiko liiin because everyone praises mm.

He is tinseltish, 1 grant it, aud gentle and and all a but lo my mind ho lacks self-assertion, without which im man's ninnlioocl is complete or perfe 'Well, that (liargo does not lie against John lirant. He has self-assertion enough foi any ono man--a little more, in fact, than 1 admire, but perhaps not too much to suityourtasto iml fancy." "John lirant is well enough so far as a goes," May rejoined, "and 1 do not i i i telling ou that I like him in- timlely better I do Harry Rogers, but not eiiCMie-h to link uiy fate i "Aud why not' 1 "1 can hardly loll. Thero is somo- lliinr about him a I cannot that is unfathomable, ooor.0* tvrr (A tna icver to marry him, even if I should in love with him, which seems not anly absurd but impossible." I was quite ovei come with tho poeu- iai situation of all airs, and saw that it would bo a waste of time to volunteer any sort of advice or undertake a solution of the knotty problem. So I con- to leave the solution to tho deft insrers of Time. lioth the young gentlemen continued to pay their usual attentions to May.

The gossips of the town were in ignorance of tin fact that both had already 'icen rejected, ami consequently there was nothing to interfere with their speculations as to which would win her the end. I watched my friend narrowly, and 'rora time to time cautiously sounded icr feelings, and mado up my mind that it was only a question of time, until Miss May Saumlers would bo Mrs. John lirant. Her partiality was snfli- eiently marked to show the drift of tho tide. I'rom John Brant I was able to learn that ho regarded Harry Rogers as a rival--and a rival whom ho both feared and hated, notwithstanding their close business relations.

1 was entir. ly unable to discover that Harry Rogers looked upon Brant as a rival in any sense of the word. On several occasions ho confided in me far enough to express both his amazement and pain that May should so persistently rcj'-ct his love without living him any reasonable explani- "Perhaps she tlnnks you lack solf-as- icrtion." I said to him, in tho way of suggestion. is what j-ho told mo cannot understand it. I don't know what she means bv it.

I attend to my Business and don't meddle with other people's. Thcro has never yet boon an x'casion when it was necessary for me to set up my opinion in opposition to my business superiors. I do not know whether I would have tho proper amount of to do so successfully, but I certainly would stand by my convictions of right." There was a commotion one day in he banking-house of Iveson Co. rt'hen the doors ore closed in the af- ernoon and the nash was balanced, Jashier Rogers was found to bo just five inndrcd pounds short. Every transaction of tho day was over, the members of the firm aking a part in the work, but there was no way of accounting for the do- icit Tho payments made during tho day were few ia number, and Harry Rogers was able to remember the whole list, and before night IIB had called on each if them, hoping to discover that ho had made an overpayment to the amount ol deficit in one of (hem.

But he bad not At la-it it was conclud that a thief had snatched a package of bills when tho cashier was not lool ing. Hut Harry mentally fused to assent to any such an idea, although ho could give no sort of an expli nation for tho disatipearance of tho money. Ho was cautioned to be more circumspect in the future, and all tho bunk employes were enjoined not to of the occurrence. Harry Rogers was able to definitely settle one point--that the missingmon- oy consisted of livo one hundred pound notes, and tho chief of police was informed of tho matter and instructed to keep quiet look-out, through the detectives, for tho appearance of such large notes in tho haudh of suspicious persons. While Harry Roger) was at homo i.i.inir vainly trying to lind some tenable theory ubotit tho stolon funds, John Knuit was spending tho time with May Saundcrn, and fimifiy told her of the my.storious loss.

"Jiut how did it escape getting into tho evening papers?" enquired May. "Oh, it's a great secret, and isn't to bespoken of outside tho bunk," was Brant's reply. "Well, then, you aio an excellent hand to keep a secret, Mr. Brant, 1 muni say." John Hrnnt winced under this retort. 'How do you aeconn'.

for tho loss of the money, Mr. Krant?" "I don account for it There ia only one man who can." "Who is that?" "Harry Rogers, the oashior. Tho money was in his ho ought to know what boonmc ofit." "John brarit, what i mean?" "Well, nothing; only that Hurry Rogers ought to know became of tho money in his charge." "I think I can fathoni your meaning, Mr. lirant, and it is ungenerous, if not unjust, and without good grounds. 1 Thcro was something in May's voico which suggested to Br.int that it was the part of discretion to drop tho subject, and ho quickly invented an excuse lor saying good-oveninr.

After he WHS gone ly noticed that a k'Uor had from his overcoat- pocket in the hall. The business cnve- lojio was addressed to "John Brant, euro of Iveson Co. and its contents evidently related to business af- ail's. If May had any ciuiosity, she was too wullbred to examine tho letter, and threw it into her work-basket and covered it from i iU rightful owner should call again. "I believe ho is ungi nerous enough to charge tho theft to Harry Rogers," May said to herself half aloud, aftorshe had" placed the letter of sight.

"But a sure ll.irry Rogois is above any such base suspicion." This was the first timo she had ever heard a rellection cust upon Harry Rogers, and she i i i i ly bocamo his advocate and deieudor. Two Wneks 1 Jvi.Uiiil, untl thora wno no clue to the theft, but on a day another similar amount was missing from tho cashier's funds. Again thoro was an anxious investigation with no lusult. At its conclusion, Mr. Iveson said: "This is inexplicable, Mr.

Rogers. You are responsible for I ho funds placed in your hands, and wo expect you to make the bank wholi for the losses already sustained. hen tho bank opens to-morrow you i be expected to make good the losses, and then it will be decided whether you will longer continue as cashier." "And if I fail to luaki good the loss?" asked Mr. Rogers. "Publicity will be gh on to tho affair, and tho law will take i course.

But until to-morrow not word is to bo spoken of this outside the bank." Harry Rogers went homo agitated and mystilied. was innocent of wrong-doiug, bi had to confess that nil tho circumstances were against him. He barely able to make good tho cliuil.iuiuf pollllUS IOSS, tlUC to dO SO would bo almost a concession that bo had stolen the money. Johtii Brant found it convenient to call on May Saundors, iiiui it was not long until lie had told 1 of the second loss, olf Mr. Iveson's the delicate position in which Harry Rogers had been placed.

She concealed her indignation, and dismissing him on a pie i of indisposition, hastily dispatched a note to Hurry Rogers by a servant, requesting him to call on her at once and without failure. He obeyed, but tho unexpected summons did not soothe or his agitation. May dispensed ith all preliminaries and began: "Ou two dilt'crent occasions within two weeks you have lost five hundred pounds from the funds ia your charge ill the bank." "That is true; but how came you to know it? It was a bank secret 1 "It does not matter how I found it out. And you are suspected of taking the money yoursolf." "Hardly so hard as that" "It may not be put in just my words, but that is the meaning of it. "You are required to make good tlio loss to-morrow morning.

What answer arc you going to make to that demand of the a Harry Rogers i know how ho would auswur that demand until he looked into the depths of May'soarnest blue eyes, and then ho said with a firm and even voico: "I shall tell them that I did not take tho moucy, and, therefore, will not replace it." "And then?" queried May with an eager voice. "Then I will bo arrested for theft and embezzlement." "But you will not be convicted. Yon are innocent--I know that--and your innocence will be made to appear-how, it is hard to tell, but I am confident as to tho result. I respect you because yon assume tho ri i to vindicate your good name. I am interested in this matter.

You are not aware of it, but one-half the Ivoson interest in tho bank belongs to me, and is held in the name of Iveson in accordance with my father's will until a certain event occurs, which possibly never may occur. 1 Harry Rogers went home bewildered. Ho had for years been one of May's employes without knowing it, and now he found in her a champion and a iirm believer in his innocenco. When ho visited the bank the next morning and, declaring his innocence of the suspicions against him, declined to make goad the deficit, except on the judgment of a court, and to prevent his bondsmen from paying it. Mr.

Iveson was shocked andtmgrv, and finally told Rogers that he wguUJ hare to institute criminal proceedings ugainxt him unless the loss was made good. "Thou 1 am ready to bo taken into custody," was liis reply. "The sooner we begin to sift this mystery, the sooner we will get to the bottom of it" It wns one of the greatest of Dayton sensations when the arrest of Harry Rogers was mado public and the story told in tho papers with half-a-dozen different versions. Tho bank employed a detective toso- curc corroborative evidence of the young cashier's guilt, and although but littlo could be found, his prospects were dark indeed, for lie found it impossible to throw uny reasonable light on the mysterious disappearance of tlio two missing packages of money. May concluded to employ a detective also, without letting any ono know what sho was doing.

An otlioer was summoned from a neighboringcity.and called at Mis.s lusldonoo to got his instructions. In tho course of an hour's conversation May gave, him a history of the affair, and how she came to learn of the loss of tbo money and the suspicions entertained against tho cashier. The dotcctivo, of course, soon discovered that both the bookkeeper and cashier wore in love with the young lady who had called bis services into requisition. "So it was tho bookkeeper that told you the secret iu the first place?" enquired tho detective. "Yos." "And what was the motive?" "I haven't the remotest idea." Tho detective accideutly struck his foot agaiiiHt the work-basket, and overturned it.

With an apology for his awkwardness he began to replace tho contents. "Oh, yes, Mr. Olficer," exclaimed Miiy, "there is a letter that Mr. Brant dropped on the night he told mo of tho ftrst robbery, and I bud forgotten to return it to him." "Let mo see It," said tho detective. He opened the letter and exclaimed: this? Why, here are tho identical livo ono hundred pound notes stolen ou the first occasion! And Mr.

Bookkeeper dropped them. Ho wanted lo i his rival, tho cashier, out of the liiild, and tlicu marry Miss May Saumlors. You needn't blush, noryou needn't deny it. feay nothing for the present." The detective called nt tho hank the next day and had a conversation with Mr. Ivoson, and Bookkeeper Brant was called into the conference.

"Why did you never make enquiry for the live hundred pounds you dropped at the residence of Miss Saunders tho evening after that sum mysteriously disappeared from Cashier Rogers's a enquired the detective. Br.int was thunderstruck. "Toll us about it," demanded Mr. Ivoson. Brant mado a full confession, tho substance of which was that he abstracted the money while llogers's attention was distracted, and did it for tno solo purpose of ruining the cashier and winning Miss Snunders.

Ho bad intended to replace tho money, and would do so now, if permitted to leave Davton and never return. To this Mr. Iveson and the other members of the firm consented, and that night John Brant has never been heard of in Dayton since. Simultaneously with the detective's revelation and Brant's confession, tbo proceedings against Hurry Rogers were discontinued, and he was not only restored to his place in tho bank, but promised a partnership interest Mav Sannders, that used to bo, is Mrs. Harry Rogers now, and the name of tho banking-house is Ivoson Rogers.

May insists that I am mistaken when I tell her that she once said sho would live and die an old maid before sho would marry Harry Rogers. Well, I will not argue the point with hor. A Wounded Lion. A very dramatic narrative of an encounter with a lion is published by an Algerian paper. It appears that for months past farmers residing near a forest in the African colony have been victimized by the lion, which carried oil their cattle, and especially evinced a partiality for their Exasperated by the gaps made in their small flocks, it was determined to make war on the depredator, and seventeen settlers, with livo or six Arabs, set out on what proved a very perilous adventure.

They took up their positions in parties of four and five, at certain spots in the forest which it was conjectured the animal would pass, and toward nightfall the enctny was seen coming leisurely along by ono of these parties, numbering five men. Afler consulting together it was decided that they should fire simultaneously, and at a given signal they did so, the lion being seen to fall, uttering a tremendous roar of pain. He was not dead, however, as the men too quickly imagined, and when they approached tho animal ho rose to his feet, crushed one of the assailants with a blow of his powerful paw, and seizing tho head of his victim, smashed it at a bite. Turning from the mangled remains, the brute next attacked another man, biting off his arm and otherwise injuring him. Two other members of the party wore also grievously torn and bitten by the enraged animal, and might have lost their lives in the terrible encounter bad not their uninjured comrade levelled his gun at tho lion's ear and been lucky enough to stretch him out on the ground dead.

Old Pauncnous Pilot. General Henry K. Oliver is celebrated almost as much for his wit as ho is as a composer of church music. The General and a friend, who was a stranger in Boston, were walking down Washington street one afternoon when their attention was attracted to a very large man wearing a heavy blue overcoat, who was approaching. He was a man who, from his enormous proportions and great breadth of stomach, would have been noticed anywhere, and, moreover, there were traces of salt water about him.

"Who is that man?" inquired his friend of General Oliver. "That man," said the General, assuming a very solemn look, "is 2,000 years old." "You surely cannot mean the other. "I do," replied the General, "and his name is Faunchous Pilot" The subject of the remark was one of the best known pilots in livening liecord. Wet winters have been found to result most disastrously to insects. A Child In the Storm.

"Won't you come homo now, father. pleasuP" sho said. Her voico was low and childish, and the sweet, upturned face was pale and quivering with some hardly suppressed emotion--bnt the man toward whom the appeal and agony were directed took little notice of cither. "Why do you bother me?" he said, impatiently, "Go home. I'll come when I'm ready," and regaining with an effort his uncertain balance, ho left her.

The girl looked after him wistfully, then, as his form was lost to hor view in the crowded room, with a deep despairing sigh sho turned and left tho plane. Outside tho electric lights streamed full upon her slender figure as she hesitated a moment before descending tho stop. Tho nightwas cold and stormy. An icy sleet was falling, driven in every direction by the capricious and fitful wind gusts, and the few pedestrians who were abroad hurried on tlioir way anxious to gain shelter. The girl alone appeared unconscious of the discomforts of tho weather.

"So lato," she murmured. "Oh! I cannot go home without him;" and now she turned swiftly and retraced her steps. paused not a moment on the threshold; evidently sho feared her own resolution. The doors yielded instantly to her touch, and onco more she looked over the scene whose iiilht and warmth and comfort were as little to her as the wind and rain outside. Her searching glanco soon found out her father; for the moment ho was standing alone, and his daughter felt that she had one more chance.

Rapidly she gained bis side. "Father, dear father," sho began, speaking low but passionately, "I cannot leave yon here. I cannot face mamma without you; she has waited so many nights for your home-coming, and the hours aro so weary without yon. Oh, father," the child went on, gathering up all her energies as she saw that her listener was half heeding her words, "break away from this wretched place, come back to your homo and mamma and me; wo lore you so dearly we cannot live without you, and oh! it is all so different now from what it used to be." The childish voico was breaking. "Such a little time atjo we were all so happy." Hero a sob almost choked her.

She slipped her clinging lingers into the unresent- ing hand of tho man who staggered at her side. "Come back to us, father; come homo with me now," and the tears, no longer i i her power to restrain, coursed down her pale cheeks as she IMtcd her face to him, holding his gaze with her wistful, pleading eyes. Tlio man's features worked convulsively; ho looked about him once half desperately; then some better feeling swept over him, and, straightening himself lip, he said brokenly, "I will go with you, Jennie," and clasping close tlie hand of his little daughter, as If tl.o* frail truide wero his oUrf support, tlio two together went ont tram the, light and glare and dazzle of tho roller skating rink York Sim. Great Head of a Hat, Two Austin gentlemen. Colonel Yorgor and Sam Bass, were talking about the comparative intelligence of animals.

"I think that a horse is tho most intelligent animal, remarked Colonel Yorger. "No, sir, the horse is not. The rat is the shrewdest and smartest little animal 1 know of. It has a wonderful power of discrimination. Tho rat never pets fire to a store by nibbling at matches until everything is insured for more than its value.

A rat who is in that line of business is sharper than a fire insurance agent with a sixty-ounce brain and thirty years 1 A London paper gravely announces that St. Petersburg is anxiously awaiting tbo arrival of an American pianist who promises, by tho aid of electricity, to play twelve pianos simultaneously. Russia's cup of misery at this will soon overflow. It beats Morphy with his twelve simultaneous garner at chess. An interesting reminiscence of the late Col.

Burnaby appears in the Pub- Usher's Courier. He was rather fidgety in the matter of proofs, and was in a state of feverish impatience until he got them. That he did not write for literary effect may be inferred from the following. On one occasion, when a slight inclegancy of style was pointed out to him, he wrote: "You are probably right about the repetition. I write as I talk, and do not pretend to have any style.

You are not the only person who has remarked about the repetition of tho word. I have let two or three people look at tho proofs. They are not connected with the press, but are ordinary mortals. I call them ray Foolometers. They like the book.

I think they represent the majority of the reading public. Two Friends. We have always had a sincere affection for that keen-witted and somewhat skeptical scientist, who believes loss than he hears and not all that he sees, and has the trick of discrediting the signs of emotion with more critical frankness than falls to the lot of most. Exclusive and concentrated for his own part, ho does not take well with catholicity; and he looks on general amiability, so he says, as "thundering" fault We know (hat to be with him is to bo sacrificed before wo leave him. Yet wo are glad to meet him, all the same; thinking too that a littlo honest Haying--without witnesses--is by no means unwholesome for one's soul.

Then there is that other friend who stands at the opposite end of the scale --a prophesier of smooth sayings-the weaver of silken tissues only--the sweetest, softest, blandest and most amiable creature under heaven. To be in his society is like seeing oneself in a mirror that beautifies every feature and glorifies every circumstance of onu's condition. He finds no fault, but, on the contrary, paints only our virtues in tho brighest colors, so that we may be excused if--human nature being but a frail kind of thing at the best--wo find him one of the most charming companions in the world; until the inevitable question forces itself on our mind: "How much of all this is real and how much is pretty fable and polite flattery?" Then we prefer the rougher tools of our scientific friend; and think that between the two--the disproportionod blame of (he one and the sincere praise of the other --tho former is the more commendable. HIGH MOUNTAIN SPOOKS. Uncanny Soandi Heard and Hysterical Lights Seen br the Valley Bell- den ta.

Superstitious residents of the regions known as Preakness, Haledon, and other suburbs hemmed in by the lofty hills known as High mountain, write's a Patterson, N. correspondent to the New York World, place extra bolts on their doors now o' nights and are careful to be indoors "after hours." Numbers of superstitious ones, and some who are not superstitious by any means, are willing to make affidavits that thev have hoard uncanny sounds proceeding from the heights, and nearly everybody in the vicinity who has been noar the foot of the mountain after dark will vouch for the statement that mysterious lights have bcon seen flitting to and fro up among the trees. No soul lives there, and, as it is said that several murders have been perpetrated there, tho villagers state, with a solemn shako of tho head, that "tho- dovil is at work and no mistake," aud that there are "spooks on High mountain." A party of tho braver and brawnier lads of the bailiwick endeavored to solve the mystery a few nights ago, but they soon returned with white faces and quaking limbs, and informed those in waiting by the stove of tho place of rendezvous that it was all well enough for them to bo sittin' thero toastin' their shins and joken', but if they wanted to find out anything about tho spooks they had bettor make tho trip themselves. Upon being mollified with "something hot," they became more communicative, and related to thoir open-mouthed audionce the following hair-curdling tale: They said they had climbed to tho top of the mountain, where the lights had been seen, when all at once they were surrounded by lights that jumped around them and climbed the trees and performed other acrobatic feats. Although they appeared to be right in the midst of the flames not a hair of their bead was injured and their clothing wasn't oven singed.

They smelled phosphorus just as plain as it could be smelled, and wbilo they were wondering what to do next tho wind whistled through the trees, producing such unearthly sounds that they camo right straight away and lot tho wind have it all to itself. Doubting Thomases in tho audicnco plucked up courage and firearms enough to make tho trip themselves and they, too, soon returned, looking as pale as the historical gbosts and snaking like rattle-boxes. Nobody showed a disposition to go home, and finally, when the host informed them that it was time to close up, they started off iu a group and spent tho night together by a hospitable neighbor's fire rather than pass tho mountain until daylight did appear. Since then the phenomena havo been witnessed by scores of those who were brave enough to approach within sight bt tue ana aensety wooaea mountain, and the matter has been tho chief topic of conversation in the country stores, in the taverns, in the villago schools, and has even been referred to by tho local dominies. The town hoodlums arc now free of going to tho "stores after dark, for thoir parents would not think of sendingtbem where they would not go themselves.

The jolly hosts of the roadside taverns are jollv no longer, or must be content to bo by themselves, for tho loungers now lounge at home. Old residents sny that tho same thing occurred just before the last cholera epidemic, and that the lights presago another visitation of that dread scourge. Scores of old timers are willing to wager on this, and prominent citizens are willing to encourage them in their belief, for it is on record that the same, thing did occur in 1836, just before death stalked through this section of the country. Reports from Pike county, Pennsylvania, say that tho same phenomena havo appeared there just as they did in 1855, uinl that the citizens of that place spend most of their night-times in their homes. Citizens who protend to bo assert that the Pike county phenomena are caused by tho escape" of coal gas from the mountains, and that it is really no phenomenon at all, but is the result of natural causes.

They also say that the mysterious lights on High mountain can be traced to the same cause, and are apparently honest in their belief that a vein of coal could be found by anybody taking the trouble to hunt for it Should this prove true there is wealth in store for the gentlemen who own High mountain, bnt they will have to seek foreign aid to unearth it, for no native will go within gunshot distance of it since tho experiences above related. Fortunes of Freaks. Speaking of the savings of freaks of nature a prominent circus and museum manager said yesterday: "They are nearly all economical and nine out of every ten are filled with a desire to own a farm. Tom Thumb spout a great deal of money and yet loft a snug fortune. Millie Christine, 'the double- headed girl 1 has made $60,000 or $76,000, but she lost the greater part of it backing the circus of a friend a few years ago.

I suppose she is still worth $20,000. Hannah Battersby and her skeleton hnAand, who livo in this city, are worth $10,000. John Powers, the fat man, accumulated $10,000. Captain Bates and his wife, big people, are worth They have a fine farm in the West. If Lucia Zarate, tho Mexican Midget, had received all the salary she earned from her manager she would be worth As it is, the manager, Frank Uffner, has the money, minus $4,000 or $5,000 he has paid to Lucia's father.

Eli Bowen, the legless man, has $6,000 in bonk. Cooper, the giant, bos nearly as much. The dime museums have raised the salaries of freaks so much that they will have farms if the managers' pocketbooks hold Tho fraternal feeling existing among freaks is aptly shown by the cases of Hubert Ferrer, long known as tho Toronto Giant, and Edward Skimeer, tlio Armless Wonder. These two men, both over seventy years of age, are now living at a little cottage outside of Bridge port, where an old colored man and woman, for many years a stableman and wardrobekeeper with circuses tend to their wants and look after the peaceful decline of their days. The cottage, the old colored people, the giant and tho armless man are all dependent on small monthly assessment taken up from the freaks exhibited at every circus, museum and sideshow in tho United States.

--Philadelphia Times. A Hotel Clerk Snya Mmi's HamlwrltliiR Will Indicate UlH I'cmillon. "How do you manage when assigning rooms to your guests to locate one on the fourth or fifth floor and the other on the secoud, whoa each pays tho same rate per diem?" was asked the landlord of ono of tho hotels by a reporter a few days since. "You had better ask ono of the clerks," replied the bonifaco with a smile. "They know all about such things and will doubtless communicate, the secret to you." The reporter sought out tho clerk and repeated the question.

His reply was laconic and to the point: "We size 'em up." "But do you never make mistakes?" asked the reporter. "Seldom," answered the clerk, and perceiving that the reporter would not be choked oil, he continued: "Quo rea- Bon why wo seldom make mistakes is that wo can judge, in a measure, by the way a man registers of what ho has been accustomed to at home. If a man will bo contented with a small room in his own house, ho is not likely to make any very decided objection to tho same accommodation at a hotel. This is more especially true in the caso of those who, like merchants from the interior, come to the city but onco or twice a year to buy goods. They are too full of business to think much about the kind of a room they are occupying, and so long as they have a place to sleep, they don't care whether it is on the first floor or whether it is next the roof.

Besides, they don't like to havo any trouble. They would rather put up with a few inconveniences than raiso a row. This is all the better for us, for we can save tho best rooms for guests who will bo willing to pay a higher figure. The successful hotel clerk is not only able to do this, but he can almost invariably tell at a glance just how much a man will stand, and he is very careful not to over-step tho line. Again, look at the way some people register.

The man who is unaccustomed to traveling and stopping at hotels picks up the pen as if ho was afraid of it, and is singularly precise in tho formation of the letters composing his name. He writes plain 'John Blank, Blanklown, 1 as nicely as ho is able, and is perfectly satisfied if the clerk takes him by the hand and says, as clerks always do: 'Mr. Blank, I'm glad to sco "The full-fledged drummer ortourist is easily identified. He will waltz up to the desk, dash oil' his name in a careless fashion, toss his overcoat and grip to the bell-boy, and try to talk to four or five people at once. Ho must have a fair room, or there will bo trouble at tho office.

A man on his first trip will demonstrate his Spen- cerian education; a country lawyer will write his name so that neither ho nor anybody else can decipher the hieroglyphics, while tho rural legislator will bo anxious to let everybody know that ho has the right to prefix honorable to his name. These characters are universal, and almost invariably wo can got a man's character and position in tho world by an inspection of his chirography. "In small towns hotel clerks have a practice of giving the most desirable rooms to parties who claim to como from some largo city, for the reason that they should ave a better knowledge of hotel life than thoir rural brethren. Travelers aro beginning to realize this, and will register as from New York or Boston, in order that they may get a good room, and they win the trick. The most essential thing in tho make-up of a hotel clerk is to be able to fill the house from tho top down, and at the same time make everyone believe that they are getting tho best Free Press.

Anecdote of Juatfco Harlan. The other day in tho Circuit courtroom a number of lawyers were discussing Gen. John M. Harlan, now a judge of tho United States Supreme court. "I was in his office a long time," said Mr.

Charles Godshaw, trustee of the jury fund. "1 was just beginning the practice of law then, and had not an office on my own account. I remember he opened my eyes when ho charged a big fee for what then seemed little work. He was engaged in an important suit for one of tho big New York insurance companies, and had lo prepare his brief that night. "He forgot it till abontS o'clock that evening, whon ho came around and went to work with a hurry, as tho brief had to be finished before morning.

At his direction I got down a large number of law books and handed them to him, as he wished to consult authorities. He had hardly well begun when the door opened, and in walked the president of the company for whom he was preparing the suit. 'I want to ask your advico about the wording of our policy, 1 ho said. "The general refused, saying he had no time. 'It will only take you a few urged his client, 'and it is all important that tbo matter receive immediate "As he was not to be put off, the general asked him to state his point, but went on with his work.

Ho hardly paused to hear tho policy read, and without looking up from a book, told him to change about four words, as well as I can remember. His cliont thanked him and went out. "A few days later Gen. Harlan told me to enter a charge on his books against the insurance company of for advice, naming tho day when the incident I havo related occurred. I could scarcely bolievo my ears, and pretended to misunderstand the amount.

He repeated it, however, and 1 entered the charge almost dumbfounded. Six months later ho directed me to send the insurance company tho bill for his services, including the item for advice. I did so, and in a few days thero camo a check for the whole amount, accompanied by a most complimentary letter from the president, stating that the change he had suggested had been of the greatest value to them in their policies. "Bear in rniud that when ho was consulted he was preparing a brief in a case of Importance. Seemingly his attention was not distracted from that work, and I think I had a right to be Courier-Journal.

The Hon. Frank Jones of Portsmouth, ST. now one of the wealthiest men in (few England, began life as a peddler. His cart was gorgeously painted, and bore on ono side tho words, "Good weight, Traveler. BISMARCK'S HOME.

the Mecca of Gnrmau Statesmen, There is scarcely anything remarkable in tho chancellor's houso at Fried- richsrulie except its absolute plainness. Jewish plutocracy may gloat in displaying gorgeous tapestry and rare bric-a- brac, but Bismarck, after all, is only a poor man. His state appointment is not worth even jDi.OOO; Sohonhansenis valueless; Vaivsin docs not yield much, and tho estate of Friodriohsruhc, although estimated at brings at tho most It is true thiit this is no reason why his walls should bo whitewashed, why his furniture is of the simplest description, why his art treasures consist of comparatively worthless photographs and paintings of his daughter and his sous, of Mollko, of Cardinal liohenlohe, of Thiers, of Boaconsfiold, of Fricdrichsruhe itself. Yot thoro are several objects of luxury nud ease, and others of decidedly historic importance. Thero is tho rich carpet, extending through hall and rooms; the numberof tho whole winter through, iires burn perpetually, and an abundance of couches, sometimes two or three in ono room.

On the chimney-pieces are tho bronze bust of Moltko, crowned with a huge laurel wreath, a plaster cast of Charlemagne, and a small copy of Schlutcr's Great Elector. Tho dining- room is adorned with the bronze statue of tho Emperor, given by htm to Bismarck in 1881. But particular mention is duo to the bronze imitation of the Niedorwald monument, which stands on a fine oak cupboard in tho smoking-room. A leatlot is attached to it with tho following words, written by tho Emperor himself: "Christmas, 1883; the crowning-stone of your policy; a festival which was destined chiefly for you, and which yon unhappily were not able to Not less interustiug as a historical curiosity is a small card table in tho Prince's study. When folded up it presents on tho top board a littlo inlaid brass plate, bearing tho inscription: "On this table the preliminary poaco between Germany and France was signed tho 20th of February, 1871, at Versailles, Rue do Provence, No.

1C." When opened thero appears the central round of green cloth with tho very candle-spots of yoro, whon Bismarck and Favre put their names under tho treaty. It wanted a good deal of diplomacy on tho part of tho chancellor to possess himself of it. His landlady of tho Ruo do Provence obstinately refused to part with it for any consideration of money until tho prince at last called in a cabinet-maker, ordering him to make another table exactly similar to that one. Whon the twins wero put side by side tho landlady of course decided in favor of the better-looking of tho two aud allowed Bismarck to carry off the original one. The prince's own room is not only one of the largest in tho house, but everything it contains bears due proportion to the size of its inmate--tho gigantic mahogany writing table, the huge ickstanJ, tho militia of immense goose quills aud large pencils.

Even the far stretching view from tho window is in harmony with tlie discursive mind of tho rnau who is reclining on one of the couches, while giving ample scope to his thoughts. Tho guest rooms are situated on tho first floor. It need scarcely bo added that they aro distinguished by comfort, ease, and luxury from the Spartan nakedness of tho rest of the house. It bodes peaeo and friendship to tho state 'whose representative is invited to Fricdrichsruhe. Here Bismarck puts out tho torch of hatred; for the host's duty ho considers to be to cultivate under his own roof amity and good understanding.

Prince Orloff and M. do Giers stayed there when tho difficulties on the Balkan peninsula, between Russia and Austria, wero mado up. Again, tho visit of Baron Coureel.tlie French ambassador, was tho harbinger of the present entente between France and Germany. On tho other hand, Lord Ampthill died without having ever seen tho chancellor, at least for tue last eight months of his life. The moral of this is, perhaps, that when Sir Edward Malet is on his way to Friedrichsruho wo may safely conclude that an anglo-Gorman understanding with a liberal cabinet in Downing street is no longer a contra- His Opinion of Brown.

Nicholas Hill, tho brightest lawyer probably that ever practiced in tho Albany County bar, was a bluff, hearty, manly fellow, who always said what ho meant and meant what he said. Of a deep, acute, logical mind, ho was frank withal and could never successfully dissimulate or conceal his true sentiments. An amusing instance of this is given, whon, upon a certain occasion, ho apologized to a politician (we will call him Brown) for speaking of him in rather harsh terms at a great political mooting of those days. "Brown," said ho, "I feol that I havo said a great many hard things about you, aud now that all the old issues are buried and the follies of the campaign at an end, I feel that I ought to make an apology to you for what has happened and havo it settled np." "Oh, don't mind that," replied Brown; "let it pass. If you keep quiet in the future I will besatislied." "No, no," persisted Hill; "1'vo called you a public thief, a liar, and a scoundrel." "Never mind, I bog of you," was the polite answer.

"Bull do," rejoined the lawyer; "I havo called you a villain, a scoundrel, a trickster, and--and--I'll bo banged if I don't think so still." It is not narrated that Brown laughed heartily at the candor of his. logal Argus. Going Too Far. California Ostrich Farmer--My dear, did you feed tho birds regularly while I was away? Mrs. Ostrich Farmer--Yes, as regularly as I could.

I never saw such appetites. The provisions ran short, and I had to feed them on whatever I could find around the house. I gave them two kegs of nails. "That's right." "And all tno gate hinges and three pieces of old stove pipe. "Yes? Glad you were so thoughtful." "Oh! Yes, I forgot.

They didn't seem to be satisfied even then, so I gave them a piece of mince-pia." "Groat Galon, woman! did you want to kill Vail. Although doctors, as a rule, are particular in warning others not to attack too many large dinners, there is probably no other body of professional men who find so much honest pleasure in gathering festive board. A Vfodcrn Grievance. One of tho perplexing features of modern civilization iu all largo towns and cities are tho boys oti the streets; not merely tho "street boys," but tho boys who often loavo homes and respectable parents but who. when turned loose in the streets, make themselves almost as formidable as tho Bedouin Arabs in the neighborhood of unarmed caravans.

If they do serious damage, thor commit sutllciciiUy numerous small depredations to make, thorn harmful, cxasporating and sometimes dangerous. They broak windows, they destroy tho gas lamps, they throw snowballs, often loaded with Rtones, ice or pieces of coul. A boy or girl poorly dressed and pushing small cart or gathering fuel is often made the target of those mis- Biles- They anger beyond endurance the ashmen and peddlers, tho squalor and meageruess of whoso equipages excite their derision. They drive away their anatomical horses, upset their carts aud follow them with yells, shouts, derision and weapons, when vainly trying to escape their tormentors. That more of them do not provoke their victims to terrible retaliation is a tribute to tho general belief that the boy of the period is not a malicious, but only a wanton, ungovcruod and mischievous being--not a wildcat nor even a wolf, but a monkey whoso antics aro prompted by a rattle-headed craving for excitement and diversion rather than a sot purpose to injure or a calculation as to the amount or kind of injury and annoyance his own enjoyment may involve.

But a serious tragedy has just occurred on ono of tho North Rivor piora in Now York which is duo entirely to tho inability of a man to longer endure tho actual torment indicted upon him by crowd of boys hovered about him and stung him like a swarm of bees. Ho is a faithful, industrious workman, strictly temperate in his habits, and given strictly to minding his own business. But lie has unfortunately a defect in his speech aud is alllictcd with Saint Vitus' dance. This was enough to arouse the attention of the gangs of boys who hang about tho piers, and they wore prompt to make tho most of the now sport thus providentially thrown upon I heir tender mercies, which, liko the tender mercies of the wicked, arc cruol. They at once began taunting him and annoying him with all conceivable ingenuity, and found exceeding great delight in his eccentric efforts to retort.

They finally gave a practical turn to their jesting by throwing snowballs, stones and Trickbats, absolutely inter- iug with tho work of this man and his fellow-workmen. The fusiladc of fifty boys may cosily be heavy enough to bring, great public- enterprises to a stand-still, and in this case it put a stop to the loadiug of coal, which the man was superintending. At lost his patience was exhausted, and, oing into his canal boat, ho brought ack bis pistol, threatening to shoot unless the assaults of the boys ceased. They did not cease, and Lo lircd, instantly killing a young man engaged at the hoisting rope. Tho testimony is conflicting as to whether lie was concerned in tho assault.

In any event tho killing will probably bo held as manslaughter. Tho penalty of death ill never bo allowed as a proper punislimcntfor tho misdeeds of these Arabs of tfio street; but those who know tho amount of misery and loss they can inflict will sco the necessity of some kind of regulation for them and punishment for their ofienses, which shall bo recognized as adequate. Unless something of tho kind is provided it will begin to bo hard lo persuade juries lo convict a man for turning i desperation and protecting himself at all hazards from what becomes, on account of his helplessness, well nigh intolerable. It is a wrong for which tboro ought to be somewhere a proper free 2'ress. In tho market places of several towns peasant women bring in for sale trays, covered with living ants, each about as big and round as a largo white currant, and each entirely filled with honey or grapo sugar, much appreciated by the ingenuous Mexican youth as an excellent substitute for toil'eo.

They hold tho ant by its head and suck out tho honey. With which its back parts aro greatly distended, and throw away tho empty body. Women buy the ants by tho quart, press out tho honey through a muslin strainer and rtinlcc it into a sweet intoxicant that is greatly on- joyed by Mexican youth and husbands. Soapstone for Will Is. Tho latest invention for ordering walls and coilings is called "soapstono finish," and is mainly composed of pulverized steatite.

It takes a high polish, is pearl-gray in tint, presents the best possible surface for painting, cither in oil or in water-color, and will neither crack nor chip. It is claimed to be a non-conductor and non-absorbent, and can bo washed without injury. Nails can be driven into it without damage. When subjected to boat, and moisture and chemical fumes, it is said to give no smell; it also docs not turn yellow with age. 11 is recommended for hospitals, factories, cellars, markets, closets, pantries and kitchens, aud is ploasanter to the eye than ordinary whitewash or cheap Milestone.

Tho language of flowers: Poor Charlie sighed and said, "My favorite flower, my dear, is the forgel-mo-not" "And mine," sho said, "is mari-gold," and then poor Charlie know game was up, and Judge. It Was Too (x.ioil. "Now, then," said i as the last load of furniture was (lumped into tho now house, aud he grained his gripsack lo make for the to he goiio a week, "I'll show 3 on the burglar alarm works. Th the main IhceoiiMiiioiii ringer. When you go to bed set them both, and then go down stairs and open the cellar door That will start the ringing and keep it up all the time I'm gone.

"But how can I sleep with the bell ringing all tho time?" can't and you are not expected io. What do you supposo a burglar alarm is for, but to keep peoplo awake to be ready for burglars!" She it for thirty-six hoars and hen telegraphed him: "I havo stopped tho ringing and lired four men with shot-guns in tho place of Detroit free Press..