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Show did ngu.h tin SECOXD SIGHT. sV FROM THE FKEXCn. Ghot stories have always had and in-aj3 continue to have ninth the most even and tt for rcadi r', jl tactical minded person. Here is one lijh seems to us to have a peculiarly jiru'c character, touching upon what alike term- j( .cuts and moderns have second sight, it. In former times the Forest of Senart bad name. One tine summer's 'i'i'j. piit iu 1799 the diligence, going from di.' ir;3 to Melun, entered a great avenue 'u h oaks which traversed the whole ogth of the forest oaks centuries old d so vigorous of foliage that the road t ry.'nea'h them remained enveloped in e c, jkness. The haek and forward of the vehicle were full; ere were only two travelers, however, tSe the interior, and on the outside sat tenor singing with the whole le,j Jountry ce of his lung' a rondeau, at the time ft La Belle Arsenne. u eatly in vogue "Te Hr such circumstances there did not ,!t sm to be any danger for anybody, and i driver kept his horses at a walk. But on reaching Corbeil lie whipped uL a his animals and drove them into the tu I sleeping town at a rattling pace ,a' 1 it shook the pavement. They halted the relay station, and all the parents got out at the invitation of the tit, who was glad enough of the lace to get a drink. Then they be-- 3 to look around at each other, to n, and to count up how many were c i!l a!w m r j ts . e the arty. this is very queer! cried the Where on earth are my two Ter. HYt 11. d; gone? ourself, old boy, meo! d tenor, vour two passengers 1 tarn up all right somewhere; the i s haven't eaten them. 1. lbha! Led retorted a notary who I don't rgstt'j oi.o of the passengers, lAm't bother liere v ? a do before we reached the forest '01 t0 l1ur door to offer n phich of snuff. f' y " died and waited in vain. The Jo inti'iT In'tbf. i'!r d t fretted, the voyagers began still nobody came. hours waiting the passengers ceed upon their way without hearing any thing of the two .ho had disappeared in so a manner. mjs after this incident M. professor at the eonserva-- s notified by the police that i and best friend, M , had ' a seen since the evening he of two t' ioddodtak.il the diligence for Melun, in in h t t'u.r des Mes&agor'cs. The news E eat pain to the illustrious ' , and he at once took all of ; 111 a1'0'3 to have his friend found. or d"ad. These efforts proved Hour other i tt The extraordinary at at ;;i. ices of this disappearance ought' a tlie artist very strongly; he d id spoke of nothing else, and couldn 1 h ft him sleepless, lie lost his n't to . nd his health was eonsider- id hie I r atiencc ; 'I ;, pos-pok'- - half-close- It IB W J, ! : i could ' e.d. ) .dv had ) it, while tossinjr feverishly in , 1: i, dia?N tl it! ..tl r IPS k of tSt. Roche Church, near lived, strike 2 oclock. The t, entering between the sliut-k- i h Meliul always left half-- 1 that lie might be the better l t up early Idled the room l.mtastic radiance. Just then un saw, quite close to his bod, humpbacked man with a very s countenance, who was hold-- i long, clenched lingers a coil u i ' rO t vd. tying to sleep in vain, he heard . - , i cnautj, uft at ! . 1 .1 P rubbed li is eyes and rose up in ,'ugto convince himself that lie the victim of a nightmare. The stood there, within a few feet to H, and the artist was on the ! .1 ncisM.l tf asking him what this fd ;i'f extraor-P- a meant, when all of a sud-- ? segue clove to the roof of his "aV1 S, i ti s a'r stoo(l UP. and a great i.. came upon him. Right be- ii igure of the hunchback he had I1Mr by perceived another form, vague .white, whose eyes apiveared to ; Id t k.ug his own. Mchul recognized rough b .e nee. It was the phantom of C ur h t friend! At the same mo-open r c moon was veiled by a cloud, "a became dark, and the vision e .! In vain Meliul struggled ir; he waited, lie watched, he de of8; the lugubrious vision; no eyvin h Id b urd phenomenon came to trou-- l e rv 'A of his cars,' night, and in the 5,'.1 'Verwhelmed with fatigue, he a feverish sleep. He awoke p! . and iri b tried to collect his for and fancies of the evening be- first 8 ! ,,,t v o t j 1 1 - H; i l P t. ! v fI hteen. in dut w I earsjrl t have been he dreaming! as he hurried to dress to go ra House, where there was to rsal of Irato. This is ' s of being haunted by a a the brain at least becomes ly it, and the mind can not -- d. double apparition that had momentarily territied him. Five years passed. The Imperial (kesar had encircled his brows with the crown of Fram e, and his glorious accession was being celebrated by pub lie festivities. Meliul, with his wife on his arm, had taken Id's children- to sec the illuminations at the Champs like any other good citizen. He stood in eestaey before a fountain ol lire playing in the center of the grounds, when he suddenly discovered that some one was stealthily exploring the pockets of his coat. With a qirek movement he succeeded in grasping the thief's hand, and wheeling round found himself face to face with a little humpbacked man. That villainous looking fellow! he had seen him somewhere before. Where had he already A California Kid Din: i observed that scoundrelly face and editor of the Los Ange The those apish hands? Like a flash the me how I would lh to go asked ahl recollection of his dream returned, and and help him t tjd a kid. out some day in his astonishment he would certainly eaten I never had any kid-- , but I did have allowed the man to escape had to show want my ignorance, so I not the police seized him just in time. not I like it above all should him told Trembling with excitement, Meliul there was a I maybe thought went to the police station to make his things. felt as the when time hero people declaration; lie charged the man with or kid and eat a must two, they though having tried to rob him. He wished to I their to want didnt pleasure, so stop charge him with something else, but I to I thought maybe if I go. agreed dared not. Was it possible to accuse when the time did like not kid, the of murder a man whom one had never me lunch on a let would came they seen except in a dream? He set Sunor harness something. tug And, notwithstanding the temptation is I am the result and as the day, to do so became stronger and stronger, day as a man of full as youthful goat Meliul returned home, greatly agitated just before if bleat and can I dont be, by the souvenirs which this singular inMr. be will it Lynch strange. morning cident had provoked. He went to his is an epicure, and that reminds me of a bed, but without any inclination to story the captain of my yacht tells. sleep; lie lay thinking with his eyes Two Englishmen were discussing the wide open, lie argued with himself and of eating, and one says to the subject a violent struggle raged in his mind. other: 'Ennery, vot is a h epicure? Ought he, or ought he not, to tell the wasv The answer O. a kepienre? magistrate vvliat had happened to him? as will hoat is bloke h a a epicure Dream or vision, was it not after all as Why, a friend has Lynch a warning from heaven that there had liennything. t where Italian an who restaurant, keeps appeared before him those gluts! iv is cooked right. Once a everything of double shadows that appariation which ho had never spoken to living year or so he secures a Joung kid and keeps it until it is about six weeks old, soul? Once again, exactly as she shone five feeding it on nothing but its mothers never eats a spear of grass, years before, the moon looked in be- milk. It d tween the shutters, and the and is simply fat on milk. The kid is away bells of the parish church chimed the taken off into a canyon, hour of 2. Jii't at that instant a white from the vile city, beside a mounshape made itself visible against the tain stream, killed and dressed and luminous beam it s unned to stand be- cooled, and placed on sticks over the fore the window. And with its coming embers of a tire, and roasted, being came the sound of a sepulchral whisper basted and turned frequently, and w hen Yes, dear friend. I done to a turn it is placed upon an imAvenge me! swear to thee I shall avenge thee! cried provised table, camp fashion, and the happy, hungry man who has an invitaMeliul, rising in his bed. to that dinner begins to get in bis tion Then all bis hesitation passed away. work. Well, we drove out to the canlie went early to the police Next day several miles, and drank of the of sees the yon, Champs Ely headquarters and frankly told all the circumstances mountain air until there was hunger deof his strange vision to the Conimis-sair- picted on every feature, and t hen we The police officer would proba- drew lip to where the friends of Garibly have told any one else wrlio visited baldi were putting the finishing touches him upon the same errand to go to Jer- to the kid, and when the odor struck me where I lived, I was gone. I had icho. But M. Meliul was the choirmaster of His Majesty, the Emperor, and a wondered, all the way, whether I could musician of acknowledged genius, to eat goat. I had thought of all the whom the opera owed more than one goats I had ever met around livery staThe police official bles, and could remember just how they rare master-piecto his story and smelled, but when I first got a smell of listened respectfully promised to consider the revelation in a that cremated kid I wondered if there serious way. To begin with, he had would be any of it left for the rest of the hunchback submitted to a most the party. I have eaten many delicious rigorous secret interrogation, and a dishes in my time. I have tackled the very astute Judge destruction har- Baltimore terrapin on his native heath, assed him with every possible question the choice oyster of Bluo Toint fame, that could terrify a guilty conscience. the canvas back of Chesapeake, the These maneuvers succeeded beyond baked bean of Boston, the pumpkin pie a week had of New England, the gumbo soup of expectation. Before elapsed the hunchback had been made Louisiana, the whiteflsh and brook trout to confess that lie was indeed the assas- of Lake Superior,. the quail on toast of . sin of M. It appeared that the every clime and the teal duck roasted wretch had, during the Reign of Ter- on a stick in Wisconsin, but I never ate ror, been a member of the Tape dur anything so delicious as the kid of to(Hard-hitters- ) those cut throats day, roasted by my Italian friends and of Public aided by some Los Angeles claret and whom the Committee had to excite plenty of mountain air, while the mounSafety employed riots. The overthrow of that regime tain stream at our feet sang so joyously, of Fraternity or Death had left this es- and I will go further to enjoy another timable citizen without employment, half of a small goat, if I ever get the and rather than return to his old trade chance, than to partake of any meal of tailor, he sought to live independent- that can be produced. reck s Sun. ly of work. The indiscretion of a serThe Fireman's Story. vant had enabled him to discover that have jou been? asked the M. Where was going to Melun to deposit in a notarys hands the price of a coun- foreman of a Western volunteer tire dewho arrived soon try residence which he had purchased, partment of a member been had extinguished. fire and in which he aimed to end his days. after the Been workworkinV Our Tape-du- r took advantage of this Beey (hie) information to engage a place in the ing? What kind of work have you Been (hie) to the drug same diligence in which M. started been doing? storeV that evening for Melun. Sitting face (hie) get some chemicals (hie) Attic York Grajihic. for the to face with the unsuspecting traveler, engine. F.ly-scc- vfi !. ii brush-woo- - t II dU who showed signs of drows'nes at an early hour, lie watched Ins chance. Amid the darkness of the Forest ot Senart proflting by the rumbling ol the wheels and the loud singing of the tenor he smfdenly threw a rope around t lie sleepers neck and .strangled him without any one hearing the least sound of a struggle. Then, noiselessly opening the door of the diligence, he had thrown the dead body into himout the road, leaped self, and after robbing the corpse of a pocketbook stuffed with notes, concealed the body among the The next night he had returned with a spade and pick, and dug a grave in the place where he designated in his confession to the police, and where the skeleton of the traveler was actually found. The jurymen brought in a verdict of guilty, and this wicked Quasimodo died upon the scaffold just three months after yielding to the unlucky impulse to pick M. Melun s pockets Such is the trustworthy narrative related to us the other day in the coziest and prettiest Parisian boudoirs by the grandson of a Marshal of France, to which it was related by the great muIncredulous people sician himself. may declare, if they pleas , that musicians are highly imaginative people and often nervous, and that the comdreamed with his poser of Joseph eyes open. But, anyhow, the anecdote in tin so is both curious and impi't-s-flytimes of spiritism. a..ty from the dream d! !r.-iu- a com-rtmen- rt And yet how clearly dciiiicd, how viva cioudy real were the impre'-ion- s o' that dream! I euiih) have svirn I was awake that I saw my friend looking sadly at me mid Irving to make signs to me! Rm again - that little hunchback vvliut the devil was he doing there? All! bah! the whole thing is absurd. I will not tell anvbodv not even my wife about the hallucination I have had: they would only laugh at me. and they vvoii'd be Fven thing is forgotten in this world, even the most startling impressions, and in the lapse of time, if Meliul occasionally thought of his friend, he nevertheless completely forgot the e. e. THE BREWING TRADE, 1 History of Beer F.uormous Proportions of the Trade. During the la.--t general election the liquor trade received considerable attention from newspaper men and politicians, and since then the feverish activity of revivalists and temperance people has kipt it constantly before the The brewers in particular public. have attracted a great deal of notice, and the dippings from the New York papers alone for the last twelve months d would make a volume, but it would read more like fairy tales than facts to those who understand the subject. The official trade journals wriggle themselves in a perspiration in every issue over the wicked stories of the temperance cranks and the callousness of the public. The brewers certainly are very often misrepresented, and of their general character and business methods most people are entirely ignorant. The history of beer in this country is very interesting. The pioneers in the business were William Penn and Jacobus. Jacobus built his brewery in Hi 1, on what is now the corner of Iai! street and Old slip, where he also established a beer garden. He afterward beeams the lirst burgomaster, and his beer and justice gave equal satisfaction to the citizens of New Amsterdam. IYnns brewery was at IVniisburg, Bucks county, la., where the excellence of his brew was considered by no means the least of his virtues. A hundred years that doughty soldier Gen. Israel Putnam was running a brewery and tavern at Brooklyn, Conn. The manufacture of lager beer in America only dates back about forty years, but it lias gone ahead and spread itself like the mustard seed in the parable. There are now about 2,200 brewers in this country, anil they sold last year over 19,000,000 barrels of malt liquors. Of this New York and Brooklyn alone contributed near a quarter. The next largest producers are Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, and Newark, in the order named. An estimate of the capital invested in the trade would probably reach at least $1o0,(JO0,000. Ninety-fiv- e per cent, of the brewers are Germans, and a more enterprising and public spirited class of men it would be very bard to find. The twenty-fift- h annual convention of the United Sla'cs Brewing association, which was held in this city last year, served to remind New Yorkers what a powerful body of men the brewers are. Their influence in politics is necessarily' very great, and they know how to turn it to the best account. Bethere are association sides this some twenty subsidiary organizations throughout the country, of which the United States Brewers and Maisters association is the best known, the election of Mr. Cook, a Rochester brew er, as secretary of state of New York having been largely tlie result of its effort. 'The Association of the United Lager Beer Brewers of New York city and vicinity confines itself strictly' to trade affairs, such as regulating the credit The system w ith as a rule, are men of small capital, but as their business is for spot cash, they ought to be able to pay their bills every' week. Under the rules of this association a brewer must be satisfied that a new customer has paid his debts to other brewers before supplying him with beer. Before this rule was made 100 was the maximum credit a brewer could safely give, whereas now he can give credit to four times that amount with comparatively little risk. Unfortunately the association has not been able to regulate prices, and competition is so intensely keen that the market is practically demoralized. In the early history of this brewer conindustry a sidered his name as his principal stock in trade, but the business nowaday's is entirely in the hands of collectors, to whose caprice the brewers must submit The trouble is that the great number of new breweries vv hich have sprung up in and around New York during the last few years, and the extensive grow th of the old establishments, have not been met by a sufficient increase in the consumption of beer. The expectation of a large increase in the demand have been considerably checked by the general depression in trade, and there are probably few local breweries working up to anything like their full capacity. Consequently, the brewers have to tax all their resources to retain their trade, and they offer so many inducements that their margin for profit is reduced to very narrow limit. The regular price of lager beer is 8 a barrel, but the majority of the brewers have adopted a sliding scale of discounts, varying from 5 to 25 per cent, making the price equal a barrel. Besides this they have to the way of giving their cus into got v good-size- 1 saloon-keeper- on-keepers, well-establish- s. tomers iee oe, to keep their be-- in, putting in plate gla- - w inflow s, fitting , i to., and the man who up their makes the most presents gets the trade. Tlie percentage of profit in the business is much than is generally supposed at the best of times, and these amt other items eat into a brewers earnings en-inmisly. Tlu retailers are the men who make the big money. They buy their heer for 'i a barrel and squeeze five hundred glasses out of it, which at 5 cents a gins.- - amounts to 25. The only wonder is that this competition among the brewers has not been at the expense of the quality of their beer, which is better than it ever salo- 1 at-s- oi to-da- y was. An attempt was recently made by some of the larger brewers of New York and vicinity to form a pool siml.ir to those existing in Rochester and Milwaukee, the object of which was to regulate prices and correct the other abuses we have mentioned. The proposition was to form a money pool, the members pledging themselves to sell only at a fixed price, allowing no discounts and offering no illegitimate inducements in order to make new customers; in short, to retain their own trade at a fair profit, and interfere with each other as little as possible. Any infringement of the rules was to be visited by a money penalty, to insure the collection of which the members would be required to deposit a certain sum with the pool on entering. The project fell through, however, and it is that such an attempt will hardly liki-lbe made again. While the ale trade is subject to the same excessive competition, it has not outgrojvn it'df so greatly. Ale brewers bad a severe setback some years ago because of the deterioration in tho quality of the brew, but they realized their mistake before it was altogether too late, and have now more than recovered their lost ground. Ordinary present use ale sells for 12 a hogshead, equal to two barrels. Ale costs less to make than lager, so this price is proportionately greater. Some of the New York brewers have tried to introduce the English system of controlling their interest iu a saloon by taking a mortgage on it. Every week from twenty to forty chattel mortgages to brewers are recorded oil saloon fixtures. The s) stem has only been partly successful on account of the ease with which a mortgage can be changed here. The best-pain" line of the brewing business is in exporting and shipping, of which the New York brewers control a large share. In Cuba, Mexico, the West Indies, and elsewhere, lager beer is crowding out English ale. Until recently New York and western brewers found a valuable market in the south, but since the invention of new breweries have been built in all the chief centers of the southern states, and outside brewers have been forced to find other outlets for their surplus stock. The competition in other large cities is just as keen as in New York, and tho trade i3 in much the same condition everywhere. Fortunately brewing materials are now very cheap, hops in particular being 5 cents below the cost Some brewers go to the of production. length of saying that the present struggle can only end in the survival of the fittest, and tho trade generally is disposed to await developments before further increasing its facilities. At the same time it is universally admitted that the brewing trade of the United States is still in its infanev, and that eventually the biggest breweries and the best beer will be found on this side of the Atlantic. Ntw York Star. y Krais Ruminations. remember that ?If you are dead-brok- e, it is never too late to mend. The man who was shot in the twinkling of an eye has never recovered his sight. Why is the land that Lot chose like milk? Because it is everywhere. The girl of the period has not been heard of for some time. Perhaps she has come to a full stop. The minds of some young men are like unfinished buildings they appear larger only because the scaffolding is still standing. Toronto Grip. well-water- Uncomfortable Badinage, Miss Sharptongue (guest at a crowded, but stiff and unenjoyable evening Mr. Dobkins, can you tell me party) why this reception is like a gentlemans opera hat? Youthful Scion. Aw! he he! I suppoth because it is a wegular crush. Not exactly; but for this Miss S. reason: It is one of the flattest things Ive seen this season. The Humbler. Nelon Hoyt, of Craftstmrv, Vt, claims to have a goose that Is over CO years old |