A ROMANCE In One Chapter and a Nightmare Night-mare CHAPTER I It was night The sun having gone down according to advertisement advertise-ment the moon was sheading a few palo beams It shone upon that portion of the Fifth Ward celebrated cele-brated for its saleratns It also shone upon some other places and as Adolphus de Grady sat upon the canal bridge with hs beloved Minerva Isabella Jones he felt sad In tIle presence of his fondest And hIs chest heaved with emotion and I undigcsttd apple pie And why Adolphus ctost thou sigh f murmured Minerva looking into his largo brown eyes One of hem had been black since ho ut tended a sparring match Can I trust ytu loved one he whispered Have I over given you cause for doubt was the reproachful ans wtr of Minerva Adolphus prcsEd her to his heart and procoedid unfold his story in a mournful voice of a atr jng sauer kroat and beer flavor Knoweat thou that winter 19 nigh with its cold chill lug blasiJI Ho paused to give effect to the quotation and to take a chew ortobaccoAnd the treasury > trea-sury is not in a flourishing condition condi-tion I find that my talent is not appreciated in Day paternal abode my mother having refused to board ma logger unless to quote her w rds I get out and duet My whole soul revolts at the thought of pack ngthe hod therefore be not alarmed to find that I have made arrangements arrange-ments to drive a span of meek > eyed mules engaged in the classic pursuit of hanling freight to Park C ty Tell me that thou will not think less of me because of my lowly occnpatlon and when I am riding upon the perilous freight wagon coaxing a reractory fourteen karat mule thy loving words of promise will cHeer me until I arrive aafely at thy sideY The stillness was broken into several pieces by Adolphus sIghing Minerva then briefly staed her overwhelming affection for him and said her constancy was a3 unremitting unremit-ting as the regularity of n poll tax collectors visin Furthermore she desired him not to forget it Here Adolphus arose to UKo hia de pat ture NIGHTMAKE In th3 hcu = e iatMinervaa father awaiting the reuru of his dau4h tfr It I Enould catch that ltulte Do Grady to murmured Id awake tEen echces of the silent night by paying football with him He arose snd went to the door lie raw the loving pifr upon the br tlge andIns wralh was graafc inasmuch that ho smote the palm jf bh hands together ans swore a large squaretoeJ oath which weighed about a pound Verily will I administer the grnd Jounce unto uim this very night he ei claImed leaving the house He nrriveil upon the bridge as Ailolpbus arose to depart de-part drawing hack his number eight siojr1 boot ha planted it where it MnulU dJ Adolphus the mot good 1 < Adolphus lost ha balan e and fell headlong into the canal Scrambling ito i-to the bank he nastily started for home leaving the brdge In the possession of Minerva father Never more yelled he will I trust my life aoath ot ibo Sixth Ward platforn remember I die by the hand of an asaasfin ana forever fare theo weil Adolpbus and Minerva know ach other no longer and the old wound arcs n > doa t healed Hut the legend J of the briogu is well known in the ward SELAII The Insignificance of humanity A spectator who seeing a bubble floating on a great river had his attention 30 absorbed by the bubble that he ignored the river nay even ridiculed any one woo thought tint the river out of which the bubble arose and into which it would presently elapse dsservod resognitiou would filly typiiy a disciple of M Comte who centering all his higher eenti I meals on humanity holds ii absurd Ito I-to let either ttioueht or feeling bo occupied with that great stream ot creative prwer unlimited in space or time of which hiiraaaHy ia i a transitory transi-tory prouot Evea V intad of being the dull lesdeuhiit thing it is the bibb e humanity had reached that stigo oJ iridescence of whch happily a high Bamnlo cf man or woman aometimea bows us a begin niugit would eliIJ owe whatever th roW ro-W D in il of basutf to that innnitn and eternil energy out of which humanity ha quite recojtly emerged and into which it mutt in course of time subside As with thousands of lower types of creature which have severally illustrated the truth that the life and death of the individual prefigure pre-figure in briet specs the life and death of the race eo with this hi heat h-eat tye of oteatura man begin nine and end to humanity are nn less certain than the beginning and end to each human being And to sup pose that this relatively evanescent form of existence ouiht to occupy our minds so ezolusively as to leave no apace for a consciousness of that ultimate czutEnce nl whioh it is but one form out of multitudes an alii mate ezistsnca which ASS manife din d-in infinitelyvaried ways bo lore humanity arose end will bo manifested mani-fested in infinitelyvaried other ways when humanity baa ceased to be aaeraa very strangeto me indeed amazing fHerb rtSPeD08riiQ Popular Popu-lar ScienCe Mbnthly