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Jlnghsh Lorn, graduated from a a fair linguist, fully eipiipped bv nature, he was my b au ideal of a chief xccutixo. I will call him Boyd. Playing ninu' tlie ofline was Ids nephew, a boj ten or twelve tears of age, his to whom he tvas greatly aanie-suhThe boy ran my errands, attended me on mv reportorial why not reporterial? duties, and wound him-e- lf about my heart as a vino clasps d. rtno sturdier growth. Time wore on. The development of the war induced thot:ricf;fo leave journalism, and to enter a field of got ernmctal labor which badoidr to he most remunerative, and was for a time vn'y profitable, though ultimately ruined wh n fhe Cabinet in whose range of supervision the v. duty as eonelml d it would he better lo engraft the sen ice upou the government itself. Down to this time the nephew, whom we will call Aleck liotd. had done nothing but run and play tiiiout the ollico. being supported entirely by his uncle. A Imago now oeeurred. Mr. Boyd was 3i trouble and pecuniary distress. The art'eu of the government embarrassed hi company, and young Aleck was Sold to look out for himself. Naturally he turned to reporting. lie was tall, handsome, nineteen, with Ng Line eyes, great physcal strength, 5m l uot much mental activity, full of Me and push and go in every thing but work, lie was very fond of girls and Wei eloped into (put i a beau. I put him in the but he was too lazy 1 0 woik. put him in the lire department, but the work didn't suit him and 5c lett. 1 got him a clerkship, but he as careless and inattentive and left. Always an indulger to an extent in intoxicating liquors myself, I failed to notice the iarly beginnings of Ahck in this lino, and being very busy and hard stxvork getting or writing news, I contented mvsclf by greeting iiim pleasantly when I saw him, giving him good advice, lending him money, getting him something to do, until one day he staggered halfseas over into my room. 1 was thunderstruck. Had lie been my own brother I rouldnt have felt more keenly the disgrace, I couldn't have reproached niy-emore bitterly for neglect. I talked with him like a good uncle, sobered bitu wp ami engaged him as a reporter, i'rora that hour his life was a continuous up and down, lie went as a repic-;- c porter one day on a Sunday-schoand made the acquaintance of a meek faced, demure, quiet little lady, ahiugtor of Danser, the gambler. They were mutually impressed. She was a Christian woman, with character of .-t e, !f ol most desirable strain dominating her utiro life, permeating every thought and action, literally going about doing passions. food. Her father had three lrs daughter, he loved to stake money, and he hated liquor and who Used it. lie was rich beyond the dream of avarice, a fact unknown to his family. He was a hard,' harsh, kulletbended man, who carried his life in his hand, ready with alertness to Bicet fiiend or foe, cool, clear to the ore. llis purposes were always clean nt. lie knew to a hairs breadth the path he trod Success followed every lie made and held enormous mm of money. He had the intuitions f a woman, and when he saw liis pret- 11 1 lii-'- aandpriii'r niter, 11 posl-ollic- o.len-siveran- 1 e. '.'1 I i by th.s stalbrought tv dau-ht- er he read tier handsome youth, wart, heart ami judged the man. larental room, and her decree m nt her to a pad ot I awavas though escort t dove to the dregs. Daii'Cr. with an his in map.et-anwater had been thrown of passionate fury h (...tighI face. A few days thereafter on outburst seen before, swore to k it er never ter had as ed tor of the paj if he ran across lie. atu. which this voting man was uitployt d, him at sight I not con! longer 'hi Id him m 1 avv in a moment favor My from the gambler. ho and sim,. I.tt le by little.:v the of, lee, that hwas angry fromtinIn r.d to too. a of ,tu ties dirty, loathsome ailair to depths settle and had com to and me T I again, in the cany me, having filed, as subsequently r of when tins c ty tin of morning, botr-the nee (bright certain'!,' to coin led into the pr.ldt-ccraw an be a was asleep, tlu impropriety of her aryepmg s feet in stock his tlgh's s..e bad 011 oilier, "Uii.- -r man wiiom ' C" ort so foul and clothed, sea - as blunt as he ly I it "at fore. rubber', n. ver nil )e d absolutely and althoicdi not as fornl .f Aleck disagreeable as to lea-ttance. t the for p I champibegged 15., vd as he was of his Mary, I siimvtd Daii'.-Dans, r went on blit lady and bravely oned Ale k's eau-3 Is, ilaught r thinned h course that lay befote the through life. the p.i-'wa.-- , like patvlmient, r face of intiit lb him down, my (.ini'r man, promeonfideiieo in him and my intentions to her His, alwats large, stood as to farther his prospects all that was in my inent under her arched brows tl.in became make Iler distorted. lip But, l,xxhy power. Never The always it? of strong, young and puckered. a serious mutter IB may punv in appearance, she literally shrivTopi. have met but once. never think of her again or the of elled. Danser grew old and strong and stout, and very, very rich, lie tempthim. little his daughter with money. lie begsaid lie in reply, ed Ah. you know that girl. This young man is the ged her to go abroad, lie sought in att person I have ever know herindi-to everv possible way to distract her but her as an il.vert in and interest thoughts, tention feel the slightest vidual. 1 have had such a scene in mv with a manner almost distrait she devothouse as I care never to have again. pushed h'm gently one side and till her a after me intellect, to ed all her sharpened Quick as Hash, turning moment's pause lie su'd, That man time and all the money she could get father, to the drinks and I hate a drunkard. from her of her church, her mission What could I say? T1IE OLl TALE or her school. THE DREADFUL END. To make a long story short, for the One day shortly after Tyron row was interview lasted' over an Lour, I persuaded Mr. Danser to keep his hands pulled down to make way for the new oil', that if the young man called to see building of the ttaat. Zcituny, xvhen his daughter, sh being quite old enough the entire triangle fronting what is as the Brooklyn bridge entrance, to determine, let him do so. If lie didn't why there was an end of it. and was occupied with timber and stone,, 1 assured 'him that in the meantime I standing with a ft. end and looking would speak to Boyd and would let from the window of mv office idly, my attention was attracted to a figure bent him (Danser) know how the bov felt. had the wav. gotThe boy, by nearly double, sitting on a long joist. vears of age, ten to he tvventv-on- e It was a man. On his dishevelled head was no hat, and Miss Danser was fully that, if not older. oil his feet no slios, oil his body a In tie1 course of three months Boyd ragged shirt and a worn and holey pair mid Mi's Danser were engaged, and of iron (its, held in place by one dilapAleck did very well in his work.lapsing idated suspender. Newsboys plagued him, new.sgirls jeered at li:m, a loaling occasionally into drink. One week 1 missed him. policeman, swinging bis club, looked on The woman with whom he had approvingly. boarded said he had been drinking very llad he been a dog I think 1 should heavily and had gone out one night, have jumped into the ring. since which time she had heard nothing It was no dog. from him. I sent to Mis Danser. She It was mv old boy, Aleck. Quick, wrote that he had called upon her in an quick we had him in an ambulance, quick intoxicating condition.and had behaved xve drove him to an hospital and there, so hadlv that she, thinking her father washed and cleansed and fed, the would tind him, had compelled him to poor fellow lay until the spirit passed, leave and she had heard nothing of him leaving him litterally the remains oi since. I felt alarmed and sought the what might have been a man. aid of Supt. Jordan. Aleck was found You recall the story of the Dansers? oil Blackwell's Island. Of the great robbery, the extraordinary A Q l EE It HOME FOR A GAMBLER. detection of the thieves and recovery of On liis release lie came, naturally, to the proper! v, the death of the father, me. I braced him up, encouraged him, the quick fading away of the girl and gave him work, and at his request call- the vast .sums left to churchly bands ed upon Mis Danser. I found her in after her obligations were paid and her Elizabeth street, I think, in a quaint lit- monument erected? tle house, pictures of religious subjects The moral points itself. on the walls, hvmn books and Bibles, Had Aleck been a sober man what tracts and a volume of Mrs. Ileman's happiness was in store for him and the poetry on the table. While waiting girl w ho loved him. for her I took up Mrs. Iiemans and Had Danser been the drunkard how found that she had marked. differently this story might have run. And was liis mortal hour beet Howard, i n A 'cw York World. With ami iliHiiavI 1 triwl, ail i THE GRAND OLD MAN. ,, retirc of hospitality, took a gin's of he tooiv anot.ier win. Though:! "1stathm-Louse. anil l.inde in the the vortex. into he plunged Heckles', d Ik was not content with that but. vv.ldly tempting his fate, n W een reeding James Whit- The Old coiidi Bii vs response to the In-- j of dinner annual the M..I1 at refer- Ids and Litt Ciub, r.try dh.i.np.di' has awakened in' M Ihus-la, nn mind many ic olh etioies and remi- We s of that grand old man. in the t capacity of iii'st me Methuselah Km eh si vt live of At tl.e a sou. ag :md e one li ai'ii-telephoned his ght l'.unilv ph siei.iit t cniie over and as- Day sM h'n in me t'ng Methtt-elah- . at l.i'i (!a'. tr d on Enoch 'happy home, 1.11 red- ar.d it- - first ray s lit up the little del surfaee ol the stranger. For ii and Methu- llnoi e hundred thri year.'riult logged along together in tii j of falh r ar.d son. Then Enoch n. It was at this was ii id uilv cut d time that little Methuselah lr.'t realized what il xv. i; to be an orphan. He could Pol nt !Ii'! realize that lias father w as dead, lie could not. understand w hy disease, Enoch, with no inherited .should le shuttled out at tlm age of years. three hundred and sity-ti- e My But the doctor .said to Methuselah. 1 have son, you are indeed fatherless. done' all I could, but It is Useless. I hud told Enoch many a time that if lie went in swimming I efore the ii e was out of the creek, it would finally down ii m. but lie thought he knew better than I d, d. lie w as a h'uul'troiig man, Enoch was. 1b; sneered at me and alluded to me as a fresh young gosling, bccau e lie was ;.0O years older than 1 was. Ib has received tlm reward of the wilful, and erily the doom of the smart Aleck is his. Methuselah now e:i't about him for some occupation which xxoiild take up his attention and assuage his wild, passionate grief oxer the loss of Ins father. lb entered into the walks of men and learned their ways. It xvas at this time that lie harned the pernicious habit, of tcing tobacco. M'e cannot wonder at it xx ben xve remember hat he was now fatherless. He was at the mercy of the he learncoarse, rough world. ed to ice tobacco when lie xxeut axvay to attend bii'ine'S college after the death of his father. Be that as it may, the noxious weed certainly hastened his death, for Hull years after this xve find him a corpse! Death is ever a surprise, even at tlie end of a long illness and after aiipe old ho are near, it seems age. To those abrupt; so to his grandchildren, sonic of xvhom su.rxixed him, his children having died of old age, the death of Methusaleh came like a thunderbolt from ti clear sky. Methuselah succeeded in cording up more of a record, such as it xvas. than any other man of xvhom history informs us. Time, the. and amateur moxver, came and leaned over the front yard and looked at Metim-blaand ran his thumb oxer the jagged edge of his scythe, and xvi nt axvay whi.stl.ng a ioxv refrain. He kept up this refrain business for nearly ten centuries, xxliile Methusdah continued to stand out tttifd the general wreck of men and na1 meet our eontliet yet In the dark narrow wav i How, but through Him, that nathbad trod Save or we perish, Son ot lion; hurley-burle- ! ! ! 1 t , r-- -- I Po-.sib- xx tomb-build- er h, tion s. Exon as the young strong moxver going forth xvith his m ixver for to nioxv spareth the toll and dignified drab hornets nest and passeth In on tlie other side, so Time, xvith his Waterbary hourglass and liis overxvorked hay knife over liis .shoulder, and his long Mormon w hiskers, and his high, sleek dome of thought, xvith its gray lambrequin uf hair around tlie base of it, mowed all around Mothusela and then li the - -- f t ell 'll! U' l'rs'('U.:m !, y ij,a himxv turn g lUt lit1 j '! s nj(l lui own prin',s.,rv. int, r. j qii.ie j f:irm H e seat, and ; n,id U1 iiwitus, ; ;ame s;,,;,' - . ears an,T Ills poll lax on tii,. r," t m telling t make a .Y,' " oId ill'll'. p',l Mlmxx,,' iinalh- - r,;, cuti-o- ' p u-n-- ot "f ag i iii.n,.,; here t'n y v miM a.',r" eomm.uid'ivsp, c.p m pleasure in geffiw? M thuselnh xun i' about and .couUHlah.lt w S sglicd whet un ate til a -- for him to x he ,, S- I y ;.I1. of ;d a 1 go ti" ; to null ,ad tinu , rising. twelve Ami the IUlxt m,1ri1 n; gix e oral Metlnis dales lied: .till Aye, in id; neary Lofton Old- and me, when lm his fat thenii.i-ot licit stock was lluu t Iloxxexer, the inexoniMt!; lias driven it out of the,? nearly out of the eou-- c replaced by that other un tlie piano, w liidi in its tc bly have to give wav , orit- of the capricious" guitar, xxhii'h non osi' bi rii'li ol it, w il i J dri' tic r part d ' tin iJacm z man dance .baroi -- 1 - . one of the preferred in Paganini, is, in my huniir most ancient origin. We oldest of all records, thetip ear Spi vt at ion hie xx of J. xvas tlie e, gre it. (!cc( t, to-- tin; father lies. 10 ,nul In-r- . lmi-i- xv titey m fed Ce The harp was so imH earlier half of this centr, tin great mu-i- c puV.,.?. l tol tr H a it The Harp of This made 1 tks tin , Juiial, y"s sion ' an Mot him. lah will be shore when he getst ripe expel ieiiej anl h'4 out of lioiu g ft sh(1, hat 1 aim dm Ivfuv,,: I It xvas best that when he km-x- - nib-el- i n at l,.t "l; and said: fiy and io V In him. ground Ci tin1 granti .e at im instrument called kincor This instrument, called in. or kitra, I have seen Jexvi'h coins in the B. 11. S :d f( have there it resembles an olden limes in use xvith s' can tribe (the Berbers tlie famou? German ih hieroglyphs, de.'cribcs ney through Syria. may he, the Arabs bavin; kitra their portable music, the Moors brought it L iji $ mu1 r br.r k it 11 bt r.u'ii t bfis' there it xvas called kittarE pare to this what von mgk tar, to be played lying the tabic, ami which in e; She or zither, the old harp, which is, si!'' pondiouhu guitar for tk neither Erard's the power double-actio- n at one of incuts, tlie nor tlio-- e Dalxvay iisot1 vom the k hatp-loo- i o. is anil, eu man eittar or 'I Jun , ie b a vs an lurp-- j beir South Kensington in K. Ego sum Regina C.tiur same word), 1621 in bet. tl.e w lode family of these h Jus tO the bre p. the I instruments together, It I x euture to suppose, rya ie to the Syrian kinra (Syrian j' h t aie not very ditlereutseemfn' passed on. uoi Methuselah decorated the graves of so that tho" guitar s n ir.stnm" those who perished in a dozen different the most ancient wbi lu'' tunes wars. He did not enlist himself, for Of course modern v over 900 years of his life he xvas ex- and perfected it. and its ess, imW the s o empt. He would go to tlie enlisting tlie modern harp, 3, i place and offer liis services, and the Peneerd Gxvalia (John officer would tell him to go home and harpist to the queen) phf' '111, one encourage his grandchildren to go. different from the m"'1 P Then Methuselah would sit around David composed the L TemW e Noah's front steps and smoke and mortal psalms. nm the conduct of the war, also the JeGoli California conduct of tlm enemy. i. p:i It is said of Metlmsidah that lie never In early days California did xvas the same man after ids son Lanieeh with miners. Men oh "h farm, died. He was greatly attached to lev this state to was :s and lien lie xxoke up one night cultivate the soil it tlm sti to tind liis son purple in the face xxitli purpose of supp y ing til' membraneous croup, lie could hardly here, xvith food, "g real.ze that he might lose him. The tlie fertility of the U.dy f u idea of losing a hoy xvho had just Gradually, however, ttu or rounded the glorious morn of his 777th brought into cultivation-'- ' , L it year, had never occurred to him. But caimT of more importance The fctit ti .. S ib Heath loves a shining mark, and lie gar- titan goldnered little Eannnie and lelt Methuse- agricultural that m t lah to moan and mourn on for a couple actually in contact thev that realized of more centuries without him. hardly Af Methuselah finally got so that he ing carried on as couldnt sleep any after four o'clock in tlm Sawyer decision,anah'k the morning, and he didnt see hoxv dieted, would put pa any one else could. The older he got, some of the richest m'lU' r t and the less valuable liis time became, ,i, r But all the timer.,, r I the earlier lie would rise, so that he prosecuted xvith all i was could get an early start. As the cen- product of gold turies tiled slowly by, and Methuselah ly affected by tlm ? got xvliere all he had to do xvas to shitf-ll- e declined in the to 1881 in into his 000 clothes, and rest of 9i ' his gums on the top of a the silver product to v d ')7oO,OUO cane and mutter up the chimney, and ; then groan and extricate himself from Saxvver dicision Pnbut f his clothes again and retire, lie rose partis of the state, earlier and earlier in the morning, and was only muttered more and more about the unable to use xv.uci young folks sleeping axvay the best of the quartz mine's the day, and said lie had no doubt but country blighted by that sleeping and snoring till breakfast a revival is occiiriinD time helped to carry off Lam. But one mines are being workeV , day old Father Time came along xxith are looking for y a nexv scythe, and he drew the whet- going back again stone across it a few times, and rolled which they lied f the sleeves of his red flannel undergar- California mounta t ment up over his warty elbows, and out. If water canno , Mr. Methuselah passed on to that un- fore other means will ; discovered country with a ripe exper- fornia has led the i ience and a long, clean record. as a to , We can almo-- t fancy how the physiand will continue ? cians, who had disagreed about his case years to come. all the way through, came and insisted lieport. to ) Ji -- in cri-tis- u La-mce- h. 11 xx Iv . . - m-'- n ; . . loose-fittin- g sleek-heade- (1! t k I iu-- -- The Revolver in Faris. A Paris corresponent of The London The era of the 7'clerjraph, writes: revolver is still continuing in Paris, and the impunity with which the deadly weapon is carried about and frequently U'cd with telling effect is suggestive of the wild freedom of Colorado. Miniature Colts and Derringers are sold in the gunsmiths shops at prices which come within the means of the merest schoolboy. The consequence is, that the collegian or gavrochc apes his elders in the perilous art of settling amatory or other disputes by the bullet. This was the case, for instance, with a boy of 16, named Doulet, who fired two shots of a revolver at a young girl about his own age, named Duperclie, this morning, in the Faubourg St. Martin. The gill, a seamstress, was proceeding along the street with two companions when Doulet li red. The bullets hit her in the back, and she fell bleeding on the pavement. The youthful criminal was arrested immediately, and while in the hands of the policeman attempted to shoot himself. but unsuccessfully. lie then embraced the girl, who asked the policemen to let him off. Another case of firing with a revolver occurred yesterday in a suburban wine shop, where a drunken workman discharged six bullets iu succession from the barrel of his weapon on a group of companions who were carousing with him. Luckily no one xvas hit, and the man was soon disarmed. and others, but that particular verse underscored half a dozen times. 'Well, now, just imagine the position. A gambler's home, a gambler's daughter, a gambler with the reputation of being the sharpest of his class; cruel, crafty, merciless to all his victims, but enveloping this one child with the holiest of sentiments, the sweetest of affections, the care, the thought, the love, the protect ng yearning for his daughter and his daughters good; and here in this room, the room of the gambler's daughter, within call of other rooms less sacred, were these emblems of her faith, these indices of her thought, tnose flowers upon the pathway of her existence. 1 had a painful half hour with her. She admitted with tealful protestations her love for Aleck: she told how greatly she desired his happiness here, and hereafter: but through it all it was painfully evident that as a Christian woman she believed with a faith that could not be turned. It would be a sin for her to link her life with a man who, under the intluenee of liquor, yielded up everything that was true, everything that ia her judgment was worth livipg for. Yet I made as good a list of it as I eotiid, and finally secured her promise that if Aleck would sign and keep a pledge of total abstinence for a month she would receive him, and that meanwhile he might write to her once a week. Of course I knew that ended it, for the moment a man and woman, situated as they were, begin to write, lookA Harvest Song. ing forward to a meeting, the veriest blind man must be able to see the cerIlo! ye reapers, merry reapers! tain end. Through the fields go, The end came. And the summer wind in whispers, were and reunited a day was set They Bends the w ild flowers to and fro. for their marriage, against which the The song of scythe and sickle, Llstl father made most vigorous protest, but with the reapers plaint, Mingled y ielded, as fathers generally do, aided While the magpie, wise and fickle, somewhat toward that step by the fact Scoids and scolds in language quaint that Aleck had taken and had kept his Now the bearded grain is fallinir, for three consecutive months. pledge Golden grain with beaded head; In an evil hour the young man was Harkl Yon meadow-laris calling: sent to report a French ball? Spare my babes their trundle bedJ The city editor instructed him to reHo ye reapers Harvest grand main until the dosing of the doors, not Sing and toil this summer day; to be content with the ordinary routine There is plenty in our land, Peace and plenty lioldeth sway. report, but to supplement it by a truthCay Jjavidion, in Chicayn 2'imet. ful and provable record of the later scenes and the y which If civilization continues its onward march generally attends the breaking up. the next century will see the penalty for eatBright and handsome, dashing and full ing raw onions twice as heavy as for houseof life, he was a favorite in the commiDanville Breeze. ttee-room, and, yielding to the breaking. Lev. nU-ene- . anguish IIovv may we on a J : JJ.j . gold-produc- |