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Show Darkness, Tien THE HOME SENTINEL. . BY THR SKN llFL nll-ANY- I. J . O It.. T. 5?, JlkKUIS I . T- It seems but a dream the lone, tong ago," but the "memory of some iow, sweet song, with its minor cadences; but the transient flush of an autumn sunset, when the crimson glories of the hour melt away before the sombre shadows of night. And yet, how vividly does each scene rise before me on this chill winter's evening, as I sit alone by my fireside, waiting, hoping, praying, for a call to the Home where my loved ones are. A stately, red brick building looms up before me, with its grass piats, each side the paved waik that leads to the imposing portico Here, shading the main entrance. massive doors, like those of some feudal castle of olden times, swing upon their hinges at t lie resonant call of the solemn gong which sends its dismal echoes through the long corridors, like the croan of some giant monster in the death throes. A stillness of death reigns in the large, square drawing rooms, with their ingrain carpetings and stiff horsehair furniture. On eacli of the w liite walls, religious engravings, in narrow walnut frame, look down coldly upon each unbidden guest that ventures within these hallowed precincts, sacred to the reception of His Grace," and his tonsured aids; to the monthly mteting o' the board of trustees;" to the bcjeweled dames whom spasmodic philanthropy induces, from time to time, to visit the good sisters, and to the rant of charity. One flight further up I see hundreds of orphans bending over t heir tasks in patient resignation to the decrees oi fate that exacts from them labor - Tue nir.-tan J engineer of a trading Steamer on the Columbia river, Oregon, are husband an 1 wjfo. oi William F Si.oat of iVokski.l. X. T.. has leofived a pension oa a claim that was filled eighleoa vears ago. A Pennsylvania cud miner died of destitution the other day. Nothing was found on the body but a campaign promise of better times. weli-trimni- CiiAfKCEr Depew is said to hava received an invitation from nearly every state in the union to deliver a Fourth of July oration. Ouen Bowie of Maryland has been granted a pension of $8 a month. Ho is a veteran of tho Mexican war and was at the battle of Monterey. Ex-Go- v. Gideon 1 Pease, of East Wilton, Me., who was a sergeant in tho Black liawk war, is thought to he the only living Unitel States soldier of that war. One alligator Arcadia, Fla , the hundred alligator were butw'een five length. hunter brought to other day over o no skins, all of wbieh and twelve feet ill A cottage window on the grou ids of a mining company near King-toWant Col., displays this inscription: ed a wife. Apply within; nobody n, burred." A prominen t German manufacturer has just been sent to jirisou for two fears and a half for spanking disro-- ( spectfully of the Dowager Empress proportionate to their years. J'oor waifs! From babyhood theirs j little Augu.to. is a life of unquestioning obedience to Whenever a friend of W. T. the black-robenuns whose mission Howells marries ttio novelist always is to inculcate lessons of virtue, it vends ns a wedding present a copy of that the fruit fiom sin blighted boughs Their Wedding Journey bound in may ripen in eternal life. They are white velvet. taught, too, to be grateful to the pun-li- e who sheltered, fed and clothed A ncmrek of young women in Cush-Oor- t, them, when their own parents had turned them adrift, motherless, fag Ga., have organize 1 an therless, aye, often nameless, upon Those have soon tho who society. chatity of the world. members say that such a precaution theHow well I remember wondering, in was not necessary. my childlike way, it ever I should meet this generous public and be able Tiieke is a house a Sttill water, Minn., to thank her for my pretty cotton which has the reputation of being frocks and heavy shoes that were my haunted, because tho outlines of a pride as I toddled along with the severed human hand are often scou smaller members of the asylum, each Sunday, to the big church where the upon tho windows. organ pealed forth its glorious tones, and the marble altars blazed with Ella Conner, a little girl f nine lights that made my little eyes blink, years, at Lititz, Ia., has been sneezing The priests in their golden vestments. for more than a week at intervals of a the long, double row of altar boys in few seconds, except when asleep. The their crimson cassocks and linen surplices, seeming people from another doctor calls it nervous prostration. and a happier woild of which we poor formed no part. Then there rniNCE Bismarck is said to take orphans was the sermon, when some one of nore pleasure in recounting the duel- - the holy fathers ascended the pulpit 8ng and drinking feats of his student and discoursed learnedly about sal inys than in relating any of his later vat ion and eternal bliss, two words which so impressed themselves upon triumphs in tho field of stntismanship. my mind that I determined to net the very moment I was big, a John Sherman waiting to see what them since they were of so much impor92 may have instore for hltn? Contance that t lie priests, and the nuns, versing with tv friend recently on re- too, were always talking about them. I boiievo in But ah! the fear that possessed me ligious mutters ho said: God, tho Almighty. That is as fur as when there thundered forth denunciations against wicked sinners, and I havo got." the priestly eye seemed riveted on me, if 1 were specially marked for rep- William J. Hilton, a wealthy and as I trembled lest he knew robation, miserly merchant of Franklin, Ky., , bow tired I was; how still and sor placed a nail keg containing $30,000 in fiom weariness, and how this, togethgreenbacks and 4 per cent. Govern- - j er with the fumes of he incense-lademeat bonds upon a fire a few days ago, air, had made me drowsy. Blessed and laughed joyfully as ho saw tho relief! when those stern eyes wandered elsewhere, and 1 could hear his voice less and less distinct, until at troubles and business cares has turned growing encth it ceased: a delicious calm Lis head. stole over me and I slept, my cheek ' resting against ihe hard back of the looks than thinner Senator Evarts pew. But ah! tV.e punishment upon ever this summer and all his efforts to my return from mass! Tho prophe-rais- e fat are as melancholy failures as eies predicted for my terrible impiety! creep away to my dy didnd Iwonder they havo been in other years. ButjHo'v it really the he walks up Broadway with a lively God would wreak such vengeance stride, his genial srndo is always ready good pon a tiny Rir; ,lk me. And yet to suffuse his distinguished features, euch Sabbath it was the same offense, his pate is not yet bald, and he retaint tile same reprimand, followed by a tho convivial spirit of tho old times. keen, but transient, remorse of conscience. Mr. Evarts Is 72 years old. One of such days stands out in bold We had returned relict The effect of tho London book sale, trom before me. vespers, and were assembled in is to show last that books year during the school room. 1, with the ot under certain conditions, are a profit- impious somnolence upon my guilt youth-ful- l Tho early edition of able investment. soul, waited, like a trembling culPickwick brought double the orig- prit, the sentence that would consign inal prices. Tho first Buskins, or Sit me to solitary confinement for the Richard Burtons, tho early edition o! rest of tho evening. Visitors came around on a tour ol inspection. Welfiwinburno and Browning all sell well. come respite! A lady and gentleman d high-priceInvestments in very stood m the doorway; the former rebooks, such ns tho Caxtons, have boon splendent in a robe of silken sheen, with sparkling jewels flashing from her profitable in a proportionate degree. ears and breast, as if some tiny stars had dropped from the sky above nod A BREATHING well has been discovnestled a distinered near E gle Flat station, 110 miles gue-looking there. Her companion,his imman, stroked east of El Iaso, Texas. It is an aban- perial listlessly while the lady evidoned artesian well, NIK) feet deep, bul dently his wife) conversed in low tones His restless, the tubing is still intaet in it. Foi with llister Ligouri. twelve hours each day a furious gm-- 1 coal black eye, in ics wanderings of air rushes into the tuhiug, and the around the room, rested at length on me. Perhaps the steadiness of my next twelve hours nn equally strong gazs caused this, lor 1 felt fascinated This occurs rushes out. with the gust by that handsome man. Ilia whole utmost regularity, and, so far, no break face lit up with an expression the like has been noticed in the regular occur- of which 1 liad never seen beam on me before. He touched the lady's arui rence. lightly, and whispered a few words. Where?" Gen. IV. S. Rosecrans, register ol To my left." And he motioned. I the United States troisury, has a pe- thought, towards me. culiar one-sidHow lovely! How perfectly loveexpression of face which has a history to it. Few jieople ly! was the answer in bated breath. My heart sank then, lor I knew it know that Gen. Kosecrans was the first man who ever refined petroleum. He could not be of me they spoke. No one had ever called mo anything but experimented with it forty years ago. naughty Edna St. Clair." went was he a but sakl he fool, People "Come here child." said the on with bis experiments. Presently, after conversing eagerly with her lady, huss thougn to prove what they said, his band, in hurried tones. 1 thought she to me, and yet I doubted the petroleum blew up and burned his face spoke of my being singled out from the fact He has suffered in a serious way. hundreds there. Sot until Sister Li from that injury ever siuco. d anti-kiss-'n- , I P-ieI hn- other n life comes to poor jaded arms manity, to fly to its sheltering for rest. tYere I asked to diagnose this pasdesion, it would lie as the chill of ot fire the of envy the sting spair, ill lunacy, and claim for it precedence the celebrated box presented by Jupiter to Pandora, but with hope leftr out. I would call it a inonstergreat-ethan the pvthon of old, for where is the hand that can stay its ravages when once its hydra head is lilted. to the Step hv step it makes progress lie so where maelstrom the of verge which started ninny wrecked barques on life's journey with such fair Ireight ot hopes and promises: withering the freshnei-of the heart and narrowing the judgment, it makes a pandemonium ot home and happiness; like the swallow, goes nnd conies then finally takes a famvell flight. Not the least contemptible phase of this ninny sided evil and often is displayed when least expected that which makes one envious of anothers personal influence or position. If the hitherto dearest friend ot such a person is unfortunate enough to arouse this antagonistic feeling, lie or she will not hesitate to resort to the meanest subterfuges nnd innuendoes; especially in this thq case where the offending party has the least claim to good looks or fascinating manners. At once they become the target for invidious remarks, and branded by their suspicious natures as designing; everything to them is tinged wish a lurid light. With such pers ins friendship counts for nothing, for tlie slime of the serpent is trailed over all the hitherto pleasant relations. Envy and doubt n re allowed to creep in and blink tlie eyes to true merit and motives. Sacred confidences arelaid bare nnd put to such base uses as would cause friendship to veil her face in shame and make the very name a bv word. No one who studies the vagaries of this passion and notes its influence cn various temperaments, but lias abundant food for moralizing over the strange nnd olten amusements like wine it seems to bring out the idiosyncracies of character und runs the entire gamut of feeling. Unused nfter all by that spasm of the heart so graphically described in Uhesbros Victoria. I have seen persons under the influence of this emotion do the most charges. He answered, first kindly, then curt v. In anger, I spoke the cruel words unnatural things; love, fatal consethat drove him from me. Next day his quences, pride, the one thing only lawyer culled and told me my husband that holds many a strong nature in had settled the whole of his fortune upon hut a woman check, are swept away by its mighty me, saying that I whs It to me. As 1 gazed upon the unfagouri had echoed the1 words and venture for- miliar writing of my mother, my eye called me by name did for let the ward. Two soft lips touched mine, in were blinded with tears; be what it would, she was disclosure I ever known. had embrace first the 1 I could not How would you like to live with my mother stiff.wordsfelt Home! there. dear the lead little girl." me, and be my Home! choked emotion I could not speak; Wait, dear. and the superioress me. Had indeed the good God sent a the ample folds of her mother to me at last? A mother? drew lrom out envel-0)- e Blessed name that nature's sell im- black gown an official looking sealed with red wax, I was to of lisping babes, in hearts the plants name that grows dearer with each give you this alo. i nun and withI thanked the goo added year. The first to leave the I As drew. my found written be upon lips; the last to d room, I found her with the heart when death caN hence. I face, hushing her infant to reYou know where live?" continued sat white and pose. My tho same sweet voice. her side. silent by in heaven? I faitenngly replied. Father! mother!" I cried, rushing Oh, dear no; what made you ttiink to them. received I have but that?" she answered, laughingly. (I tiffs the history of whomjustanil what noticed that her husband, and sister, I am. Let me prove my love, my You are so beautiful smiled too.) it in your bands by placing gratitude, in not like any one here the asylum. unopened. Read it. It is but iust And and you asked me to he your that you who have done so much for little girl 1 thought perhaps yon were nie, have made me ali I am, have givmy dear mother. That that God en me all I possess, should be the first felt sorry for me and had sent you to know whom you have belriended. back." raising me. Mr. Leroy Mechanically claim like no I have this; tore the No, dear, open and drew forth package second I wilt be mother and trom a golden casket hut your a bundle of letlove you as my own child. Will you ters faded with age. An agonizyellow come, little Edna? cry broke from his lips, as he turn-- ! Yes! yes! Take me with you." I ing ed them over one by one, and read cried, convulsively, take me far away inscribed thereon, all fro n here, where there are no long the lovir words and addressed to Edna E, signed hatefno no cross, sermons, scoldings, fit. Clair tlie Edna, no doubt, whose ulI was. Opening the leather rase, child I stopped abruptly, for the nuns looked out at him a beautitul there eyes were opened wide in amazement girl with dark eyes and hair; and opat my audacity; and there was a to this was himself as once he warning light in them that filled my posite flush of early soul with terror. I grew afrai lest looked in the bright she would keep me in the asylum for manhood. A sigh broke from his lips, as with a punishment. But Inter on in life, I reverential air ho raised each trinket lound how groundless were my fears; One plain golden from casket. the that orphans were but a drug in the hoop he turned over ins finger, again market and bidders rare, it was set- and again. E. L. to E. fit. C," he tled then, that on the following mornmurmured, repeating tlie words as if ing the good lady was to come tor me. some charm were in tlie sound. A She would bring, she said, lit apparel, for mine would no do at all. What a marriage certificate; but he passed it a tiny heroine of romance I seemed to my by and eagerly clutched note that lay now alone in the companions for the rest of that evenIt was addressed ing as they crowded around rtie. I did empty bijouterie. Mr. LeEdna." not need to lie told to thank God for To daughter started as lie read tlie words; and having brought me such kind triends roy Seens Mr. and Mrs. I,eroy, for I did liis glance fell wistfully upon me. ing the anxiety for him to proceed thank Him again and again. exNeed I contrast my new life with (that my face must plainly have in his lie to turned the pressed) paper I the old one? Am equal to the task? Go ask the pardoned convict tospeak hanJ, and read aloud, but in broken the ecstasy he (eels when the prison tones: Bellevue Hospital, April 3d, 182(5. gates fly open and once more he My Child: I am dying, Hlowl.v but surebreathes the blessed air offieedom. Go ask the mendicant whom some ty dying. And of a broken heart, for him to the vows he freak of fortune transports from ilove hasHeproved faithh-i-- of me and learned grew weary spoke. penury to wealth, ask him, I say, it to love another. 1 heard him call her mere words can adequately express name in ilia dreams; and I taxed him with liis rapture. Let these give voice to the fact. He tried to soothe my jealous their joy; then, and not till then, can fears; but in vain. I persisted in my foster-mothe- A rs tear-staine- foster-fathe- I True, I was only a child at the time: but what a life mine had been, shut up in those gloomy walls, with every natural impulse of childhood stifled, by set rules against wnich there was no appeal. Housed, it is true, fed, clothed. But housed by strangers; fed by charity; clothed in uniform like the wicked convicts, and our orphan badges proclaiming us to all; outcasts whom the world were better without. The years rolled on. I learned to love my with a love akin to that the Brahmin lavishes on his gods. And I was all in all to them. My luxurious surroundings were in accord with the wealth of my patrons, who were acknowledged leaders in the select coterie to which they intioduced me as their daughter, Edna Leroy. I was courted and caressed by all, for the opulence of my putative father shed a halo of worth upon me. Suitors there were in numbers, who poured fortli impassioned vows of fidelity, and wept that they sued in vain. At first such scenes were painful to me; but they soon grew monotonous. And when I learned wliat an elastic affair a mans heart is, at best, I wasted no more time in regret. It was as well, for eacli disconsolate swain consoled foster-parent- s himself elsewhere. After long years of waiting, there came at length, to bless my kind friends home, a winsome baby boy; and as I saw the tiny little one nestling on ins mothers breast, and read tlie fond look of pride in her lustrous eyes. I knew her brightest hones were fulfilled. In vain I looked lor some token of welcome in the fathers face; there was, but as there always had been, a shadow as of some nameless grief. When first he saw his boy, he groaned aloud, and his face became ashen pule. Ernest!" cried his wife, in reproachful tones, Is it thus you greet our babe? You do not love me, I know it now. You have been foryears sad and absent. I thought it because of our childless lot. Yet now that our son lias come, you turn away from him. Oh, Ernest, Ernest, how can 1 live, bereft of your love!" "Hush, my darling Inez, do not wrong me thus. Would to God I loved you less, then my heart would not be wrung, as it is now, by that tiny face so like your own." I waited to hear no more; but crept away noiselessly. I had that morning received a note from Rev. Mother Jerome, asking me to come to the asylum without delay, and thither I made my way. It was my first visit to this haven of my iniancy, and I trembled as I thought what my life might have been but for the goodness of God,. I looked upon the stately red brick building, much as a traveler gazes back from pleasant places upon the rugged portion of the road ho has left. 1 was shown into the drawingroom, the portress little thinking that the elegantly apparelled Miss Lroy was the quondam asylum dependent Edna St. Clair. A moment later, and the reverend mother came. She spoke to me quite as if I were yet but a child; questioned me as to my welfare during the eight years I had been with my foster parAnd ent. then she spoke to me of my mother dying in the hospital wards eighteen years before, and entrustin'' 0 nie to her care. She placed a small package in my hands, dear, addressed to vou, and bade me keep it for you until the date written on tlieoutside. Ttwill unravel the secret of her birth, your mother said. A moment more and sue was dead. 1 have kept the trust. h rom under her cape the nun drew forth a square, bulky packet and gave could not struggle on with trouble; that he wished me to feel I was perfectly independent ami could enjoy the blessings ot wealth. 1 would receive nothing; and wrote him that when they laid me in my grave, I would be no more dead to him then than I was at that very moment. Six months later you came my baby girl; nnd I would have lived for your sake; but the wound in iny heart is a mortal one. I read ot your lather's nppronch-5nmarriage to my rival, mid I his lawful wife still alive. I pray to God to save him from hissin; to take me to Him, and leave :ny darling free. For I love him, the father of my child. Do not seek to find him, dearest. Leave him to his newfound happiness. He did not love the mother, he cannot love her child. God will watch ov.er and protect my lamb. E. St. C. Leroy. And I, great God! what am I?" and power. Lives are wrecked, reputations blasted, nnd tragedies enacted through this insane passion that fills our lunatic asylums and prison cells with its victims. 1 doubt if heavens shining messengers stood with flaming sword at the portals of this monsters keep had power to stay its course, for with the strength of the attachment comes the intensity of the fever that consumes. I believe thnt jealousy is one of the component parts of all human nature. Alatentgerm, perhaps, in many who are unconscious that the least taint lurks within their veins until some circumstance forces it to the That let- surface, and they are suddenly gasped my ter was written but a month before awakened to the fact that there is our marriage. And this hapless babe, a slumbering volcano in their breasts, oh, would he had never seen the light ready to throw out the deadly lava of day!" which withers everything it touches. What could I say in the presence of Mary V. Stiles in St. Louis Magthat mother's agony. How could I azine. hush her grief? I glanced at the large, white envelope that still remained unDeath to the Carpet Bug. opened. Perhaps there was comfort Where carpets are used and only there. I tore it open and found enclosed a certified copy of the official taken up once a year at the conditions are very record of the death of Edna St. Clair favorable for the carpet hugs inLeroy. Y'ou were married when?I asked, crease, particularly where the is hurriedly and carelessly eagerly. On the 4th of May, 1S2G, answer- done. When a house lias once beed my faintly. come infested, nothing but the most Then God be praised!" I cried, energetic measures will that the poor orphan you took to rid it of the pest and incompletely your heart can clear the clouds away riddance is the only hope, complete as in a from your home. My mother died on a very few individuals will so the 30tfi of April, 182(5," and I hand- year increase as to do great damage. At ed her the paper I held. I turned totime then, us many ward my father, and yearningly, the dear arms opened to receive me his rooms should be hared at once ns own, his very own child. Together we possible, and the honsekeeper should approached tlie mother and the babe, go carefully over the rooms, removbut with stern, set features, she wav- ing ail dust, and with a ed her husband away. charged with benzine should puff Wife" the liquid into all the floor cracks No, no; you deceived me. Married and under the baseboards until everv me, believing that you were still bound crevice has been reached. The to another. I deny this. I swear, by all I hold carpets themselves, after tohrough should be lightly sprayed sacred, that I believed her dead. beating, News reached me of her death, by an with the same substance, which will accident on the lake. There were quickly evaporate, leaving no odor several lives lost at the time, and her after ashorttime. The inflammabilname headed tlie list. Later I mar- ity of benzine should be remembered ried you. Years afterwards I learned however, and no light should be that the Mrs. Leroy that perished brought near it. This done, before rewas not my wile, but a relative by laying the carpets it will he well to marriage, a cousin merely. 1 was pour into the cracks a moderwe were wife. man and then; helpless ately thick mixture of plasI hid my secret to save you pain, but ter of Paris and water when I saw that babe our son and which soon sets and fills with a thought what he must be, I felt the solid substance into whichthem the insects crime concealment had been. I was will not enter. tempted to throw myself at your feet borders of theThen lay around the room a width of and confess all; but I was a coward, I feared to lose you. Inez, wife, can tarred roofing-paper- , and afterward leluy the carpets. This thorough you not forgive me?" I left them alone. Later on they treatment should answer in the very sought me, and the happy light in WTirst cases, and inahousesoclesned their dear eyes told the darkness of the insect will probably not regain a distrust had passed away, and the oothold during tlie ensuing year calm of perfect love and trust poslurniture which mav sessed their souls. have also become infested should be Ah me! this was years and years steamed or also treated with benzine ago. They are all gone now fathc-r- , and chests or drawers in which far But brother. mother, away on the clothmg has been stored eternal shore they are waiting to we- should be thoroughly sprayed. lcome me home to their arms again.- Another method of treatment Yankee Blade. consists in laying a damp cloth (an towel or a folded sheet will old Jealousy, do) over the suspected ot The old adage that jealousy is ns smoothly part n.nd it with a hot cruel ns the grave," is, to my way of !nCairTt steamironing thus generated will thinking, wrongly put, for were the pass through the carpet and kill all the insects immediately beneath. If grave one half so cruel ns this taunt- not too un entire room ing fiend, no one would desire, w ith could belaborious, treated to advantage in which tlie longing at some time or tins way.-G- ood To-da- y g foster-mothe- r. house-cleanin- house-cleanin- foster-mothe- house-cleanin- g hand-atomiz- (.loth-covere- d Housekeeping0. g , ie well-know- n - s s eaa never appreciate the picture. (U1 peculiar lives of the North ("aitolina mountaineers, says the Wa,.), AI Dost. The railroads, the wir n frim . . incursions of revenue officials bill tended largely to obliterate the. 'si ' racy and racial peculiarities, Lutvoa st til want to get Senator Zeb Vance or flat Maj. Hugh Waddell to I ost mountaineers of the bu's nnd earlier A Washington merchant (lies tells the following story on liime!ffrom Ile was horn clear up in the moun Egb tains near the Tennessee line, rs' rfu motherdied when he was two month old, nnd his father and grandmother raised" him by hand in their lonelv quesi cabin on a mountain clearing, miki im a from the nearest neighbor. He ai clad in a single flowing garment oa I.iSi the Mother Hubbard style, made of Son homespun towcloth, which mind lengthened as vears added length L Bier his limb. To He never saw a girl until he wa 1G. That year a terrible drought feet struck in and his father had tofa-;inr( 10 miles down the cove" to get hi tadi corn ground. So he yoked up dpli nnd threw several baysoi corn steers r in the bottom of the curt. The bov inhis peculiar garment, climbed in and ave sat on the hags, lie was going to a &pei new and f country, and every jnsi sight was a wonder. Arriving ut thV Tli mill, he watched with curious interest the corn making its w av from the i iri hopper into the heart of the Dl then spurt out in warm, white (ho jets into the trough. He went and saw t lie water pour over Jeve and turn the huge overshot wheel and peered with a sensation of fear ior into the dark, mossy cavern into on which the wheel was forever retreat'avo dc-ribi,,,,- r ridi'-ulou- s North Carolina Boy's First L3k a Girl. One who has not lived there Be 5G l i far-of- stone-an- out-sid- e "G ing. On a rising at. a little distance he spied a log cabin, nnd shortly wa- Ai over through the brush in its direction. A rail fence stopped his progress a couple of rods from the doorway, nnd he leaned over and looked. There, sitting outside the door on a bench, were tw o girls. One was spinning wool nnd the other kitting. They were the most beautiful things he had ewr seen, and he nearly died right there. They saw him nnd burst out laughing at his remarkable appearance. He didn't know what to do, luit thought it was probably the proper thing to stare at them and laugh hack, which he did with interest. This mutual entertainment kept up lor some 1( minutes, w hen one oftlie girls laughed so hard she rolled off the bench. He thought that was queer, but just then he felt something cold on his legs. He turned around. As he did so both girls shrieked with laughter and ran into the house. He lound that 'the cold thing was the muzzle ndered of a bull calf that was chewing away vigorously on what was left of the rear of his dress, which had been shockingly mutilated by the animal during the few minutes he was staring at the girls. He has seen more girls since and bears their smiles with greater equanimity. He is also one of the best dressed men in Washington, but that experience with the calf and the girls will never be effaced lrom his memory. Grand Duke. In the year 1G09 Ferdinand, grand duke of Tuscany, lay dying. Under him Florence had maintained its commerce and Tuscany held its own, in spite of emperor and Tope. Indeed, long before he had exchanged a cardinals hat for tho Tuscan A throne this prince had given him proofs of the resolution, fire and will which served to maintain his state in those disjointed times. The early occasion that called these qualities into play is so typical of the time as to be worth recording here. The story is recorded by Napier. He says: In the year 1590 Pope Sixtus forbade small arms should be worn on pain of death. Yet one day from Prince Farneses pocket tumbled a small pistol at the very feet of the pontiff, and the prince was ordpred to be hanged at the same hour next evening. Ferdinand, hearing of this, determined to save his kinsman, and, to this end, found means to retard all the clocks of Rome one full hour, except the pontiff's. At the for the execution he re- to the Yitican and begged the paired iite of his friend. Sixtus, seeing that the time was passed, and the execution, as he thought, over, most graciously signed an order to release, and Ferdinand repaired to St. AngeiO and carried off the prince in triumph- Incensed at this trick, the pope' determined to arrest the cardinal,, whom he summoned to the atican. Ferdinand, cognizant of the pope intention, aimed himself with a cuirass' and short weapons, made his adherents guard every entrance to the palace, nnd then boldly entered the audience chamber. Sixtus, informed of all, nnd cautiously dissembling'-receivehim ns usual. Ferdinand bowed profoundly, and, purposely letting fall his robe, showed a glittering cuirass. On seeing this the pontiff exclaimed: carMy lord cardinal, my lord dinal, what is this? , This, oh, most holy father, Ferdinand, raising the purp-garment, is the habit ot a cardinal, and this, parting the drapery am toe striking his mailed breast, is habit of an Italian prince. 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