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Show e- -t to had married her and gone out M v.ng. for In m ms to trv to nuk a In was tio proed to appeal to h. r for why lint, niuthi r." he said rota-les-lhelp. have you treated the miners so so liearties!y. Many of them have nothing to eat aud vve are ou the . . verge of str.king." Mv son this - the aim of my visit, which has terminated o happily forme,, It is not ill the restoration of my son. mv injustice. 1 too have been deceivwho has been ed. It is the over-ee- r me. oTinding them dow n and defrauding Hut I shall let him go and will not prosecute him. hut let his own conscience WOMANS DREGS. 1 she lution was no sooner formed than lu-set about making preparations for journey. . . THAT WIFE OF MINE. n,t n,c Ail da A i n'uht. at.'l 'iiulin,'. t the ili'.'r uU, arn.s roiiDil me ti"ET, ud tlnvw tier hi manner most N umLier. ter sweet, niqml'm wav, sli me. Mie hilled me ; And tid me tow tte l.w Ion-- dav lie thought ul me and missed me. '1 m-n- in t me off with coat and hat. belfs-Mid led me, still Jnt-- i the dining rim, and sat Down at the table sin"inj. Tte meul was rfeet; fresh-ou- t flow'rs, Tte lireliKiit warm and rosy. Wade all seem bright; swill Hear the hour, And we were, ou so cozy ! He d cluse-olinctu- lien, after dinner, she and I Nang the old soul' together We u d to sing iu das gone by Mv heart was like a feather! Our iini4iiess made earth a heaven, And now, as I review It, ) reeolleet twai pii't eleven Almost before we knew it. "J We sat there on the sofa then, nestling close beside me. fs ftlv she smoothed mv hair, and whctt I kied her did not elude ine. He fondly , inched mv cheek, aud ao, lfer ilumilcd hand u;on it, Hie wUii'red: Darling do vmt know I mad a uew ejirin;; bonnet!' iVt umm Journal. A ISTIiAXGE COINCIDENCE. BT 1.1 1 K l.rOMT. it was a bright, sun.shiry iuorulng in f?r;ober, one of those delightful days mi the lovely autumn, vvliieh brings an involuntary, cheei fill smile to the lips of even the most unappreeiative, who can areely ever see any tiling to be in this fair world. The fashionable people had mostly returned to town, after their long vacation spent among the sands at the fashionable seaside resorts, and the Fifth avenue mansions were again resonant with gayety. In one of the most stalely' residences f:tll,inan elegantly appointed boudoir, Mrs. Landmen, a lady, one would judge of alsiut. fifty years, paced back and forth, impatiently. She was reputd lobe very wealthy, owning a mine worth several millions, ller proud, n patrician f.u-- won a expression; her tall, slender figure, with its long, clinging dress of some soft, black material, once so graceful, seemed bowed with care: and in her large, dark eyes there was a look as of great longing. ller hands clasped, her whole, attitude one of supplication, she breathed a prayer that she might see her son. her hoy, hut once again. Just live years ago lie had been with her -- her joy, her pride, the very lion f elite society. On his entrance to a hall room dozens of gentle hearts would beat more quickly, dozens of bright eyes grow brighter at his coming, anxious mammas with eligible slaughters smile atiprov iugly at the .lightest attention from him. Handsome to a fault, and courted by all, lie as would naturally follow, wayward ami but he had never asserted it to any very great extent until, having imagined that he had fallen in love with his mother's seamstress, ho vowed lie would marry her in direct opposition to his niotli--i- s wishes; in fact, her most earnest commands. When he announced the lact she held up her hands in holy horror at tho idea of such a mesalliHer son a ance. Landmen to marry a seamstress. Preposterous! All her commands, her pleadings, were to no avad. liis will wasasm-slomilald- e as her own. She at last resorted to discharging tho poor girl in liis absence, thinking he would soon overcome his foolish affection. Not so, Jiowev or. On his return a stormy interview ensued, in which lie vowed he would search for her in the four corners of the earth but w hat he would linil her. So saying he had gone from her without the clasp of the hand, without :v word of parting, w ithout even a single glance except to throw her a look of as he went from the room; nnd Jive years had passed away on leaden wings; to her live years of Weary waiting and longing, of hoping against hope, for just one word from him. Was he iek and suffering? Was lie carrying n a miserable existence, or, horrible thought! was ho dead, occupy ing some unknown grave, with nothing to mark liis last resting place? were the harrowcan-wor- a. self-wille- de-tian- ing thoughts that had thrust themselves constantly upon her. And why did she think so much of him when live years had elapsed; lime, 'one would think, to have almost healed tho wound. Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a "servant with the morning mail. It consisted of t ho Morning Times and a businesslike looking letter. Taking the paper and glancing at it caroiosxly, ju.r ovo was arrested by a long column, headShe read ed, 'Trouble in flu Mines. it through, with a sigh of sympathy for the poor miners, who were" being treated so unjustly and laving it down, she htoke the som of her letter. It was just a brief note from the overseer of her mines, stating there would be no profit from them that month, owing to the exorbitant demands of the miners following in a few minor explanations. As she read it a dark suspicion flashed across her mind. Could it bo that he was defrauding her perhaps grinding down those poor, unfortunate men? ller mind was soon made up; she would go to the mines. Here she had been brooding over her trouble when she was needed elsewhere. With her, to decide was to act, and the reso to-da- y, dull, leaden, threatening sky overraid all around head, cold and ri the miners gathered together in little knots, talking excitedly and angrily, looks showing plainly by their that some evil was pending sonn body. A man known among them a Jack Lorlev. stepp'd from among the group and raised his hand as though to speak to them, aud all hushed into s.lence. Under ordinary circumstances, one would turn and look curiously at the handsome, intelligent face, refinement and good breeding written on every lineament of the perfect features, de'J here was a spite the miner's garb. look in his handsome eyes of defiance one could almost say of disgust with the world, as though it had used hint roughly; his nonchalant air saying plainly" that he eared not what he did, since he seemed doomed to misfortune. eviAlthough hut about thirty, he was dently a leader among them, and a favorite, for as he started to speak, eaeli one removed his hat and prepared to listen in respectful silence. My brave men, if such you are, and sm lt you have heretofore proven yourselves to he, now is the time to assert your true courage. We are being "ground down to starvation. Not only we, hut our wives and children, are becc.v. araly ing unjustlv treated, a.ul i. to to'endiire it. Will you thus stand idly by and sec the very bread taken from their mouths? I "say down on the woman vvlio would thus rob us of oui rights, almost our very life, that she mav grow richer. Scarcely ever seeing davlight from one weeks end to another, we are paid a mere pittance, and sometimes nothing, for unremitting. toil. Let us assort out manhood," defend our rights, and A I v, i- be liis punishment." Many were the blessings heaped upon Mr- -. Landmere bv the miners for her than generosity to them, for she more doubled what they had thought of disstriking for; the old overseer was huscharged, and his place filled by the band of the woman who had been so kindly hospitable to her. The Fifth avenue residence is no longer somber and dull, but gay with childish prattle and laughter, while Mrs. Landmere, as she looks proudly at her son, wife and children, who have reMy prayer turned with her. says; was answered, nnd my last days are indeed blessed." NEW STYLES OF DELIRIUM. Artists In Tire AYaler rind More MlscMof SUIT. stock-yard- To-da- dre-se- x. vv d, kindly-lookin- g cast-irqi- paint-destroy- er r. r. knock-knee- sleek-lookin- 1 The woman led t lie way to a laddet leading to a loft in the top of the cabin. It will bo safer for you here. she said apologetically, as she assisted liei gue-- t to ascend. Mrs. Landmere was soon sleepin" peacefully, oblivion- - of all danger. Tin rain, which had commenced early in the evening, was now pouring down in torrent.--; it increased it's fury; but still the sleeper slumbered peacefully on. A great clap of thunder made her stir uneasily, and awakening with a start, she felt a consciousness that sonic one was in her room. She lav avvakt nervously for several nrnute's. Suddenly a flash of lightning revealed tc her startled vision a man herding ovet her bed, a knife grasped tightlv"in hi. hand; plainly he intended to kill her. In him she had recognized her loti o lost son! After that one flash all wa? again dark. My son! she found strength to sav, breathlessly. Mother!" came in a searcvlr audible tone from the darkness. Striking a match and lighting the lantern vvliieh he carried, and eoiniuu nearer to the bed. he sank on his knc7 at her bedside and implored her forgiveness saying remorsefully with i shudder that lie had almost been murdeier, and his victim his ovvr mother. All the time lie had been ai the mines lie had never heard the uanit of the woman who owned them. She rained tears of thankfulness dowr upon her restored son, and after their emotion had somewhat subsided, Ik told her of liis wanderings; how he had left her; tried to get work, but in vain had searched for the girl of his choice, but had almost given up in despair when he found her, sick tmJ alone, he Fenian campaign. There are other delightful decoctions now in circulation, but which are only seen in the distance wearing Iheir gripsacks chocked for the local wards. It would solve the question of Russian politics if some of the new drinks, with their full lines of ilutings, could be served to the czar. Instead of his loving subjects trying to get the prize offered by the country newspapers for the man who will scatter him all over Russia and cause numerous funerals over cigar-boxethey could give him one of these drinks. It would settle the question, at least it would settle him so his family would be sure to know' where ho was nights. Minneapolis Tribune. s, Gen. Lee's Foresight.' Unlike the vast majority Southern countrymen, Lee had clear idea of tho tremendou against which theSouth would contend, and was not sanguine the result. This is shown by an dote never before in print and t reliable. Just after receiving h mission from tho Virginia com he called upon a family in Ric whom be had known for many lwo of tho sous had already i and the third a mere boy war do so. The mother, natural! ions, said: General, how long" think this awful war will last? answer was give with solemn ar nilieant emphasis, which the que never forgot: My little, mads am afraid it wiil last until we driven into the hills aud mounta St. Louis Republic a ; . fuli-dre.- ill - every other consideration which good men and women should conspire to preserve and exact. Vet throughout the civilized world the full evening dress for women tails below Miss Cleveland's line, and is exdepressly designed to show wliat she clares so emphatically cannot bo revealed without outraging taste and decency the swell of the bosom, l'he fashion, too. is not recent, but lias prevailed in all ages, and no less in tin.es when SOCIAL MORAL!', There is one thing in America that is moving onward with a stride equal to that of Fowhattan as he reached for Mr. Smith and tried to blow off hi3 head with a club. This thing is the great American drink industry. When the Pilgrim fathers were discovered by Plymouth rock there was no deputation s to claw of citizens from the linthe absorb and over their baggage strike." no brass of their bands, contents, ing Loud shouts rent the air as he finishy the drink compounded speaking, and after three hearty no drinks. cheers for Jack Lorley, they dispersed er lies awake while the police force is toward their various cabins for the wrapped in slumber and dislocates his night. brains making the designs for new deNoon after their departure a woman, coctions. contrasting strangely with the surThe latest drinks are marvels of epirounding scenery, made her appearance, and going to one of the cabins tapped curean delight, sanitary precautions, and other ingredients. The first comlightly on the door. It was immediated woman. ly opened by a poorly pound on the list turned down behind 'I am Mrs. Landmere, the owner of ihe necktie of is the chloride these mines. Can you give me lodging of lime cocktail.society This is designed to rud The door was for dy small-poIt is a real social shut in her face. She went to another prevent because compound, apt to create a senand still another.meeting it li tie saint sation in circles, upper although the signal failure and scowling, forbidding real sensation is dispersed with a liberIt was commencing U al hand countenances. clear through a man's interior rain and night was coming on. What The drink inspires a man to economy. would she do? have the fire department come out and shf Tired, weary and play on him, or start out as a living resolved to try once more. She w of the St. John's lire. woman, panorama by a neat, Next is the "Wild Horse of Tartary. who looked surprised at seeing a st This is built of tar water and tire, out finely dressed woman at the mines. into strips. The bartender puts on a Sin, dreaded disclosing her identify ) mittens when mixing lest the kindly expression would harder pair of it is served in a crucible. as the others had done. She venturea this, and to do so, however, and there was a took Artists take this. If a of sympathy in the womans face as slit has an idea of painting Alpine scenery said respect fal v, Madame, it. is very this drink helps develop the idea. A few days ago a local artist painted a dangerous and daring for you to come here. They have vowed to kill you it picture while under the influence of this beverage. It I'epresented a chamthey ever came in contact with you. J ois hunt. Standing on what looked like scarcely dare do it, but y on can not slay a pink cheese was an object, looking in the rain, so come in." steet-eaA fierce pair She entered a poorly furnished hilt like a woolly of was whiskers seen in the suburbs, cleanly room, and the woman placed a , chair for her, blushing painfully as she pointing a rak-- handle at the street-eaFriends kindly I explained that the can not offr you any refreshsaid, cheese was a mountain glistening in ment, for 1 have nothing to eat. the sunrise, the street-ea- r a chamois, "My poor woman, how is that?" ask- and the whiskers a hunter reaching for ed Mrs. Landmere, sympathetically. It is the old ipiestiou of Captita' the mountain goat with a gun. The Japanese cocktail is another My against Labor," said the woman. husband gets very poor wages, am, liquid attack of spinal meningitis. It d mental sometimes nothing, and the overseei is loaded with has done his best for us, hut. it has beer ceramics, and is apt to make a man of no avail; and she looked at liei throw stones at his grandfather. The g gentlemen behind bars accusingly. Mrs. Landmeres vague .suspicion. who deal out tickets in disguise for the were now eoiilimed as to he over- inebriate asylums claim that this last seers duplicity. Holding out her hand compound comes direct from Japan by to the woman, she said: "I a are voi special eleetrie light wire. Whether it or not it gets there, and the man your wrongs shall he righted, and now comes will you allow me to retire; 1 am very who takes it falls out of bed in the morning with his mouth tasting like a weary." travel-staine- Jrru-.Devex the Now York tin.Ta!tes atui Tafc ' lovoi.iHil ti has the b llciiat'uiK 31s( 111. Ijpi'oSIpIp Pros. hi on ti lth papers M1s Ul vtTutd. bvau-- e if what she liis wife is the oui v7-- ilid'sr t niude-il- y calls the Brit f prominence f stone has when his jlt ' to be her it to felt has duty her position, and he gives lunw.-lexpress lur disapproval of any evening Willi tho which shows the dress for women docility bu-t- ." She has no objection to the disMin.sf.i-- , of pjh ,ifldoi!lg John her play of neck and arms, and leaves at but graduated Bond, ,1 all on occasion: own bare years reven lb; hin,t1onth she lays down the rule that o! ig graduate He the neck and bust there is a line always age, and m excellento n.j oy noth inl be can not and which passn. luy. draw to be aaJ ' pi is, "shock, eflcct ed without producing an ( ARLErox, ille hef than deservami ing. nati'cating. revolting, and rlivniinn.wsothal in'' of the utmost denunciation on the roaming At ever score of morality, beauty, health, and Mr. were strict than in times when they were lax. It is true that the portraits by Sir Peter Lely of the beauties of the court of Charles II. show that the bosom was then exposed to an extraordinary degree, as was also the case in Prance under the Director'; but portraits of the women of courts ami times equally iFstinguished for dissoluteness represent the women closely covered from head to foot and from shoulder to wrist. Marguerite of Lorraine, famous for her beauty and her bad morals, apwhich repears in a full dress veals only her face and hands; while La Helle Hamilton, the chaste beauty who escaped the breath of scandal even in the scandalous reign of Charles II., shows her bosom almost without any covering at all. Queen Victoria, who is everywhere honored as a bright example of womanly dignity and propriety, at the present time requires ladies to appear at her court in costumes which frankly expose what Miss Cleveland declares can not be revealed except at the sacrifice of modesty; and the Queen herself makes a display that would shock the Presidents sister, wiio probably has seen nothing equal to it among the women with whom she lias been brought into contact since co-tui- nc HER BROTHER'S F.I.EVATIOX. The truth is that our notions as to modesty or immodesty in womans dress are largely, if not chiefly, conventional, so that up to a certain pouit, what is customary seems modest. The Turks estimation of woman is low and gross, and yet he will not endure the sight of his wives in public with their f; c s exposed; aud in other countries wli to women are degraded they are ktp, bundled up from view, except in t! e presence of their lords or of each oli :r. But Christian civilization everywhere demands that feminine beauty shall be seen, and wherever that civilization has reached its highest development the practice against which Miss Cleveland inveighs so violently, has continued to prevail, though" other fashions of womens dress have undergone a multitude of changes. In every country where women are most highly honored and most tenderly cherished, and where respect, for women is most complete and sincere, it may be said generally that the line drawn by Miss Cleveland is always ignored in full dress of t ho best women. This style of dress has been worn by the most admirable of women in all generations. It was WORN BY Ol'U GRANDMOTHERS, the ball dress at the beginning of the century, for instance, having been described as "nothing but a chemise of pink silk; and yet Miss Cleveland would hardly denounce the women of that period as immodest, or deny that, in spite of their low-cgowns, womanly purity continued untarnished among them. The evening costume of the present time, so far from being more generous in its display of feminine charms than that of past periods, is rather more reserved in that respect, even in its freest manifestations, although those who have but lately become familiar with the social customs of great capitals may think differently. Perhaps dresses mav now be worn a trifle lower in tho United States than was the ease ten or fifteen years ago; but in Paris and London the line drawn by Miss Cleveland has never been respected during that time. Nor is there intrinsically any more immodesty in showing the ut BEAUTIFUL Ct'ItVE OK THE BOSOM than there is in exposing the neck and chest, the arms and shoulders. The exhibition, too, is quite as unassailable on esthetic grounds as it is on grounds of taste and morality. We observe also that as a general thing the denunciation of the fashion is apt to be more ardent in the voting to whom niggard nature has denied the beauty they insist should be concealed, or in the old and sickly, in whom it has passed its bloom, so that they no longer dare to confront the air in fear of ague and catarrh. However, there need be no dispute on the question. The beautiful will continue to delight society with their beauty, and the others will only follow the law of wisdom in avoiding the attempt to do wliat is liunossiblc. Meanwhile for all those, beautiful or not, who share Mbs Clevelands opinion, only one course is open, and that is to obey their conscience whether the world agrees with them or not. Nm York Sun. less, to restoring sweetrw so sadly souredjw It i, T pber. , n,laUc-(,K;- Capt. Boycott, the g.H!i, 'L1 wish cess that has beeome j and hated, is at present on popular land agents in sor" favorite particular i of 1 0,i tht.'1' isenient rheum ttle. is d.s.r r- - Senator Payne of the most earelesslv (Ir,.15 gressmen. He wasonjtjl sion noticed to wen" in t unlaundned collar and a r tie pinned thereto about k above the upper edge 0f L,' fl Lord Bute vorable comments upon the English press by giving' pounds toward the fund f f J of the widows and orphan, c ners recently killed in collieries. The criticism is. v ' cause Lord Bute lias air. t- - f 1 5,000,000 upon a new Gen. Farxswortii, same boat with Grover duek-hu- nt rcasv whar -- wcc Clei-- f on Maryland ni.T-- i that the president bandbTj, loader very neatly, and that down seven redheads at some who are in the samelpolitically complain that publican official heads is mg. Lord .' V1 v1 p'voni A K exmake, one land owners in diil seat looks HAS CiCMV of ; 0 EUo amir, Kerry, out upon Cl rt S ti Killarney, lias had his duced that he now gets at all, and is obliged tirely upon liis salary as Inn lain. One result of this is ti of inhabiting, as he was vx handsome house in Belgran, has taken a small house in I Chelsea. in- Dr. Mary Walker f-- cun? the other day in one of tho. of the house of rcpresenU" gentleman would smoke ii once of a lady. Tiic on:; t happened to be smoking u j was an Englishman of eu- j ment. "I agree with ywi ily, sir, said the Englikn funny expression on his how, this remark incensed i and she declared vebemer was no gentleman. The I starred at her blankly, and:: S' JT n ASE nv ' f You must permit me to ' compliment. I should sart The M;; gentleman, sir. exit from the room in hi? She felt that she had beenU "N1 AN .V ;S ed, Mrs. Wallace j JFti C 3 ill v dlw T( says that W allan occupied all Gen. pul time for seven years. oen cliili'Y u dtru ishtng of the Christ ie n of battle, ted all t over j and : of j,. adventure, t banner of the cross, and kft ranc of Bethlehem in the mind vvion ' 5b c er as the central figure, of R i. qm study. Geikics Life after book, the reference odo Bar the writing of 'Ben be?1 use. thousand copies have - pi are .Y still the white camels . lias been translated into r Turkish. ; B i love-maki- - K 10US A Alfred Assolast, wc. dozen friendly books about j a States, had an itch to ie J ;1.. 2d audience and talk. J lB 13 D to announce a lecture, stage toward tendency Ins hf great Parisians were b began: "Ladies andg'Ci out ' one thinks of setting to ' the most natural thing W of ii. list suit the sailing lines. To get to ii Anller? have a steamship and his agitation becatnod, i M A few of the comp n' to go . winked at him y fl be It up at the ceiling up , must have a steams cain1'. ; then And ship. after whiih Assolant ar tonished to see hi and desk from the i ti v was done for as apubfic f - 1 ja - 1 IT A , jin iu |