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Show r A Magnetic Young Man. son of Philip Louis, the 16-yHamburger, is possessed of a myste. rious power which is puzzling scientific men, says a r.altimore special to the New York Sun. This power enables him to make objects of con- siderahle weight adhere to liis finger tips, contact only being necessary- The young man. who is quite small, Hunting A Lion, u Birmingham, England, as the Tail ifall Budget tells us, has recently been the scene of an exciting: A menageriehasboenestablish. ed there, and one of the cages contained a Nubian lion about four years old. One morning the keeper emered the animal's den to clean it. While lie was engaged in this duty his attention was momentarily deverted. When he looked round he found the cage empty. The lion on reaching the outer world, seemed for a few moments be. wildered, but when a number of men approached, armed with ropes and iron bars, lie dashed away, closely pursued by his keepers, anil scattering in every direction the people whoA . had come to visit the menagerie. group of children was in liis path, but the creatureelenred them at a bound, and made straight for a neighboring brook. Alter wading up the stream for .about fifty yards, the lion crept into an open sewer, and there disappeared from view, llis pursuers began exbrook, ploring thedrainsneartlie theMarcus put without success until of the "Orenzo, the chief menagerie, heard the animal roar. He traced the sound with ditiieulty from the manhole at the junction of the Toad to the outlet ill the brook, rmao eb.iu where the lion had first entered, and len'mi! he at once decided to crawl through o.b. the drain in pursuit of the beast. A transfer cage was obtained and otT.t ..k von! taken to the brook, the drop door er'yoSn 'wns lifted, and the: mouth ol the enge rh7 against the opening of the luaidiv placed h e lion-hun- t. . -- 11111. weft By this time Orenzo had changed lis clothes for the hunt, and, armed with a revolver and accompanied by emiurni the the .a boarhound, he descended into sewer. Twice in succession did J?, w n suit pistol-shot- s daring explorers out, and the animals SjjTonr showed him right track. that ring answering the he was on wn Crawling along, he caught sight of iJUSthe lion, which at first turned, at bay, but after encountering another toward of the revolver, Jthe cage at the other end of the crawled after, The . mi Jand the faithful boarhound kept close ISJathand. When the mouth of the 15 cage came in view, the dog was sent at the word of iyto the front,a and gave hark. At this deafening . S the lion bounded un into the trap 8Jet for him, and was promptly caged UJAnd carted away to the menagerie. sew-ki.iw- r 1 Mb 9 If) PH The Wild Boar in Cuba. If A ! . rS 3 run of twenty rods brought us to t he dog and a huge black boar, j thirty feet away which had turned to of wild we protect the retreat of a herd - Aqui hogs scamping away behind. 1,u!esta un baraeo cimaron! (Here is shouted Jose, wild as W'n wild hoar!) the dog itself with delight. There stood the savage fellow, all head, shoulders, legs, tail with bristling ih, drain piuniy trembling and, jaws and tusks, nrwithii champing and crackling liis jaws, ukcUu froTn which great rolls of foam were already working, wit ha hideous suckg a picture of i ing sound, splendid To one side and t,jous fjrl,te bravery. yinglipe another he sprang as the clog him. Then he would charge the ihout im dog and whirl in the air, scattering the earth like an exploding shell. Closer and closer crowded the two brutes, in the air half the time, each bent on death, the dog frequently clearing the boar at a bound, find maddening him with savage snap-pinand lacarations of shoulders or aiopt hams. Over and under went the dog .mil ? with marvelous agility, frequently sending the boar four feet into the from the dog u treat j? air, every charge !'bSS brought a still more savage counter-picharge from the boar, I believe no such agile and ferocious ditor of movements were ever elsewhere seen, 'the otiu For forty feet in every direction the J'th'r forest, ground looked like a freshly and it seemed to my whuma Plowed field, startled eyes as though a cyclone of the om'dg. boar, mud, bark and froth had e lu into the darkening covert. efrJe! I frankly confess to flight to a near ree uPon which, to escape less I do not believe I premiuw than hanging, tiwcould have ordinarily vaulted. The uiHK bion and Jose became apparently a no t mr tis part of the cyclone, though aj eyes could have followed their movements or gymnastics. I do not ,sone iw know how long this lasted. I saw a flash of fire, and through the roar of it i JV i it all heard a shot. Then the whirl-rop- p w ind seemedto fall upon Jose. I saw the gleam of his machete somewhere it8 very core. Then a Cuban yell ditor own ,r urn exvent up that set the tree limbs Vibrating. We tied our grass woven 'bongs to the dead boars shoulders ,itnd m drw tusks, and when we had dragged him r. ronw"! the mountaineers cabins great flecks offoamstreaked with blood still the brave fellows jagged pSr'!yPon "VTibs. Edgar L. Wakman. in Ihila-m.fero-ornin- crowd-tuiuu-- gs r. 4 mor-Miiit-ao ' vi-rh- ri Tw B KK xdelphia Times. The Fugacious Umbrella. fre-i- Bee y! Theumhrella thief is real, j) J etJ-c- lie is Tlu r'-nho owns this umbrl-- j enn knock down nn ox, uml will: be bin k m five minutes. j 11 IWM1 free. tin t i st.. o In one minute and a half the treasured in ita place was this: aide was gone, and , : MB Th gentleman who took this . umbrella can walk ten miles an: hoar tind wont be back at all. -jf rarw'1 iSastt Philadelphia Record. e. 11 -- heard as I came from Partners the other night. About forty years ago a Mrs. .Monroe, sitha a childless widow large fortune, took a house in Curzau street for the season, and wanting a companion, bethought her of hei nio.e, Jessie, the eldest daughter of a clergyman in Scotland, a young lady only just out. The girl was written for, came nnd moved a great success, for she was an excellent dinn er, exceedingly pret- Case of a Nun and Curate United After Years. A romantic story co cringtwo continents has just come to light as the sequel of the settlement of a young couple in a handsome ilia in the suburb of Englewood. The young man now is the son of an lie is hut episcopal rector of note and influence in Yorkshire, England, and lie for a time was curate of a parish. Adjoining the glebe a landed proprietor named Molineaux, whose family was of French descent and extreme reTliev were spectability, resided. strongly Roman catholic in their reand this ligious Is'lief, however, free-hnu- h round-curtaine- d one-ha- lf ' fellow-countrym- e e e lint-whit- e s d : 1 j and Young Old Feeling Growing old does not seem to have reference to thenumberof year", months and days of life, when we call to mind some hale and hearty people of ninety, nnd others broken an4 feeble at forty. We nil know that a weak condition of body makes one appear old, but 1 firmly believe that the state of ones mind has primarily more to do with preserving youth or hastening fehleness than anything else; therefore oceupution of a protit-- i able, congenial character seems to me the best antidote for fading old. 1 do not mean exhausting work, but occupation so absorbing that it will take one away from one's self. Indeed, so tar as I have observed and experienced, there is noomijiii-- t ion so belittling, unprofitable nnd destructive as a, constant contemplation of one's self. 1 have in mind a woman of means and consequent elegant leisure, who has spent years in studying theeondition of her pulse and her bodily symptons generally, and prescribing therefore, until she is now, at the age of forty, a broken, nervous woman. If she hud been obliged to concentrate her energy (of which sin had an abundance) upon earning her living, she would probably have been well and strong today. I know another woman of means who has called herself an since she was old maid ever and dressed accordingtwenty-fivly, and grown sour uml wrinkled, because that seemed the proper thing to do, while her less fortunate (?) schoolmates, some of whom are sing) nnd obliged to earn their daily bread, nnd others of whom are mothers of children are cheerful, bright eyed ty and bkssed with a good digestion and consequently with a good temper. It was after the May drawingroom, at w liieh she had beer pre- erected mid icy wall between the sented, and at the hall at S. House, neighbors. Although there was no that captain shall we call him other cause the bitterest animosity existed. While attending to some Nemo? meeting her for tliefirst time, work, t lie toting curate met Ml desperately in love before the end parochial Miss Marie Molineaux, who was then of the evening. A few rides in the only 1H years of age. and wasengaged early morning lv the Serpentine, a in a somewhat similar charitable erfew drums in the Arlington street rand at the very cottage lie was visor park la'ne, the opera twice, the iting. Itwasaeaseof hopeless and theater once, endless dinners, routs infatuated love at first sight, for the and halls, and then, just at the end girl was beautiful, and of the season, lie proposed nnd was the missionremarkably she was engaged in fully nceepted. The lover, having little revealed hernatural disposition. money, Mrs. Monroe generously Tlie parents of neither knew of tlie agreed to give her niece a n allowance, numerous clandestine meetings nnd and insisted on the marriage taking trysts held hv them afterward, one place in town, instead of upsetting morning they determined upon decidthe quiet lit tie mause close to the loch ing the matter. The young man went on tlie west coast. So St. James, to ('apt. Molineaux and told him he Piccadilly was filled with the elite to would resign his curacy if lie would view the ceremony one early give him the hand of his daughter. autumn morning, nnd Miss Jes- Theftiry of the old gentleman knevvno sie in blossoms and hounds, but, notwithstanding his oporange Brussels lace, sat in the old barbaric position, tlie lovers continued to fashion through the long wedding meet, and finally, to end it, the Molbreakfast, afterward in flounced ineaux family moved away from the gown bonnet, going neighborhood, leaving no clue to with her bridegroom for their honey- their destination. Theyoungcurnte, fingers. moon to the Italian lakes. Captain after trying in vain to discover the Both hands have the same remarkNemo was a sailor, and soon had to whereabouts of liis lost idol, relinable power, though the right one Btart with his ship for a cruise of fif- quished all further pursuit indispuir, does the better work. The tips of teen months. I think there was a and with nearly broken heart, liegave the fingers, which are more than usutalk of his wife joining him, hut the up the ministry, nnd with a small ally fleshy, are capable of the station selected was an unhealthy fortune he inherited came to America He feats. confiliis touched he becomes greatest faculties, strangly one, so, after all, she remained in to embark in mercantile affairs, fingers, against a glass tube dential, and whisper what he considers England with lier aunt to look after thinking in his new occupation he of an inch in diameter, nnd occult communications into the ears her. Letters were to he very regular, would forget his consuming sorrow. stuck with such ns force his come in of all to who they that, happens One day while traveling o.. busilie pulled them away from it one way. He talks learnedly ofthe science and the tiinewould soon pass. When nnd re- ness he was crossing a. crowded after another, there was a click. The of government, and is apt at dis- the letters were till written end ofthe tube thus raised was freight- covering the hidden meaning or ceived, and the very last of tlie fifteen thoroughfare in Quebec nnd was run ed with a plaster of paris block, and appearently inconsequent acts and months had dragged itself away, the over, nuH'ting with u serious awident. on this were gradually piled leaden utterances of publiemen. This is the day arrived on which Jessie was to lie was taken to one of the hospitals meet her husband at the railway sta- in the city, which was visited by the weights until five and pounds violent stage ofthe disease, the climax were reached. This lie was able to of the ailment. If he survive this tion. No one was on the platform sisters of mercy. While yet suffering but Mrs. Monroe, looking white and in his bed in the surgical ward he felt raise with the open palms. period the evidences of his distemper strange, who gave him a notice to a soft hand upon his forehead. BeThe young man loses control ofliis become milder. He has now reached and then took him to his pret-- fore lie could open liis eyes a little secret force when the objects become the chronic stage, the most danger-dam- p read, f jittle pmpty houge from whidl the stifled scream startled him into by perspiration or otherwise, ' ous of all stages, though the most ha(1 flown only that morning thorough wakefulness, and a figure and can only show its action on very fingering, and his permanent recovery toniatc Paris. The poor lady wept, asked in black dropped upon her knees by smooth bodies. Prof. William Simon is nearly hopeless. He is now seen might be for- his bedside, burying her face in the of the Maryland College of lh irmacy wandering aimlessly through hotel that hershecarelessness been deceived counterpane. It was little Marie. had given; duped, s has developed whateverstrength and corridors, and all sorts and would never see the wretched girl Seeming to collect herself with wonremarkable powers the young man of places where politicans. most do Nemo was quite gen- derful fortitude, the sister of mercy again. Captain from the smallest lie has little albeit and very displays congregate, he would try to dine with quickly arose to go. The patient He lias hopes of making to say and is recognized by none, lie tle. Yes, and they would talk clutched at her garments andca light her that night, him perform yet more wonderful is haunted by the belief that without over what was best to be done. Then the cross attached to the beads susfeats. At present he is engaged in his watchful care and his indefatigable he went into the morning room, pended at her waist. The fastening scientiwith him in will a aid and assistance the country experimenting where Jessies miniature still hung on snapped and he retained it. She ran fic manner in order to present the surely go to thedemnition bowwows. the wall, and anhourafterward,when out of the ward, causing not a little case to the public: in a technical And thus he lingers in a comatose went to call him, he was found comment among the other patients they called the and attention months journal. Hejias condition, through his heart, who knew her, and hail been anxiousof a number of medical specialists in years, accumulating nothing but debt dead with a bullet through cruel ly awaiting her cheering and comforther and her clasping portrait this city to the case, and all are at a and dirt, and when at last he letter in his cold fingers. There being ing words. Days elapsed before she loss togiveanndequateexplnnation. succumbs to the inevitable and for- no World or Truth in those days, returned, She visited the old cot, but Oh the 11th inst., young Hambursakes his old haunts forever he leaves the scandal was hushed up. it was empty. quietly ger, accompanied by his preceptor, behind him no name for his Nemo Mrs. After time a The patient had been discharged, appeared will give an exhibition of his remarkto prize as a rich legacy in London, but none of her old she was told by an invalid neighbor. able powers before the Scientific as- and no money for his family to pay again friends noticed her, and her own peo- She hurried back to the office, and just sociation of the Johns Hopkins his funeral expenses. cast her off. Mrs. entering a rab at the front steps was ple sternly Monroe answered no appeal and for- her departinglover. Without a word mally refused any communication, of explanation to his cry of joy nnd A Land of Mystery. Seen In a Dream. and finally when she died left not a recognition, she took n place by his In 1877, 1 think he said, a party penny of her fortune to the erring side. She has been there ever since. In 18G8, Lizzie M. Trask, of Vienwho had so grossly decieved Driving to a hotel, the housekeeper na Me., was dressmaking in Lewiston-Sh- of fakirs, possibly the same ones I niece her. So year after year came and was taken in their confidence. The came into possession of a gold had seen, for their discription tallied went, and matters grew from bad to nun was furnished clothes from the cent piece with a hole in closely with that of my acquaintance, worse. A woman educated so long housekeeper's wardrobe, for which twenty-fivit. This she showed as a curiosity to visited the colonel's quarters and ago was not so likely to be able to she was paid handsomely. The the Girton trained and Marie were married the her friends. At that time she had a gave nn exhibition of their almost help herself as is with her practical same day, and came directly to Chiof the day, little niece 2 yeras old, daughter of superhuman powers. The old man girl common sense, and it became more cago. Marie's parents had sent her Jonathan P. Trask, now the wife of threw himself while in a sitting or difficult for her to keep her head to a convent in Francp, and from Leman Butler, trader in Mt. Vernon. ten The little coin Lizzie once showed to rather squatting position into a above water. Within the pasthow- there she was transferred with other nuns to Quebec. Philadelphia Press. occupation, her niece Addie when she was a very trance, nnd his assistants proceeded years she has found come with me small girl, telling her that she would to place his tongue fur back in liis ever, and if you like to Luck and Chance. some afternoon lean sliowyou where give it to her when she was old mouth. Then they swathed his body a small neat in bonnet A woman used not long since in conterm spare enough to take care of it. Lizzie with bandages, as a mummy is pre- and shawl, with fine China-blueyes nection with an accident strikes a died twelve years ago. In her possliair,dilligently sweeps line of essions was a ladys wallet with sev- pared for the tomb. They filled his and reasoning worth following up. heart of her eral compartments. This wallet her ears, eyes, mouth and nostrils with aoldcrossing in the very which 'Die laws of The term used was small mother used until her death, seven paste and bandaged liis face, and womanneighborhood, Webis Mrs. Monroe's niece, the chance were against them. year ago. as they had girl who was presented to the queen, ster says chance is the absence of and arms chest, neck, Then James, a brother of Lizzie, who danced at S, house, who was or defined or recognized cause, had it, and it has been in constant done the lower part of his body. married at St. James, Piccadilly, any use almost daily ever since, either by When this was done he was turned which without event an happens him or his wife. The little gold coin over to the colonel. Mind you, all and had an Italiannowhoneymoon. Clark hit the from any nny assigned cause. She refuses all help was never seen after Lizzies death this was done in the presence of the one. he wrote: when It is mark truly or before for several years by her colonel nnd his officers. There was true in nnd was philosophically striekly and could be no deception in it. The friends, and its whereabouts nature and reason that there is no not known, and, iu fact, its existence colonel had had a deep hole dug in had passed from memory. A few barrack yard nnd into this he pluced Rivers Swerving to the West. such thing ns chance or accident, it being evident that these words do days ago Mrs. Butler made her par- the bundaged fakir, after first putIt appears that the western and not ents a visit, stopping with then sev- ting him into a box sheathed with signify anything really existing, southwestern bank of the Bio Grande that is truly an agent or eral nights. metal and hermetically sealed. The anything While there she dreamed that she earth was spread over this box and is the one which suffers most from the the cause of an event, but they sigsaw her Aunt Lizzies wallet, and it the grnve was placed under gtinrd of abrasion of the current. Why does nify merely mens ignorance oi the It was faced with green, and in a cer- a squad of soldiers. Every second the river show this tendency to work real and immediate cause. tain compartment she found the lit- ofthe time, day and night for forty to the westward? Somothinglike this seems as if the laws of ha nee would be a pretty good field for tle gold coin which she saw so many dnj-- the grave was under guard. in the case of the Mississippi. study, nnd that some pretty solid her On mother meddled ippears been not could The have box telling ago. years her dream she was informed that with by any human being nnd have Formerly the river had its principal laws are in existence somewhere on Another Lizzie did have a wallet which an- esenped detection. At the end of debouchment into the sea through natures statute book. with chance. term It is swered her description, and that her that period the box was exhumed goes In lakes. the bayou Mancliac and luck. Sometimes called go Uncle James had it. The wallet Ad- aud opened, the body was unswathed the they course of time that route was as a lucky chance. die had never seen. She then visit- nnd a woman breathed upon its face ed her uncle and told her dream to am passed her hands over his limbs, nabndoned for the one now known ns Luck is disposed of in Webster's as that which happens to a person; an her aunt, who laughed at the idea of an(jj precisely as I have described he- the maid river, which is very consida man's anything being in it other than she fore, the man came to life, apparent- erably to the westward of the outlet. event, good or ill, affecting which is and her husband had placed there. ly none the worse lor tlie burial. In the meantime river has shown a happiness or interests, nnd deemed casual; a course of series of But at Addie's earnest solicitation How much longer lie could have rechannel such events she produced it, and ns soon as Ad- mained under ground, of course I disposition to transfer its regarded as oecuring hv -westward chance! still further 1 through the to Now, then, luck is what is exclaimed-All Thxt he she is know die saw it that cannot tell. the same wallet that I saw in my certainly was buried nnd remained the Atchafalava. Can it ho made to chance does, and we must take the dream! and pointed out the com- there forty days without air, food appear from tlie, so facts that, here is chances if we wish knowledge of this flowin matter. To acknowledge hat there partment that held the treasure. or drink. There are many stories a tendency in great riversmeridians of are laws of chance admits that a She then took a needle, and, running current in India apropos of such general directions along cause precedes each event, and gives it to the bottom, she drew forth a phenomena, but these two are all ithe earth's longitude to swerve to the be- some held be that westward? fifCan it a 1 in and the it indeed, roueh for ground to work upon. If a was, can that newspaper, during the rotation of the earth on its man would think twice before lie gold quarter with a hole in it, wrap- teen years of my residence in that cause ofthe used the words chance' nnd luck ped, no doubt, by the hand of her land of mystery. I have never seen or axis to the eastward the weight is he would not use them at all, hut aunt at least twelve years before, heard of such experiments being pro- water in such longitudinal rivers where it had lain all this time, with- duced by an American or European thrown by the centrifugal force reason out, as far as his knowledge out the knowledge of any one, until What the secret may be against the western bank so ns to would permit, the cause of each event abrade them with inereasd energy ho calls luck. Addies dream caused it to be Ferformer. to others to decide. and effect? Mew Orleans Picayune. forth. Times. (Me.) Age. in Acgusta Keller, brought Fuilndelphia 1 or-- ( Growing A hand-in-han- ear-1108- 1. And lie is shrewd. Only a few slaysngo apugilistic individual enter the corridor of a Philadelphia hotel nnd rested his all silk in a corner with this pasteboard fastened to it: :!a Probably no one form of ailment Is so prevalent in the Initi d States and certai ilv none is so in its effects iipou the leople as the It counts its ictinis political disea.-among all clashes and conditions, the high and the low, the rich and the poor, the young and old, and it makes no discrimination as to sex nor as to jiersonal beauty, or mental greatness, nor as to the want of either of these attributes. It is as impartial as the smallpox in its selection of victims and as remorseless nnd as comprehensive ns thecatarrh, that brightest jewel iu the diadem of New Fngland The early symptoms of this disease are not difficult to trace. The patient discovers a decided disinclination to follow any settled employment, together with a resistless inclination to frequent public houses, the purlieus of legislative chambers nnd eascuses.primaries, conventions nnd like gatherings of liis patriotic fellow countrymen. He shows also a strong prediction for tobacco, either in the plug or cigar form, and is much given to dalliance with the counter, nnd his devotion to stimulating fiuidsis something remarkable. As the disease progesses the patient loses all pratieal interest in the industrial questions of the day, nnd spends his time in theoretical investigations oflabor and economic problems. He is apt to become careless as to dress and to personal cleanliness: he passes but a small portion of his time at home, nnd raresave with a ly seeks liis couch pungent odor of burned tobacco upon his clothing and liis breath suggestive of a distillery in prosperous circumstances. He is a diligent where frequenter of reading-room- s newspapers can be gleaned ously, and he exhibits that oratorical rotundity of speech which obtains in the ward caucus and the shop of the voluble barber, Later on, when the disorder has obtained complete control of his A MODERN EVANGELINE. bar-room- 24-- B. Real Romance. I want to t you something A three-quarte- rs dis-- f, fied lion-tame- i has been studying chemistry some time at the Maryland College of Pharmury. and has shown his parents and friends some astonishing feats nnd hits of magic. Ity merely pressing his full distended fingers against a heavy cane, lie holds it suspended in the air for a long time. He is ulso able, by placing the halls of three fingers against the side of a glass tube, to raise the weight of five pounds attached thereto, lie eavs lie lias always remarked a peculiar feeling when touching small objects which are wet or greasy, and in order to get the best results in his experiments lie must have both the hands and the objects dry nnd very clean. For this purpose he always washed his fingers in alcohol nnd ether and wipes them nnd the objects dry. In the presence of friends he gave an exhibition of his powers. The first experiment was to place a number of pins around the pnlin of his hands and on the tips ol his fingers. On holding the palms vertically the pins are found to drop only after a long time. He next showed his ability to pick up from the table by pressing liis dry finger tips against it any highly polished, smooth body, such as a pencil or a pen. Much more striking, however, was the manner in which a pen held perpendicularly, stuck to the ends of his iron-tam- nn The Political DiSGase. e women. Another woman of my nquaint-mice- , not less than fifty years of age, the mother of a large family, has kept the lire of her youth by great activity, not only at home, but in society. As n girl, slu was a musician, and, contrary to the usual custom, haH kept up her music under circumstances that would have been discouraging to a woman of less energy. It is not unusal now to see her arranging for a musicaleforsonio charitable purpose. In this way she has kept herself interested and her heart youthful. And just here I wish to say that a woman is unwise to relinquish nny accomplishments if she cun possibly retain them. Can she not see that they are a power, and that anything that gives a woman jiower cannot fail to bring her respect and happiness. Do not imagine that will retain or bring back the beauty of youth; it only serves to call attention to defects, if any exist., and to make the wearer ridiculous. There is a beauty that belongs to every age, though we do not see it ns often as we ought, ns so few people grow old gracefully; bftt the beauty of a sweet and noble life cannot tail to be reflected in the face, and in many a woman such beauty outrivals tliatof her youth. Although the most blessed lot of woman is that of a happy wife and mother, there is no reason why a single woman should grow cross and crabbed and snarled and wrinkled; a single woman, if lovely nnd lovable in cliuraeter, may always find something about which her affections may entwine, nnd as for using her surplus energy, there is plenty of work in tlie world for those qualified to doit. In these days, with the numerous avenues of work open to women, it is not necessary for u single woman to grow old as a drudge in her sisters family, with a eompetsation of board and cast-of- f clothing, ns was formerly the ense. She can now take care of herself, and be ns well dressed nnd ns highly respected as her married sister With men, as well as with women, a moderate amount of occupation rather than abundant leisure will pre, serve youth. Most of ourpublic men break down, grow prematurely old, und die from overwork and nervous strain. Business men ns a rule take too little recreation, or at least a change of occupation; it will not answer to allow the mind to dwell continuously upon one subject. But my observation of business men shows that it is better to die in the harness than to retire from business and rust out. When a man of boundless activity, in good health, makes up his mind to retire from business, ho might ns well make up his mind to die. The active mind must feed upon something, and in this caso it will feed upon his very life. 1 have seen men grow old sitting by the fire at home, smoking, or sitting on tlie barrels at the country grocery, smoking nnd meditating upon smoke (I iningine), while theirwives were wearing themselves out by exerting energy enough for themselves and their husbands too. We are never too old to learn, though some of us seem to stop learning early in life. Some people rens h the highest tide of success at a tine generally regarded as the ebb ol life. It is said that Fanny Fern had never written a word for publication until she had passed her fortieth birthday. She was unconscious of her latent lowers until misfortune bade her exert them. Not long ago I read of a man who began to learn the Greek language at the age of sixty. Wit in sight of the place where I am writing is a man who, after having leeu discharged from Government employ, a situation held for years, embarked over-dressin- g h- in a successful business for himself at the age of eighty. From these illustrations there is old only one inference: We become onlv when we cense to take nn interest "in our own affairs, and in the affairs that surround us. Correvpoa-de- ut Albany Cultivatf-r- , |