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Show THE HOME SENTINEL. BITHI KKSTINU 1THUMIINU O . N. U. FKLT, Manager. n tMirv Ami )ik MASTL : : trif an J lancwr. u;o!i her I.p. Juf though I ;rn ntni lo ball. To pa wait Thn-tur- UTAH. A. ,n i!h a null Kate Fiei.u is a strange creators he evMfntly wants our to stand on their head-- , for in her them to iVanhimj! m sho inlmmu-di.-- s ocasa "sif ini' on their spinet cc--. lr iiHr .'! ir iMtrtner. For un iot tiithf ul I (th, no, iii I 1 ulL v I The Star of Bethlehem. died. to get well, avI the prizes that he condesendedg hard work with frantic was Prof. father grief. Tickering, of Harvard t My was and theconquer-into compete for, 1 discredits the report hero of every circle in which he His pride was checked at last.last fiat versitv, fe Vienna moved. Everything he wished for he he, the eouquerer, should at would The staroflieth,-),,,- : that He could not, obtained, until he came to believe overcome! visible this va v is be to again him. not believe it. He kept my niotherc a,i that nothing could withstand inseventh its without burial, ing ajqiearanee sin.; and that, if lie chose, le could rule body tor days He not Christ. of birth i lie , says: the world. With a brilliant future, sisting that she was not, should Aud w hen at Inst lie was port is probably the uuautl.nru: in imagination already present," be he, dead. fitted himself for tie lega' profession forced to see that she was indeed revival of an old rumor tlutt erroneously called the in halt the usual time, ami entered gone, he abandoned everything, left star, D.4 L 1. ...til was to make its traveled abroad, and law with the home, of foryears upon the practice courting danger alter danger, only mice, but as this statement hag prospects of unusual success. several times since ltssj, wileni ft was at this point that there refraining from suicide, as he told the star was looked for bv som- of Hamlets reason, because Lb which in bis me, the may period mine all Maynard works prettier. Eleanor for a living nml a poor living it is, too. She is only fairly well educated, vour father would be disappointed, and vou well, you would have to uo-- k bar don nothing a year till you Not an attractbuilt up i pract eh? ive picture John his WHEN HE WASN'T IN IT. l - when -c inevif-dd- there was Here nothing to siv; "and yet An tn sr 'Hit .! Lr 'VlioW i ftra sdence again tell, and Andrew, having Around hr 'orm dr no more to say, vie. tied to liis friend s charm Presentmood and was silent also. This conn'ry In hi its grippo with a I rf'HlIv piiouMnt iMind it. ly lie looked un and around, observn kni mark of his doubt of wliat lay beyond. His will hn but it gt ni frightful tenacity littio ing for the first time tic beauty of bo called theA at nif not r liis college at length was conquered, and time r.tii of Ihnl number conncrt.cm fir-In and this at hoM. it t took audacity. their surroundings, length For tiiw dar in if raj on a cer- and love only were needed to turn him with were classludi aloud, "Well, that '8 companions ia well enough to t:nj less their several the strength hitherto so selfish ir.to Hut hnte the until action ol tain his occasion, talking lo aul curious. ical that tin; teciin.cal Fivni'a peon unlompuuiona He ul torrn i m4 Iir j.1 look responded by point- plans and prospects, my father as a beautiful life of cial ion is "h.h Witti unoiher h arm romd it, we and bis to back, child, as camt me, his nn usual tor side two all superior vaunting but l.ur Millie ar gvivrstones ing out to lion other. each loved the whenoneol uumiter, From th Ioi'ton oursT UttETitiii.N of Hid country press by side a little way m front of them. to all others, I was ten years old when he re"book, read thTP, and 6ee if it who had always been envious o him, should he cautious, and n;ver hay diaa small, gentle child with my turned sum bet that offered looked to said. my John la isn't strange, any monds except on .1 clear d ly. lne LESSON OK A LIFE. Tin: . itear-nwithin a mothers would w luck t eyes. When he saw me, he chang and saw wo ca n lntcstones, least mist or fog in the atmosphere Mv father at om e caught up fell to weeping, and lor days lay so .t ,n, alike year. rit iris s each the line g will pretent you from discove'Ung tue thus recklessly east ill that his lile was despaired of. The Late in the a'ternoon of a smuttier evept as to names;! d dates. One the gauntlet flaws in them, lump, murky weather offered and to wager any sum audacious will was laid low. How oftheni read: "In meinorv of Mary down, busiday two young men walked slowly Dc Long, wife of Hon. Edmund L. that there was nothing in reason that my lather loved me! How gentle he practically kills the diamond ness. along the narrow road whiih leads StatiW on. i, died August 7,1 v4- -, aged any oneof theiacould mention which was ever after that! I taught him love was, ho used to say; but years; and the other: he would not conquer, and conquer, what Russian w mien who hecouio doctors through the little Mention graveyard, twenty-thre1 am sure it was lie who taught me. wife too, within a year. of Farland. worn old the "In to hill strinMary the over to memory then submit very up are compelled to The speaker pause, buried liis lace Now it happened thnt there then of lion. Li'inund L. Si an wood, died gent regidati ms Among other things rustic seat under the oak tree. To his bunds, and then, with brightin beautiful in Memion d a here lived twenty-sevevery ng-August?, lS4i), l appearthey may not practio; as regular phy- judge by their of the rare sort that one ened countenance, went on: one girl, years. sicians until they are 1), hut must, ance the two friends had wandered Alter that first burst of remorse Yes, it is strange, said John, af- sees only once in a century or so, the ible so long a period of rebellion must have Helen slowof t following op to th:s time, be nurvs in charit sort wo ions that for while a and the Troy ter there train, inscript Trading waiting and institutions of various kinds, or in hosor the despair, came years of suffering, been, Cleopatra perhaps, though were strangers to the place. They ly aloud. "Two Mans, both so Mary De Long was fair and small, then a calm nnd calmer hope, and at both of wife and man. one pitals. dying were so deeply engrossed in converand so near together! There they Ncv, rather than of the regal last the peace of a perfect faith. My The mo t encouraging reports come sation that they sat down almost me- young be a sad story hidden ia those tvpe. She was fabulously rich also, fathers later years were filled with must from Greytown, the headquarters for their nml lmd at her leet not only the whole 'good deeds and an humble striving without four observing chanically, years! work on the new Nicaragua canal. more how rural population of Mendon, butalso to help hisfellowmeu. lie had learned wonder "I Marys bill or ut many hen noticing surroundings, The American diggers are at work on who the youths and bachelors ol the ad- the lesson of lile. As lie told methat there Andrew, laughed that quite near them there was an- was as were, iho ditch, and are run pieriug all obi m lined to take things usual joining city and of the w hide country sad day when he died dt is love, stacles. lrescnt indications are that other man, who, indeed, was more light ly. "None buried here at any around. Nothing could better meet my bov, love. Nothing will do but the gloomy fate of the De Losscps than hclf hidden by the huge tree in rate. Probably the third Mary the requirements of the young men love. The story was told, and the three who wished to humiliate my lather the good man. canal will not overtake this enterprise. whose shade he was resting. ti'flin to have him fail in a loveafifair. sat silent for a long time, each movis his here said "Wait John, setwore of that the travelers One At last, I F. Nashville, Tennessee, own stone: 'Edmund L. Ftanwood, Accordingly, when he offered that ed by his own thoughts. look vvhii h comes from died December 10, is treasurer for iho fund that Is teing tled, contented aged seven audacious wager it was immediately the stranger arose and, lilting his raised to keep tho Hermitage, General a happy dispos tion and years. Justthinkofit. For- accepted, ami he was challenged to hat turned to go. Then the others Andrew Jackson's lalo home, in order, circumstances. He was ty years alter the death ofthesecond marry Mary De Long within two rose also, thanked himhisin lew words departure. and to buy the relics and mementoes and in all respects "to the manner Mary. How interesting to learn their years. None of them believed for a and stood watching he would undertake At the turn of the path there came moment that history! lie now owned by (Vend Andrew Jack-sowhich did he When born. spoke, woman "Oh: very, laughed Andrew; and such a task as this, fur less that he to meet him a Tho sum noedud Is $ I. '0.000, nml often, his voita had tint cheerful, nothas the nnd their nnd his in But succeed. with on he would was father, child, meeting, spite iny going jest it is believed that this can bo raised in hearty ring which bespeaks the good of his Inends seriousness, when he ing daunted, calmly accepted the boy was lifted to liis shoulder nnd one doll ,r sub.criptions. the wiles face turned to liis in happy companion and trusty friend. The was interrupted by a voice behind challenge, and made arrangements Mendon. to remove to them. that response to his greeting, told well very day 'ElTIlK.it Kansas will have to quit other man was younger than his I could not help to remember must You that but Pardon me, up enough that his lathers lessou lmd raising such enormous crops," says friend, and his attire showed that at- overhearing you. was the gen- this time he had never failed in any- been well learned by the son. It the Atchison Companion, "or tho rail- tention to details which marks the tleman who had been sitting under thing he had undertaken, that lie beAs the two iriends walked back lieved himself invincible, and, more down the winding pathway, leaving way companies of the state will have young gentleman. Uis the tree, unseen by them. society to begin building mere u irs." To this manner was the most "I have been sitting here quite near than all, that no idea of the possibil- behind them forever the quiet spot quiet imaginthe Emporia Republican makes curt though you did not see me. ity of his failing to do anything he where so much hud been revealed, you, able; and while his companion talked You seem down to so interested in my fathers chose, not only with himself hut with the elder asked; railroads Let the get reply, on in a quick, nervous way, he John, my boy, is tho problem their knitting then. Kansas crops are history that perhaps I can enlighten every one else, had ever entered his head. With the spirit of a. conquer- solved? not to bo limited for tho uccomiuoda- - sat looking straight before him, you. The two friends hastily apologized ing hero, therefore, lie entered .MeAnd John, from whose face all if lie ttoo of anybody." replying in monosyallublos, for their unwitting impertinence, for ndon descended upon it. I might doubt nnd disquiet had disappeared, Yet it was the replied ut all. need, however, better say to see and to conquer rejoined; Yes.oh, yes. indeed! and Tiiere nro impoitant undertakings younger man and his insterest.s which there was no ns the newcomer had enjoyed their being ia his mind loregone con- then added soltly: Nothing will do on the programme in foreign hinds as were tho theme of conversation discomfiture sufficiently to atone lor clusions. that ns New And the far so but love. Maguziue. England well as in our own America; among bs was manifest when the elder, wi'h any displeasure he might have felt. world was concerned he did not railthem the building of a 4, He was successlul here With un amused smile lie said to Anroad across Mberia by tho Russian un air of forced resignation, said: drew, Y'o'i are mistaken about there conquer. Laughter. His first entrance into elsewhere. us The fact is, John, I believe this is There ought to be societies formed government. Tho estimated cost is a third Mary, and then more society marked him its leader. The being Another is the bridging the one thing I cant lielj) you in. I seriously, "My fatherlived aloncaftcr 220,0u0,lXK). young men gave way before him; the for the encouragement oi laughter. of tho Bosphorus, connecting Europo think I could in every thingolse under my mothers death forty years girls secretly adored hitn. He met A real laugh is not common, for it with Asia. French engineers have the sun but this; but here you have alone. Mary De Long before a week bad must be remembered that a snicker the latter under plan. Then j'ou are Alary Farlands passed; and the woman who had re- is not stumped me. I enu't ndviseyou; and a laugh. Foreigners travel, said John now thoroughly in- jected scores of suitors was conquerson, I ed by this man. And he alone was ing in this country have more than There is and always lias been a most 1in sure I dont ?jnow wliat should terested. Then, dreadful horror on tho part of muuy do under the circumstances. I am not her lover. For how was it with commented upon the singular gratYes, said the stranger. people they ho buried alive, it after a pause, he resumed more se- Mary Farlands only child. She died him? lie was disappointed in Mary ify of Americans ns a race. De Long, and, try os hard as he will ba truly a relief to such to know riously: You sis. 1 had nosucli Prob- when I was born. The Puritans were inclined to frown The three stood silent a moment, could, h did not, could not, love her. that science is coming to the rescue lem ia my marriage. In fact, I nevnot dilemma, This had occured upon laughter as frivolous, and nml then the stranger, turning to with an InfaUihlo means of tostlag er bad any problems nt all. Everythat therefore wicked. Life was a very You said to him. He had supposed whether or not tho vital spark h.is for- thing has gone smoothly with me John, said with feeling: she must he what every one said she grave affair to them, and an almost from the time I was born. It is so a moment ago, while I was unavoidever left tho mortal frame. Electricsome people. One day I made ably listening, that it would be in- was the mosf benutind ol women. constant struggle for existence, ami with soon Is the uni ity very potent agency, mind it wastiiiietomarry and teresting to know the history of And possibly she might have been they lmd no tune to mnke merry. facilities fur its application will be up my settle and the very next day I those w ho lie there. I will tell you if his to him. as well as to all others, Tlu first tivo centuries of our national down; doubtless made available to ull. met Annie, who just suited me, and you like. It is a story that helped if it had not happened to him to see, life were busy years. Privations And on the very evening la first met her, were many and the Indians almost who had exactly tho nice little for- me when I sorely needed it. When it Is learned that tho colonel tune needed to make us both com- then, at Johns earnest a 'quiescent p, another woman, w ho to him was far constantly on the warpath. It is of the czars body guard and sovcral fortable, and who accepted me ns the stranger, seating himself between more leant dill. In fact, when lie en- no wonder our forefathers rarely enOther officers in it have committed soon ns I asked her, and has made the two, tered the room on that first evening joyed a hearty laugh. Then came began: suicide on account of having boon i his first glance fell on lids other girl; the Revolution, which was certainly ni happy ever since. There were no My father told m on liis dentil-bein a plot against liis life, we heroics about it. We liked each othHad be not to d me himself I anil l,e took it (or granti d hineu she no laughing matter. an realizes the reason for tho shattered er and ha ve agreed first rate so far, never could have leieved that 1m was the most beauti. ul girl he bad Perhaps all these wars, troubles was once the haughty, imperious, Been, that e must be Mary l' Long. and nerves of the Imperial family that are and are likely to continue eomlorta-blprivations may have fixed an was unforeseen difficulty, on for the rest of our lives. You overhearing man that tie must, have Here in our from lime to tuno alluded to us somenational heart. gravity I haven't any data to judge your been to make his story possible. liis pridehisand lii.s desire, for tin first Then it may be that the idea thing surprising. If a man has to see hie were o .posed, lie met was For in his nge fie was as gentle and fine in case by dont you? entertained that it guard himself contluu illy ag liust his evervw here, dreamed was widely oilier th child. ami as a indeed! lovable said girl and "Oh, John, yes, Long years to laugh. Me knew undignified body guard lie may well wish lamsclf then relapsed into silence, staring of sorrow and remorse changed him of her, soon adored her, while osten- that the eyes of the world wore upon dead and duie with it. sibly paying court to the beanutiful us, nnd it would never do to act iiiie straight before him across the white from a demon into an angl. The strung! r ceased, went to tho heiress. He was disgusted with down headstones the over and river, children. Philosophers nnd cynics The Wubish railway company has so for loving this penniless obscure sneer at beyond to the sea The elder man stone that marked his lathers grave, laughter. Goldsmith, (who issued an orJer of a most positive looked How the fellows would was inquiringly at hiscomp.inion. rested liis hand soltly upon it for a woman. always laughing) tells us of the nature which wdl draw intelligence, But should to moment then and not Went returned and and then hesitated, laugh! began they loud laugh that spoke the vacant if not experience into its service. It went on: speak, "1 wouldnt worry about on: should never mind. laugh, for they and scorrnul Byron says: m be no shutl or is th it in So lii.s pride won. boy young lie And if I laugh nt any mortal it if I were you anyway. Why, my I might never have know! Perhaps thing, employed in anv of Us shops or other boy, itis makingyou ill. What odds known the story of his life had I not stilled his love, or lie believed be did, tis that I may not weep. committed learnof it One for of and 'double docs all? sin the the make, alter purpose departments girl is come to a crisis in my own. I had Many people are nlraid co laugh, ing any tr de or sltille ' work unless very much like another, and youll been a close student throughout my marrying the woman lie did not love, because they think it is common; so Ioe the one you marry, alter you 'youth and early manhood, nml had whi.e i romising before God to love they repress their merriment with a he bring a certificate from his instructors rt.iling that he has completed marry her. You say she doesnt been so little in society that it lmd "nil cherish Dor, and of turning from snnlc. know you carp tor her, so you are never happened to me to s m a wom- the woman lie did love with his whole tho studies of tho second grammar deThey do wrong. Nature evidently when he knew, ly the look in there. Youll forget her alter an to care lor her until sale was over intended us to laugh, or children partment of school work. awhile, and love theonoyou marry, thirty years oid, when, suddenly, as her pleading ties, that she, too, loved would not know how. Laughter is as I said be ore. You know you things do happen sometimes, I be- him. of nnd healthful, The rite of cuuotiU itiou seems to bo thought provocative The wager was won. Once more morals as well as good health. good you loved Maliel Dame came inte sted in two women nt a long end ihilicu t mittu'. It wilt once. once. One fascinated me, while at he had conquered, hut liehad not conHamlet says that one smile, lake about nine year, according to a Oh, ves. indeed!" responded John the same time knew that she was quered himself. From the moment nnd smile, and be a villian,maynnd so Rome letter, to canonize Jo m of Are. I Imt was before added. "That too siiallow and heartless, the other the minister pronounced them .nan one might; hut no one could again; laugh The popular im pros Jon of tho savior saw Eleanor. Then rousing himself well, she is all that heart can wish. aiul wife he began to hate, not and laugh nnd be a villian. of France is th I slm was an cstimiblo withal) effort, he went on: The truth To make the story short, my father the true culprit, but her. the To smirk, grin, guffaw or smile and proper young worn in, but popular of the matter is simply this, Andrew, saw tin net in which I seemed victim, lfeneglccted her from is not to laugh. A good whoe soul-eI told don't know what to s are not suilicient for the as you. entangled and the sure de- the first, and filestore is too painful is a panacea for laugh hearty e I knew E eunor I simply trv struction I should meet Sim do. she tell of m to the died in a year ofa broken many ills, nnd worth iff went oil. lie requires fro, truth pope, adoctors preto think rare for Maliel; but cant With the pres 'ienceot t hespirit when heart, for she lmd loved him. history, an a learned a vacate is diliscription. Golden Days. her Eiing myself totheuointofaskmg he knew that I was near its Hardened of reieflse, instead docusoftened o old r by musty gently looking to 'iuiitv me; for when I even inm- - sulTering, mV doubts, my tempta- this experienc. In waited hardly a ments lo see if any flaws in her charA Numerous Family, rine mysi lf doim: so. Eleanors face tion, my yet my reluctance year le:ore lie tried towinthewomnu acter can bo discovered. interposes, and simply want to fall to be free Irom the lals iovo, nml mv lie loved yes, really loved, after his There are some good sized families down and worship her. I argue it all feebler but growing wish to love the wa v, even t.ieii. Sliehud loved him be- in Maine A Missouri farmer with a turn for over to but probably none myself, over and over again, one I could also respect. lie called fore and mourned for him: what won- so as one mentioned in the hisn large statistics bas furnished a common hour after hour. Mabel is beauti ul me to him it was the' very day ho der, then, that Mary Farlamlyeilded tories of old colonial days. It is told to his coim'rv paper on tliesuojoct nml good and acruinplished. She (lied ami ra.d: .My hoy, mv hov, to his entreaties at,il hecameliis wile? on the ho in would which authority of Cotton Mather make any man happv but nothing will do but love, of official salaries slates Here was. mother success for the hero, that the first royal governor of Bosthnt nn official who receives ft.OOO per me. Her latlar and mmo are friends. but love. And then he told nothing me the cnnqtieroraain asevr. Ilewascoin-pletelw as one of a ton us h want She family ol twenty-sito GiiG a of is They absorbs the marry. 2t, price year salary sto.y of his early life and of my happy, but, alas! still the children, was born in the woods bushels of corn at Id cents per bushel, handsome fortune, which will set. me mother, ami saved me yes, he same imperious, commanding nature of Maine near the ns before. My mother was natural- nebec in 1(.)1. Hismouth of the Kenor of 6. Gill) bushels of wheat at (id cents on my tet in mv pio'Vssion. an saied me Irom my temptation. mother was left think she (mike cares easy. way my per bushel, or 33,33d bushels of mt- at lor lae, or would, la fact, every- rt My father was an only child, and ly a gentle creature, with a widow when he wns a child, and is child. From nnd thoroughly spoiled under his 12 cents, or tho pri oof fifty good farm domination she said to have lmd all she could do to thing w;w s it should Is, until I saw his onr.iest infayev he lmd hU owu became utterly crushed. He loved provide for the wants of her family. horses Ho also estimates th it a farm Fh anor .U.ivnaril but wa v in even tlif.g. As lie grew- - old- li as much as a loves its orey. Itis hoped that when the hand at $!3 per month would h.ivo to uin'i argue about her." er he governor to think thnt. the whole She belonged to tigr him. What work the year round for a quarter of he sank nee. into s;l Again nnd a moody world was h s on dein md, and taut li s wishes must of course be were got $1(10,000, a knight-hoohers, same m I. tho valued at. earn ich to for ins own everything and everv one must amount, mid his iriea ns a century $.).000 ns a reward He absorbed, annihilated her. She goblet and for a Spanish treasure Imut .',00 , rebe as for folias, to ikr.p th theme should bend to hiswiil. IDs sad mlds that in ship brilliant grew timd, shrinking, submissive, thatfinding had pone to the bottom half of con wo ill have and went oir "FJe.mor Mnvnnnl is intelWt w et fur to ronfinn in him n to 8,000 bu et. 1 when and spiritless; i came beaut pl ul, pcr!i;is; but most tiiis belief, for at school and colle-century before, he remembered hi footed tho li, i. cr ,".(a0 hu.JieU ol pretty, tin into a world, little, M poor, Dame far ho stood lo.vm ist i.i h.s wailing mother nnd persons would call heat classes, won nonentity, she sighed, said it was to ier than her made ber last days eas earnest ones had been. rh o 'I I ti- KnriM-i.- vy -r high-wate- k cxp-ct-- I I r I i I o'--- '1 ( ss i e n travel-stainei- out-ie- Bs.n-.on- ' ., omTs. there is douhtles notlu;,,, it. The star was the one discoid by Tycho Brahe in loT, named for h'm. It appeared q. suddenly in the constellation ot( seopela, and had brilliancy gre-than that of any of the planttn,; much so that it wim i Libit jn. day time. It was believed bygoi' that this star had nppeuref jD, same position 31 2 years before in 12GO, and, assuming this inter, of appearance to be correct, it not have been visible about the Christian era, nnd it was t termed the stnr of Bethlehem. 1; return was after 312 years, the ti; ol its reappearance would have!, in 1881, but nothing has yet t, 8"en of it. Such a phenomenon the present day would have tt highest value to astronomical sciet for by the use ot modern inst rumet observations could lo taken ty-fiv- e d n. sweet-face- d OUO-mi- le le.-.-t 1 I y him-se- ll . 1 1 him-se- hape-le-sl- v d, 1 impro-sion- 1 I 1 .lesi-pa- nd 1 to-da- icn-tio- y 1 1 t 1 ea-u- lS'JG-7-O- I'Ol-- i : an G tei ac' i on til! ce tinn-th- its off lie; its me th 13 gathered that wot be of the greatest assistance it series of experiments now in be There, is, however, so nia 111 wi; lut, an- doubt in the matter that it isot to surmise as the stars re; CA pearance. u Newspaper Women, Brooklyn Time. The number of newspaper won in New York increases steadily, j year ago or thereabouts a e j j x voir. woman anxious for journalistic rels applied through the mediun,, a friend to Amos J. Cummings to: chance to shine a little for some err, 4 section of the world through columns of the Evening Suu. Cummings swore a picturesque nnd withul good-natt,. Y wnrm-hueda- ', though decisive oath that in his there should be no woman bother about the office of the Evening S It is now the day of Mr. Brisk;:? and under the new regime a iik fortunate young woman a ytl clever one, formerly of the stuff; the Cleveland Leader has found opportunity. An appreciative pr of my mail is made up of letters Ir; girls who ask if there is any fut for women in newspaperdom. Th t are many thing to be thought o' j a woman who would apprentice!!'' self to journalism; temperamet versatility and the power to l.j harmoniously in a newspaper oft w hich is a little world of its own. I girl may have every qualifieatb but she will not be successful if makes herself felt os a restraint! trying to impose on busy meni formalities of parlor etiquette. 8 must have a good constitution! start with, a clear conscienies' good nerves, so that she can bes' controlled. Alter a certain araoi of literary talent she need sheer cc; mon sense more than anything How the Russians are Stealir China, I 1 'v ! l d , pio-pero- .1 Rear Admiral Schufehlt, who h just returned from JapaD, in spei ing of the possibility of Russia (f jecting to the Chinese Ely cd gaining trol of Corea, tells the lollowi story as to how the Russians L been outwitting the Mongolians! to the bouudry between Siberia a. China. The means of communication so poor in China, and the aver;-o- hie news are so few, says Adrar Schufeldt, that it is impossible :j the Chinese to keep track of the r ings on in their provinces. Russians have been steadily incli? on the ChiLese. Every year tr" will send a regiment of tossni with their families about ten fifteen miles into China. This K ment will settle down, take up land and cultivate it. They take f the boundry stones ns they w' and put them at the edge of t! settlements, and the next year other regiment comes along, the land below and moves stones further toward L' kin. These encroachment been going on for years, and T Chinese cannot understand the f petnal shrinkage ot their F. G. Carpenter's north-frontie- Ufa ington Letter. An Eccentric, But the best and most I fni ( freqc . hfs . specimens of an eccentric nation :t from the land of John Bull. Amj them is mentioned Mr. Cecil S. Figaro warrilv suppresses the f, 4- Late i vrw name), who lor many yearswill liis Baris ring with stories of ings. Finally gout attacked t 'HE! ell and he was doomed to perptf QHd fee. T confinement at home. Tk having lieen specially patronize HO Mil'll him, Mr. 8. started cne within j Suva. own tour walls, where he kept an? tire stage with all thnt belongs F including costumes of every po8t variety. Five or six spectators invited to the choreograpni cles, the artists in which were f. with more than princely libera 23a eel Although Mr. S. could never !0U outside his house, lie alwaysreW his ten horses and four cerria which were regularly driven TR! in the Bois nnd on the boule, somewhat like the empty Oi seen behind a hearse. New YorL X. XI ns ni ' r 1 , , |