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Eestores the senses Of taste and smell. 5o cents at Drug- ts; by mall, registered, 60 cen ELY BROTHERS, Druggist its, Owego, S . y. FARMS s S S ^ S Virginia KEELERS Horn & RESTAURANT 28 MAIDEN LANE. j e s x OUTSIDE T K E VKIOIf D E P O T , ' AL«ANY. h e w YORK. WJWf ; 4*w}y A FASCiNATISG GIRL BY F. W. ROBINSON. ir o f “For Her SaJte.\ “T manee o f 'a Back S tre e if 1 ‘‘VOUKO TODD.” Not that Hiss Daly was the only maid in attendance behind the coanter c f the big re freshment room at Battleton Junction, but a girl with a difference—t contractors, to a t tend to the wants and wishes of a passing crowd clamoring for soup, s.ausage rolls, buns and b.tter ale to the frightful accom paniment of railway bells and whistles, and stentorian commands to “change here for everywhere.” That her per onal ai.peai-- ance was attr.active was her good fortune or her misfortune, and was certainly not her fault; she wcm.U scarcely have been placed girl, with brown eyes and brown hair, and she attended to her duties with a g rave self- pcssession that was remarkable in the Bat tleton Junction girls, who wore demonstra tively fussy or c o d ly Indifferent, according MISS DALV. Itm.ay be sai.l a t once that fee Junction girir—as they were geueraily teimed in !he aueant town of Battleton— lid not think miieh of Mi-s Dalv, did not mako great fr.tuds wuh M.ss Daly, did not take her into Iboir little eonfi ences, or ask her to join them in their .'ittie strolls a fter tho eat ing tom e was closed for the night, or when hours “off d uty” allowed of country rambles in varirus duections and under various and fometimes striking circumstauoes. Miss Daly was “stuck up,” jMi~s D art said; but then Miss Daly had declined to see the shops in B a tf eton with her a fter one evening’s ex perience, (luring which M.s., D art had gig- gle-l spn-inodic-’-Iiy all the way up High street, and looked after eveix well-dressed man u n i, r fifty between the station a nd tho Corn Mrrket, exchanging “good-evenings” and “how-d'ye-do’s” wiih a fair ten per cent, of the i.umber. Miss Daly was “sly,’’ Miss I'land t'nonght; but then Miss Bland was a plain-spoken girl, who let them—i. e., the customers—“have it” if they bothered scream for drink in vain. Miss Dalv w'as “spcoiis’ on young Todd, and ought to be ashamed i f ber.self to lead him on like that. Miss Backet remarked; but then Miss Racket had lieen “,,-p<,oix-” on young To Id hersell, h.ad 'auuehedha’self a t Todd, in fact had nog feted poo.l custorrers for T, <ld, and been lainn out once for a quDt drive by Todd in the happy halcyon days before Mi -s Daly came among thorn like a bliglit. Miss Daly h ardly looked lixo a blight be hind tho refresL-oient c-nuter; she w at always v ery pale and pretty in her blaolc drf.os and generally veiy staid, unless some thing cut cf tho common—young Todd was cut of the common—brightened lier 1\ atures w ith a smi'e. Itro.ay t e a m atter for speculation as to the “.-pioou” on Miss Daly’s part, hut there net d be no mystery as to the feelings of young Todd. He nm le no mystery of them bim- se f. he was even proud of th.-m; his feelings had teen engaged some twenty times before ard in nineteen cases by the fair Hebes w'n ra Mt S 51 -S. Javelins and Fre-hw ater had set in authority a t Battleton Junction, but in no ins.ar.ee bad young Tcdd been so detp’y and terr.bly impres-ed as in this p ar ticular .affair, w’aic’n was now a’csorbing, coiisuming and soften .ng him to an uu- h'oraileled dr-gree; whicn was giving him a distaste for h;s family and family surround ings; which was excitifig a t last tho curiosity and anxiety of the family itself, that had been a .slumberous, apathetic, do-.as-you-like Founj Todd lived at the refreshment The Tc-ld f.-mily were big f< dk in Battle- ten, a id uo( t . be despis d cut of Battleton, take t :cru a lt' g then There w eieuot many ol thi m, they consisted of Mrs. Todd, the le ict-if B irtholi mow Todd, who h ad made much iioney Ly v.hc.le.sale gums and India ruble s down a c iriy slum in Alinc'ng lane, and bi .1 of whose property was settle.l for life o t his v.i 0 -.V. with reversion to an oniy son, t t e yoim ' Todd of our simple narra tive; t irc\- Mt-ses Todd, all one pattern, cut cres-w i-c M.d with many angles, and with sirong :da. c> toward high church an.l high cLurci curates, and 'whose money was !-tr,ct]3 S'sitlel on themselves; and young Tcdd, \j-i o:« money had settled itself strictly Ol! him. toe. up to the prosent jierlod of our .-loiy, 11 ) - no ore save himself a n l the girl at tho rolresbment counter had seen the color o) it, envious people said. Why he was called young Todd it was h.ard to declare. W hen there was an old Tc dd ff/ing away to towm b y express every mcmiu,j, It m ight have been appropriate- but when old Todd had flown away to a bet- tei- world than Mincing lane, young Todd became somewhat o f a misnomer, especially as y rung Todd had reached eight and twenty summers, clear. Certainly he looked young. He was a very slim man, without a hair or an expression upon his faco, and ho wore turn-down collars, a short blue jacket and a rA ° S d s s men with short pipes in their mouths before dinner, he had heard her say once, and he had token to cigars and to smoking them after eight p. m .; and as for himself, there were fits of despondency upon him at times wh',n he thought he should rather like to shoot himself than otherwise. Still, the time had not come yet, and young Todd lived a t the refreshment counter of Battle- ton Junction, so long as Miss Daly would serve him. When the trains came in—and back and stand on the forms,*so that he might watch Miss Daly over the heads of tho travelers, and make sure that nobody had fallen in love with her, and was intentionaUy which he was dispc billiards and bull tei Bo regular a lounger at the counter, so good a customer, so well-known an inhabi tant of Battleton, was obliged to be received •with a fair amoimt of courtesy, and he •was received in quite a sisterly—possibly more than sisterly—^manner b y all but Miss Daly. Miss Daly said “good morning” and “good evening,” especially “good evening,” very graciously to him, but she did not imitate the style of the rest of the young ladies or put herself out in anyway for Mr. Todd. Conscious of tho power she v Conscious of tho power she wielded over his susceptible breast, she did i|pt hasten to meet his requirements at the bar; did not ’ ' the counter and talk to him bo- I sandwich stands and the dishes of tween the sandwich stands and the buns; did not regard him languishing while an irate passenger was hammering a-way -with the milled edge of a shilling to attract her attention; did not whisper or laugh or slap him in a kittenish impulse; and betrayed not even a jealous ^ m p tom when ho talked to Miss Dart or Miss Racket or anybody else. “I e.xn’t make her out,” he soliloquized in tho quietude of his bedroom, three months after Miss Daly had been in Battleton, and after she had said, “No, thank you,” to half a dozen pairs of Courvoisier’s gloves, of which he had begged her acceptance; \she isn’t like anybody else I ever knew at the ■Junoiion. Polly Racket would mako six of her for fun, but she’s an lawfully nice girl, somehow. She isn’t silly, eithor, or she’d fancy I was going to ask her to marry. She’s a sharp, clever little woman, ’pon my soul, but I can’t mako her out And that’s deuced odd, too, seeing what a lot of girls have been always running after me.” It was not odd, but young Todd was be yond the discovery of the solution to the msstery; bis self-complaisance stood in the way, and the girls who ran after him were of tho ordinary class of high steppers, whose mission in life w ^ to be always running in his own sphere, ount of his income le e xact amount “the sleek and shining creatures of the chase;” but young Todd never proposed, and had been always happier and more at his ea‘e at the station buffet, or in the streets when the shop girls were going homa Hap pier, till Muss Daly appeared; then it was all over with him and his nonchalant airs and grins and grimaces. He strolled in and out no more in his i Id patronizing way; he came in earlv, an'l stopped os a rule aU day; he was the slave of the refreshment counter, the ghost of his former self, the talk of the little town whore everybody talkr.1. His mother condescended r ^ h condescended to ask a few D last, and to tell him le laughed at the shocking him at last, world was saying; he ions as irrelevant, and \ exinessioa he used as regarded the world needs no repetition in these virtuous pages. His sisters satirized him and his tastes, and ha “gave it them hot,” as he afterward ex- pre.ssed himself to a friend, for meddling with his affairs and w h at didn’t concern I.et him alone, a nd he’d let them alone; no body need be a fraid he was going to make a fool of himself, or throw himsMf away; he knew what he was about well enough. Trust him. But nobody trusted him any more for this declaration, and the home of the Todds be came shadow-land, in the midst of which much suspicion and uncharity and con spiracy vere brooding. They affected to let him alone, and ho let them alone accord ing to hi-, usual way—which was very much alon° indeed—but they wrote long letters and urgent letters to Uncle John, the main stay of the family, trustee, executor, man of tile world, and m an of war in the Indian service, and they begged very earnestly for Uncle John to take the m a tter up, as tho young Todd v/as Edwin; ho was his own master, and they wore desperately airald of u h a t wouid come of it. Tuey had been afraid also to tell Uncle John before; they cd 1 n ot like intruding upon his studies, hts new work on ••Fortifleations and Fireworks,” his new charge, red hot and slashing, against the secretary of state for w ar on tho iron- p ated stocking question; they knew how hard he had Lo.'n upon his nephew and godson in many m a tters; but as he was the only being tvhom Edwin regarded with any degree of awe, they trusted ho would come to the rescue and “put a stop to it” all before the family was di graced for ever and ever by a mo alliance, or by some dre.adCul scandal th a t was almost as bad, if not quite as lasting. “i li soon put an end to this nonsense,” said Maj. Craushaw, after reading his sis ter s leltors. “1 11 have no more of it. He had put on end to a great deal of nonsense in his time, being a hard-headed, sharp old soldier in his way, and he was very sure of h;s poiver iu demolishing this soap-bubble affair in less than four and tw'enty houi-s. He knew the world and what it was made of; ho understood men and women, particu larly foolish men and designing -svomen, whom he had come across in an experience of five and forty years, to whom ne had taught wisdom and given warning before this—ah! many times before, for other peo- p'e's sak.'s and bis own. Let him m arch and away against the enemy al CHAPTER II. MAX CP..AW3irAW BLUNDERS TO BE(3IN WITa The i,\.st train from town had leached Bat- t’.eion J.mction at 9:80 p. m., and tho station g'.ris w-ro extra hnsj’ in consequence, when a tali, st’rn, bronze-faced man, with closely oroppeI g. ay hair, and an iron gray mus- terli\ strole up to the counter and de manded a cup of tea. Maj. CrawshSTw'had chosen his t.ine well, for young Todd Racket presided. From a hasty glanc the heads of a struggling mob his keen eyes had taken stock of Miss Racket—^hor tall, full figure, her round, rosy cheeks and broad, continual smUe; and he had decided that this was tho particular vixen who had upset tha mental equilibrium of his family, and fasciuated his fool of a nephew. Just tho sort of young woman to ■wind poor little Todd round her finger, he thought—^pert, showy, saucy and far from unreserved in her demeanor. This was she, without a doubt. Mis.i Racket drew him his cup of tea lei surely and indifferently, and after five sten torian applications for the beverage. She was iu no hurry, if he were, and there was a j'oung man to attend to who was going north, with a white hat all on one side, and who had complimented her on her appear ance that evening, and regretted that he did not live at Battleton, and would have heaped other compliments had time allowed him, and Maj. Crawshaw had not bawled persistently for tea over his loft shoulder. The major dran’iC slowly, and ate a ham sandwich meanwhi e, which ha forgot to pay for, until another of the young ladies re minded him of his error. This was Mias Daly, always as sharp as a needle in her em ployers’ interest;, not Miss Backet, 'who, when fiarried by admirers, -would have al lowed a quarter of h u n i e d of WatUng’s pies to escape her notice with impunity. When the railway bell had rung and the white hat had drifted away with other traveling atoms, and there was peace, and only one man left at the counter, Maj. Craw- sbaw began to attract the attention of Miss Racket. He was not going on by tho 9:85; he was a resident at Battleton, or a 'visitor, Ol- —for such odd things do occur at refresh ment counters—he had been struck by her personal apjiearanoe and disposed to proceed by the next down train. Miss Racket was impnlslvo and romantic and leaped quickly to conclusions, but then the major stared at her very much, did not even take his eyes off her when drinking bis tea, but glared at her with the rim of hiif cup pressed against tho bridge of his aquiline nose. Miss Backet glanced at him again. By tlie side of the effusive young man in the white hat be had appeared grim and old enough; but alone In bis glory he was a trim, gdod looking, stal wart gentleman of imi> 0 Bing appearance. Miss Bland called him “an old buck,” and asked Miss Racket behind the soda water bottles who 1 led him “an old buck,” __ jket behind the soda wi the old buck was that was mak ing eyes at her, but Miss Racket did not answer her rude question and thought within herself that he was only a middle aged buck, .and middle agedhuoks are de serving of a little consideration when they are struck “all of a heap” at first sight There were many\ tales, true or false, In history of lucky “catches” lu this fashion, perhaps her time had come and this stem gentleman was her fate. Bhe wished she had not let him aefc so many times for tea ^OTrandtJmt got it fiercely at her, perhaps there was a EBlack” somewhere on her noeeu The “blacks” came in very frequently through the open doors of the refreshment department She had been unconscionsly smudged for ten minutes yesterday, having been all that time with out looking into the glass a t the back of the counter. Mes, she had made a conquest “It’s a fine evening,” said the major. “Tea, sir, very fine.” “You’ll soon have finished here, I snp- ^ “Some of us will, and some of ns won’t Tmi one of the ‘won’ts* this evening,” she laid, facetiously. “You’ll excuse me, young lady,” ho said, punctiliously, “but I do not quite under stand you.you. Whathat is a ‘won’t??’’‘won’t??’’ W is a “Won’t go hooM till momin’—almost,” how dull you arel\ ‘Y ou mean as trade falls off a leas of young ladies Is required at the refresh ment stand'?” said, lightly. “Why, how dull you arel\ “■Yes, I am dull. I always was dull of comprehension, I am afraid,” he replied. ‘Y ou mean as trade falls off a leas number “Oh yes, she means all that, sir,” Miss * Blund broke in hero, to Miss Racket’s sup pressed annoyance, and then MGg Bland and Miss Dart had an animated conversation to gether, interspersed with hysterical laugh ter, and much “Did he, though?” and ‘Y o u young ladies appear to bo very happy here,” said the major, still to UiM , Backet. “Wo are very happy a t times.” “Plenty of admirers, of course?” ‘•Lots of them—such as they are,” said Miss Racket “Ahl they vary in quality as well as quan tity, I suppose?” I think they did,” replied Miss bile the outspoken Miss Bland muttered “Rather,” and nearly killed Miss Dart with laughter. “I suppose you get used to them all, and don’t pay any heed to their persiflage,” said tho major. “Their pui-sy-what?” inquired the be wildered Miss Racket “Their light compliments and their foolish love making—their silly and maudlin senti mentalities, half drink and half damned nonsense— beg pardon,” he said, gravely ra sing his hat; “I am addressing a lady, and didn’t mean to be so forcible.” “W e don’t belipve everything we are told,” said Miss Racket. “Oh, no.” “In your position, young lady,” ho said, “you should not believe anything you are told—unless it’s in dispara.gement of the sandwiches, and they are confoundedly bod, to bo sure. I never before came across so much fat in one sandwich iu the whole course of my existence.” “I’m very sorry.” “Pray don’t mention i t I did not call here for sandwiches, but to talk quietly and naturally to a sensible young woman,” said tho major. “Oh, sir, how can you say sol Oh dear “1 came to Battleton on pui-pose, 1 assure “■Why, I never saw you in my life. ” “No, I don’t think you did,” said the mai- jor. “Perhaps you’ll wish you had never seen me, or be very glad one day that we have met in this fashion. There’s no telling. Life’s a queer enigma. I’ll take one more Yes, sir.” ' The tea was drawn, and the major contin ued his fixed stare. “Your name is Daly, I presume?” he said at last. “Oil no, it ain’t,” said Miss Racket, very quickly _uow. ‘‘Not Miss Daly? Indeed,” and the major’s face shadowed as with a keen sense of die- appointment Miss Racket suddenly became pert and • shaip and satirical. “I’m not the beauty; oh no! I wonder where your eyes were if you came all this way to look at her. Oh no I lor bless you, we’ae none of us halt as good-looking as Miss D'aly. Threepence, please, for that tea, and thank you.” moment, please,” in so authoritative a ( that he reminded' her instinctively of Javelins on his inspection tour, and when the receipts did not quite correspond •with the conmmption of material Maj. Crawshaw looked round the place very carefully now, and for the first time ob served a quiet, thoughtful girl standing at the back of the counter reading a letter. “If—is that Miss Daly?” ho Inquired. ‘Yes, that’s her,” answered Miss Racket. \“h ^ I teU her you want to speak to her.\ ‘N m thisis moment,oment, iff youou please,”lease,” re'plied ; th m i y p lajor. “I’m very sorry you leedingly aggraval this. Besides it w ll if you ating to have mattered so much if yon had been— dashdash it!\ and Maj. Crawshi and looked v e x e i :etet byy thishis it!\ bis foot s Miss Rack b t time had recovered herself, and lost the little amiability which she had been ever known to possess. She did not love Miss Daly as a sister; on tha contrary, as she had told Miss Bland more than once in confidence, she hated her like informed by poison; and to be gravely informed by 1 gentleman that be had lost time in talldng to her, under the misapprehension that she was the identical Miss Daly, whom he had come especially to see, would have tried the temper of a greater saint than she was likely to turn out. “Miss Daly,” she said, tvlth almost a screech of envy, “here’s another gentle man wants to talk to you for a little while ” Miss Daly looked up from her letter, and then went on calmly with its perusal. _ “Ohl it’s t r u e - it is, indeed,” said Miss Miss Daly, without look- a few moments,” said the 'major. There was a genuine ring in the voice that was not a little startling to tha Battleton Junction girls, and it impressed Miss Daly, who put her letter in her pocket and ad- ■| once. When she was facing I ‘ irding hioi with iced at once. When : _ regarding hioi with two thoughtful he was more sorry than < that this-was Miss Daly; he hardly knew ’ ■ ■■'■ ■ there seemed too: ! more sorjw why at this moment, there ■ reasons to be sorry, and they jumbled together a t that instant inextrica- “Well, sir?” said Miss Daly very quietly. To be Continued. Superflnoas Legal Language. Mr. David Dudley Field, in a re cent address on law and lawyers, made some very pertinent remarks on the useless verbiage that usually character izes deeds and other documents drawn up by lawyers. He shows that more than 900 words are used in a deed, where 2C0 would answer all purposes. O f this verbosity Mr. Field says : “ T hey beget and confirm our dreadful habits o f verbosity ; they make the young lawyers think that these words and phrases mean something and thus teach falsehood ; they lead the minds of old and young to run in grooves ; they encumber, and because they encumber, they tend to hinder, ob scure, and confuse; they make it necessary to write, read and record in the course of a year millions upon mil lions of useless words, all of which cost a great deal o f time .and a great ideal o f money. Bonds, for instance, are copied or described in mortgages; the mortgages must be recorded, and when a forcclosiirc takes place the contracts are set forth in the plead ings. All lead to fees, and the fees are burdens laid upon the shoulders of. the borrowers. The patience with which the people who pay for these things and are futhermore hindered by them is phenomenal .”-—QtvtUnd Clen. Sheridan and Hugh Lee. WashlDgton Corr. New ‘TOrk Tribane. At the dinner given by the President to the cabinet on Thursday evening, Gen. Sheridan and Gov. Fitz Hugh Lee sat directly opposite at the sides of the table. Their presence for the first time together at the White House board recalls an interesting incident of the surrender at Appomattox, nearly twenty-two years ago. The night be fore the surrender Gen. Lee called his corps commanders about him, explain ed the situation and informed them of his correspondence with Gen. Grant. Lee, with the army of northern Vir ginia, had halted for the night near Ap pomattox Court House. This was Saturday, the night of the 8th of April. He bad moved out of Petersburg on the night of Sunday, the 2d, and had been on the retreat every hour of the six days. When he informed his corps commanders that surrender was in evitable the two officers bitterly oppos ed to it were Gen. Gordon and Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee. The latter still clung to the hope of reaching Gen. Johnston in North Carolina. It was a forlorn hope, and Gen. Lee knew it. It was finally decided that Gordon and Fitz Hugh Lee should attack' Sheridan’s cavalry at daylight the next morning, if be was without infaniry. If on the contrary Sheridan was supported by any considerable infantry, Gen. Lee was to be at once informed. He then sent his second note to Gen. Grant. Meanwhile Gen. Sheridan with all his cavalry had marched rapidly to Ap pomattox Station. Ord’s infantry was to follow as quickly as possible. That night while Gen. Lee was in council with his officers Sheridan wrote to G e n . Grant: “If Gibbon and the fifth corps can get up to night we will per haps finish the job in the morning. I do not believe Lee means to surrender until compelled to do so.’ During the night Gen. Grant sent ■ hisis stafftaff forward jf h s forw vance of the infantry to thehe supportupport of Sheridan, who now had his cavi ’ to urge the ad- t s of > now had his cavalry :owu across the road to check the vance of Lee’s army. Bad roads made progress slow, but by a forced march all night Ord, Gibbon and the fifth corps got up at daylight to Sheri dan’s support—not, however, before Gordon and Fitz Hugh Leee had made the infantry on the double-qui Sheridan’s support caused the forces of Fitz Hugh Lee and Gordon to fall back and quickly retire. At the mo ment the 'Union troops were drawn up in line, stretching around the road like a barrier before the advance of Lee’s army, a white flag was seen at the en emy’s front and the next instant the bugles sounded “to halt.” The fight ing was over and “the job was finished in the morning.” A few hours later every command of Gen. Lee’s arm; had surrendered except the commani of Fitz Hugh Lee. Immediately afte» his repulse by Sheridan at daylighl Fitz Hugh Lee withdrew his cavalry four miles distant on the Lynchburg road and remained there until the fol- A few days after Fitz 'nn off Lynchnchburg bi ving day. Hugh Lee and the tow o Ly surrendered. I believe that thougL it was not ] resent, this command was included in the surrender by Gen. Lee on the 9th with the army of norlbern Virginia. The meeting of Gen. Sheridan and Gen. Lee twenty-two years after, at the White House dinner, is not with out significance. Mrs. Lee, who is a handsome, dark-eyed woman, and the more striking for her gray hair, was taken in by Gen. Sheridan. Just across the table Mrs. Sheridan, called “the prettiest matron in Washington,” sat on the right of Gov. Lee. Presidential Jamborees. From Llpplncott’s Magazine. • President Jackson’s table manners were as Democratic as could bs desir ed. He had at each plate two forks, one of which was of silver and the other of steel. The President used a steel fork himself, and after his dinner he always smoked his tobacco from a long handled corncob pipe. Andrew Jackson entertained lavishly on the night of his first inauguration. The carpets of the East room were rained by the orange punch and lemonade which were served to the crowd which came to his reception. Barrels of this punch were made, and it was brought into the room in buckets, At last the people began to rush for the waiters, as soon as they entered the room. Glasses were broken, and ladies’ dress es ruined. Tubs of punch were finally taken into the garden, sod in this way Qg ’ ----------- --- - - - ’■ to ladies. At Jackson’s farewell reception a monster cheese, as big as a hogshead iu circumference and nearly a yard thick, was cut with saw blades made into knives and served oat to the guests. Each guest received three pounds of cheese. The event was the talk of the nation, and when Van Buren becfune President Ms New York friends emulative of Jackson, sent him a big cheese. It was out up in the Eask room. The greasy crumbs falling upon the carpet were trampled into it and the ruination of the furniture during these two administrations led the later Presidents to discontinue the -practice of serving eatables at general recep tions. Now no guest comes to a din ner at fhe White House unless invited. In Van Buren’S day Baoourt, in' his “3ouvenixs d’un Diplomat,” says the the President’s cook told his Valet that for several rnonths preoeding the elec tion of 1840 many persons arrived at tbo\Wltite lot breakfast or din ner, and threatened to vote against Van Buren if theyAfSre not entertaii the throng was drawn off. and it was isible to serve cake and wine to the Van Buren u t.heyyrere not entertain ed. The oook sUted that he bad all the trouble poesible in satisfying them, and tiiey <fften returned whi^ he sent up^ doi?^ io on the preiezi tiudUA WM nnestebli, a«d ordered eomettuiig else. Boston to New Lork iu 18.25. Ben : Perley Poore in his Remin iscences gives the followipg descrip tion o f a stage rpute sixty years ago The old stage route between Boston and New Y ork, before John Quincy Adams was President, passed through ■Worcester, Springfield, Hartford and Norwalk. Pas'sengers paid ten dol lars for a seat, gnd were lifty-six hours or more on the road. This gave way about 1825 to the steamboat line via Providence, which for five dollars car ried passengers from Boston to New York in twenty-four hours. Stage bo((ks for the Providence line were kept in Boston at offices in different parts of the city, where those wishing to go the next day registered their names. These names were col-? lected and brought to the central stage office in the Marlboro’ Hotel at ten o’clock each night, where th.ey were arranged into stage-loads, each made up from those residing in the same part o f the city. At four o’clock in the morning a man started fre m the stage office in a chaise to go about and wake up the passengers, that the stage need not be kept waiting. The large brass door-knockers were vigoi ously plied, and sometimes quite commotion was caused by “ walking up the wrong passenger.” In due time the stage made its ap pearance, with its four spirited horses, and the baggage was put onj Trunks, ■which were dimunitive in size com pared with those now used, were put on the rack behind, securely strapped ; valises and packages were^ consigned to the depths o f a receptacle beneath the driver’s seat, and bandboxes were put on top. The back seat was gen erally given to ladies and elderly gen tlemen, while young men usually sought a seat on top of the stage by the side of the driver. When the passengers had been “ picked up” the stages returned to the stage office, where the way-bills were perfected and handed to the drivers. As the Old South clock was striking five, whips were cracked, and the coaches started at the rate o f ten miles an hour, stopping for breakfast at Timothy Gay’s tavern in Dedham, where many of the passengers visited the bar to imbibe Holland gin and sugar-house molasses —a popular morning beverage. ist over, aw a v ihe stages :r, away ihe stages went over the good turnpike road at a due fime reached, and the procession of stages whirled along the narrow street beneath the bTufl^ swaying heavily with the irregularities of the road. The steamboats lay at India Point, just below the town, where im mense quantities o f wood were piled up, for each boat consumed between thirty and forty cords on a trip through Long Island Sound. The Criminals of Siberia. A Country Full of 'Irampa—Daunferoua to Travelein^OtriclulM Not Attacked. Siberia is best known to the rest of ti% world as the land of exiles. Since the time of Peter the Great it has been the place of banishment for those who offend against the sovereign of Bussia and his laws. Ordinarily-from 10,000 to 12,000 criminals are sent there every year; the occasional revolts in Poland and the present spread of Nihilism through the empire add more or less largely to the involuntary emigration. In some years 20,000 or 30,000 exiles, including criminals and politicals, have been sent to Siberia, and of this great number comparatively few are ever re- lowB that Siberia is filled with an un due proportion of the criminal classes. Many of the criminal exiles have been sent there for small offenses, and are consequently of the category of sim p le detenus, or “detained in the country.” They can do pretty much as they like, as long as they do not re turn to Europe; can wander from place to place, »nd take any employ ment that is open to them. The re sult is, the country is full of tramps, and on occasions when there is a chance of making an honest penny by high way robbery the tramps are not slow embrace it. In the winter the weather is too cold for ibeir operations, and they mostly hibernate in the towns, like the tramps of enlightened America, so that the roads are comparatively safe, but if you carry any baggage in ir of your sleigh i{ must be fas tened with ohainB, and not with ropes, which can be cat away. In the spring the tramp’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of rural strolling, and he con tinues to wander .till the show Jolla It is in this period that he is dan gerous to tho traveler, or, rather, to oertfun classes of travelers. He does not attack a government courier, as he knows he can and probably will be shot down without mercy, and besides, the coorier does not carry much money about him. The some reasons apply to travelers of the second d o s s ; officers on private business fmd not traveling en oourier, and the gome of the Sibe rian robber oonoists of the third class travelers—merchants—who are not often armed, -and far more likely to have large sums of money about them than are the officials. Beeide% the I robbery or death of on official would rrquse § very unpleasan t hue and cry, while &e same calamity to a merchant would: ho—J\rall it would not m a ^ ao mneb-troaU^ fpr the tramp.;— 1f^. JTnofl? Mujtiiifar, Picture o f the Ozar. And (t Description of the L.tte Wklch H« My friend the messenger was on his way to St. Petersburg in the autumn of last year, when bis train stopped at a small Bussian way station and was shunted off upon a side track. The station yard, was filled with soldiers, filing off into lines along the main The messenger let down his window and put out his head to discover the cause of the delay. A spldier said something to him in Russian, then pointed his gun at his head. A travel ing companion pulled the messenger back, saying: “You don’t understand Russian, eh ? That man told you that if you didn’t shut the window and pull down the curtain he would blow you brains out.” Naturally the window came u}> and the curtain came down. They sat thus in the darkened com partment .for a quarter of an hour. Then, with a prodigious rattle and roar, there flashed by them on the main track a short express train. Twenty minutes more another rushed past in the same direction. Then, af ter some minutes, the soldier shouted to them that they might lift the blind, and they resumed their journey. In quiry revealed that the czar had passed them on his way to the Skierniwioe meeting, and that these precautions were ordered all along the line. No one knew which of the trains bore him. A PIOTtJKE OP THE CZAK. The czar himself seems to have m any flatterers, but no friends. I have talked, I daresay, at one time or another, with a score of people who have m e t him and are fairly qualified to judge what manner of man he is. Almost invariably he is described as a big, burly, bearish sort of man^ strange ly unlike any of his more recent cestors on either side, and with a face of a curious Teuton-Tartar type, pic turesque but unpleasant. He has vast physical strength, of the blacksmith sort, and has the kind of mind which not infrequently goes with that order of body—slow, honest, obstinate, con fiding •where faith is reposed, suspic ious everywhere else. In a way George I I I must have been of the same nature. He was, with Louis XVI, rather contemptuously celebrated by his contemporary critics as one of the two faithful husbands among the sov ereigns of Europe, Good husbands seem to make bad kings. The present czar is said io be a most devoted and single minded spouse—the first of his race. He is par excellence a family man, to whom the highest happiness would be the home circle, if he were allowed to have a home. His tastes are simple; he eats plainly and heav ily ; before the burden of empire came upon him he used to be a great sleeper, a mighty hunter, a bluff friend of the few he liked, a hater of formalities, diplomacy, and politics generally—in short, a good, wholesome, rough plebe ian prince, stupid and choleric but honest and true. Fate never played on mortal a cruder trick than when she suddenly hurled upon the load of czarsbip. To be absolnte master of over 100,000,000 of human beings is in itself a task of inconceiv able magnitude. When, further, the task is complicated by organized rob bery among officials and organized murder among subjects, by continual necessity of provoking war by aggres- s i ^ abroad and ceaseless terror of assassination at home— becomes simply impossible. A LIFE OF TEEEOE. A less stubborn and less conscien tious man than the czar would have cut his throat long ago under the frightfuj load imposed upon him. He suffers and sticks to his post. He does no good to himself or any body else. His wife is a pale specter of her former seif, looking old enough to be the mother of her older, but marvelously preserved, sister, the Princess of Wales, worn and gray- haired with her life of fright. . Their eldest son, the czarowiiz, a boy of 18, is in a decline from which there is little hope of recovery—simply terri fied out of his life. But the czar still manfully tries to be czar. The task is beyond him. If there could be a man made up of Bismarck, Washington, Bonaparte and Tamerlane put on the Russian throne, perhaps he could hold bis place and compel Sue- The present czar lives in the dazed nightmare of terror which paralyzes a prisoner under indefinite sentence of death. .Any moment the messenger of the ax may appear. ^ He cannot sleep ; when he eats^ it is as an animal, not as the master of the world’s cpstliest cui sine. H etties to work, without under- stimding the things he does or caring for them. He looks into 'every man’s face for a sign of murderous knowl edge; He trusts nothing—^nobody. The gulf between what he is and what be is supposed to be is so abysmal— the joke of being at once the most powerful man on earth and the poor est hunted slave in existence is so grim ly horrible^that he becomes a mad man almost in the effor t to comprehend the two extremes. The longing to as sert himself, to put to the teet his an- tocraoy, drives him to wild and fooluh measures. His whole course toward his hated eoumn, the Battenberg, and I the Bulgarians has*been that of a crazy mao. People who know Rasmabest expect that his brain will give way ‘under the strain long before we have hsard'the laat of the Bulgarian qaes- 'tiom—Zion<$an CoTi E ite York TtmiA Odd Men In th e Woods. L,uiulMW»Ch«FperB of the IVorthvre Cut Out fer a DlStMent X4fe. In the course o f the interesting chat with Mr. John Hancock, Jr., of Wisconsin, which appeared a few weeks ago, reference was made, inci dentally, to the odd charaicters met among the lumbermen of the North west. When asked for some particu lars regarding these men Mr. Han cock told of several whom he had met in the woods, the details o f whose careers giye a new insight into the life of the great lumber region. “ One of the real geniuses I met in the woods,” he said, “ was a man whom we called Sailor Bill, as he had been a sailor before he be< lumberman. He was marked by a long, ugly scar, reaching from one eye across his nose and to the corner of his mouth. He was not over 35 years old and was very intelligent. When he was sober he claimed to be a Vermonter, when he was a little under the influence of liquor he said he wasJSoFn in Italy, and when he was more than half seas over he in- yaiiably insisted that he was a full blooded Irishman, born in Dublin. H e was the best-hearted m a n I ever met. His story was very interesting. When 9 years of age he ran away and went to sea as a cabin boy. For years he was knocked and kicked about, but he pluckily kept at it for eighteen years. During most of this time he made himself proficient in French and Spanish and kept a diary of what he saw and experienced. The way he came to leave the sea in cluded the story of his ugly scar. He was boatswain of the ship he was with and they were sailing from Mel bourne to San Francisco. Bad winds prevailed, the passage was [slow, and provisions began to run short. The Captain began to get scared and put the crew on short rations. They re belled, appointed Bill leader, and re solved to take the ship. He, as spokesman, accosted the mate and told him the men must have full tions. He and the men were ordered back to work, and at their refusal the mate suddenly pulled out a dirk-knife and slashed it across Bill’s face. The two men clinched, and the next thing was that the mate was dead. The Captain and several others were then tied up and the mutineers had the ship to themselves. They managed to reach San Francisco, and the moment they struck the dock they jumped ashore without fastening their vessel and scattered as best they could. Bill then went into the mining region, and one day was surprised to come across a notice that $500 was offered for his head. He at once made arrange ments to change localities, and drove a mule team overland. “ One of the nicest men I met among the lumbermen—you will be surprised to hear o f such a man doing such work—was an Englishman who was an Oxford graduate and belonged to one ol the oldest families. He was about 25 years old, a fine artist, and spoke four or five languages. He was a big, powerful man, but a perfect gentleman always, and was a man whom all the men looked up to. He perfers the life and follows it from choice. He is sure o f enough proper ty from his family to make him rich. He left his home because of a disa- j;reement with his father for taking the part o f a brother who had incur red the “governor’s displeasure. He is a man of wonderful nerve, and works as hard and as regularly as the rest of the men chopping. A very odd character and a regu lar dare-devil was an Irishman named William Seymour, whom we called Black Bill, because o f his very dark, swarthy complexion. He was of me dium size, but remarkably powerful, and a wonderful chopper. I remem ber one day in spring, a week or so before we broke camp, wc were work ing near the river, and the two men who sawed in two the logs Bill chop ped decided to ‘ run’ him—that is, to work so fast cutting up his trees that he could not keep ahead of them. Bill saw what they weie up to, and then for .two hours there was some of the liveliest work ever done in those woods. During that time Bill worked like a steam engine, and for every cut ’the two men made he chopped down a tree. It was a remarkable performance, and in the two hours he chopped down :about fifty trees, some o f iiirhicli were as much as two feet in thickness. ,Bill was very popular with the men [and ever ready to lend a helping hand. One day the foreman fell off a log in- fto the river and got undcr^ a jam of ilogs, managing, however, to get to a ispot where he could keep his .head out of water. Bill heard his cries, and rush ing over-in the logs in the jam . suc ceeded in guiding the foreman to a place where he could get out. One ]of his peculiarities was that he would pequently go out chopping in the snow in his stocking feet. I “ Qn the Menomonee one 'winter I met a peculiar character. He was a Canadian, educated to be a doctor, but who had become a lumberman on account o f poor health, brought on by H e was a yeiy pluOky fellow, one time knocking out the big gest man of the camp—a fellow twice his size—^because o f some insult. He was peculiar for his kindheartedness. One night, when a comrade had been ■ injured by a falling limb, he walked twenty miles for a doctor and returned the same night, but only to find the injured man dead. He is now foreman for a big firm in the Lake Superior country. “ T h e moft'interesting character I came across, and whose life was the saddest, wasHarveyBruere, who was about 57 years old and a lawyer, . formerely of. New Jersey. H e was a chopper, and was a large six-footer with square shoulders and a handsome face and figure. His parents died leaving him 020,000, and he went to St. Louis and quickly lost all but $500 in a mining bubble. W ith this he started tramping which he kept at for two years. W hile South he learned to chop in the cypress swamps o f Ar kansas, and he was a year there. During the time, while out of the woods on a short vacation, he brought a fine suit of clothes, and, having a little money, he went to live in a ho tel of a city near-by, just to ^ see how it would seem to try his former life again. While there his gentlemanly appearance and ways made a very fav orable impression, and he became ac quainted with a handsome daughter of' ■bne o f the leading ond wealthy busi ness-men of the place. H e did not tell her his true position or circum stances, and soon the two were des perately in love with each other. But soon his money gave out, and he had to tell her how poor he was. Like the noble girl she was, she told him that did not matter. But being a conscientious fellow, he determined to speak also to the father, and he promptly refused to allow him to see the girl again. Means w e re tak e n to see that he shouldn’t and he resolved to lose his disappointment in the woods. But he could n o t: it preyed on his mind; he became consumptive, and,died in a Str Louis hospital. He was indeed a splendid fellow .”—New York Mail and Express. Security Against Fire. Forest, Forge and Farm. The question now arises: What remedies are to be applied, aud how- many country houses be rendered more secure against fire, without en tirely reconstructing them. The sim plicity of the directions are very likely to lead to their neglect. Old chimneys should bo “pointed up” from top to bottom; that is, the joints in the bricks should be filled with fresh mor tar. When the flues ere large they should be plastered inside as well as out. Sometimes round tiles can be put in so as to make continuous flues. These are safe and give an excellent draught. The essential point is to make the chimney tight and keep it BO ; this is imperative, if safety is to be secured. Wood work must not be allowed to come against flues aud chimneys in such a way as to cause it to feel hot or •warm to the touch. Six inches clear space between a stove-pipe and a beam or partition is none too great. A sheet of zinc is not a pro tection unless it has an air space in addition. Dig into beams, etc., that have been long exposed io beat and see what condition the timber is in. If charring has begun it.is high time to reform the construction. Take up ashes only in metal vessels, and if a metal barrel or its equivalent can not be bad carry the ashes at once to a store-house, which should be of brick or stone, or made fireproof by some method of construction. A barrel plastered inside is better than one with no protection. In these days when spices and many other things of the kind are put up in tin boxes or cans no excuse exists for keeping matches [in wood or paper packages. When in tin boxes they\ are out of the way of mice. To leave them scattered upon mantles or tables is a criminal act, which too frequently brings its own punishment. Sponta neous combustion does not often occur in country houses, but barns are fre quently destroyed by heating of wet hay, or struck by lightning on ac count of the column of steam and vapor which rises from their damp and heat ing contents. When hay goes into the bam in a damp condition the far mer runs great risks which he can not well afford to take. The lightning-rod should have a large and heavy metallic connection with damp earth, and this should be inspected frequently to make sure that rust has not destroyed the rod and converted it into a source of danger. Every house should be provided with some kind of a portable force-pump, capable of throwing a stream of water twenty-five or thirty feet. The pumps which can be attached to a pail and'' used for watering gardens lemswer the }urposeurpose perfectly,ectly, except that a h< and s ^ p le p perf eighteen or twenty should be provided. With sucl heap and simple apparatus water can . « throvm in between beams, behind chimneys, and into all the nooks and oromuea that can not be reached with a pail or dipper. In such places fires start, and though their position is of ten seen, the householder stands help less for want of some means of throw ing a few capfuls of water upon ihe smoldering places. It too frequently happens in ■winter lat a single pail of water in the kitch- t sink is the only supply at hand if a fire should be discovert. In mills, paOs are set in stated places and kept always filled. The suggestion is a good one for farmers. A few extra pails of water at night or in the day time form a very good and cheap in surance. In conclusion, it -is safe to say that carelessness is the great, in- oendiary, and that watchfulness is as . .good as an insuranoe policy. A WxsTXBN scientist has been con ducting experiments, with the greatest , seereoy, for three months, in the navy [ yard St Washington, for the purpose of perfecting a dynamite cartridge which can be used in cannon, mortars and smoU. oxinB. The experiments promise success and the Secretary of the Navy I m seen the exclusive use o f t ^ i n v eintioQ i ' for the government.
