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On the morning preceding his intended raid on the closet, he put an ingredient in the 01d lady’s medicine to make her sleep soundly. Instead of leaving the chateau, he secreted himself in the library, and, when all was still, went upstairs and listened at the old lady’s bed-room door. He unlocked the door of the adjacent room with the du- plicate key and entered. A faint light was One day he brought a. small portmantcau into her parlor and begged the use of her keyfi, as he said he had lost the one to the portmanteau. He managed to take an im» pression in wax of the key to the outer door of the room which she had formerly slept in and of the key of the closet. Her valuables were stowed away in a large closet in her bed-room, and this she always kept locked. ; St. Dinan resolved to possess himself, as a. first step, of some jewelry which he knew she possessed. First of all, he induced her to remove her bed into an adjoining room, ale it had better ventilation, at the same time showing her that the con- necting door could be open, and that all her property would be as safe as though in the room where she slept. The old lady was greatly pleased with this kind of talk, and the result was that Dr. St. Dinan was a daily visitor at her res- idence, and, being able to furnish her with many antidotes to growing feebleness which were not know to the oldâ€"fashioned doctor who had previously attended her, he soon obtained great influence over her. If the remarkable incidents which follow had not been brought to light in a. court of justice, they would have been incredible. St. Dinan soon spent most of his time at the chateau, and was freely consulted by Mme. Trevoux 011 business and other matters be- sides her health. She was a, wonderfully able and acute woman, and somewhat as- tonished St. Dimm with her reedy wit and cunning. He handled her with great judg- ment, however, and in due time began to F111; in operation those plans which he had ong before formed. “ Madame,” said he, “ you have a splendid constitution, and if you follow good medical :dvice, you may live for many, many years. I have no hesitation in saying that I can i1» sure twenty more years of life for a certain» ty, though of course you may live much longer." q The lawyer acquiesced in this sentiment, and it didn’t surprise Charles when, in the course of a week, he was summoned to pre- scribe for Mme. Trevoux. This was what he was aiming at all along. He was very successful in building up the old lady, who was in utter ignorance of his relationship to herself. “ If I could secure three or four wealthy patients,” said Charles, “that would go a. very great way towanl insuring to me proa- perity. ” N OW, the lawyer had asked three tirhes as much for the house and land as they were worth, and Charles St. Dinan well knew it; but he was playing a bold game, and the lawyer’s geod offices were necessary to his success. He did not go to Paris, but he Went to Reims instead. Here he began to practice his profession as physician. He called on Monsieur Jugon, Mme. Trevoux‘s lawyer, and consulted him as to a, small property be- longing to Mme. Trevoux which he thought of buying, and in which, of course, the law- yer was interested. He spoke to the lawy er as though he had a. large sum of money at his command. “ I shall stay here if there is any likeli- hood of my succeeding.” he said, “ and if I regglve tq stay I will b_uy _thi_s Properfiy.” \Vhen Charles returned home he reported that his aunt was likely to live for twenty years longer, that she had adopted a. girl to Whom all her property would descend, and that there was no chance of the Le Brienne family profiting in any way by her demise. Shortly after this he made known his resoâ€" lution of going to Paris and endeavoring to secure a. position on an investigation com- mission Which was going to explore certain parts of Africa. \Vhen M. Trevoux died a consultation was held among the relatives of Mme. Tre- voux as to the best course to pursue, so as to secure for themselves her wealth at her death. It was finally arranged that Charles St. Dinan should go to Champagne and see how the land lay. He was to take every means to preserve his incognito, and to re- turn as soon as possible with a. full and ac- ourate account of all things pertaining to the widow, who was now verging on eighty and in the ordinary course of nature could not last long. When Charles reached Reims he learned that she was avarieious and grasping and that her only thought was to hoard money and to live as long as possible. She lived in good style, but kept no company, and was seldom visited by any one except her lawyer. Her property, so far as could be ascertained, was chiefly in rents and stocks, though the estate on which she lived was Worth probably a quarter of a. million of francs. Near the small town of Decise, in Niver- nois, France, the family of La. Brianne had resided for many generations. After the Revolution they were greatly reduced, but lived in Me old chateau, positively refusing to cast off their pride and engage in any oc- cupation that might yieldjemolument. It must not be supposed that the brothers and sisters of Mme. Trevoux had failed to watch with envy and regret the growing wealth of their relativeâ€"with envy, because it was an ingredient in their nature, and with regret, because they had cast her off and her prosperity would never benefit them. At the time of M. Trevoux’s death one brother of Mme. Trevoux was living~~ Henrimbut his three children and the seven sons and daughters of two sisters were all occupants of the chateau, existing in the same way in which their predecessors had existed. Charles St. Dinan, ason of the sister, had studied medicine, but he was not allowed by his relatives to practice his profession, and, at the age of thirty, was passing his life in idleness at Deeise. Marguerite, one of the Elaughters, alienat- ed her fumily from her forever by marrying a clerk in a. mercantile house, and her name was never mentioned by any member of the family. But Marguerite’s husband rose step by step, until he became a partner in his firm, and then planted himself in Paris, where he rapidly acquired an immense for- tune. In 1865 he retired from business, and he and his wifeâ€"all their children having diedâ€"went to reside near Reims. In 1882 Monsieur Trevoux died, and his Widow came into possession of all his estate, valued at many millions of francs. AN OLD LADY’S CUNNING. Then she secretly dispatched a letter to Ceylon, to a. M. Leconte, who had fermerly been a. clerk in her husband’s employment. M. Leconte obeyed theurgent summons, and in due time secretly reached Reims. If she disclosed. her mistrust in any way, how easy for him to poison her. True, she had never taken his medicine since that night, but then there might be many ways known to a physician of introducing poison into the human system of which she was ignorant. So she resolved to disarm all suspicion on the doctor’s part by treating him with the utmost apparent confidence. It is not needful to recount all the conver- sation between these two rascals. Jugon recommended the return of what St. Dinan had stolen, as the loss might be discovered. He disclosed to St. Dinan how he had be- came thoroughly acquainted with the se~ crets of the chateau, when a. boy, as he was the son of the former steward, and how he had recently ascertained Where Mme. Tre~ voux kept her valuable papers, etc. He had procured a, duplicate key to the closet, and had Within three months removed stocks of great value and replaced them with papers of no velue. Now he thought it was nearly time to clear out What was left, then they could quit the country be- fore the theft was discovered. Ever since the circumstance of the missâ€" ing leather case the mind of Mme. Trevoux had been on the rack. She had searched her closet and had discovered the fact that the stocks had been abstracted and worth less papers substituted. Some one, she knew, who had her confidence was robbing her, and her suspicions fell upon the doctor. He pointed to a. thick wooden door, which he opened with a. brass key, and they passed into a small coppice. “ You have no hat,” said J ugon. “ That is true,” replied St. Dinan. "How far am I from the chateau '3” ” Go up to the end of the coppice, climb a. low wall, and you will be in the garden,” said Jugon. “ No one will think it strange for you to he in the garden hatless. Then get a. hat and come and join me.” “ Follow me, then,” said Jugon, and they passed through the open panel, which Jug- on closed. They descended a, stair in the wall and soon reached an underground pas- sage, at the entrance to which stood a. lamp. Takingr the lamp, Jugon led the way, and in a. few minutes they reached a floor. 011 touching a spring the door opened, and they entered a small chamber of solid masonry. “ See,” said Jugon, as the door clohed, “ you could not tell it from one of the huge blocks which form the wall. This is the ice house, and our way out is through that door.” Dinsm ; heard. ” “ In making all We can out of Mme. Tre- voux,” was the reply. “ Agreed,” said St. Dinan ; “ here is my hand upon it.” And the rogues shook hands upon their nefarious bargain. “ What have you got ‘2” asked the lawyer. “ Let us get away from here,” said St. “ I think,” said he, “ we are both on the sap}? misgion. Lg_t_ us. wqrfik tggethep” r H “ In what way ?”‘asked St. Dviuan,”rapidly losing his figsumqgi dignity. St. Dinan could say nothing, and the two men looked at each other. The lawyer, who was the more accomplished villain, was the first to understand the situation. “ You came hither by a secret door,” said St. Dinan. “I czime to wa-fch you,” was the answer, but the lawyer’s lips were very dry, and he found it hard to enunciate. “And how did you come?” the lawyer asked. “What means this ‘2” he asked, looking at the Lawyer sternly._ He relocked the closet and was ready to quit the room, when he heard a. click. Turn- ing hastily he saw a panel in the wainscot- ted Wall move inward, and the next moment Lawyer Jugon stepped into the room. Bdth mefi were Tor a moment paralyzed with astonishment, and both grew first pale then red. St Dinan recovered himself first. Almost a. month passed before St. Dinan ventured on another attempt at robbery. It was Mme, Trevoux’s custom fito keep her sleeping apartment and dressing room unv cler lock and key all the time and never to let a domestic enter except in her presence. During the day she spent her time in a small suite of parlors on the ground floor overlooking the front garden, which was arranged in terraces, along which she occa- sionally strolled. St. Dinan, afraid of an- other experience similar to the former, and fearful of using a drug to stupefy the old lady, resolved to attempt to get at the val- uable contents of the closet by daylight. \Vhile the domestics were at dinner he reached the room in safety. He ransacked the closet and stowed away in his pockets several valuable jewels and a large roll of notes of the Bank of France. St. Dinan expressed great surprise, but advised her to say nothing to any one about it, for he was afraid of her mentioning it to Lawyer J ugon, Whose suspicions might; be amused. After waiting for about ten minutes St. Dinan stepped cautiously toward the bed and peered at the occupant. There was no doubt that she was asleep, and by her side lay the leathern case. Sn. Dinan was then satisfied that she had walked in her sleep, and was still under the effects of the power- ful soporific which he had given her. He lluitted the room and left the chateau by a. private door Which led into the gardens. \Vhen he reached home he opened the case, Which was simply clasped. and found it empty! Next day, on visiting Mme. Tre- voux, he found her in a state of great ner- vous prostration. She told him that the previous night she had dreamed that some one was robbing her and that she must have arisen in her sleep and procured a certain leather case in which she had a large sum of money and notes. \Vhen she awoke in the morning, she found the bundle of notes lying in the bed beside her, but the case was gone. On examining the place where she usually kept it, it was not there. \Vhile he was standing in the middle of the room, in a listening attitude, he heard a noise which indicated that Mme. Trevoux was arising from bed. He haatily hid him- self behind the window curtains. The next moment Mme. Trevoux, in her nightdress, stalked into the room, with a bunch of keys in her hand. She went straight to the closet, opened it and rumaged about. Then she brought forth a large leathern case. Laying it on the floor, she relocked the door, and, lifting the case, returned to her room. St. Dinan heard her get into bed, and all was silent. burning in the bed-room, sufficient in make him see what he was about. “ire may 'be discovered _or over~ Hard is the fate of the New York Alder- mnnic corruptionists. The latest to go to Sing Sing, “ Honest” John O'Neil, was) fiftyâ€"six years of age, He has never used tobacco orliqunr in any form, an abstinence which doesn’t seem to have been morally beneficial. As he fell into line for the luck- step in the convict procession, now really a. member of the gang, his hand rested on the shoulder of a burly negro‘ That to an O’Neil must have been the unkindest cut of all. William Beach has been offered $10,000 to come to America and row Hanlan and Gaudaur. It is thouyht that he will decline the oflbr. He prizes the championship so highly that he will take no extra. chances with it. His favorite course is the Parm- matta, where good luck came to him.â€"Turf, Fieid and Fetrni. A Smart Alic‘kutionist. BY BILL NYE. I have heard a. great many people speak the piece, beginning, “ To be or not to be,” but Mr. Booth does it better than anyone I have ever heard. I once heard an elocution- istâ€"kind ot a smart Alickutionist, as my friend, the Hoosier poet, would say. This man recited “ To be or not to be” in a. man- ner which, he said, frequently brought tears to eyes unused to weep. He recited it with his right hand sucked in his bosom up to the elbow, and his fair hair tossed about over his brow. His teeming brain, which claim- ed to be a. kind of a four-horse teaming brain, as it were, seemed to be on fire, and to all appearances he was indeed mad. So were the people who listened to him. He hissed it through his clenched teeth and snorted it through his ripe. red nose, Wailed it up into the ceiling and bleatcd it down the aisles, rolled it over and over against the rafters of his reverberating mouth, handed it out in big capsules, or hissed it through the puckered atomizer of a mouth, Wniled and bellowed like a Wild and madden- ed tailless steer in fly time, darted across the stage like sheadless hen, ripped the gentle atmosphere into shreds with his guinea hen voluntary, bowed to us, and teetered off the stage. “ God pity a good, clever man who has a. forked-tongued wife.” “ I have nothing against; D.D.’s. I expect to be one myself one of these days. Not that I am going up but I think D. D.’s are coming down. “You hypocrites, you! You are lying when you say you take liquor for your health. You drink it because you like it. If I were a doctor I would not prescribe whiskey for a man until he had been dead three hours. “ Ignorance is round as a. bifll and slick as a button ; it has no handle on it and you’ll never know where to find it; next time. “God bores through the brain, then down through the heart until he strikes the pocketâ€" book. He doesu’t begin at the bottom and bore up. What would he do with the dirt ? “ If I wanted to muster an army that the devil would not let into perdition until he had disbanded them and let them in one at a time, I would beat the long roll at the bar-rooms of the land. In speaking of a. typical opponent of the laws requiring unday observance, he said : “ Put a, knife in him and four gallons of beer Will run out. “ When you have a. law on yoii’r statute books that you can’t enforce you have an- archism already begun ; when you have a. law that you Won’t enforce communism is already established. A community that does not enforce one law may come to the time when it can’t enforce, one. “ The worst enemy God has today is whiskey, and the preacher that does not speak his mind on the subject is the most worthless preacher in the world. “ Stagnation is the last stage this side of damnation and most of‘you have got there. u ‘17! A ' ’ L""J " """”‘D”' “ I’ve thought sometimes that if a. preach- er were only sugar and milk I would fold his church about him ; he would make some of the nicest ice cream in the world. They put a preacher in the ice box and then curse him because he won’t sweat. “I’d 33 soon fly to make a. circus tent out of my coat, as to try to get a. suit of religion out of the spirit of some prayer zp_eetings. _ “Show me a man who doesn’t believe and I’ll show you a. Weakling. Faith is the traces on a horse, pulling the load ; doubt; is the holding back straps. Infidelity is Mr. Nobody going nowhere. Just a great big mouth. 7‘ About half the church is to be nothing, nothing,’ and mightyfiear God’s truth. “G6d’s storehouses are all along the pafh- way of a, good man. I go to church for marching orders, not for rations. “ The great difference between Bob Inger- 5011 and many Methodists and Baptists is that Ingersoll says, ‘I don’t believe this and I won’t have anything to do with it,’ and the others say, ‘I do believe this7 and don’t have anything to do with it. Another dif- ference is that Ingersoll gets $500 a. night ; the others get nothing and board themselves. “ There “are too Ifi’any men in this World trying to take a. right out on a straight road. “ Man’s power to love determines his im- mqptizplity. “ Every man is a freeman until he reaches the boundary line of license. As soon as he passes that he is a.- slave of the {iefapggt dye. ‘ “I don’t care what you preach in Boston, some one will be with you, for every belief and disbelief under the sun is there repre- sented. “ I Mn not orthodox. I believe that man is a lost sinner and Jesus Christ a divine Saviour. If I talk with a, man and be ad- mits that two and two are four, I will under- take to teach him mathematics. If he says two and two are six, I won’t argue Wi'h him. Sc. Dinan had nothing to say. He plead- ed that he was Mme. Trevoux’s nephew, and confessed his association with Jugon in the crime. Jugon was speedily captured and most of ths stocks were recovered. Mme. Trevoux’s nephew told the story in court as it is told here, and he and Jugou were sent to prison for ten years each. “M. St. Dinan,” said Leconte, “ I am Mme. Trevoux‘s friend. This is the chief of police; Mme. Trevoux has been robbed of valuable property, and We have reason to suspect you ? What have you to say '3” the chief of police and arranged with him to be at the chateau at a certain hour. When St. Dinzm arrived, as usual, Mme. Trevoux received him graciously. Then entered Le- con’ce and the chief. The business was brief. â€"Wh6f hrfiifiwihfifinédyof 'th‘é‘éiréumf stanc'eg 9f Ehe _x_-ob ery he quiegly _w_9.ip§d on SAM JONES’ SAYINGS. singing ‘ Oh it turns out Of this all-important episode in his ear. eer, he seidzâ€"“I am the first and only minister that Plymouth church has had since the first day of its organization. Of my career since assuming this pastorate. I prefer not to talk. It is familiar to every- one, and I would rather be known by my words. How didI come to be a preacher? It was fate,.I suppose ; that’s all. I do not think that I can honestly assign any other reason. I took to preaching, as did all of my brothers, simply because nobody ever dreamed of my father’s boys doing anything else. That’s all there is to it.” MR. BEEOIIER’S LAsr mucous. For the last month or so Mr. Beecher has been busily engaged in writing the second volume of the “Life of Christ.” He has been closely confined at his work, as he wished to finish it for publication in early summer. He has not been away from his house since his return from Europe, except to run up to Peekskill and his country seat for a. day at atime. The close confinement wore on him. - Mrs. Beecher tried to induce him to take exercise but he refused. Mr. Beecher had frequent bilious attacks. On Sunday, February 27th, he preached two remarkably vigorous sermons. On Tuesday he went to Peekskill and returned on VVed- nesday. He had a slight headache, but thought nothing of it. He worked all day on his book and went out in the evening with Mrs. Beecher. On Thursday the two came over to New York together to buy furniture for the church parlour. After a day in the city they returned home, and during Thursday the venerable preacher was seized with the first symptoms of his illness as previously reported. HIS LAST SERMON. Mr. Beecher's last sermon was concluded in these words :â€"“ “’0 are all marching thither. We are going home. Men shiver at the idea that they are going to (lie ; but this world is only a nest. We are scarcely hatched out of it here. We do not know ourselves. We have strange feelings that His Wife to Whom he here alludes. was born at \Vest Sutton, \Vorehester, 00., Mass. , in 1812. She was of English descent. Her father, Dr. Ballard, was a. physician. Her maiden name was Eunice \Vhite Bul- lard, The lovers were engaged for seven years, and were married in 1837, when Mr. Beecher accepted his first call at Lawrence- burg. The issue of the marriage was ten children, of Whom four are at present living. CALL TO PLYMOUTH CHURCH. It was almost by accident that Mr. Beech- er came to Brooklyn. “hat is new Ply- mouth church had first been organized into a. new Congregational 'uhureh. The first services were to be held on the 16th of May, 1847. He happened to be in New York at the time,‘ and was asked to preside at the opening of the new church. He did so. A few months later he was called to the pas- torate, and on the 10th of October, in the same year, he entered upon his duties. At the age of 21 Mr. Beecher received his degree and went to Lane Seminary at Cinv cinnati to study theology. Graduating from that institution he went to Lawrenceburg, a little place on the Ohio River, and preached to his first congregation. Of this dismal be- ginning of his illustrious career he said :â€" “How poor we were! ’lhere were only about twenty persons in the flock. I was janitor as well as pastor of the little White- washed church. I bought some lamps and filled them and lighted them. I swept the church and dusted the benches and kindled the fire, and I didn’t ring the bell only be- cause there wasn’t any. Well, my next move was to Indianapolis. There I had a, more considerable congregation, though I was still far from rich in the world’s goods. I believe I was very hapyy during my eight veers’ stay out there. I liked the people. They were new peopleâ€"unlearned and un- cultured, like the land they lived on, but they were earnest and honest and strong. But the agile shook us out of the State. My wife‘s health gave way and we were forced to come East.” Ills Own Account of his Early Life. The history of Henry Ward Beecher is re- markable and worthy the man. His birth and early history can be no better told than in his own words, given not quite a year ago: “I was present, of course,” he said, “ when I was born, but I haven’t the slight~ est recollection of the event. I learned sub sequently that it was at Lichfield on June 24, 18:3. My childhood was perhaps no dif- ferent from that of others seventy years ago. The little ones in those days were not given the consideration that is now accorded them and properly so. I didn’t have any jumping~ jacks, nor tops, nor marbles, nor toys of any kind. It doesn’t seem to me that I knew any boys to play with either. \Ve lived in a part of the village where there didn’t seem to be any boys, and so I was let alone. My father was kept busy with his pastoral duties, and my mother had so many other children to attend to that little attention was paid to me. Occasionally the parental government would reach me. Sometimes my father would whip me. I remember that he used to tell me that the whipping hurt him more than it did me. It was hard to believe, because he was a strong man, but I believed it, and it used to make me cry to be told so ; then, of course, I had to cry when the whipping began, and all in all, those were very doleful times. HIS SOHOOLDAYS. About this time, he said in his droll way, his family woke up to the fact that he needed looking after, and he was sent to Hartford and was placed under charge of his sister, who was principal of a girls’ school there. He was the only boy among forty girls, and this perhaps dampened his ardour for know- ledge, for he declared that his time there was almost misspent. He was- shortly sent to the Latin school and that oppressed. , him. He was restless and strangely unhap» py. Of this period in his life he said 2â€"- “ My father let me read the stories of Nel- ‘ son and Capt. Cooke. The adventure fever . that often seizes boys took hold of me. had all sorts of fancydrawn pictures of what i I might do in the jungles and deserts of the . Orient. I decided that I must run away to ‘ sea, and had actually made all arrangements when my father discovered my plan. He did not oppose me, strange as it may seem. He advised me to go to Mount Pleasant an- demy at Amherst, and prepare myself by the study of navigation and mathematics for seafaring life, and to Mount Pleasant I went, and in a little while I forgot all about my boyish freak. There I did study, and when I left I was fitted to enter Amherst Col- lege.’ THE LATE HENRY WARD BEECHER. HIS FIRST CONGBEGATION Mercury is evening star until March 21, and after that time becomes morning star. 021 the 5th of March, at 11 o’clock in the evening, he reaches his greatest eastern elongation, between. eighteen degrees and fourteen minutes east of the sun. He is then at his greatest distance from the sun and under the most favorable conditions that will occur during the year for bein seen with the naked eve. Intelligent an careful observers will be sure to find him, and a sight of the swift-footed planet is worth all the trouble it costs. Mercury sets on the 5th, an hour and a half after the sun. He must be looked for in the west, about three-quarters of an hour after sun- set, and will be Visible not only at his esst~ ern elongation ou the 5th, but for a week before and after that event, though swift of foot and fleet of wing, he changes his posi- tion at every appearance. Observers should note carefully the point of the horizon where the sun went down. Mercury will be found on the 5th nine degrees north of that point, and in a. northeast direction of the sun. Venus will be an excellent guidein pointing out his position, for on the 5th she is less than five degrees southeast of him. An op- era glass sweeping the sky northwest of Ve- nus will be sure to bring Mercury into the field, and his position being thus fixed he will be readily visible to the unassisted eye. The western sky must be cloudless and the atmosphere clear to make the search suc~ cessful. ANOTHER DISEASE SPREADER. â€"At a meet- ing of the Caucasian Medical Society, Dr. A. P. Astvziizaturofi', of Teflis, drew atten- tion to the danger of infection arising from the promiscuous use of the mouth-pieces of public telephones. To prevent any accident of _the kind, he recommends that the mouth- piece should be disinfected every time after, or, still better, before it is used. In other words, some disinfectant fluid should be kept at every telephone station ; and the speaker should, first of all, dip the mouth- piece into the fluid, and then wipe it with a clean towel. Seed grain is now being distributed by the Dominion Government among various portions of the N orth-West. The employes of a. “ tied-up” street rail- way are frequently to be seen upon the streets in knots. Of course the problem of “ fewer hours for wage workers” will sooner or later reach a. satisfactory solution. Itis only a question of time. One who delights in carrying a, perfumed handkerchief is seldom without a scentis his pocket. “ This is the unkindest cut- of awl,” as the cobbler said when he carelessly Wound- ed himself upon the finger. \Vhat funny things we see as we sit by the window, afterthe lamps have been light- ed, and watch the shadow pantomincs on the curtains across the street. Loose management of his business afl'uirs will eventually get one into a. tight place. Is it to be assumed that parsimony is un- known alnong the members of a Liberal party ‘2 How can the man who gives you his prom- ise be expected to keep it? High and dryâ€"A thirsty individual in a. seventh floor apartment. A Paris-Iteâ€"A native of the French capi- tal. - In about half an hour he returned and ex- hibited a. bank check for $25, and asked the officer where he could get it cashed. “ Nowhere. That check is worthless.” K‘ l)! “ Yes, it is. Where did you get it ‘1” “ Lent a. man $20 so that he could get off on his train, and he put on for interest." “ Didn’t I Warn you ?” “ You told me to look out for bed men, but this fellow wasn’t bad. He had over a. dozen religious tracts in his pocket, and he never swore nor chewed tobacco nor drank whiskey.” “ Well you’ve been swiml ed.” “ And it's all your fault. If you’d said look out for good men I’d have my twenty in my pocket now. The railroad has got to make it up to me or I’ll sue somebody. \Vhere’s the head foreman of the hull biz. ness? .1” “ Youâ€"you “I simply lexva my pocketbook in the barn 0’ nights instuzsd of my bedroom, and I haven’t missed a. dollar for weeks.” An innocent-lwking old man was waiting at the Third Street Depot for a train the other day, and as he got ready for a little walk around the neighborhood, Special Officer Button cautioned him to look out for bad then, ' “ YesÂ¥m11ch obleeged-â€"I‘ll do so,” re- pli_ed the old man, and off he went. “ Yes, your honor, but I do not believe I was then in my right mind. 1 know now that they were only imitation.”â€"â€"[New York Graphic. “I understand,” said the agent, “that you want a burglar alarm in your house.” “ I did talk of having: one awhile ago, but I’ve given it up.” “They are a nice thing." “.Yes, I suppose so; but they wouldn’t help my case any. I am not losing anything 110W ” Prisoner, do you admit that you stole thigflurse of diamonds ‘3” _ do not interpret themselves. The morta ‘ in us is crying out for the immortal. As in l the night the child, waking with some vague and nameless terror, (:1 ies out to express its fear and dread, end its cry is interpreted in the mother’s heart, who I'PIIS to the child and lays her hand upon it and quiets it to sleep again, so do you not suppose that the ear of God hears our disturbances and trials and tribulations in life ‘7 Do you not sup- pose that He who is goodness itself cares for you ? Do you suppose that He whose royal name is Love has less sympathy for you than a mother has for her babe ? Let the world rock. If the foot of God is on the cradle, fear not. Look up, take cour- age, hope, and hope to the end.” FIVE MINUTES FOR FUN. 7n 9n A Peep at Mercury. CAN HIS \VIFE EXPLAIN? A PHASE 0F DEMENTIA. A WRONG LOOKOUT.