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AN AMERICAN GIRL. Ij CHAPTEU VIII. bllABKa LOOKING ur. There were others who echoed her Udyahip'a worda afterward, thonjih they echoed them iirivately and witli moro cantion than my lady felt nocfssary. It ia certain that Miea Uctavia liASsett did not improve, aa time protjreaaed, and ebe had eular^^ed opportunitioa for utudying the noble example set before hnr by Hlowbridge. On hia arrival in Now York, Martin Baaaett telegraphed to hib daayhter and Bister, per Atlaatio cable, informing them that he mi)<ht be detained a couple of tnontha, and biddinji; them to be of jjood cheer. The arrival of the mesaa^jo, in itu oQloial envelope, au alarmed JUisa liulinda that abe wan eiippurlod by .Mary Anne while it waa read lo her by Octavia, who received it wiihout any aurpriao whatever. For Bome time after ila oompkrlion, Blow- bridge had privately disbeliuved in the Atlantio cable, and, until tliia occaaion, had certainly diabehovel in tliu existence of people who received meaaagea through it. In fact, on tirat tiuding that eho waa the recipient of suuh a meaaage, Miaa Belinda had made immediate preparationa for fainting ijuietly away, being fully convinced that a abipwreck had occurred, which bad resulted in brother's death and that bia exccutora bad uhoacn thia delicate method ot breaking the uewa. "A meaaa({u by Atlantic cable ?"aho had gaaped. "Dou't â€" don't read it, my love. li let Bome one elae do that. I'oor â€" poorohild 1 Truat in Providence, my love, andâ€" and biar up. Ah, how I wiah 1 had a atron)<er mind, and could be of moro service to jua." m" It ia n mceaa^e from father," aaid Ootavia. " Nothing ia the matter. lie'a all right, il'j gut iu un L^aturday." "Abl" paiitdd Miaa Belinda. "Are you tjuilf Bure, uiy dearâ€" are you ijuite eurcV " "That's what he says. Listen. " "Cjot iu Suturday. I'iper luot uio, hharoa lookiu^ up. Miiy ba ki-ia lit.ru twu luontha. Will wnto. Keep ui> your epiriiH. *â-  .MAUrlN IlA^Tl.l I, " Thank heaven ! " sighed Miaa Bitlinda. "Thank heaven ! " "Why?" said Oolavia. "Why?" echoed Miaa Belinda. "Ah, my dear, if yoo knew bow terrified I waa ; I {elt Bure that uumolhing had happened. A cable meaaage, my dear ! 1 never re- ceived a telegram in my life before, and to receive a cablf meaaage waa really a ih", k.' "Well, I don't aee why," aaid Ojtavia. " It B::ema to me it ia pretty much like any other meaaage." Miss Belinda regarded her timidly. "Doea your papa uj'ii n bunil them? " ahe inqaired. " Kurely it must be expenaive." " I don't Buppouu it'a cheap," Uctavia re- plied, "bat It aavea time and worry. I Bhoold have bad to wait twelve daya for a letter." " Very true," said Miaa Belinda," butâ€" " 8ho broke oil with rather a diatreaaod shake of the bead. Her simple ideaa <if economy and ijuiet living were fre<]uently npset in these times. >She had begun to re gard her nieoo with a alight feeling of awe, and yet Uctavia bad not been doing any- thing at all remarkable iu her own eyes, and considered her life pretty dull. If the elder Miss Baaaett, htr parents and grandparents, had not been so thoroaghly well known and ao univcraally respected ; if their social puaition had not been so tirmly eatabliabed, and tbeir ijuiet livee not >jaite ao highly retipectable, there is an awful puaaibiiity tb«i Hlowbridge might even have gone ao far aa not to aak Ootavia out to tea at all But even Lady Theobald felt that it would not do to alight JSelinda Baaaott'a niece and guest. To omit the cuatomary aiate teas would have been to crush iuuuceut Miaa Jtolinda at a blow, and plaoo herâ€" through the medium of thia young lady who, alone, deaervod condemnation - beyond the pale of all Booial law. " It ia only to be regretted," said her ladyahip, " that Belinda Baaaett has not arranged things bettor. Uelativoa of such an order are certainly to be deplored." In secret, Lucia felt much soft hearted aympathy for both Miaa llassott and her Kaest. bho could not help wondering how illBti Belinda became responsible for the calamity which had fallen upon her. It really did not seem probable that she had been previously (:3n9ulted aa to to the kind of niece she desired, ur that ehe had iu a distant manner, evinced a preference for a nfecn of this description. "I'erhapa, dear grandmamma," the girl ventnred, " it is becauao Miss Uctavia Baaaett ia bo young that ' " May I ask," inquired Lady Theobald, in (oil toma, " how old yon are ? " " I waa nineteen inâ€" in December." "Miss Octavia Baaaett," said her lady- ship, " was nineteen laat Ojtoher, and it la now June. I have not yet found it uoooa- Bary to apologi/.e for yoa on the soure of youth." But it was her ladyship who took the initiative and set au evening for entertain- ing Miss Belinda and her niece, in company with several other ladiee, with the best bohea, thin bread and butter, plum-oake and various other delicacies. " What do they do at Huch placea ? " asked Ootavia. " Ilalf paat 5 is pretty early." " We spend some time at the tea-table, my dear," explained Miaa Belinda. "And afterwards, weâ€" we converse. A lew of ua play whiat. I do not. I (eel as if I were not clever enough, and 1 get Harried too easily byâ€"by differences o( opinion." " I should think it waan'tvory exalting," said Octavia. " I don't fancy I ever went to an entertainment where they did noth- ing but drink tea and talk." " It is not our inteiiiioii or dcairu to be exciting, my dear," Miss Belinda replied, with mild dignity. "And an improving conversation is frequently moat bonelloial to the parties engaged in it." "I'm afraid," Ootavia observed, "that I never heard muoh improving con veraation." Hhe was really co fonder o( masoaliue Booiety than the generality o( girls, but ahe oonld not help wondering i( there would be Any young men present, and if, indeed, there were any young men in Hlowbtidgo who might possibly be produced npon feative oooasiona, even though ordinarily kept in the baokground. Bhe had not heard Miss Belinda mention aay maaonliue name, so far, but that of the curate nf Bt. Jamea', and, when she had aaen him pass the house, she had not found ilia alim black flgare and (aint ecolatiaatio â-  ui whiskers eapecially intereatiog. Ik muat be confessed that Miss Belinda Buffered many pangs of anxiety in looking forward to her young kinswoman's hral appearance iu Dociety. A tea at Lady Tticobald'a houae constituted formal pre- aentation to the Slowbridge world. Each young lady, within the pale of genteel society, having arrived at years of diaore- tion, on returning home from boarding- aohool, waa invited to tea at Oldolough Ilall. Doriag an entire evening, ahe was the eubjoot of watchful criticiam. Uer de- partment was remarked, her aooomplish- menta displayed, ahe performed her new "pieces" upon the piano, she was drawn into conversatiou by her hostess, and upon the timid modesty nf her replies, and the reverence of her liateuing attitudes, de- pended her future social status. Bo it was very natural indeed that Miss Belinda should be anxious. "X would wear something rather quiet and â€"and simple, my dear Ootavia," ahe said. " A white muslin, perhaps, with bias ribbona. " " Would you ? " anawered Octavia. Then, after appearing to rtileot upon the matter a few seconds, " I've got one that would do if it'a warm enough to wear it. I bought it iu New York, but it came from Paris. I've never worn it yet." " It would be nicer than anything elae, my love," aaid Miaa Belinda, delighted to find her dlfllcnlty ao easily disposed of. Notliing ia so charming in the dress of a youDg girl as pure simplicity. Our Blow- bridge young ladies rarely wear anything but white (or evening. Miaa Chickie aaaur.'d me, a few weeks ago, that she bad made fifteen white rnuslin dresses all after one simple design of her own." " I should think that waa particularly nice myself," remarked Ootavia, im- partially. " I should be glad one of the fifteen didn't belong to mo. I should (eel as if people might say, when I came into a room, ' Oood gracious, there's another.' " "The flrat waa made for Miaa Lucia Uaston, who is Lady Theobald's niece," replied Miaa Belinda, mildly. "And there are few young ladiea in Blow- bridge who would not desire to emulate her example." "Ob," aaid Uctavia, "I dare say ahe is very nice, and all that, but I don't believe I should care to copy her dreaeea. I think I should draw the line there." But she said it without any ill-natarc, and sensitive aa Miss Belinda waa upon the subjeot of her cheriahed ideaa, she could not take offence. When the eventful evening arrived, there was excitement iu more than oue establiahment upon High street, and the streets in ita vicinity. 'I'he stoiies cf the diamonds, the gold-diggers, and the ailver- minea bad been added to, and cmbelliahed, in the moat ornate and startling manner. It waa well known that only Lady Theobald's tine appreciation of Miaa Belinda Baaaett'a feelings had induced her to extend her hospitalities to that lady's niece. "1 would prefer, my dear," said ir.oro than one disjreet iiiatrun to her daughter, aa they attired tliemaolvea, " I would much porfer that you would remain near me during the earlier part of the evening before we know how thia young lady may turn out. Let your manner toward her be kind, but not familiar. It is well to be on the safe side." What precise line of conduct it wua generally anticipated that this gold digging and silver- mining young poruou would adopt, it would b« ditli^ult to uay , it is sullicienl that the general aentimenta regarding her were of a distrustful, if not timorous natLre. To Mias IlasBctt, who felt all this iu the very air bhe breathed, the girl's innocence of the condition ot affaira was even a little touching. With all her splendor, aho waa not at all hard to please, and had ijuite awakened to an interest in the impending aocial event. Bhe uceined in good apirits, and talked more than waa her ciiatom, givirg Miaa Belinda graphic dcacripliona of various festal gatlioriuga she hail attended in New York, when she seemed to have been very gay indeed, and to have worn very beautiful dresses, and also to have had rather more than her share of partners. The phrases abe used and the dances uhe deacribed were all utrange to Miaa Belinda, and tended to re luoiog ber to a bewildered condition, in which ahe felt much timid ama/.sment at the intrepidity of the New York young ladiea, and no slight auapioion of the " German "â€" aa a tlireatrioal kind of duncii, involving extraordinary ligurea, and an extraordinary amount of attention from partners of the atrouger aex. It muat bu admitted, however, that by this time, iiotwithatandiiig the various fabocka hIiu had received, Misa Belinda had begun to diauover in her young guest divera good cjualitiea wbioh appealed to ber alfec- tionate and auaceptible old heart. In the first place, the girl had no small affections ; indeed, if she had been leau nnalfectud ehti might have been less uubjact to severe ooiiiment. Bhe wua good-natured, and generous to extravagauoe. Uer manner towards Mary Anne never ueased to arouse Mias Belinda to intereat. There was not any condescension whatever in it, and yet it could not be oalled a vulgarly familiar manner, it was rather au astonishingly simple manner, somehow auggastive of a subtile recognition of Mary Anne'a youth, and ill luok in not having before ber more lively prospootB. Hha gave Mary Anne presents in shape of articles of clothing at which Slowbridge would have exclaimed in horror, if the recipient bad dared to wear them ; but when Mias Belinda expressed her regret at these indiaoretiona, Ootavia was (juite willing to rectify her mistakes. " Ah, well," ahe said, " I can give her aonie money, and ahe can buy acme thiuga for heraelf." Which ahe proceeded to do ; und when, under her miatreas' direction, Mary Anne parohased a stoat brown merino, she took quite an interest in her in making it. " 1 wouldn't make it ao short in the waist and ao (oil in the skirt, i( I were you," she aaid. " There's no reason why it ahouldn't tit, yon know," thereby winning the hoaae- maiden'a undying adoration, and adding much to the shapeliness o{ the garment. " I am Bare she has a good heart," Mias Belinda aaid to berseK, as the days went by. " Bhe is like Martin in that. I dare say she finds me very ignorant and silly. I often see in her face that she is unable to nnderatand my feeling about things ; but she never aeema to laugh at me, nor think of me unkindly. And she ia very, very pretty, though, perhaps, I ought not to think of that at all." CHAPTKR li. WHITE UCBUN. Aa the good little spinster waa arraying heraeK on tbis partioalar evening, having laid upon the bed the greater portion of her modeat splendor, she went to her ward- robe, and took there(rom the sacred band- box containing her boat cap. All the ladies of Slowbridge wore caps, and all being respectfully plagiarizsd (rom Lady Theobald, without any reference to age, size, complextion or demeanor, the result was sometimes a little trying. Lady Theobald's headdresaea were of a severe and bristling order. The of lace which they were composed was induced by some ingenious device to form itself into aggressive qoillinga, the bows seemed lined with buckram, the atriugs uietber lloated nor fluttered. " To a majestic person, the etyle ia very appropriate, ' Miaa Belinda bad said to Octavia, that very day ; " but to one who is not so, it is rather trying. Sometimea, indeed, I have almoit wished that Miss Chickie would vary a littU moro in her designs." I'erhapa the sight of the varioas articles contained in two ot the live trunks had inapired these doubta in the dear old lady's breast ; it ia certain, at least, as she took the beat cap up, a faint sigh fluttered upon her lipa. " It is very largeâ€" for a small person," she said. " And I am not at all sure that amber is becoming to me." And just at that moment there came a tap at the door, which she knew waa from Octavia. Bhe laid the cap back in aom3 confuaion at being surprised in a moment of weakness. " Come in, my love," she said. Octavia pushed the door open, and came in. Bhe had not dressed yet, and had on her wrapper and slippera, which were both of quilted gray silk, gayly embroidered with carnations. But Mias Belinda had seen both wrapper and slippera before, and bad become used to tbeir sumptaonsness ; what she had not seen was the tride the girl held in her hand. " See here," she said. " See what I have been making for you." Bho looked quite elated, and laughed triumphantly. " I did not know I coald do it until I tried," she said. "I had teen some in New York, and I had the laoe by me. And I have enough left to make ruOles for your neck and wrists. It's Mechlin." " My dear I " exclaimed Misa Belinda. "My dear!" Ootavia laughed egain. " Don't you know what it is ? " she said. " It isn't like a Blowbridge cap ; bat it's a cap, nevertheless. They wear them like this in New York- Ana I think they are ever ao maoh prettier." It was true that it was not like a Blow- bridge cap, and it was also true that it waa prettier. It was a delicate affair of softly quilled laoe, adorned here and there with loops of pale satin ribbon. Let me try it on," said Ootavia, advancini!, and in a minute she had done BO, and turned Miaa Bassett about to face herself in the glass. " There ! " ahe said. Is that better than well, than emulat- ing Lady Theobald ? " It was so very pretty, and so becoming, and r^Iiss Belinda was bo touched by the girl's innocent enjoyment, that the tears came into ber eyes. •' My my love," she faltered, " it ia bo beautiful and e.\pensive, that â€" though indeed I don't know how to thank yon--I am afraid 1 should not dare to wear it." "Ob," answered Octavia, " that's non- aonae, you know, I am sure there's no reason why people ahouldn't near becom- ing things. ISeaidea, I i-hoold be awfully disappointed. I didn't think I could make it, and I'm real proud ot it. You don't know hosv becoming it ia." Miaa Belinda looked at her retlection and faltered. It waa becoming. " My love," ahe protoated, faintly, " real Mechlin 1 There ia really no auch laoe in Blowbridge '. " "All the better," aaid Ootavia, cheerfully. I'm glad to hoar that. It isn't oue bit too nice for you." To Misa Belinda's astoniahment, she drew a step nearer to her, and gave one ot the satin loops a queer, caressing little touch, which actually seemed to mean something. And theu suddenly the girl stooped, with a little laugh, and gave her aunt a light kiss on her cheek. There 1 " ahe aaid. "Yon muat take it from me for a present. I'll go and make the rutllea this minute, and you must wear tlinao, too, and let people see how stylish yon can be." Aii>l without giving i^iss Baesett time to speak, ahe ran out ot the room, and left the dear old lady warmed to the heart, tearful, delighted, frightened. (To be Continued). Life in ClilcBfco. Viaitor (in Chicago) -I ahould think you would be dreadfully afraid of burglara iu a place like thia. Hoateas â€" Burglars? Mercy, no. We don't miud the burglars. It's the police we're afraid o(. of Two Evils Clioofto the Lrsser. Mrs. Lumkinsâ€" Joshua, I am going to a dentist a to have a tooth palled out. You mind the baby while I'm gone. Mr. L. (jumping (or his hat) â€" Say, you mind the baby and I'll go get a tooth pulled, you know. ^ Many a towering ambition has been oruehed, many a cupful of happiness has been converted into dregs of bitterneBB, from the neglect ot a young man to become thoroughly adjuaiutod with a girl before marriage. Mr. 8. M. Donaldson has aooomplished the remarkable (eat of riding his bicycle (rom Kdinbnrgh to London, BU4 miles, in 2 daya, G hoara and SO minutes â€" leas than 65 hours â€" over roads nnfavorable (rom wet- ncEH. Thia ia little more than 7 miles au hour, Delusive of time necessarily taken for rest and refreabment. A humane New York undertaker delayed a funeral the other day. The dead man had not paid for his first wife's burial, and once the undertaker got him in his grip he did not propose to give him up â€" deaa or alive--nntil tbe bills were all paid. The matter waa settled by the pall-bearers con- tributing enoDgh to appease the under- taker, who allowed the corpse to proceed to the grave. Undertakers' rings are all of tbe aame metal. EUVPTIAM OHICKKNH. HowTheyAreHaUbed by UilUoua in Kude lucobators. The Egyptian chickens are smaller than tbe American variety and the eggs are only about half as larL'e aa those Uid by the speckled hens on Uncle Barn's farm. The Egyptians are, howaver, far in advance of us in tha soienoe of raising chickens, says Frank G. Carpenter, and the incubating es- tablishments of tbe coantry hatch out eggs by the millions every year. At a hatching establishment near tbe pyramids the farmers trade (resh eggs (or young chicks, and tbe rate is two eggs per chick. Another artificial egg hatchery turns out 600,000 little chickens every aeaaon, and the oven crop cf chickens in Egypt amounta, accord- to tignrea (urniabed me by the Consul- General, to more than 20,000,000 ot chickens a year. We have about §200,000,- 000 worth o( money invested in the fowl in- dustry in the United Statea, an amount ao large that all the money of Jay Qculd could not eqaal it, and still we have to import more than 16,000,000 dozens o{ egga every year. If America would adopt the Kgj p- tian hatching syatem we could sell egga in- atead of buying them, and our farmera might bay little chickens to raise at a price of 20 cents a dozen. More than 20,000,000 of little chickens are sold each year in thia way in Egypt, and there ia a regular busi- ness iu chickens just about old enough to walk. The iocubatora are rude, oneatory build- ings, made of andried bricks, so arranged that the eggs are laid upon cut straw in racks ia rooms, around the ovens, which aro kept fired in during the hatching aea- aon. The outaido walla are very thick and are bailt so they retain the heat, and the only thermometer used is the blood of the boy or man who attends the fires. By long practice these men learn just how hot the ovens ought to be kept, aud they replenish the firea as the weather demands. A small amount of fuel is needed, and tbe tempera- ture of tbe oven is about that of MH degrees above zero. The fire is built up fur eight or ten days before the egga are put in, to thoroaghly warm the but, and after this time it does not go out daring tbe season, which ia from March until May. The egga are tarned four times a day while hatching. The whole outfit of au establiahment which hatches over 200,000 chickens a year dues not, I am told, cost more than &'2o, and one man runa the whole machine, keeping the tires, buying and turning tbe egga, aud i^ell- in>< tbe chickena- There are, in tbis in- cubator, twelve ccuipartments, each 70 feet long, tiO feet wide and IU feet high, and each o( these compartments will hold 7,500 eggs at a time, or 'JO.OOO egga in all. it produced laat year more than 230,000 chickens and did the work ot more than 20,000 bens. Froiu I'euurv to Atllaeuce. B. K. Jamison, tbe banker, whose wealth nobody exactly knows, went to I'hiladel- phia in his boyhood without money enough in his packet to pay a week's board, says the Xfifj. Director William S. Blokley knows what it ia to make candy with hia own hands and sell it over a little counter in hia own shop. rostmaster-Ueneral Wanamaker began hia basinesj life as a clerk iu a Market street store upon a mighty small salary. lie used to pay five cents for his daily dinner, consisting of a piece o( pie and a glass of milk. Frank Biddall, the great soap mauufac- turer, and the owner of some of the choioeBt property on the Jersey coast, to say nothing of mineral interests in Georgia, for years kept a rather inaignitioant gro- cery store near Eighth and Callowhill Htreeta. John B. Geat, Vicel'reaident of the Fidelity Trust Gompany, used to wait for law cases in a little oilice, generally in vain. George W. Childs worked for a long time in thia city at such a salary that he only paid twenty-five cents for bia noonday meala by practicing rigid economy. Anthony J. Drexel, who is worth moro than twenty five millions ot dollars, waa the sou ot a poor portrait painter and thought hini.self lucky when he got a trilling stipend aa a clerk iu his father's it tie brokerage ollioe. Tli4- ViiueceaAHrjr VorbiaK*' The world has outruu the >f Law. courts and legal technicalities have outlived their use- fulness. The progress of the people has been toward common-sense methods in all things, and tho lawyer's " whereases," " aforesaids, ' and " parties of the first part " must ba relegated to oblivion. There is a demand springing up for plain, direct Knglisb. There is really no sound reason why, to a man of ordinary intelligence, legal documents should be unintelligible. The technical verbiage employed is a relict of the age when that which was myBterious and could not be understood was esteemed to be beyond the oomprehenaion of the common herd. The use of uncommon Engliah in purely business circles would not be endured. Why, then, should the tranHfer of a piece of property bo a prooeas BO labyrinthine and ao mysterioua that a man of sound aenae cannot fathom it '? It baa been eatimated that the dropping of the letter u in such worda as honoar, labour and the like has added to the world each year what ia equivalent to the pro- ductive capacity ot 500 able-bodied men. What would we not gain if from every legal paper and (rom every legal suit there should ba removed that vast mass of saper- fiuity, that anticiue verbiage, that bulk of repetition and solemn senselessuesj that now enwraps them as its ahell enwraps tbe clam ? KOMAN OIBL AMD DOLU TouchluK Scene Broaeht to Light in tlie Ancient Ilallan City, In May laat the workmen who were digging the (oandation (or the new law courts in Bome discovered a sarccphagna buried thirty feet belo'^ tbe surface, imma- mediately the telephone called to the apot tbe membera of tbe Aroba-ologioal Com- mission ; Boientifio and literary men who watch with jealoaa care all tbe exa>i7attana made in the Eternal City. Under their direction it was carefully raised and opened. Within lay tha skeleton o( a young girl, with tbe remains of the linen in which abe bad been wrapped, some brown leaves from the myrtle wreath with which, emblematic of her youth, she bad been crowned iu death. On her hands were four rings, o( which one was the doable betrothal ring cf plain gold, and another with Filetu?, the name cf ber betrothed, engraved upon it. A large acd most exqui- site amethyst brooch, in Etruacan secting of tbe fineat wjrk, carved amber pina, and a gold necklet with white small pen- dants were lying about- But what ia moet strange, as being almost unique, waa a doll of oak wood, beautifully carved, the joints articulated ao that the legs and arma and hands move on aockets, the bauds and feet daintily cut, with small and delicate naila. Tbe features and the hair were carved oat in tbe most minute and careful way, tha hair waving low on the (oreheid.and oeing bound with a fillet. On the oatside ot the aarcophagua was scalptared her name, Xry- pbinna Creperia, and a touching aoene, doubtless faithfully representing ber part- ing wit'a her parents, rihe is lying on a low bed and striving to raiae heraelf on ber lett arm to apeak to her heartbroken father, who stands leaning on her bodeiead, hia head bo»ed with grief, while h;r mother aita on lh.3 bad, her bead covered, weeping. It seems bat jeatorday, so natural is the Bcene, and yet it waa nearly IS ceuCuriea ago that tbeao stricken parents Uid ao ten- derly away their dearly brloved daughter with ber ornaments and her doll. â€" I'outU Companion, irarniuj; a aillllun Dullani. What about the distribution of wealth T Fortunes such aa iha woili never saw since the days wheu "great tbtalea ruiaed Italy" are growing up iu the American RepubUo. We have four or five men who are worth from one huudrei millions to tAo hundred milliona apiece, we have sixty or seventy whose fortunes are estimated at front twenty millions to a bundled millions, while aa for eimple millionaires they are far too numercua to be uouuted. i onaider what the posaesaioo of a ain,jle millioo meana. Conaider bow long it would take au American mechanic ur Amerioan laborerâ€" I will not say such protected Amerioan laborers as the coal miners ot Illinois or I'eucaylvania â€" after support- ing himself and his family, to save a million dollars. How many lifetimes '.' For though he were to live to theageof Metha- salab bo could cot save a milliun dollars. If you would get auy intelligible idea ot what these fortunes ot millions, tens of millions, scores of milliona and handreda at millions really mean, figare up bow many workiugmen's incomes -deducting of coarse the necessary subsistence cf a man and family, for even tbe slave owner had to allow that to the alwo â€" it would take to make auch incomes as these fortunes re- present. Aud look again. Whilu these monstroaa fortunes are gatherieg in tbe hands of a tew, one baa but to read our daily papers to aee how familiar wo are beoomiug with condi- tions that we once thought possible only in effete monarchiea of the old world, and could not exist iu the free air of our detuo- cratiu republio â€" with tramps and paupers and beggara ; with charities that show tha need of charity, with deatitation and starvation, with Crimea and suicides caused by want, or fear of want ; with a struggle for existence on the part of great classes ot the people that makes life hard, bitter and ofttimea imbrntingâ€" a struggle which grows not less, but more intense as these great fortunes go rolling up. â€" Hennj George at Ualtiinorc. Self ^'reservation. Wealthy Old Gentâ€" What 1 Marry my daughter? Yon are being supported by your father. Snitorâ€" Yes, sir, but my father is tired supporting me, and I thought I'd better get into another family. Bummer resort extremitiea. Mattie Bond (on the verandah of the Mountain House) â€" Here comes a man across the fields. Chorus ot feminine ahrieko â€" Oh I Oh I 1 Oh 1 1 1 )hll!! A man! a man! Where?" Mat- tie Bond â€" No, it'a nothing bat a aoareorow after all. Ohornsâ€" The mean thing t Mat- tie Bondâ€" Well, you needn't get mad about it. That's more than any ot you have diaoovered ao far. â€" Tim*. The Syndleate of Specaluts. The exposure of Graham's and ot Brodie's fraudulent performances at Nia- gara Falls has had tha unexpected effect of throwing the light of publicity upon a little syndicate of newspaper reporters in Buffalo, the membera o( which have been lending themselves to the achemea of im- posters o( tbe Brodia and Graham stripe. 'These reporters have acted as the corres- pondents ot the papers in nearly all the large cities of the coantry, and it baa been their duty to telegraph " specials " at rates which are considered highly remunerative. Their connection with Buffalo papers give them unuaoal facilities for news gathering and had they been content with the legitimate business they might have done very well after the manner of their brethern in other cities. But they were too ambitions, 'i'hey tried to eatabli^h a " corner" iu news and it most be confcaaed that they were running matters pretty much as they chose, when they tried to foist upon tbe world the story ot Graham's adventure in iu a barrel. It was a clever enough " take" and paid the syndicate well and they did equally well with tha Brodie story, bat then came a reaction. It was soon proved that the reports were absurdly an- trutbtul and the papers in other cities that had been duped by their Buffalo corre- spondents began to make inquiries. It waa not long before tbe real facts iu the case were discovered and now it looks very much aa if another syndicate mast go down before a buret of pablio indignation. The boya have been bright and enterpris- ing and have aeriooaly impeded tbe regular channel for news, but they made the mis- take which many older men have made ot not knowing where to draw the line. â€" liochester Democrat. Knowleiige Costs Moner. Irate Patron â€" See here, sir, I dropped a nickle into thia machine, and nothing came out. Agent â€" It nothing oame out, that shows it'a empty. " Bat, air, what do I get for my nickle ? " "Information." \ Fond Fatherâ€" Sir, my daughter is tha apple of my eye. She shall oontinae under her father's wings. Van Gallâ€" Thanks. I was just going to speak about that. Can yoa give as the northwest wing ? 'J*^ :^^^