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FOL.KS Mid**. They eji) me .1 " MI'lRet. but wlii-u ' am old, liraelh-T will fln.1. If th.'trutl. U told. Thai I will be k 1ml und hr.iv.- .nut annl. And itu my work .10 a woui.ni nboiild. Ill leirn to keep',oii*e. anil mv |>ar!ur kall be Theprv(ti*t pin. ion < i. ' oc; I'.l k< < |. in ni. < I li.it i Hliall ilure to crawl In for f . I will die. Mjr br.ul I will nukn of ili.-n.. c-l u( Aaur. .. *> baar < ne Imiif; ..II W .1 u>a niro. M> i aikii'ic I'm mire VOM wi'l not -.nani. If ou JUT, i I,, iieTo every wer.1 lint Iay. I '"'i* )"ii willtumr i.n.t ee MIC. Viinc d>o I'm -ore vo'i II 'I !r. " Mtrigol i" grown a WUIIIHD i|UllraK. A DREAM COME TRUE T Ai'M ui.K <:. "Mamnta, did you ever hive a drttm Ilia'. ran.e ire " *nke I Florence, looking tip from hr book. " No, rny dear. I think not," was the re- ply " Why do you ia\ ?" "I have )>n reading a itory about a poor little girl, who dreamsd aha was in MJ< h a men house, where everything was br .ght and w.jriu. I wa* thinking 1 1 bad- ly ahe iiiii-i have felt when nhc woke and I. und it wai not true.'' Fl'.i. M' wai a very sympathetic child ainl a deep sigh followed lirr liuit wor.lv. " Well. Klorenee, " *ai I her mother, tak- ing a 're.h needleful of thread, " why don't you dosomethinglbinakcsoineltody'idroani tome trua>?" , Mamma, what do you mean ? I .!< that* 1 don'* even know wha' |>>iple dream." She wai quit* routed fr. in In r ilreamy mood, and sat looking at her mother ID a*tomi<hm< i.t. " I <lu nut kir.'W, either, r'lori-n<," re poiidt'l Mii F.aslerly, imihn.- at the in- iniring face liefore her. " Iliil I know what, o<it poupU nvglit lirain HI ilir Haylinir, if not nt niKiit. \ou hive en them quite lalrK 1 . in t tcli nli.it you are talking about. Man. ma," mini Florence, ID a pu/led tone. " 1 n -in mix r a little girl of about your i/.e li<> i* looking at your workhasket the iitlur ilay ami trying on your goM tliiriif.il-. Her face certainly looked aa if he WM dreamii.^ a < hriitma* dieum and waa diupnoinled when ahe rfal:/ed it was nut true. ' ' Fiursuce's eyes had turned, while her im.'.hf r s "peakinc, toward a workboket, furnuhed with all ilia reqinuU-i for n-w- mg. bin. evidently not in very common use. oil 'you mean Minna .^c-hmiH, Manirna, ilon't you *" ahe rxc'nirncd, her eye ipark " How i.. . it ... ui.| l io make her dream come true at Christina* and giie her a ba*kct. I* that what you rnrin, Mamma?" Mi*. 1 tMarly nodded ; Florence'* face wairadiantf.ua tiiimi'-nt. thon miil'iciily fell aa the aaid, " Uul, Mamma, I cun IK vei afloid ;o buy inch a lovely one aa Aunt Kmm " i'erhapa nt dear. IJrinj yur liukel here .-iivi 'f if we ran discover how it IB put together." Horenre obeyed, and taking out the pool* of thread, ac>nra, etc., pro.-...|.-.l to smmine it as the had nei.r.lone liefore, though it hut been in her pose*ion sevoral month i. "\Vliy. it i" a pretty willow basket, with a quilted IUIIUL: sewe.l in arnl the cunluon aud p'wkcti fattened on. l>u you think I could makt one f ' ah aaked. "What doe* Klorenoe think about it?" wu her mother') reply. "I tlnnk I < in. if you will hflp me," ihe aniwerr I Then we may consider it tettletl, may wi- lint, Kliirri:'-!..' addr.l MK. Ivulerly, aaide hrr aewing, "it will be run lilf work and there r only a few hrlore ( 'liri'tmiii. Vou muni not get tne'i and give up *Hrr you have oace .V I Mii'ly will not. C'an'l 1 l*gin Where aha 1 1 1 (jet a banket?" an>! r'lorrm'c |mn|x-d up, all eigernm to mnki* a itArl munodialely. 'i mi remoniber thbuc ainall liaokuU that n . . . p i|. . .tl. i: mi when he waa i>k. Vnu will find one 111 ill., mmn loom. Uuat mid WIIM- it tlioroiighly, ami I will l'.c u}> ^.iii. Uu.t, i H.^dt for a lining, so in lieijiii to nioi Klorfii. r ran oil <|iiu;kly and her motlic r looked after her with a amilr, naying, "It i- l.lnvi'H to give than to reci.i\e. I tlnnk KloieiKu i* going to lind out low true that IK." " M.iuiint," aaid Kloren. , iln n aa lm cat himly cuvntn^ a ni-inon with n tutme ol a dainty pattern, all roarlniJ^ and leivei, " >on tulil mu when I had my b.ki t that every on* ought to lnv. li,- r own thing* and not lorrow from other peo pie. ' " Well? 1 laid Mm. Ka-t.-rly. " I in afraid Minna'* llU-r, M.illm, will van! t" b<r>> Minita'ri tliiiifn, if alie hai a banket and Marti. a linnn'l. Sh m 'mom a> bift, und I 'molt believe ihe ought to have one tfto." " Wall, dear." wan the aniwcr, ' I ili.uk you can lind another !>!,. -t in tli>- . : KI'.riMi'-i "i^hnl. tur ilie wu not fond of RCWing, hut Hi'' next tii'.<- ahu ut down tu w.'ik, liei niuilu : III.TII| that two baiket* lood on the laltle hraiiie In-r < wn. Much piitirnoe waa mi>di-d and some help, before, all the nci>a*ary it it .! in K. ,n lu the two article*. Imt at U<t tl.ey wcie pro- nounrnl liuinhi 'I. I'.i ui hi-r llarnM ilrclarrd hr ihoiild like one of lliein t<> nut In bicycle oilcan in, n nuggeitiun whii-h Flnrencc, of I with horror. A imalJ mm will go a gicat wy in buy- IPIK iiei'llrn, pin, thread, e!r., to that the auotint 1'iuroi). fult ihn could |>ari- wu ^nlli -ienf Uifntnipih tin- U^k.-W II i mother uddd a pair of . i<orn aud a limn hie to eat h, and thn rnult wan a preieul uiany a lilUe girl wauld have been glad to receive. " I lhall a*nd U><> S,-hln|.| fat-nl) u ' 'hi lit- mudiin.'i, I i iiMiiv, ' K.ii.t Mt*. Ka.<terl), "and you <-nn .rn.| Uir baikcl* at the name linn'." While pin-king th ( 'lirniini.i-. ilin per, ihe remarked, " I !-.|i^<r I .l! pu- m thoat undi .. n l.ilhcr'i. J- not need them tlui winter, n i perhapi Mr* .' . i'u.i'1 in nc thni. '' Chriilma* morning the S>-huiid lunnly were up eativ. i u' M) l...,-Mue ny Well- filli'd it". kni L . a\r.i. I them "I h.. 1 1 i I >. ti 1.1 .lie mi it bout a I'hiinl max tiee lait nigln,' aid Martha If we can't have 6110, 1 ahould hav ( < !:U..I ;., dream of on*. D.4 y-*u, Minna' ' "Nn. wiMferad the oljei liiter. "1 didn't dream anything, I. H I laid awake and thought of all the things I would like to have and wished some ona would give me." "I know one thing you thought of," cried Mirths. A workbmke! like the one vou saw at Mr*. Kailerly'x. Vou hive talked about it ever mice." .Minna nude no reply, but their mother uul, "I ilreamcd, last night, I thought your lather had a suit of new, w.um under- clothe*. I wa* thinking ju*l before I went to *r*p how thin hi* were for thin < .>! I i' r," aud she sighed, tluuk'iig of the rheumatism, which often invented lliehui band und ittiier from working tor them. A moment later, a knock <>: the doer sent Mr*. Nchmid to open it. A man bear ing u large baket entered, followed by Florence, who had wished to be the betrer of her own gift'. She wai fully repaid for all her trouble, by the bright face* of tlie girls and their c\ idem appreciation of the basket*. Minna waa telling what she had been thinking the night before, when Mrs. Schmid, who wa* unpacking the banket, ut- tered an exclamation which caused them all to look up. " My dream came true," she cried, hug ging the under shirt* in her armi. " Tries-: ars the very one. I saw in my dream." " What doe* your mother mean, Minna' 1 ' a.ked Florence, almost in alarm, for the tears stood in the p >ur woman'* .).- " Tell your mother, Mi Florence," said Mrs. Schmid, " that sue must have known wh it I war led moat of anything iu the world juit n >w," and ahe told of her dream on. e more. " So, Mamma, "conclude I Florence, ' hen the itory, "you were the one who made the dream rome true, after all." Florence waa quite aati*6ed wuh her ef- fort*. Thrngh she received many preaenu, none gave her grater plnaiure thao those he biatowe.l, which coil lome trouble to P r P r - INOI1JLNT8 OF THE DAHOMEY WAS !. Deddt He %evr Haw Klaelt War rlurt ricbl Ha De.|>eratelj. King llehao/.in uf l)*honiey haa fled t > the WHO HOLDS THE CASH Mi. W.irl.l . t.illl. .,,.., i . I^H than forty yearn ago the American millionaire wai couaidertd inch a rare bird tli.it L. popular poet of the period devoted a lengthy poem to a description of hi* char .'!.-, but now there are mure than 4000 millionaire! in the United State*, and the man worch from f \<>M O.iJUOtoJIO.OOV,- UUO i* 10 common thai hi* preience exciiea little, il any, comment. To day lht nation poineiwi not only the greatest number of rich men but alao the richeit of any on the globe. A lint of America'* ten nuheat men, Mi'hthe rum* they are worth, wouiil U made up almut ai fi.il .w : \Villi.ini Wal- dorf Antor. JILIO, OOD.OOO;. lay Gould. 8100,- (WO.DiKi; ,Io!m l>. Kookefeller, |90,IKIO,UOO : Coin-liui Vunderhilt.fWO.rrflO.UiO ; William K. V'amlerliilt, 0,0<),000 ; John Jacob Alter, $70.<*n>,<KXl ; Henry M. Klatjger, fGO.OUO.i '): John I. Hlair. $:,IM',V"O : Le- land Stanford, f30.000.000 ; CaUia P. Hunt- inglon,$.'iO,000,OlX). The forttiBe* of then- ten men foot up th ilupendcui total of ITOU.OOO.OOU, a mm the vaatnui of which DAKtl.lM HUMAN The origin of these great fortune* furniihei abundant food for (nought. The wealth of the two Alter* ii due to the rue n value of the immense holding! of reil entate in tun jiiy, secured by the founder of their house. The fortune* of the two Vander- bill* weru made in the construction and operation of railroads, and have greatly enhanced in value since they cstme to them bv inheritance Tin: method* by which Jay t.ould wcilt'i wa, a uuiied are too well known to impel recital. Th.) fortune* of Rockefeller and Flayger were made in the oil trade, and those of lilur, Stanford, and Huuiingtoii iu the construction and opera- tion of railroad*. Beside* those already named there are over three score of indivi lu*l. snd estates in the United State* worth above *I",00<V ~~ each. in -best man in all the Central Amer- ican States, is ./ohn James Magee, a quiet, prom man of middle age, whoe career has been an romantic as that of Monti to. In l;."i Magee was Ilritish \ i .--> on- . lul at Sin Jose, and pent hi. .pare tun : in north, leaving hi. couniry in th* hand* of ihe collection cf insect.. In .>me way hr the Fi-ncii. and followed by a mere rem- j offended the authorities .and Joie lieu/ales, uant of In. brave arn.y. Tim Krtnoh prob Commandante at San Jote, ordered Magee ably will not attempt to capture him. % appe(ir i^f,,,.,, ,, mu Magee sent word They have destroy..! his power, and he h that, he would appear in a short time, j lot likely to give them further trouble. It | Tlii* angered ihe Commandante, who was in , remains to be *en whether the Dahomey , nil CIID , all( j U(! |y i ^j w | lcn Magee finally ' an* will submit to their new ruler* with .p p ,. ir< .,| wjv h the military e.cort thr good grace or whether there will be a little ; tiern MHl for him Conzales ordered 7 f' lll "K- ' lashes laid on hi. bare hack. This order odds' latest despatches give soui* ; WM u \ tvyf{ \ i n a then (Jonzalea .houted him twenty-five more for luck." When Mugea, ulter careful nuriing, iccorer- every nialan. promptly complied with I, in demand. Magee w paid UIO.OOO in goid, and liou- sales wa* iniprmoned for a term of years. With Ihe moii.-y whirti Magee gor he be- ' oame interested in i.iany profitable enter- prises. Magee ' fortune is estimatod at all due to 1UU lashes on the ne. i' Col. itil.Tetiug partic lUr* of the war. He nay. that in thn Hrst battle, after tha French army had left the Wheme River aud marl- .^ through t'he British >hnUter he* at oo.'o s on toe twenty tiv-mile march to Abom I ooasanniaated to Great Hntnin the story ev.i of hi men were killed, rive of whom of th . ,,,u, tf mtie h" h:id received. In ie- were Knrop.;in*. IVty.fi 'e were wound- , tpotlK lhe Ouatemalan Government wax ed. of whmr. eight., n wen Km opean*. and ordered to pay .\la k -ee *l,000 for each and live "f them othcL-i*. The he." i markimen , vrry | u i, ne l la a leceived. The in the Dahomey army were up in the tree* or occupying other pi-.-x of advantage, and .1 in-ii nctionn to aim particularly at the Into men. In proportion to their rum- lien, the losi of huropean* during the war Far exceeded that of the native*. Col. Dodds pay* a tribute to the bravery of the Dahumeyan* He ny* they carried on r warfare with an energy seldom "-fii The richest man ill South Amen a until i among the black raoe*. ?>.uing the French hi* death four years ago wai lien, .lose B. ' waniu the Soudan Col. l>oddsys henever t;,,,i/ale/., of the Argentine It-public II. met adver-aries who were so full of com age wai ihe la.t . I. so. ndant of Oon/*le/. Men- nd .bowed *ucb indomitable energy an ,! o/4l> t |, e Kre , churchman, iu who*e castle dmiiiKiiisliei the Italioineyani. They me Columbn* performed hii famon* egg t: iei\ proud of their military tradition- and Kx pel led from the Argentine Kepublic with ' of the glory won in Utlle by their father*. , hi, father when he wai a child, hi* career > It n. tie pra.ti . ot lialimiiev kingB to pul , wai a wandering and che M uered one, until, to death I.IIOM soldier* who fail tu .lo tin n |, e lm u v <'. tf>d in Texas, where he made full duly on the held of Utlle. Ii. th the |.-, i i NM i,fMiii iu the operation of coal and chalk Am. /an and the men oldier* hsve bid mines hs had discovered. He died suddenly great confidence in theii su|>eiirrily. f"i it j n NewOrle.iu* in I*SH, three days after his I* wry seldom that they have been defeat- marri.igi to a young and ed. All the*a causes conduced to make KKMTIM,. ,,MIV them b.avc to rckl.-.". ,1 in the reran! Af h , , hu ^^ ,..,, campaign : bu they .No fought wuh de,- j , , , ; peratio,, for the f.'eott he.r King and of II ., ,; on/4 , r/ l '. rt . le ,. tl.c fen, -h-Wtor. who dictated I,.. policy | , i n ,i al ,,,, t Buen- Ayres. making the depended upon the IMU of the war. I ,,,, t<lU , M j.-^, ,,,,,, Ai tnr Iren.b f.u.-t- w- ippr.., h,.,^ ,,. , B . , >:"";> ey were .t..oke<t on., numing by , ,). U a ,l or Cv-u.ino. She inherited cat- " lliv " '"''';'" " '" '"' ".''- tie. married mine,, and. now a widow, has ."" ' i " Al " ''''"" .. ' 'V, "V 1 :V. 1 ': "'to .bunt ever, money-prodn , . Qua of the mot conipicuous 01 th world'* richest men, by reason of hit pi m. ly charities, ii Baron Maurice de klirscb uf \ icnna, Paris, and London. In the Ian ten years he has given $5<V>00,OUO lor th< benefit of the poor of the Hebrew race, ai. i (till the p>iscsor 01 a colossal fortnii" Baron Himch's origin wai almost a humid. ai that of the Hothschild.. The Kre:.c) millionaire i* to be sought for only in Pan* but he or ihe is to he found there in . mi m hers. M*i.y of the mammoth lortunes of F rain- are in the pox*e*i>ion of women. The heaviest owner of French aecuritie i* a woman. Mine. Furtadi Hcino, who i- i th 93U,000,(IOO. She 11 one of the nobl- ent women in l'.ir:, and hsi receivej tin ribimn of the Lgion of Honour for hi . many acts of charity. The Mallet brothers. the banker*, are each worth from two to four inilliui.il, aud the same is trua of Karon Ilottinger, Eugene, IVreire, Henry Ii liaron Souheyron, (.'-mnts Niuin and Com ando, and Barous Krlanger and Keinach. The I'ari.ians worth above a million are TOO M'MKIUiD TO i dl-ST. The Spaniards as a nation, are compara- tively poor, but they too, are not without '.heir multi-millionaire*. Th; richest Span- iard i* the Duke of Med na Cocli. who is worth some <:<0,00il,0li0. King Humberts richest subject is I'rince Torlonia, whose in- come is s.v.1 to l<e ?'.',<JOOa day. < .erniany ha* more very ri'-li men than it is generally credited with. In one province of Prussia alone there are six great noble* worth more than f'Jii, "!,' each. The richest man iu the dual Empire of Austro- Hungary is the Emperor Francis Joseph himself, whose private fortune is more than fifteen milliout. \niong the ri. lieit of hi* subjects are Duke Ks/tcrbazy, I ouul Karolyi, Count I'alffy, Count Feitet- irh, Co'int A ndraasy, and Harkanyi, thr banker, none of whom is worth leas than four millions. In Russia the Czar's annual income from his private estate* exceed* flO.dOO.CnO, and the Nobel brother*, the Siandard oil men of KIIMM, are worth from six to eighl mill ons apiece, while the fortune of the Detnidotfs mount* up into icore of nniliuni. The iKhsat man in South Africa, ami the wealthiest diamond miner in the world, u B.I. P. iM..it i. of Kimlicrley. Hais worth six million*, all of it made since l*Oi, in which yen he settled in Kimberley. How Qua, a merchant "f Caulon, ii the richeit man m China. Ho i* laid to be worth f.*>0,OUi),iO. He owi.i acres of houses in the most crowded portions of Canton, along with eiU-nnivi' rice plantations and tea gar- dens, and porU diamond* and pearl* ny the cupful. An*trslia vies with the United Slate* in the number of newly-made mil- lionaires. The wealthiest of the lot u James Tyson, of (Jueeimhtnd, who made hi. money in sheep and cattle. He ii wort 000, and i a* eccentric, an h i* rich. MEN OF THE fofiLORS HOP& TO BE KILLED BY A PALL. Well >as Bx- rbjrdrlaa *! ike Araiallesi ..r aaysll U K\<4Hi>ltcl)r rieasanl. " When my time comas to cross the rirer . hope to be killed by a fall," sayi a well known doctor. " It is a beautiful daath, uul tho victim pauses from time to eternity is iwevtly and painleialy a* an infant fall- ug asleep. The old Koman methoil of ex- 'iiiion by hurling from the Tarpain rock vaa much preferable, from a humanitarian .>int of viaw, to electrocution, be the latter :ver so sudden. I have had several fall* in my life that, fx-ordiiig to all except tradition*, should .ava proved fatal. 1 once had a series of falls .losrn the steep side of a mountain. twenty to forty feet at a lime, aud, utranga to say, I did not lose consciousnesn, I realised perfectly well what was happen- ng to me. I knew that I was getting hor- noly bruised and that bones were snapping in variou* parts of my anatomy, but 1 ex- perienced no pain whatever. 1 rather en- joyed the boun'-ing, and regarded tha probability of getting killed as a compura- t.vely Ultima matter. When I finally cama to a full itcp 1 lay in a dreamy stale for a few niomn:s,theo drifted mtw unconscious- ness, upon what appeared to me a tea of gold. When a mau has a limb broken by a falj In docs not know it until he attempts ta rise. He may suopect that all is not well with him, but, to aave him, he cannot locaU the trouble The moat delightful sensation 1 ever expei ienced was win falling frosn tlio basket of a balloon into Lake Kne. I had goue i.p at, Lievciaud with 1'rofxasor Hiricb. We were carried ont over the lake, and hen ..uout 100 feet from the iur- face the crazy old trap exploded. To avoid being tangled up in the wreck I jumped. Ii teemed to me ibal I was an hour falling. My who!' intellectual activity was increased to a wonderful degree, (jreat thought* surged through my mind, but I felt no .uuiety w h.itrver. I wished that I might tall forever. The rush of the wind wai in- toxicating. I (truck slightly sidewayi, and the concuuiou rendered me iuseniible. I eeined to have fallen into a mighty pyroti | iy I'l'.uc, red and orange name shot np and fell in a shower of jewel* then came ob u ion. Oh, it was a glorioo* experience bul wilful a trifle risky. terprim in winch Chili haa engaged. She owii more real e*tate in Santiago und Val- paramo th.n any other person; furuiilica . the . npilal lor manufacturing r.nterprnini ; ' | h"* *tarfd art potteries and built a rail- road, and uwn* and conduct* two line* of the King in pernoii. "1 be Fmi.li forme 1 in a .|uare with aiiillery on every side. The Humors and Ama/ou, charged fiiriomtly upon Ihe r.|Ure. Muiiy of them were kill- ed within thirty feet of the giiim. Niither cannon, iiiitmilleu*e, n..r volley* of ,|inck- I,,,, - rille. d'.mayed thorn, and tliey di.,1 lta(kll|llni shc itoWD . rof ml)O , lt ,., " of the coal .nine* of lx>ta. a .mall , in the nouth-eait part of Chili. Her stahle* contain fifty or moro thoroughbre.l 1. ..;: i. racers. She i* worth at least $KI,IK n.i mi. KiiL'Und ri. ic*t men aie, of courxo, hrr great landed proprietor*. The Muke of must. r. the greate*t litn.l.d pi..pri><- tor of l.und. ,i, 11, with nit doubt, the ruh cut in .!; in Hi i{liiii.l. Hi- fuit nip' in real .ill.' [. !'!! I . : . - n.. fall U'loW SW.OOll.iKiii Many ot the gnt fortuut* of Kni;land have been ma/le in trade and inanu- l.i. turei. One of the most completion* of Kngland'i rich men, by reanon of the nipidity wuh \iluch r.i. wealth lia* Iwen aqmred, n i .!. aliiniAl on tin. IrayoneU of the of the French olh-vrs write* lhat he miei nan a .enn-lwrliarou, foe exhibii nuch won- derful courage. The \.il., he ol Ii. men snd women soldier* made Ihrceof those Irriibl- charge* upon lhe Fn-m h miu^re, Af'.'i ibe battle bad r.^ed for three li.cu . lielian/in e ' vc tnr 'ignl for retreat, which wa* cairiml nut in hides, iibable ibior- Dihomeyun, left ovei 'J.tr"! ..1 .' an. I wounded on tlie field. Il i . . 1 1. at C>. I Ho. Id. will muke peace witii the natives on condition of their ni,, mil. lent to the French of \Vnydah, Kuiunii, und olber point* on the cu.it ; the MM! .lUlion of olh. lal Kenlenl<at Aboni.-y and Canini null I ten'-h ^nrrison* tin > n structiun of tr.nln mutes through the eoiin tiy wherever the Kem.lent* may <le. make them, .ind thu uhuliUun ., hum in sac- The l.ur"|)fn contingent winch han l>eon lervmg in Alionid n '" I- ".! i. .I In. ni.\ and rein ml by I roupa that hu\e alieady IHMMI >cnl out from Irani'o. These rebel for. el, which will fond net Cue fill me null l.iry i |M t.ttioii*, o.-cnpy the big coa.t town of \Nhyddh and gatnvui the up-country left Fiance .in I Ali<eiia for llahninei on Nuv. _'."'. They include engineer, and artillery. A Prudent Mother. Clara Mutli. i . juit tlnnk of it. Mother U lut ii. it, mydaiiKh'er? Clara Chuiles has in.ured hi. life for my benolii for* \lotiiei II" lias' 1 Well, now, my dniigh- ter. there is no lunger any ol.pi-. inm Iu vuni tnaking him that angel cake, you have been talking about. I looter for a hotel at Niagara Kail* crisd out ai the Sunday uftemixm thinn^ panned him on tlm way to I'ronpeet I'uk All remlv inindo, llie an I gen'lrn'en .linn.'i i.l alraady iniid, wha' \i llmg it us fm ?" aiked Fickleby. " >N h it I'm tasking for 11 a dinner tkitta mill ont ids " . John T \orih, the nilrals king. North 11 a Vorkuhiie it. m, now nbuiit ">n ve.tr nuf K, and in- Ut he r wa* asmall mer ,-i,..nt . .lealmg in coal.. Aller ei vin^ appi em ,--.|,i|i i o a fir n of locntiiutivo and plough makers, he became an engineer, aji1.it the .i^'.i ..f 'J.> i-nt io chili In that oapaoity.Mttlmg later in I'eril. Her.- !n. keen i' ii'i. Ix'gnii to (how I iiem<elve, itnd at once roc i ognising the commercial value of nitrate of j soda, he IH> :*n t.. buy, mil. and -Inn it. This went on lor 'Jil >r S Ii igl i |.is fortune Ind i;uiwii into the milliun- i| OWIM over I .Ml .;ii.nc mile* of nitrate Held., HI.I. h contain Ml 1. 1. ION'S O* T. He built steamers, railroad*, and vt work., employing lliouaaild. of men. Not content with operations in I nili and I'eru, ha haa .1. .|iiired mid developed the greatest brnk yardu m IWIgnim, and cuiitroli iudiin KiiKhtnd. HID r. < I. nee. at Kltham, in K nt, ii a rula.T. Ha own* i riiciiiK stable, yaeliUi, ami a tine gtllery of p.Mntingx \i,,l in Ii in 'lie rise of the . ".il m i. liani'* bare- foot boy, who i* now worth HO,(X'i ... The richest family in Kurope, and fr that iniii'-i ni the world, is the lamoii* home < f Itulh-. hild Tho intoreiti uf the hnu*,., founded by the humble money lender I nt Fiatikforl on the Main, are now scattered all over the ,;Kii> \ .n.l u ii prubable (hat the gi;i. _ .'' Health of all the bmnchri of the tit m, m.-'ii ' m the puiiwiiluni ef tha iheir famili.', o tl.rXJO.OOO.OtA The Mraaie Lexl af aalal mlan < victories achieved by France under (isneral Dodda in Dah<cney h.iv.i served to , attract once mote public attention lo the I daring bravery of tlie two or three ngi- menu known by the name f the Foreign Legion, which, con.uint* the nucleus of his > tin* Legion that H invariably assigned the ni"'. dangerous of service in warfare, aud it is they, too, who, as a rule, head 1IIK H'KIOKN I' Whenever there are hardships to be borne to which the French authorities do not ' . p 'c the regular line regiments the Foreign Legion is invariably designated for the purpose. I'nlike the other Fren di regiments u i composed entirely of men who have voluntarily enl.xted. Some of them are French, while in lua-t ">" per ce'U. of the entire corps is composed of foreign- ers. There is icainely a man in the entire brigade who hu uol behind him *om<- Ins ton of K more or less romantic anJ (re- ipieutly dramatic character. Thus. any. a eoi-respondi'iit, I h.ive found iu one iu>.l the same company a Koumain.m IMnc*, who was under iupiciou of having mui.lered hii brother, an Italian lieutenant colonel of cavalry, bearing an illus'.rio nun*, who had b. en di.niKMd from King Humbert's ar.M .n disgrace in <.: e.|iieii-:e f liem,; l.i'ind cheatiiiK at curd*, a KiiKiaii Nihilist I who had escaped from Sihor; ,, and an ex- ; i "an. m of the 1'ithe.lral cf Notre Daineof I'.ini, who hid been suspended from hu eocleslastioej function* in consequence of an olluuce committed A i .1 ITV, an Kngli.h ex captain of t lie Rifle llripa le. and a '.erinin Count, who In. I not only nerved as lieutenant in the tirst Regiment of i,:i,itd.i nt licrliu, but who hid ulio hell a PO.UIOII on the Military SurTof the late Kmperor "f i-ermany. All thoso men were -.Tinu' in limp < in the r.inki, und w.-re *ulijecti>d to the iron d ,-ipiiut for which tin* corps l releb In noolher Km . y arc the puni.h- u severe a in the foreign l..-;ion of I i in.'e. Composed as it is almost eir.ii-elv of .ocial outlaw!, n.cn n-iuihave broken with ii.iii .in.l who h..' m many case* a criminal re. or I b 'tin i them in. n, in on- word, who seek oblivion, and who sre m.xl ly serving tinder p.eiidunymi, it H ..-.lulu tni'.; thai 'If utmost e\enl v is npi-.|. ut to order nli^lr or act of ag^roi against a 101 oilicsi i* puniiheil with .1 '.r. >i, .TI I 'luring th Tonkin w.ir there have l-en ai .U-rs "f t!ir n-.. tnarttatted und shot in o-ie day. Thi ini'ini- olfsncei uro p'lniiln'.. o by ts> " nl".' wh. !i 01 -i-' - : ' pn.onei in tlie '.in. I l"i h.-'in leiving "r.li in* head t c rm ut the un bv iliy. and t<i thr ;ing< of the i, -,- ;i by a'ld the " cl ipiudliie, in whi-h the man i, bnun I html and foot aud left for hours, nay ^.motniei da\-i, en tlie sand lyini; hidpie.li, somewhat in tlie position cf a 1. M.inv of the molt fain M niunei of I r.ince have figured at tho h these regnnent*. Tooled too Often. Hubimon (very liklo at nigh') He!!.., l!i n, in en ' \"'.i late t l'i .wu Ye,. I've been working ov. hook* at the office and 1 in afraid to meet my v* Ho. '" li.in i Mr*, llrown like to have you work at the otli.-e *o 1 . . !ie doesn't mil) I that, but il.enunt believe I've been there. ' " Oool and collected" The i. v bill. A WOLF CHASb IN fHP FAE WEST- fttisrl Thai Mmruil. i:Jy the Ked Itner .if Ihe ili. " >| >rt ' cneered Jame* Iteed Dill* to a M. Loan tilobe-l>e.nocrat man. " Vuii fel- low* up here don't knew what iport i*. Vou go out and shoot an old piairie hen or punch a cotton tail rabtit out ot a hollow log and imagine yon ara sporlime:'.. Come down lo my ranch in I Jreer county on the Red and I'll inow you that life's worth tue living, "< irne? lliii fat bucks w*lk right up to your doorway frosty uioruin^i and ask you to relieve 'em of tlieir liorn-.. F^ct. But the j.rctueit iporti* the wolf ch&se. You've got to have a pack of greyhounds lor that sport though. Your foxhound an'*, in it when it. o running a uig limber wolf to earth, altuougli they are good as a reserve force to do th fighting when the grey* round up the game. \ ou see, a grey hound is built on the Charlie Mitohall plau. They aie imgh'y sprinters, and can head off a streak of lightning, but they can't do very much wuh it when they've got it. The foxhound is a 6ghter, and, when the grey bring* Mr. \Volftoa standstill, piles in and knocks him out. But he doeso't have any picnic at u, let me tell you. It taken half a do/eii iiuuii.li thtttrv pure gravel without a Hush of the mongrel in 'mi to tiniih oil a timber wolf after ha'i caught, and the chances ara tii.it half the pack will find il convenient to die Inf.. re the day is done. "II. it the greyhound is in his alamcnt chii.. .ejackrabbn. liiva Brer Rabbit liny yards' start and It will take a mighty good greyhound to catch him in four milei. When they go by you can't tell which i rabbit ind which is dog. They plit tha air h'te a minia ball. When tha dog catcher the rabbit, as hi eventually docf, hi- oiuinot top to enjoy him. He giro* him a Hip aa he goes by. and hmnre g"ci up in the atmosphere about ten feet. liy tha tune he come* down me second dog U thera to receive him ai.d give* him another somer- set II take, about four dog* to rimh a ja.-k labbit di-'-iiily and iu goo.1 order. Where agrryhound goes out by himself to enjoy a game ol jack rabbit lolilaiie he u*n illy finds that the game 1.1 hardly worth the candle. He will eaten hi* rabbit, give him a Hip, and pass on into the adjoining '"iintry before the au ..... iti- hrakos take hoi. I liy the time he lu:k up l the sta- tion tho rabbit i* half a mile away in sn- ot ii'-r direction." of the Temple ol Baal- There rises a huge wall, aeveuty-tivo feat i - ng n |iurc court, ol which tha .if thu wall hav- ing fallen :' ruin*, has been rebuilt from the ancient malarial*, bul the whole of the nnr'liM.lc with its beautllul pilasters, is psjrjaet. A* ihe visitor* enter the court they il-ind till in aotniiishiiieiir at the extraordinary l their oye, for hare, d wr Inn tn. mi- four wall*, I* the na- tive vi.Ugc f r.k.lmur. U wut natural enough for tlie Arabs to build their mud hu;* wit bin these rad\ made fort iti<.at..>m>, bin the im[ rcia! m pi" Inc. -I by luch a vil- lage in inch a pi. i > ibably strange. I'b. temple, iota p.-il>. H eit-n out it the core, .ml li"le i. nt the .hell remain*. Uul In-re and theie a tinted C'otm- thian i "liiinn or i|>"up uf oo.utnu*, MI! 'i entablature alill perfect, ri*a.i iu grace far over tho wr hr.!', the rich, creamy color of the lime tone tnd the be.. HIM I moulding* of the . ipital-. contraating with the clear blua f i. Hen sky. Tho best vciw of the whola is lo be ob- t lined from the roof of the naoi, which, on. -a bei'itilul and :nl.<i n.-d with iculptura, u now nil haltered and defaced in d has beea motamorphosed into a*qualul little mosque. To descrilx) the view li.nu that roof were indeed a hopelesii tusk. High into the clear blue air and the golden *uiihim> rise the -t.itcly M>'iiuini -. cr"ded and jumhlvd and heaped together below, untouched by tlie i; I'ldeiiing lunbeams, unrefreahsd by the purr, free air, lies all the squalor aad \\utchedneuof an Arab mud-hot village. AJ kcaad a* it'i long 4 r'rench aatcl