father Mozart had filled the great hollows, tho 
elfin organist stood upon the pedals, and trod 
them as though he had never needed to have 
their management explained. 
How the deep tonus woke the somber still¬ 
ness of tho old church. Tho organ seemed 
some great uncouth creature, roaring for very 
Joy at the caresses of the marvellous child. 
The monks, eating their supper in tho refect¬ 
ory, heard the tones and dropped knife and 
fork in astonishment. Tho organist of the 
brotherhood was among them ; but never lmd 
lift played with such power and freedom. They 
listened; some grew pale; others crossed them¬ 
selves; till the prior rose up, summoned all his 
courage, and hastened in the olinpel. Tho 
others followed, but when they looked up Into 
—an accomplished gentloman who, with Mr. 
Goo. H. Iloker at Constantinople, most worth¬ 
ily represents tho American character as well 
as Government In the East. 
I he Chief Justices of the United States were 
each of them, at the date of Ida appointment, 
In the full flush of manhood. John Jay was 
only tt, and held the office seven years; John 
Uutledgo wns 111, and hold office one year; Oli¬ 
ver Ellswort h was 41, and remained on the bench 
four years; John Marshal) wns 4«, and filled the 
office :tt years ; Roger n. Taney was 60, and pre¬ 
sided for :!H years ; Salmon P. Chase was 56, and 
held office nine years, .lay, Marshall and Taney 
lived to ho octogenarians. Itntlodge died at 61, 
Ellsworth at 55, Chase at 66. 
A PnoviPKNCB correspondent of a Poston 
MARSHAL BAZAINE 
SAVED 
Marshal Franchise Acrille Baza ink was 
born In 1811 of a family that produced several 
distinguished military and civil engineers. 
Ho first enlisted as a private soldier in the 
Thirty-seventh Regiment, < f tho Lino In Iftil, 
and was sent to Africa, where he speedily 
gained promotion. Ho became a non-com- 
missioned officer in lies’, a sub-limitonant in 
ISM, ami a lieutenant In 1655, with the dis¬ 
tinction ol the Legion of Honor, Ho was at 
one time tho Government, Commissioner of 
rranee at the headquarters of Spain. He 
fought the i urltstb In Spain for Tour years, re¬ 
turning to Algiers In 1889 as captain, where in 
1840 he obtained a company in the Chasseurs. 
d’Orleans. He was appointed rhH->lr-hnlt<um<m 
in 1844, became colonol in I860. In'lfl&l he com¬ 
manded a brigade In the English-French war 
against Russia; was subsequently made Gener¬ 
al of a Division. In 1856, after the close ..r that 
war ho was made inspector of several divisions 
of infantry. During the war with Austria in 
1859 he was at. the head of a division of the 
BY J. SCOTT PA YNE. 
It is only a bundle of mgs, yon think. 
That crouching and half-hidden form. 
Huddled close to tho fence, and trying to shrink 
From tho cold of tills pitiless storm. 
It Is only a bundle of nigs, you say, 
Deft by some tramp who has passed this way. 
But look! See you not, through the blinding snow 
As she moves, tbut a woman Is there?— 
Stop I She has fallen—turn tho sleigh, let us go 
And save her, poor creature 1-thank God we are 
hero! 
For tho drift is Increasing, and she cannot, you 
know, 
Escape without help from this terrible snow. 
Saved! but, dear John, we wero almost too late,— 
Urge the team, and for home now away; 
She is worn out and famished, oh, pray do not wait! 
She has been wandering and starving all day. 
But I am thankful we saw her, for who would have 
known, 
Sho was lying thoro helpless, in tno snow drift alone. 
NELLIE’S FAITH 
BY DKFOUREST p. QUMMEHBON 
On a morning in early May, there stood upon 
the veranda of a cosy-looking house in the 
town of 11-, two people: while 
springing into life, tho crocuses 
' v \ and daffodils, a child of about 
four years could be aeon, plucking 
and arranging In careless oonfu 
ai<>n a tiny bouquet. The two 
—were husband and wife, and on 
this morning were to be separated 
for the lirsf, time during their 
married life. It was this fact, I 
think, which caused them both to 
wear a look of sadness, in spito of 
~ A ~~~- t mlr many attempts to appear 
j-r — c.leerful. 
Howard Glyndon was by na- 
I \ tire of a joyous disposition—one 
dj l| | "f those men, in fact, who looked 
41 J ) ,; ir into the future, and saw only 
cLdi/ J the bright things which might 
c mie to him, never the dark clouds 
yf/Jjfl that hung ground them. In his 
I lie had led a happy life. A 
7'//IIill / man of less ambition would have 
III 1 !/ hjon content to abide there for nil 
I jiMil ti no. Hut In bis nature there was 
'illH rost lo»» iQBgli'ff ior something 
f jl y better than the jur.-iuot gave him 
j l —a sort of hunger for that which 
he believed the future could givo 
him. His wife, Roselle, was of a 
a more contented mind. To her 
the presence of her husband and 
children was a perpetual source of 
enjoyment. It did not matter to 
her If their home was not one of 
elegance, so long as l,uvo chose to 
make it her abode. 
So when Howard Glyndon 
came home one day in a glowing 
state of enthusiasm and told her 
that ho had decided to go to Cali¬ 
fornia with a party of frionds, who 
like himself were anxious to make 
a rapid fortune, and who wore too 
Impatient to wait for It to come through 
years of toll, instead of sharing In his enthu¬ 
siasm, poor woman, she burst into tears and 
fell fainting at his feet. But with tho hours 
that came after she fully know her luisband’s 
plan, there came to her less and less the feeling 
of utter loneliness that at first seemed to fill all 
the future that lay before her. 
He, In oonfldcuce that his golden dreams 
would be more than realized, made her also 
believe that the years would be few ere he 
would return to her as rich as Crcksus, and sho 
should dwelt In an “ Enchanted Palace” If sho 
chose, if only she would be strong now in the 
beginning. And she, trusting to a great extent 
in her husband’s power to accomplish great 
things, grew stronger and stronger from the 
moment that she fully believed It to he wollfor 
him to go—a belief that came to her, however, 
only after days of sorrow and doubt had passed. 
This morning on which they stood on the 
veranda, was theoncon which Howard Glyn- 
OON was to take leave of the wlfoof his bosom, 
for how long a time ho did not know, if they 
should ever meet again, only the good God 
who holds our destiny within bis hands could 
know. They were not permitted to Unger long 
before the final separation must l.-ike place. 
Already the voice of Farmer Jones could be 
heard, as ho bustled about his barn-yard getting 
his horse in readiness to convey Mr. Glyndon 
and bis baggage to tho vessel. 
Just as he had kissed Roselle for the twen¬ 
tieth time, and bade her be a strong, brave 1 
woman until the time when lie should come 
sailing home again, the farmer drove up in front 
of tho door and In the cheeriest of voices said: 
“Well, here I be, neighbor! I declare, I be 
more than sorry to part with yo. But, as I said 
only tlds morning to my wife, * Jerushy,’ says 
1, 1 ’tain's no manner of use to try to chain 
these young, ambitious kind o' birds down to 
IVT.AJElSiaiA.IL 
the organ-loft, lo ! there was no form of any 
organist to be seeu, though the deep tones still 
massed themselves In new harmonics, and 
made the stone arches thrill with their power. 
" It is the devil himself,” cried'the first one of 
tlm monks, drawing closer to one of his com¬ 
panions, and giving a scared look over his 
shoulder into the darkness of the aisle. 
It is a miracle!” said another. But when 
the oldest of their number mounted the stairs 
to the organ front, he stood petrified with 
amazement. 
I here stood the tiny figure, treading from 
pedal to pedal, and at the same time clutching 
the keys above with his little hands, gathering 
bandfuls of those wonderful chords as If they 
were violets, and flinging them out Into the 
solemn gloom behind him. He heard nothing, 
saw nothing besides; hla eyes beamed like 
THE BOY ORGANIST. 
Mozart s first experience of a large organ 
was in the monastery of a little town on the 
jaijA.s of the Danube. He was then only six 
years old, and in company with hla father had 
left his home in Salzburg, and started upon a 
long course or travel. All day h.ng they had 
been sailing down that majestic, river, past 
crumbhng ruins, frowning castles, cloisters 
hidden away among the crags, towering cliffs, 
quiet villages nestled in sunny valleys, aod here 
and there a deep gorge that, opened back from 
the gliding river, its hollow distance blue with 
fathomless shadow, and its loneliness and still¬ 
ness stirring the boy’s heart like some dim and 
vast cathedral. 
The company of monks with whom they had 
boon traveling that day were.at supper in tho 
refectory of the cloister, when father Mozart 
took Wolfgang into the chapel to see tho 
organ. 
And now as the boy gazed with something of 
awe upon tho great instrument, looming up in 
the Bhadows of the great emntv church i,,. 
MEN PERSONALS 
The Hon. John M. Francis, late minister of 
the United States to Greece, liaB returned to 
the editorial control of his paper, the Troy 
limes. Ills public service has been, what all 
who knew him knew that it would bo, moat ef¬ 
ficient and intelligent; and lie does not end it, 
but changes its form only by learning to his 
chair—an event which will bo gladly hailed by 
all v.-ho wish to .see the best policy of the Re¬ 
publican party ably and honorably sustained. 
Mr. Francis Is succeeded at Athens by Mr. J. 
Meredith Read, Jr„ Into consul-general a( Paris 
