[Footnote 9: Korah, Kore, or Kárun, the Dives of his age, was an alchemist.

The rich man, let us call him Dives, had eaten Uncle Jap's figs, and taken his advice, more than once, about cattle.

" "Who else?" Dives eyed Uncle Jap keenly.

Dives took a clean quill, dipped it into ink, and held it poised over the white pad.

"This," continued Dives, thoughtfully, "represents you and your ranch, Mr. Panel," he made a small dot upon the blotting-paper.

" With a violent motion, quite contrary to his usual gentle, courteous manner, Dives plunged the quill to the bottom of the ink pot, withdrew it quickly, and jerked its contents upon the blotting-paper.

Dives shrugged his shoulders, and smiled.

Can you touch them, if Omnipotence forbids?" Dives stared moodily at the big purple blot; then picking up the sheet of blotting-paper he tore it to pieces with his nervous, finely-formed fingers, and dropped it into the waste-paper basket.

"You might see So-and-so," Dives named a banker.

Whereupon, her doubts thus happily set at rest, she wades out to the diving-board, mounts it leisurely, stands poised for an instant at the outermost end, and then dives gracefully into the expectant billows.

"What, then?" says the congressional candidate from Mettibemps; the "new contributor" to the oceanic magazine; Mrs. Potiphar, from behind her liveries; and poor Dives, senior, from Wall Street; "Are we to give up all ambition?"

About a dozen dropped out at the mere reading of the test and accepted their rating as Perch without a trial; as many more failed either to execute their dives properly or to give satisfaction in their swimming strokes.

Moved to pity, I inquired: "What can we do for you?" Unseen knuckles rapped back the touching answer: "Give me a piece of squash pie!" I remarked to Miss Fellows that I supposed this to be a modern and improved version of the ancient drop of water which was to cool the tongue of Dives.

The rich man lives like Dives jovially here on earth, temulentus divitiis, make the best of it; and "boasts himself in the multitude of his riches," Psalm xlix.

tua cuncta in foenore ponis: Sic aliis dives, tu tibi pauper agis.

Dives is such good company, you see.

Running toward the opponent, the tackler leaves the ground when at a distance of a length and a half and dives at the runner, aiming to tackle a few inches below the hips.

as, a place I had lived in, but was come out of it; and well might I say, as father Abraham to Dives, "Between me and thee is a great gulf fixed.

Beside these trade Dives's the humble, quiet, unostentatious Lazarus seems quite out in the cold.

They had forced him to a knowledge of the burlesque houses, the cheap theatres, the shooting galleries, the saloons, the dives.

It is something to be especially noted, that C. Licinius Stolo, the man from whom these laws take their name, was not a needy political adventurer, but a very wealthy man, his possessions being mainly in land; and that he belonged to a gens (the Licinii) who were noted in after days for their immense wealth, among them being that Crassus whose avarice became proverbial, and whose surname was Dives, or the Rich.

Is Dives, then, any better than Lazarus?

" Grand old man, he followed closely in the footsteps of his Master, and accomplished much more good than many famous ones who wander far from the precepts of the lowly Nazarene, and deliver featureless sermons to unresponsive, gaily-attired Dives under the arches of great cathedrals.

[Continued.] Vix fama nota est, abditis Quam plena sancti Roma sit; Quam dives urbanum solum Sacris sepulchris floreat.

Midway in the piazza a deep and narrow street dives into the body of the citya street of many colors, with houses red, gray, brown, and tawny, mellowed and tempered by the hand of Time into rich tints that melt into warm shadows.