HOME. r Tbe prince rides up to the pa'a?e gates 'And his eyes with tears are dim. For he thinks of the beggar maiden sweat Who may never wed with him. For home is where the heart is, i In dwelling great or small, ' And there's many a sp'endid palace Thai's never a home at all. The yeoman comes to his little cot With a song when day is done, For his dearie is standing in the door And bis children to meet him run. For heme is where the heart is, In dwelling groat or small, And there's many a stately mansion That's never a home at all. Could I but live with my own sweetheart In a hut with sanded floer, I'd be richer far than a loveless man x With fame and a golden store. For home is where the heart is, j In dwelling great or small, And a cottage lighte 1 by love light Is the dearest home of all. —George Horton. CUfll) IN THE KITCHEN. EY MARY KLYE DALLAS. ■ I fllE cook ha 9 given warning, and the chambermaid says that, where Susan goes she noes like— Montgomery, in a tone of despair. •-And as I have just 1' ' ' I""d their wages l! -• i W '.-I 'hey are packing to 111 I Ml Mm' " r> ' W lo ' wicked, Jill'— !: wicked women. Not 14* ■■' a word of warning.'' HfTEt "Why, mamma! what is the reason of this sudden deser tiont" queried Emily, the only daughter of tho house, aged eighteen—and she laughed. •-your papa found fault with the beef last Sunday. Ah—there is nothing to giggle over, I am sure,"said the matron, dropping into a rocking chair- "A week at the intelligence office for me, while the house goes to wreck and ruin, and your papa loses his temper over the dinners, for old Mrs. Chump, tho only person I can send for, always ruins every dish she touches." "And we cannot have Mrs. Chump (his time, mamma," said Emily. "She is in bed with rheumatism. 1 met her little niece in tho drug store buying medicines and lotions for her, and she said she was very bad." "Then the end has come!" sighed Mrs. Montgomery. "Don't fret, mamma, I'll do the work," said Emily. "X think it might be fun for awhile." "Do you?" Mrs. Montgomery asked, sarcastically. "Ah!" Emily laughed again. "It's the best you can do," she said, "and I'll give papa a high tea; with ome lette and chicken sandwich, and all the little things ho likes, and no doubt you can find some one to come to-morrow." "Ob, no doubt," said Mrs. Montgom ery, in still more sarcastic tones." I wish I bad your sanguine temperament, Emily." "Good-bye, mum and miss," said cook, looking in at tho door. "Good-bye, nnd I wish you luck suiting yourself, I'm sure. No doubt there is them that might if they had the patience of Job, not else." "Gool-bve, ladies,"said the chamber maid; ••I'm sorry to leave you, but Susan and me goes the two of us to gethei, always, and if she i 9 insulted, I am likewise," "Good-bye," said Emily, calmly. Mrs. Montgomery turned her back, and muttered 4 'Ungrateful wretches 1" between her teeth. 44 And I actually made over my navy blue Bedford cord dress for that woman," she said, after the door closed; 44 and never has she had to buy Au apron. There, I'll go and begin my martyrdom -—and, Emily, if you do go into the kit chen, put on my rubber gloves and my mob cap, that I wear for dusting my room—coal ashes are the ruin of the hair—and a big apron—your looks aie my pride." Emily kissed her mother, saw that she went oIT comfortably, and then obedient ly donned cap, gloves and apron, and descended to the kitchen. Cook, in her wrath, had left the kit chen in a state of chaos. Dishes piled high in the siuk, towels on the lloor, pots and kettles iu sore need of scouring, overflowing tubs, u pan of potato peelings, a kettle of ashes —all by the way of revenge for the in sulting criticism of last Sunday's oinner. The prospect was alarming, but Miss Emily went to work with a will, finding it rather more difficult than in her inex perience she had supposed, and wishing that her mother had not so carefully guarded her delicacy at the expense of her usefulness in kitchen allairs. Just as she took her pots and kettles in hand, Jack Spinner, the millionaire's ion, flying along upon his bicycle, came very near running into a young man who Eat upon a curbstone, moaning piteously, and at once alighted. "Good heavens! I haven't hurt you?" be cried. "No, sir," replied the person ad dressed, who was enveloped 10 a mys terious waterproof costume, and covered Irom head to foot with ashes. "I. was clane dead when you came up. I've got the cholcray or the typhus, 1 dunno which, and I'll loss my job, for I am able for it no longer, and there's no mercy on you if you neglect a thing, if it is ever so with you—no mercy." 4, That is very cruel," said young Spin ier, who had the tendere3t heart in the world. "Is it that asb cart you are driving V 1 l lt is indeed," said the unfortunate. "Anl there is six bar'ls to empty yit, aud me not able for it. I coul l drive back, but I couldn't lift the har'ls." At home they called Jack Don Q'i'x pte, for ho was always succofing toipe forlorn being in distress, maid or man— it made no matter which. Now be in stantly bethought him what to do for this poor ash c*rt driver. 4< Cotne along," he said, taking the man by the arm and leading him into a drug store hard by. "I'll tell the doctor to see you, and empty the rest of the barrels for you—jolly fun for me, you know, and you'll keep your place, and all that." The man, petrified with astonishment, could only lift his hands, and in a mo ment more a still mere astonished drug clerk had a patient—well paid for in advance—and was dropping cholera mix ture into a glass, and applying mustard plasters, in the little back room behind the store. "Six more houses," said Jack, walk ing beside the cart, "straight down, the man said." Ho shouldered the first barrel and dumped it. A shower of ashes covered him, but be only laughed. Next came a zinc can, quite elegant in appearance, but tilled with decaying vegetables, and orneraented by the inanimate forui3 of three murdered kittens. Mr. Jack gasped, but he intended to finish his work of charity now that he had begun it. And, with varied results, new experiences to him, the young ath lete emptied five barrels. On the sixth pavement he found none. What an ashman's duty was he did not know, but he had bis invalid's interests at stake, and must do his be9t for him, so he descended the area way ani rang the bell. In a moment a girl in a mob cap, a big apron, and rubber gloves, opened the door. "Beg pardon, I am sure," said Jack, bowing, "but do you wish your ash barrel emptied?" He spoke in the most elegant manner, but he was covered with ashes as with a garment; his mustache was whitened, his hands begrimed, cinders adhered to his hair and his face was dirty. The maiden before him was not quite free from marks of kitchen labor. It was Emily, who had been washing the pots and kettles for the first time in her life. "What a beautiful manner he has," she thought; "he must be some oue iu reduced circumstances." And she smiled upon him: •'You are the—the ash gentleman, I suppose?' she queried. "I call in that capacity." said Jack. 'Then if it is not too much trouble, the ash can stands in this little place uuder the front steps," said Emily. "No trouble whatever," said Jack, diving into the place indicated; "I'll bring it back when it is emptied." "You are too kind," said Emily, un aware of the pot-black on her chin. "Not at all," said Jack of the Cin ders, and they bowed as if they were dancing the lanciers. In a moment Jack had dumped the ashes, and returned with the cau. lie was greeted with a great pull of smoke, and Emily, blushing aud couch ing, came out into the area for air. "Beg pardon," sa:d Jack; "but the house is not oa fire?" "I hope not," slid Emily; "the fire ' went out, and I'm trying to kindle it, but it smokes so." "Perhaps it is the damper," said Jack, "I'll look, if you don't mind." "I shall be grateful," gasped E.nily. "It is the damper," said Jack, "and these things in the ovens; now if I may have a bit of paper aad some wood?" He found the n himself, made a fire, opened the windows and waited until the smoke vanished from the kitchen, and then shut the windows. "What a wonderful ashman," Emily thought. "What an elegant girl to be a cook," Jack said to himself. "It is kinl of you," saul E ally; "so stupid of me. But 1 did not know about the dampers; I never male a tire before, but the servants have taken French leave." "Oh!" said Jack to himself. "The young lady of the house doing amateur kitchen housework. I might have known it. And she thinks me the ashman," an Ihe sighed. "Good-da:," he said, bowing. Before Emily could reply a head was thrust in at the window—that of the original nshmau. "An'here you air, sir?" he said. "An', sure, the medicine the doctor did be givin' me has made me a new man, an' fin forever obliged. And sorry I am you've spoiled the tine clothes you have on ye. And you'll find your boy-suckle in the doctor's shop. I've trounced the I rascal that was goin' off wid it to a jelly• I'll drive down, sir, und uever forget your kindness. May you be Miyor of New York yet." "Oh, you are welcome," said Jack, and now Emily was staring at him. "Not the ashman I" she was saying un der her breath, and Jack, laughing, an swered her glauce. 44 My lirst ash-cart, as thi9 was your first fke," he said. "The driver wa9 ill, and I took his place. It has been great fun, though rather dirty work. May I introduce myself?" He took a card from his pocket and presented it. "I am Miss Montgomery," said Emily; "and I think ray father mud kuow yours very well, if you are Mr. William Spin ner's sou. They are in the same busi ness." So it proved. For special occasions who can say what the etiquette may be? Emily said to herself that it would be simply humane to help this martyr to his kindly sympathies out of his coat of ashes, and sent him to her brother's room to lind clofchs3 brush an 1 wash basin. Whoa he met her again |be wore neither mob cap nor apron, but was at tire 1 i. a pretty morning dress, and her hair curled bcwitchingly oa her fore head. And, since this was the son of her father's old frienl, it scene I but hos pitable to ask him to lunch. Mamma wou'.cl not be at ho ue, she was quite alone. It was awfully improper—but rhiji latter ooipt never qecarre 1 to Rmilv, nor to Jack, and these two were both young and liked sweet things, and Jack declared that he had never had so de lightful a lunch before. It was a romance—which is different from a flirtation—that little episode, and it always remained in tho memory of those two young people as the sweetest moment of their lives. When her mother returned, Emily wore cap, apron and gloves. The high tea was ready, and all the work accom plished, after a fashion, and tho girl looked so pretty, so happy. "Cooking must agree with you," Mrs. Montgomery said. But Emily did not speak of the ama teur ashman, or her lunch party of two, until long after—oh, long, long after— for it was some days before Mr. Spinnct called on the father, bringiug his sou with him—some weeks before they were asked to an afternoon tea—some months before Jack became au intimate friend of the family—and quite a year beforo his engagement to Miss Emily Montgomery was announced to his friends. And it was cnlv on the very eve of her wedding that Emily told her mother that Jack had fallen in love with her at llrst sight, and how and when and where. And Mrs. Montgomery declared that it would have been very, very shocking —frightfully imprudent—if it had been any one but Jack; but that made ail the dillersuce, Jack was such a nice fellow. SCIENTIFIC ANl> INDUSTRIAL. Rose diamonds are liable to explode. Some of the stars move witli s veloc ity of nearly fifty miles a second. There are estimated to be over sis hundred deposits of irjn ore in the State of Missouri. The origin of tho geysers at Sonoma, Cal., is supposed to be a volcanic crater filled by a landslide. The moon gives out heat enough to affect the thermometer and n.ake a dif ference of two or three degrees. If fish get beyond a certain depth in the sen they die from the pressure of the water, which they are uuablo to support. The most important domestic sources of potash are wood ashes, cotton seed hull ashes, tobacco dust and tobacco stems. Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, has re turned from Japan, whctc lie has been making a study of the botany of the islands. It is not an easy matter to freeze out trichinae. After subjection to a tern* perature of twenty-five degrees below zero for two hours they again became active when exposed to light and heat. A sikiplo method of keeping iron and steel from rusting is to coat them with u solutioa of rubber m benzol, made about the consistency of cream. It may be applied with a brush, and is easily rubbed off when desiicd. In one of the Comstock mines a new water wheel is to be placed which is to run 1150 revolutions a minute, nnd have ' a speed at its periphery of 10,805 feet per minute. A greater head of water than lias ever beforo been applied to a wheel will be used. Interesting experiments on the sense of taste in ants have been made by H. Devaux. Among other results he has found that Lisius fiavs, while fond of sugar, dislikes saccharine. The ants swarmed around sugar laid out for them, but turned away from saccharine as soon as they had tasted it. Even sugar be came unpleasant to them when it was mixed with saccharine. It seems, there fore, that sweetness is not the only quality which attracts them to sugar. It is very probable thai, for health's sake, there will, after a time, be uni versal cremation of the dead in cities. Burying in the earth is said to be inimical to tho health of cities. Then there will be no ground to spare tor burial purposes in couise of time. It is probable that tho dead will bo quickly and effectually reduced to ashes by means of electricity. The remains cf'a human body that has been cremated weigh only eight ounces—no matter how fleshy and heavy the corpse may have been. A Kiud-llearlcil Giant's Embargo. A number of anecdotes have been told of late of the famous old Kennebec lum berman, Bodfisb, whoso stentorian voice resembled reverberating thunder and could be heard distinctly "from Ken dall's Mills bridge to Ticonic Falls," a distance of two miles. An old-timer says Bodfisb, who lived at Kendalls Mills, though a rough mau iu his ways, had a kind heart and gave aid to many poor people he thought deserving. Onc3 a river driver was drowned .at Kendall Mills and Bedflsh having subscribed a handsome sum himself to aid his family, mounted a barrel beside the street, from which he haraagued the people in aid of the sufferers. lie laid dowu the rule that no man should pas 3 that day until ho had contributed, and iu that way held up travelers all day long, securing a con siderable amount by nigutfall, when the odd embargo was raised.—Lewistor (Me.) Journal. Test For the Purity or Milk. Whether it is worth while to know exactly the degree to which one's milk seller is watering his milk is an open question which each must decide for himself. For those who do not consider that ignorance is always bliss a simple way of setting at rest any doubts ts to the purity of tho milkraun's 9tock in tiade is provided in a new galactometer. The instruments ordinarily used for this purpose consist of a glass tube with a graduated scale of paper inside, and their record is not as a rule reliable. The new instrument is said to be much more accurate, and ahows at a glance whether the milk is pure or adulterated. The instrument is a glass tube open at both ends, along which a little ball of blue glass acts as indicator. The deusity of this ball is 102'J,.and it is so adjusted that it can fl iat ouiy on jiurg ujllk.- • Chicago Ne as Record. AN ISLAND NATION. A STUDY OF HAWAII AND HER PEOPLE. The Simplicity an<l Ilrlmrong Innocence of the Natives—A Beautiful l.and—The Scourge of Leprosy—Value of Our Ha waiian Imports. UlßifPr than Wisconsin. Hawaii, land of smiling sunshine and rushing rain, place of paradise and abode of torment! Tin little islands sleeping in the sea, where indolence and Industry meet and mingle; where com merce thrives incredibly, and idleness exists In its laziest perfection! At once a health resort and a breeding-place of humanity's most frightful scourge! Where Nature's most rofulgent luxuri ance creeps to the very edgo of pits whore Nature's most malignant anger ever boils and bubbles, and somotimes reaches out a sinuous arm of molten lava to cngnlf a town and murder thou sands! Hawaii is truly a strange little nation—a strange little nation in strange little lands with a strange little peoplo. But with all the strangeness of them all thoy are marvelouely rich now and richer yet in future possibilities. Ever since this of oases on Pacific's watery desert was discovered by Captain Cook and claimed by Van couver, the Sandwich Islands have been Indefinitely regarded as the home of cannibals. As a matter of fact, no in stance of cannibalism has over been proven against them. The natives doubt less gained their reputation for ferocity through the killing of Captain Cook. But Captain Cook appeared among them claiming and believed to be a god. For weeks he and his sailors basked in the credulity of the natives, who voluntari ly despoiled themselves of whatever they valued most—from quaint, carved trinkots to their wives—to make their peace with the white-skinned emissaries lIAMAIIANS EATINQ. from heaven. At last thoy found that thoy had been deceived—that Cook and his English sailors wero not gods, but grasping, lying men, not half so near divinity as they themselves. Then Cook was murdered. And if, full of the knowledge of the ilrst wiong that had ever enterod into their childish lives, they helped his death along with fitting' torture, is it to be wonderod at? Now, atKawaloa, in the blue shadows of one of Hawaii's love liest mountains, within the 'sound of the gentle Jmurmur of the world'e bluest sea, and surrounded by magnifi cent palms, a marblo monument, at which all Hawaii does homage, stande above the moldering bones of the mur dered man. A Gentle People. If the natives wero malicious and man-eating, then they have changed marvoloualy since, for nowadays it seems impossible for them to believe a man is bad. With them you aro their friend until you have thrice proved yourself their enemy, and oven then you need but ask forgiveness to receive the r lovoagain. And to be a Hawaii- i nn's friend is to be little loss than his master. His deeds of kindness stop only with his ability. The islands are as leautiful as the people aro good-natured. Never ceas ing verdure, which invades every nook affording fingerhold for a clinging ten dril, until it is hard sometimes to guess whi. h is habitation and which Is thicket; towering mountains, often cupped by inextinguishablo volcanic fires instead of snow; winding valleys, through whoso bosky depths crystal streams glitter in the summer and change to raging torrents in the rainy season—all theso are there with < thcr wonders—all beautiful. By the wayside grass cot tages lor the natives and pretty wooden structures for the foreigners offer open hearted hospitality to the tourist. Breezes always blow. They blow health to the foreign invalid; but, alas! they sometimes blow horror and death to the native. Leprosy is decreasing in Hawaii, it Is said; but still the famous leper colony on Molokai, ono of the most beautiful islands of tho group, does not lack ten ants. Harrowing farewell scenes are not unusual at the isolated Honolulu wharf from which tho leper boat sails. "Aloha!" murmurs tho departing oiro, which means farewell. "Aloha! aloha!' cry the dear ones left behind, and they rend tho air and fill their mouths with ashes in the extremity of their grief, for It is "aloha"' forever! The human freight on the little steamer is carried on its A VOr.CANO CUJDJC. plunging, wave-rocked way to a doom more terrible than death—a living, breathing, conscious decay. In that leper settlement all that is not human thrives and blossoms and is fiuitful. All that is human gathers some, new loathsomeness, some novelty of horror with each succeeding clay. This blight and helplessness of the ilawailans, when they bolle.vo death is doming near, have much to do with the steady dccronso in their number®, I which in twenty-one years has amount ed to 44 per cent. But there are other reasons for this decline. The delicate, j Nature-loving Hawaiians seem not to thrive under civilization. Foreign dis cuses of however simple a sort are al •. ■ y HAWAIIAN nOTEL, lIONOLULO. most always fatal with them, and their women have becomo strangely sterile. At the present rate tho lapse of not many years will bring r. time when few full-blooded natives are alive. How the 4>ueen Laid Idolatry Low. Yet while they live they are a bravo and muscular race. There are few weak-minded ones among them, al though Intermnrrlago of families was until recently common. In everything except facing unseen death they are courageous. The queen, who was re cently deposed, once gave as magnifi cent an exhibition of will power and heroism as any woman ever did. Her subjects had been forbidden to worship Pele, the god of the vol canoes, many years ago, and had almost forgotten him when an eruption oc curred which threatened to overcomo Hllo, on the east coast of the Island of Hawaii. Ililo is smaller than Honolulu, the capital, but much more boautiful. Its trade is trifling, but as a health and pleasure resort it is popular with both natives and foreigners. It is the Paris of the Sandwich Islands. Honolulu is thoir Chicago. Tho great river of lava was slowly but surely descending on the city. The then reigning Princess, thinking that Pele was powerful after all and was sending the lava in anger, prayed to him three days and nights. Then, at the very back door of tho city, the lava stopped and now forms a glit tering gray wall behind tho town. Th's revived tho faith of tho islanders in Fele. When Liliuokalani came into power she decided to unseat it and announced the fact through out hor kingdom. The Queen went to the volcano of Kilauao, in whose molten crater Pelo was believed to abide. It had been considered sinful and provocative of certain death to eat ohelo berries without first offering some to Pelo, but as the Queen went she picked and ate ohelo berries, meanwhile singing a song of defiance to Pele. It was dramatic, and may seem silly hero, but it was tho only way in which she could, as she did, remove tho last vestige of idolatry from the Hawaiian Islands. Sho ventured into tho very heart of the crater, stopping only when tfye lava on which she walked burned her 6hoes. Tut Pele harmed hor not nnd she de r.ded him. Since then all Hawaii has laughed in his face, and oaten ohelo berries when and where it pleased. Tho native llawaiinns, with their rich brown skins, thoir big liquid eyes, and thoir supple, energetic limbs, arc far from being an unhandsome race. SCENE ON HAWAIIAN IIAILROAD. The men aro of good height and muscu lar; the women charming in their youth, beautiful in their early prime, and no worse than other tropical womon in their maturity. From h Materialistic Point of View. Such are the Hawaiian people and the Sandwich Islands. Surely they form a fascinating study for the romancer. In the commerce of the Hawaiian group the materialist tinds a no less absorbing subject for research and speculation. The islands lie between tho lt'th and 20th degrees, north latitude, and longi tude 154-165 west. Twenty-ono hun dred miles of uninterrupted ocean roll botween them and Han Francisco. The largest of the Islands is Hawaii, with Maui, Oahu, haul, Molokai, Lanai, Nihau, Knhoo'awe, Lehua ar.d Molokini, ranging in size in ihe order named. The total area of the islands is 01,000 miles. Thus thenew State-=tf the islands be ad mitted—will be 2,000 square miles larger than Idaho, 2,500 square miles biguer than Michigan, 5,000 square miles larger than W.seons'D, and only 8,000 square miles smaller than Missouri or Washington. Nor does the only rich' ness of Hawaii lie in size. Her popula tion of 80,0.0 is larger thau that of Washington and almost as large as that of South Dakota, whicty ha*- 15,000 square miles greater area. Hawaii has been referred to as a lan<J of languor-loving, lazy bodies. But these lazy bodies havo built up a trade that is not to be despised. In 1800 Hawaii's total business dealings with this country alono amounted to more than $17,(00,000, the balanco of which was largoly in Hawaiian favor, for wh!!o these brown-6kinned islanders wero buying $4,711,417 of American ;oods, America was buying sl2,.'Jl:y 08 of Hawaiian products. Trade between tho Fnitcd States and Hawaii has leached proportions that few people re al iz \ Wc bought tnreo-fourths as much in 1800 from that littlo group of islands in the South Pacific as wo did from the who!o Chiiu se Empire, notwith'-tan ling firecrackers and toa. Multiply oir im ports from llawuii by thrco and you will have a total almost, as great a-* our Imports wero from Canada ip tho same year. Among tho commodities which helped to make up these surprising to tals were sugar, cofiToo, pulu (a silky vogetable fiber) and hides. It will bo observed that this little water-locked nation is not to be lightly sneezed at as a commercial entity. Wholly American In Sympathy. When Queen Liliuokalani was de posed, It was not surprising that her subjects should apply for a bit of the protecting warmth found under the y/.ngi of the American eagle. For many years the islands have been en tirely American in sympathies. The whole population, except the 5,10) or 0,000 Englishmen, Germans and Frenchmen, is more American in spirit than it is Hawa ian. For years it has been not unusual for residents, whether they had ever visited this land of the free or not, to reTer to it as "homo," and, should one contemplate coming to see us, he would very likely speak of tho projected voyage as "going home." The agricultural products of the isl ands are, besides sugar, to which more than seventy largo estates are devoted, rice, of which 2.455 tons were exported In 1883; some coffee, pineapples,oranges, inangoos.custard, apples, guavas, maize, and wheat. Besides these, great quan tities of kalo are raised, and to the fact that it needs practically no cultivation, I and that a patch forty feet square will produce enough food to support a native for a year, is chiefly attributed tho indo lence of the islanders. Sheep and cattle are raised to some extent. There are only a few sheep owners in tho islands, but their flocks aro large. In 1878, tho latest figures obtainable, 523,000 pounds of wool were exported. The commerce botween the islands and tho United States practically began in 1870, when o trade treaty was signed. Jedge Waxem's Proverb*. When a man's pattriotism gits to be over a yard wide aud all wool thar's an oflls fomers in sito. Some farmers hain't got no better F-ense than to think they kin improve ther crops by top dressin' with polli ticks. It is a good deal harder fer a onost statesman to stay pore than to git rich. The Amerikin eagel lays eggs all over the world. Follitlcks and law is purty much the same in all lungwidges. Tho old soljer is gittin' too mauy trends that wants to help him. Pulpits can't purify eleotions. Mighty few Congressmen has got any backbone to sparo. Government ofllses is a pore invest ment. Hen polliticks is mostly fuss and fethers. Polliticks is the same all the year round. Santy Claus ain't Feokin' offls. When a man gets a government Jbb he thinks it.is Crismus. It's casior for a pollltishan to make promises in the old year than to carry them out in the new. Congress resumes every year jist tho same and don't git no better. A statesman hain't no more right to git drunk Crismus than he has any other time. Santy Claus ain't in polllticg, mobbe, but he's raighty nice to people that's got money. Tho wiramen sufragists want it changed to "Peese on earth, good will to wimmen." Tho GdNess of Liberty don't hang up her stookin'. Every star in the Ameriken flag is a new star uv Bethlehem.—Free Press. Au Unfailing Index. Students of character can learn much from the way in which a man carries his hands. See the youth with swing ing arms and palms that are displayed to all who take the trouble to look. Ho is one of that class whose heart is as open as his hands. He is frank, un suspicious, a free spender, and a be liever in the honesty of his fellows. • Notice the business man, raoro ad vanced ih years. His hands are al ways closed so tightly that one woul I suppose he is ever expecting an attack. This is the attitude of men bent upon a certain object. It is aji attitide which displays tho qualities of deter mination and fight. In debate you will observe some of our lawmakers emphasize a statement by hammering the kesk before them with their knuckles, while others, ap parently equally impassioned, are sat isfied with the use of tho palm. You may rest assured that if sheer deter mined will succeed the man who applies lits knuckles will win before his col league who uses his palm. The way in which the thumb Is held is also a true sign of character. The man who turns it in under his Angers is always weak. That is the position in which it is invariably held by a child. Tho thumbs of groat men are largo and point out conspicuously from their fel low members. Both Wellington and Napoleon, not to jo any further, hed this distinctive peculiarity. What to Do with Lamp*. Keop them clean. Fill the lamps each morning. Look especially after tho burner. Do not try to burn old, gummy, dirty oil. Lamps having metal bowls are best and safest. Have a good wick and keep it proper ly trimmed. Do not fill a lamp when burning—it is dangerous. Use the best oil to be had—it is cheap est, the cleanest, the safest. In case of accident keep cool and at tend to business right away. Have a elosot for tho lamps ami their belongings and keep thorn there. Trim flff thut portion of the wick which has been burned off—no more. In getting new burners see that there is a perfect fit; also in regard to the wloks. Do not livo from "hand to mouth;" have a good supply of everything not of a perishable nature. Handle the lamp carefully when aflame; it is an invaluable friend, yet contains elements of disaster. Never turn down the lamp so low that the combustion is imperfect; it poisons the air beyond endurance. If a lamp tips over and is not broken right, it immediately; if broken, pick up the purt containing the wick and blow it out or toss it out of the window. VisitlnfC it Leper by Telephone. The telephone has been rut to a new use in San Leandro, Cal. A man of in telligence, who is afflicted with leprosy, was isolated in a cabin away from the hospital. A kind-hearted gentlemen of the town had a telephone put Into the < abin and connected with the reading room of the hospital, thus enabling tho leoer to talk With, If he might not visit or bo visited by, people of tho outbids world, Chinese Servants at Singapore. "Who will free us from the tyrannj of the Chinese domestic?" This cry of despair comes to us from Singapore, where, ir we may trust the local pa pers, the dirtlculties.to which It le'crs have now reached a climax. In par ticular the extortions of tno Chinese rook (all domestic servants in the Straits Settlements appear to be Chi nese) arc represented as something appalling, llispilferings in collusion with the tradesmen are locally known as "squeezers," and it is affirmed that an olfer to a Chinese servant of an increase of wages in lieu of these ir regular imposts would not bo met with scorn and derision. "A Housewife and Mother" writes, if complaining piteously of the "rapac ity and wickedness" of these "tyrants of the kitchen," but it appears to bo easier to complain than to And a remedy. One editor feebly suggests that somebody or other "should make an otfort" a course which, it will be remembered, was recommended to the first Mrs. Dombcy with no very satis factory result. Another snaps at the -idea of asking the Fcnang Debating Society to "thrash the subject out." It is not stated whether the Chinese servants are to be represented at the discussion. l'j to the present, the de bate has a somewhat one sided air.— London News. This Man Was a Tinker* Speaking of the remarkable feats of marine engineers, the Marine Journal recalls the achievement of Richard Peck, who at one time had charge of "the single engine of the old city of Vera Cruz coming up from Havana. South of Ilatteras the piston rod went to smash, breaking Into three pieces. Rut Peck, after twenty-four hours of continuous labor, actually mended that piston so that It was strong and true enought to do ita part with the rest of the machinery, and he brought his ship into New York harbor steaming six knots. This was a deed which, in the opinion of the Boston Journal, quite eclipses even the recent notable performance of Engineer Tomlinson, of tha I'mbria. Tho New Bread. Attention is called to the now method of making bread of superior lightness, > Gueness and wholcsomcncss without yeast, a receipt for which is given else where in this paper. Even the best bread makers will lie interested in this. To every render who will try this, and write the result to tho Royal Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall street. New York, that company will send in return, free, a copy of the most practical and useful cook book, conta : >ug one thousand re ceipts for all kinds of cooking, yet pub lished. Mention this paper. - furious Depth Cu toms f Fiji. The Fijians believe that in case a mar. riageable youth or maiden dies without having gone through with the elaborate nuptial knot-tying ceremony of th* islands his or ber 60ul is doomed to wander about forever in an intermediat* region between heaven and the lower • regions. When anyone dins, man, woman or child, a whale's tooth is placed in the hand of the corpse, the missilo to be thrown at the tree wh c'l stands as a guide post to point out the road that leads to heaven and the ono that leads to ■heoi.—St. Louis Republic. ON® ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it i 3 plcasan t and refreshing to tho taste, and acts gently yet promptly on tho Kidneys, Liver and Rowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is tha only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to tho stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and hnve made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 600 and $1 bottles by all loading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who , wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN fRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y. i~N~u~n pATEJiT*! PENSIONS I-Snaa fov 10-cot Jt or s (iulde or How to obiolu a P*tant senj ti* fore*of PENSION u J lid UNT V 17A \vs. PATRICK U'l'AHltEU \VABIIINUTON 1. CL QELICATE WOMEN Or Debilitated Women, should uso BRADFIELH FEMALE REGULATOR. Every ingredient possesses superb Tonic properties and exerts a wonderful influ ence iri toning up and strengthening her system, by driving through the proper channels all impurities. Health and strength guaranteed to result from its use. " My wlfo, who woo brdrlildcn for offfti. teen months, aftor usint; UradjUlcL'm Female llvyuiatoi* for two month* |i getting well.'* i J. M. .Tocncon. Mnlvcrn, Ark* Biudtteld ItEQULATon Co.. Atluntn, (it. Sold bjr a 9*.00 pu" boUIO-
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