Sleep. When the evening shadows creep Stealthily, Hiding every hill and dale, Hiding all things with their veil, When the shining day doth die, Sweet is sleep, When the evening shadows creep Stealthily, To the baby in ber nest, Longing for her quiet rest, Hushed by loving Inllaby, Sweet is sleep. When the evening shadows oreep Stealthily, lo the weary heart and brain Bringing tranquil peace again; All our cares and sorrows five. Sweet is sleep, tm——— Christmas Anthem, Maidens mothers that may be, Bring your wroa! is to deck the shrine Of the Mother-Maid divine With her Child non her knee; Shout your silvery songs of praise For the birth of better days Mothers, come! In your glances deep a The adomtion of the ( Come, your children at t Lift yo For the birth of bottey I see confessed n ht he ! ens | 2% ur prayerial songs ol pmise days Childrens come with con Seok the benediotios Of this gentle little | Who was love and noocence; Lisp your guileless songs For the birth of better day Pillip om BERYL'S CHRISTMAS. t had and night va eve sit y and om Oi rate flickered oj the th down on res Of i t ii ii 3 hae no rie as no Tid sie bs ow ial ad y is tim KJ i i i &1 Po iss § t cried. t al & Christmas raining. rained from early LW adily without cessation, avd now the had fallen and it was raining still. To the eyes of the that stood in the west window ol little villa among the elms |i anspeakably dreary. She hb i a long while watching with their laden vehicles sp through the mud, and the pedestrians, laden too, hurrying along the swimming pavements; now she pressed her face against the cold ane, and great tears fell slowly fr er eves. Shoturned away in a moment and buried her face in the cushions of a divan that stood near, and cried as if her heart would break The little fire in ib fitfally on the walls and pretty room; the rain drip the veranda and patie pane; and : pliiowWSs, the hres disordered masses of the slender form thal intensity of her grief. The littie French clock on the mantel chimed seven and she jifted her tear stained face, and pushed back the heavy hair with two sma’l white hands. “ I wonderif there is another girl as miserable as I'' she exclaimed, as so many girls have «x ed before her, and as 0 many wii exciaim again. “1 who have everything in the world to make me happy— heath, a happy home, and friends; and yet. because have quarreled with ore of these, everything is less than nothing tome. Such a little thing to quarrel sbout! Heknows I am jealous. and he |! hit to praise Coral Gilbert everything that I am not.” She was nervous, sipping a dainty amethyst up and down one slender finger, and the frelig! hing it drew pale, violet flames from it. “Yes, and to send this back without a word— without one least hittle word. Just a year ago to-night he took it from me, and promised to keep it until I sent him back the one he had given me, If I did send his back, what right had he to re turn mine? He knew I would be sorry when I had ¢ tnthink; he knew, too, I didn’t mean one word of tLe hateful letter 1 wrote him: and { haveu't seen him for six weeks, and he is going to take Coral Gilbert to the party to-night. I almost wish I wasdead.” The bronze- brown tresses were recklessiy crumpled against the cushions again, and the rain outside seemed weeping in sympathy with her. There was a clatter of glad childish voices in the hall, a ringing of happy laughter, a rush of little f and Beryl Dean had just time to jump up, wipe the tears away and smooth her hair hastily, wheén the children bu in without ceremony. “Story, story!” they “Youn promised, Berry, you know.’ “Yes, I remember,” fshe answered, gently, In a moment the petulant, grieving child had become the quiet, womaniy girl. ** Have you had a pleas- ant time this afternoon?” “Jelly! “ PDeligutfal® * Aunt Louise 1s the nicest woman in the world.” ** Not nicer than sister,” Baby Jessie said, loyally. * Oh, no. indeed, of course not,” they all said, and then Harry rolled a great easy chair to the grate and drew Beryl into it affectionately, and eat downon a little hasscck at ber feet and leaned inst her knee; May sat down on one of the arms, Daisy on the other, and Baby Jessie clambered into her arms. And so they sat in the cheery firelight, and Beryl told them wonderial stories of Clristmas tide and the Christ-child, her sweet, low voice often broken by eager questions, and Mrs. Dean came and astonished them beyond measure by telling them it was nine o'clock and bed-time ; loving and with kisses and good-nights fer the elder sister, they trooped off. But that night the white pillow under the bronze hair was wet with hot, girl- ish tears. td - - - Christian day, and still it rained; would it never cease? Long betore dawn the children had rushed into her room with * merry Christmas” on their lips. “Everything we wanted, we have,” they cried. * Come down to the presents.” And she went down with pale cheeks and heavy eyelids, but with smiles and cheerlul over the pretty things that had been lavished upon her Only the mother noticed that there were is shadows under the dark eyes, and the face was very pale, and the red lips often trembled as she looked from thie warm, cozy breakfast- words t leaned down sorrowfully to the sodden earth. The thoughtful little woman said nothing, but Beryl felt in many ways that the mother's love was a very tender and precious thing. Mrs. Dean had some household cus- toms that were as cliangeless as the laws ot the Medes and Persians. Her family spent Christies day at home, always. They went to church always. on a very sad and murmurous heart that day; and as Beryl's sweet, powertul trembled so she was frightened, and with a strong effort forgot everythin but the grand chant. *“ How wicked thinking, always thinking about ayown one tries to make me happy.” When the solemn benediction trembled but shrank back with her heart beating tumultuously as she encountered a pair of dark eyes looking up into hers. How long it had been since she had seen them. Flushed and trembling she ran down the stairs and hurried to the car- riage with a celerity that greatly sur- prised Mrs. Dean. * If I could only make some unfortu- nate happy, I think I could be happy myself,” she thought, nervously, “Iam so selfish and egotistical in my sorrow, no wonder I never have any rest or com- fort. Ah!’ as a sudden gidea crossed her “1 know. I will go and see Mrs. Hull. Poor old lady, she will be lone- some to-day.” And so while the late dinner was in VOLUME XIIL 3 cottage a mile or two away where dwelt Mrs. Hull, a childless widow, destitute and aione in her helpless old age. She found her. patient and urcompinining, id up with a bad attack of rheumatism t out in the ciean tlic the fire aimos COOH, The withered o wien Beryl came in *1 have come to stay wit an hour or two, Mis, Hull,” waking off Y Waters } 1g up the iittie fire and flickered in t ina i brightened up i fa iv a t hie enn est manner here is your Christmas," w ; lok woolen shawl about Fy vi putting a pretty white cap and handkerchief on her own pretty it, and laughing acd dimpling in the most delightful manper at her little surprise * And you and I are to have luncheon together: I couldn't wait to have it at home, so I brought it with me. I hope you'll excuse my unceremonious entry with my bundles, 1 dare say mamma will be seandalized when I tell her about our pienio,” and Beryl laughed one of her pretty merry laughs not caring to see the tears in the oid eyes. “This is like the larks we used have at A whole year since l was a schoolgirl,” with a heavy sigh. ‘I baven't enjoved life half so much Gi ke forgetting the summer that was fairer than any poetic idy! to her young heart; forgetting the bright autumn days that were happy and dreamiui and with a delicious peace; oniv remembering the sad win- ter days that come in with storm | and tears and misunderstandings. She put fr coverings on the bed, in e pain-twisted form tenderly in hed th : LT | YW VOTRE ad ny ¥ $ se to 4 SCHOO since. ¥ filed & had pu ah ing th her strong voung arms; she bathe hands and | and combed hair gently, and hushed the words that were her ing a little table he bed and cover- ing it with the contents of her basket, keeping up & running stream of gay girls ish chatter. Then she propped the old lady up with pillows, and drew the one chair to the table for herself, poured out a cup of hot fragrant tea which she had made for Mrs. Hull, and waited on her much more assiduously than she would have done for anv of | mother's ele- gant friends. “ Mamma wil S0e said, at (ast. ing 00, the STAY grateful portion, by draw- hh 01 Hr § itt be anxious about me,” ‘1 am afraid I must go," putting on her rubbers. ** I'll just step into Mrs, Dunn's and tell to send Maggie over for an hour or two you won't be lonesome, and 1'il come again in a day or two I think you'll be around all right, soon. The *f ness.” as my little sister Jessie says, is | very bad for the rheumatism.” She bent over the little white bed and kissed the wrinkled forehead gently. “God bless vou, dear.” oid said. “Youn have made this Christmas for me.” And ner 80 Of Indy | a Lappy HT Ladt Fh Tus bys Mav Il N wondering how Hu signed fier poverty and [one and happy as well as content. Then she sroided hersell heartily for her restiess- ness and the sore place in her heart. “ { know it makes mamma sad to see me so disconsolate. must certainly re- form. I'il begin this very minute.” She ran up the steps blithely. * How long before dinner ?" she called to Nora. “Hall an hour, miss.” “Can 1 dress in half an hour? she queried of herself. “1 must” reso- lately. She flew to her own room. **I have taken no interest in my ap- pearance at ail lately ; one would think I was a perfect beauty to judge by my nonchalent attire, and could afford to slight the ‘arts of the toilet.’ Christ. mas night! [ must reform.” Surely no fairey Christmas vision gladdened any eyes in all the wide city that night than the slim girl-form that ial ran down the broad stairs into the bril- | pariors half an |} ith WwW “x iy MIS. $ Wa i s liantly-lighted hour later. Trailing robes of gauzy black, white arms and shoulders shining through, vivid blossoms at | rounded throat and in the shining hair. | Bright fires glowed in the grates: beautiful odorous flowers trailed over | the table and mantel! and bracket; and | as she turned to a long mirror to see the | “effect of her train,” the dinner-bell | sent its silvery summons through the house. Mrs. Dean came into the drawing room, her gray silk rustiing softly, look- ing pleased as she noted the pretty pic- ture her child mado. Mr. Dean, silent | and n little abstracted, followed, and the | children came down the long stairs with laughter and merry nonsense, Beryl was bright and anim ted as she | had not been for weeks, and even the | servants below smiled at the gay bursts | of mirth that floated down occasionally from the dining-room. But after an hour or two, when the i had gene upstairs again, and mother and father lsd gone to the library, memory, which is never still, awoke in her heart again. She had drawn a low easy chair to the grate, the work had fallen from her idle band, and the dark eyes were watching | the flickering fire ight steadily. How many pictures it showed her! | and in each ther2 shown one face. Dark, imperious eyes that could be so tender, | grave lips that could smile so rarely, the | one face that had fillel Ler life for year. She remembered the many hours hat this face had shone upon her The boating on the river; the drives along the country roads; the lingerings in the n100 flower-scented old garden: the lewves they had gathered ir the gorgeous autumn; the books they had read, and | the songs they had sung together in the ill winter evening. {i It all came back to her, this chill | winter nicht, and the tender, girlish, undisciplined heartwas sorely wrenched. “* How could I have been so mad as to | give him up without » word of expia- nation? But he did not care for me, or he would have written or come before this! 1 know I shall be miserable all my i life, because | was so foolish,sochildish.” {| The soft eyes slowly filled with tears. | There was a ring at the door-bell just i then, but Beryl did not notice it. A | moment later a step came along the hall | and stopped in the optn door, but Beryl ‘ heard it not. i It was a pretty picture—the luxurious | flower filled room, and the fair pensive | girl looking into the fire, wrapped in her i revery. The proud face of the man, who saw, ftened and grew tender, as he looked stood beside her scariet A i £3 » r n “walth wh tr {ch 80 another moment he { chair. “ Beryl.” | The fair startled face was lifted to him as she half arose, “ My darling,” Le said, as he saw the { grieved red lipsand the tears in her dark | eyes. He drew her to him closely and | kissed her white brow tenderly. | “My little one, did you think I could | let this night go by, and not see yout” Snake and Frog. Many years ago, while in Ceylon, I livid in a house in ‘Slave island,” raised on a high platform. The steps up to the door had become loosened, and behind them a colony of frogs had established themselves. One morning I watched a snake (a cobra) creep up, insert its head into a crack znd seize a frog, which he then and there swallowed. But the crack that admitted the thin flat head and neck of the ophidian would not permit of the same being withdrawn when the neck was swollen with the addition of the frog inside it. The snake tugged and struggied, but in vain, and after a series of futile attempts dis- gorged its prey and withdrew its head. But the sight was too tantalizing. Again the head was inserted in the erack and the coveted morsel swallowed, ana again the vain struggles to withdraw were renewed. I saw this repeated sev- eral times, till, gaining wisdom by ex- perience, the snake seized the frog by one leg, withdrew it from its coigne of vantage and swallowed it outside.— Hditor and Propr CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS, Some Odd Variations fo the Popular Myth of the Happy Season. In the north of Germany and on the Rhine it is St. Nicholas on his donkey, } % accompanied by his servant Ruprecht, who makes his rounds on Christmas eve, The tthe myste. MOUs visit they plack OOS and thie Ones ex pod wa to fill the on the window wh y, with the firm { ot to fall asleep and miss hearing the fonkev's bray which is 10 announce i rival of the bountiful pair. How. | they are n owed to leave their beds until ear v dawn, when a general | soramble takes plage With shouts of delight or sobs of disappointment th varfous i geptacies for the expected pres ents are examined and the several papers undone in which the gifts afe tied up to projong the suspense. Some reveal the coveted swee ts, the ijong-desired picture | hook, praved-for fairy doll; contain palpable hints of t! displeasure in the shape of & birch i, a written reprimand, efe,, or are emply altogether lncky recipienis are | congratulated those under a cloud iaunghed at, and harmless fun reigns sa. preme throughout the house. in a simi'ar way St. Nicholas day celebrated in France on the sixth of De cember, and in Lorraine the role Ruprecht is plaved by Pere Foutettard, preceding St. Nicholas, who is seated on the inevitable donkey, in his official robe, with mitre, cross and long beard In the Jsouth of Germany St. Nicholas | appears in person on Christmas eve or i bearded servant, Rupreolit, | wrapped in furs or piankets—the more | ogre-like the better—with a birch rod in his hand and a well-filled bag or basket on his back. Before distributing his gifts, which consist of apples, walnuts, oranges, penny dolls and similar trifles, he examines the children about their behavior since last Christmas, reward. ing the good ones and exvressing his displeasure by the character of i presents—bits of wood, stones or raw potatoes — to the naughty ones. Rau. precht is appealed to by the parentsmany sills, ey hits gifts determina y si i = OO 2% eh 8 vf y tif ii t WE @ the others wens 1 ie 1 he d: is Of sends his hin ing in order the youngest members of In Alsace the Christmas messenger ApPEars Lady Bountiful, clad in white, her face powdered with flour. On her long auburn hair, made of tow, she wears a crown of gold paper serrounded wifh lighted wax tapers, holding in one hand a sliver bell and in the other a basket presents. She, too, as filled with . is suppose to arrive on a donkey, and is Hans Trapp, the in dispensable bugbear, wrapped in bear skins, the blackened face hidden under % slouch hat, and in his hand a birch rod. Anxious to conciliate ) tidren place 0 ind the door for its accommodsa tion and a glass filled with wine as we! come for the lady and her attendant, singing a quaint old German rhyme Chrischkindele, war gyn Li i ad hay 34 1 a hwwnmindls : Mid ARAN E i by ¥ Obrisohtkindele, Kumm du zoe uns eryn' Merr hann eo irisoh’s Heubindele Un an e Glasele Wyn. E Bindele Fir's Essele Fir's Kindele E Glasels, Un bete kenne mer au, the explanation of which may serve as an amusement for a holiday afternoon. The proceedings of Hans Trapp are about the same as those of Knecht Ruprecht; but the Lady Bountiful in- tercedes for the naughty children on their promise of amendment and places her gifts under the Christmas tree. git EE —————————— A Terrible Story of the Sea. In a lately published book, written by Rear Admiral Werner, of the German navy, a strange story is told of the way in which many years ago, in 1536, a French man-of war went down with all hands on board in West Indian waters. | The ship had been in commission for two years on the Antilles station, and | during the whole of the time her captain, | who i8 described a8 an incarnation ol cruelty, h exercised his ingenuity in | tormenting in every possible way both | the officers and men of his crew. So to them, while the captain himself was hated with an intensity of which proo’ was soon to be given. Orders at lengtl came for the ship to return home Nol long after the anchor had been weighed it became evident thata heavy squall was coming down on the ship, and the captain directed the officer of the watch to shorten sail. The orders were given but not a man moved. Again the orders were repeated, this time by the captain not 8 man moved, “This is mutiny,” cried the captain, and then a hundred volees answered: In vain the They stood silent, and make man or officer move, save only ites of the captain. A few minutes more and the squall struck the ship. In a beam-ends. *‘Cut away the masts!” | shouted the captain; but still not a man | moved. In another minute, however, | the rigging was carried away, the masts | went by the board, and, thus relieved, | the ship righted herself, Then the long | suppressed rage of the crew broke fo th, | and rushing aft, they seized the captain, | followed the rigging, but the first lieu- | tenant, going below, opened the door of | the magazine and fired his pistol into it. There was a loud report and the ship was no more. An hour afterward an American vessel passing over the spot picked up one of the erew, who told the story of what had happened and died shortly afterward. Greasing the Sea. ‘he expression ‘to pour oil on the troubled waters” is generally regarded as a metaphor or figure of speech, illus. tating the action of some persuasive peacemaker. softening the angry passions ol contending disputants, On the other hand, the mollifying influence of oleagin- ous liquids upon the waves was long ago demonstrated as a scientific fact, and the equinoctial gales would probably have heen kept in subjection ere now, on the high seas, but for the uncertainty of the weather and the estimated expense ol oiling an area as limited even as the bay of Biscay. It would appear, however. that a gentleman of Perth has solved the problem of economy as applied to greasing the ses, and that in future ships may carry with them, at a com- paratively trifling cost, a sufficient sup- ply of oil to nullify the rigors of the fiercest cyclone. A northern contem- porary states that a series of experi- ments have lately taken place in the north harbor, Peterhead, with the most satisfactory results. The experimental- ist filled some bottles full of « il and sank them to the bottom of the harbor while a gale was blowing. Presently the oil was released, and, floating to the top ot! the raging billows, stilled them as if by a miracle. As a consequence of this experiment, it is thought in the neighborhood of Perth that oil can be laid on continuously by pipes to the bars of all exposed harbors, so as to enable vessels to gain port in safety in the midst of the most violent hurri- canes. The invention would be invalu- able if applied to the channel passage in dirty weather. Day by day we are taught that there are no bounds to the conquest of science over nature, and now that we can oil out the gluy wrinkles of the stormy ocean, we need not despair of b ing able, sooner or later, to warm the north pole with other- wise waste steam and fertilize the great e. 1otor HALL, CENTRI Absence of Mind, It is essential to skill of the body should work anc but the moment they nssert their independence of [fen and prompt to the initistion of efforts outside of what they | been taught, a diseased condition 1s begun which wi { mind Such a habit thin re genera than 8 oom something part of ul ReECKLie $f Dut that the muse scious iL were, os ¥. ne Of se MSCIOUSNesEs, ¥ 4 y UAE Gall "absence ( in fttie 8 IL y beg by omission uinking dressing, a $ } _ i nission of Wie @ i oked, wiong unkempt. Soon, as and even The collec stories of such aie youn wyer who ing a from jt Cont thie habit ahsurd harmiul acts are committed tion of full of tROrensos, anecdotes are We instead of pout i Usk follies g In one ily empti into a Epon ana Another, an ex.attorney United States, w 1 { hottie on Lis from bi SWAL } \ the Ink 8 INK. stand wed it. of the t L ghit trip Hi int 0 attend vi 84 % en shirts there is afl Un his retu were Pushing her inquiries und ¢ husband had uiarly a clean shirt every ot had forgotten to take off the one, now returned wearin who! aif doen! An authentic anec- dote of the gre Adam Smith, upon 1 writing OWnR name, elaborate imitation of U the other party which affixed Sueh man, t opinion business, annoyance portmante fn 8 4 no sh ¥ aii 5 Visioie t it vail ft and hia UR Ui Oo sign instead Lis sei EPs et aOniract, to depreciate a unjust whom R80 individun inci 18 tend n peraap with oetome gougn 8 i} L i Lik Oe LLY ried by d out witl ioasness 84 IV are 1] Ped SUtomalic acti tt will or ‘he absent-minded one, walker, performs i knowledge ol which are pressing. Justly, therel anxiety with when 1! find bad n jt CRIT HL it : COS them, an t it . it tho i 1 ore, every himse! nia it y gradu in its onset, stealing overone in mot of intense pati : mind- weaknesses, i ' MMAR SO 0 Dit of reves oO bring it habit aght person ailing into thi us fiy iit 18 bose Init in is us O80 about over ning ping oree make resist if of we fitld Furnishing a Home. you wish 1 ¥i a impression pF, there $8 bu follow: Buy ex f¢ eR SOL: y ii | 8 ings econom) rae up surround. , with d enay ive us make good one short sir Pini your your tureens, and SUSAr-Lt piales BA buy your moa vivid orimson ¢ wel » it * ew warm," or y« * have an eve fo or that red and white, green and ¥ In DOCKRusS is the and $i il an y " og a r COLOT, the La it s CLeRpPOesT OF inst Hing in will look | wiongings out. 1esl the shop, i in taste and weil 8 with the rest of your ! So many ty les are comi that yours will have mMOdisll any aay, other, they w style of your which may dealer's sto ago. Have work of your and groovings and swell the oly linn and pisase, Ts IT si 14 vy vile rem tr, out piain hanes 00 t the i of hoid the dust But in. iow base- grained paint naint paint, besdings which CATH omy ers DL “ whi OW any Plain ; yelter and keeps nice RIWARAYS TEDORL boards, and don’t about your Lou varnished, looks onger ana 4 sham, I'm a and wainut. { {-hand, restore paint and give things yourself, and don't be afraid of hones. hand-finished pine without either paint or varnish. The prettiest effect mer houses are (reorgia pine, and hed with forms prevail in somt Of ture, An expensive oak dining table newest pattern witl "De corners, and a support which 1s a square pillar with ini the rudest Saxon could t beautitul in its clear wood, d and hand fin- ished to smoothness. Such a table H ars at the most fashionable makers in the city. set of chairs with straight turned maple uprights and legs, with basket a } i wi ofsn't ¥¥ ¥i6 sL8I, gained from the white pine, fin The simp ' NOW Hin is ear shellac at arn Of i " r Payy 18 BquUAre, i a i br: i i cos, p fs desir > we POT Go; * joned with Momie cloth and {rigned and fi: belowed are prety enough for any sitting room, and such s.mple, original pieces give an air of taste anl research to a room worth any mere Shirley Dare. Oss tashion.—— Carp Culture for Farmers, The Philadelphia has been the Ledger work of the United States fish commis. gion: and makes some remarks upon | one feature of that work—nawmely. the introduction of carp. says. The business of water farming has already its rules and its profits. It LAKES an old farmer stare to be told that a quarter of an acre, laid down in water, will bring him in more profit, in food rais ing, than a quarter of an acre cultivated in any other way. Also that corn fod to carp brings in twice or three times the returns in food that the same number of bushels fed to pigs or other cattle does. The earp is a vegetable feeder, so that it ean support itself in the vegetable growths and confervee of ponds and | streams. Bat it thrives and increases enormously when regularly fed as other stock is fed. It does its own grazing if it is let alone; but it can be fattened for the market on bread erumbs or eabbage leaves. Its most profitable food, how- ever, is boiled dry co n—that is, corn out of the corn-crib, dried on the cob and then boiled. Less than four years ago about one hundred and thirty European carp, Bo hemian and others, were brought alive to this country and given a home in the ponds of the commission ant Washington. These have increased so rapidly that the commission recently found itself in pos- session of 150,000 of these desirable fish, which are being distributed over the | country to those who apply for them, | About 50,000 voung fish, in lots of! twenty, have alieady been distributed | throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Iliinois, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Connecticut, Ten- nessee, (reorgia, Texas and Mississippi. There are 3,000 apnlications still to be L ie in a few years is sufficient to stock a five-ncre pond, but the quarter-acre ponds are suflicient to begin with and to work for market and table supplies. The carp breed at two to three years of age, and their growth is as rapid as their fecundity is great. The *four-year- olds” in the government ponds weigh from ten to fifteen pounds. As so many farmers have ponds upon their grounds, and so many more might have them, we think that the culture of the carp should become a source of supply in numerous farmers’ households and by-and-bye a valuable source of income. —ie———————— The magnet as a means of mitigating pain and curling dlsease is again seri desert by artificial i - 4 y rrigation tone ously submitted to the consideration o spocialis . 4 { CO., PA. Popular Selence, a noticeable fact that the animals y found in Ameri were not arge nor so strong as those of the world Horses were originally imported here from the eastern contin. t, though now found running wild in nearly all of its parts ction tapers NOW made rom a mixture of one ounce one half ounce powdered th-ounce minum iorus; on the latter being FOF WO ounces of easton the quantity varying ac the resultant tenacity exibility required It is originni "0 sO oid ti nre in Eng: Rana sRils orris and one pets r root, one vig ounee phi sp 1 ISSO $ i Ol Nn i the Cauoassian race woome inhabitants of the in hemispheres, a though their descendants have been for centuries « xX poded fo the most active in fluences of the climate, have never éx ibited the transformation from a Cau. f Oassian Oo & negro compiexion, Henee ! i to have no perman- $1 i ie Those nations of which have © torrid acne both } climate is ent influenot Duman smi wved Up mm the Or Lie y he amount of ar they contain is doubled, the starch undergoing a corresponding diminution while t of the protein passes from Lhe © guide into form Day Lie process of rotting! ¢ potato t its nitrogenous constituents tO BUgAar. W hen potatoes are frozen 1 ve I¢ sug the soinble i i Laat and the The minute ‘nes and furrows on per. ' hax are jige.y Lo receive a Ia attention than the observa great lines fortune. 18 Ie to believe thal horis on the thumb and fin are pecul to individ and may be as certainly Lie «¢ thno OFIoR] ntification of the being ng them as measurements o skull or the examination ol a photograph woud Doctor Henry Faulds, of n Peuki LHOZIOR sous 18 iu 144 i Of naon ger points ar URS ir used CC. ASS OF Posi MOISBIERN~ 1 i $ Lhe i Lhe ¥ Tokio, Japan, | 1Imes } an and 4 elt i HOEPpIiAL, barat « DUS te : whicl » Nature, direcis a Way i attention of students of the theory of heredity, The value os of hand-marks in hardly Over. tention ot ey i5i8 Al n OW E. palurs i deve.opment Land based ¥ u nguirics can " i i i a PROMINENT PEOPLE. ere 18s somelhing noel gives cle reiurns ys ' of conjec- vestments of fisherman of Gn to grateful § for shu Lhe sneg tL MProvi GEseTY Meclaugh ihe reason at Britain have by to the Baroness Burd« it ex pena z $Y HO 14 said to have sum of 8500000 condition ol Ws ed LL in the thie poor and k « Cinss in, the discov. i gis on pot. was Osh Miss Louise erer ol paintin « TEADZEIN gage 8 s health, i #5 LO reporters riving direct her process and » M, Gambetta ten years ago was one of men in France, His Of fing 8 i spirituel ii bas 144t he handsomest WHE a face HH his figure was i a man of NO More looks of his yvouthfa i wate i conlours; i ful. Hz: ence, but poetic g Victor Hugo is d i-{nced, He of ANG ETRcos is hi ood st striking pres. tl simost Gass, J J swmeribed as still ai d with short, is a great talker, and it that once, when he be intimate with Louis Phillippe, two talked evi rybody to bed, and he king had to take a candle and light @ poet downstairs, J. F. Russi and others, of San Antonio, Texas, havin against the playing « army bands at conceris, (yeneral erman answers that as even in despotic Russia soldiers are allowed to earn an extra penny by any craft they may have, he sees no reason why our own soldiers should be deprived of so simpie a privilege. very stubbly : a gray hair i related used to gf i i im ie # { Line protested hie { Nt — A Case of Mistaken Identity. of A most remarkable instance mis taken identity is relsted by the Geneva correspondent of the London Daly Adews Professor Schulin, of Basel uni» versity, while making an excursion in the Grand Dachy of Baden, was are rested at Hagen by the on A charge of having assanited a women a short time previously. In vain he pro- tested his innocence, expinined that at the time the alleged offense had been he was at Basel, and asked i DOLCE i 1 i perpetrated | leave to communicate with his friends. I'he public prosecutor said a serious crime had been committed, and that several witnesses were ready to swear that Schulin was the guilty maa. He refused to listen to his explanations, and the judge before whom the professor had been taken sent him back to his cell, where he was kept ten days. As it happened, Schulin was betrothed aad the marriage day fixed, and his confine- ment in prison on so serious a charge, the difficulty of contuting it and the prospect of losing at once his character, Lis bride and his professor's chair so preyed upon his mind that he attempted to commit suicide by cutting open his veing with a pocket knife. The au- horities at length allowed him to com municste with his friends, when over. whelming evidence was at once forth. coming that on the day when the offense was committed Schulin was lecturing in Basel university. Almost at the same time the man for whom he had been mistaken by the police was arrested. © { t Length of the Human Step. At a recent sitting of the French Acad- emy of Sciences, Monsieur Marey read a very interesting paper, giving the re- sult of his experiments with a machine for measuring the length and rapidity of a man's stride in walking. Marey found fied the length of the step. The step is longer going up hill than going down; ionger for a man carrying a load than for one unloaded; longer with low heels than with high heels; and longer which project slightly beyond the toe than for one wearing short and flexible soles. It was found that while the heel might be lowered indefinitely without detriment to the gait, the sole could not be made perfectly rigid nor prolonged too far without interfering with the speed and ease of the wearer. Experi- ence alone was able to determine the exact length and thickness necessary to produce the best results. ———— Probably fifty years hence there will be abundance of trees in the West, Ag. riculturists are rapidly awaking to the necessity of planting them. The Fort Scott and Gulf railroad company has be- gun the planting of hundreds of acres A Boston capital ist has engaged a company of raisers of forest seed lings in lilinois to break and plow a large area in Kansas, and plant no less than 2,720 trees to the acre, and cultivate these until they shade the | ground. At the end of that time —say | ten years—the plantations will be de- | livered overto theowner. No trees less than six feet high are to be counted, The Fort Scott railroad has adopted this plan, one advantage of which is that the tree enterprise will be attended by experienced men, whose interest it will | be to make as much of a success of it as | possible. { i rs III | The Locomotive publishes engravings | in each issue showing how boilers look { just after they have exploded. doesn’t seem to hit the case at all What is needed is a picture showing how a boiler looks just before it is going to explode. We could then learn when to get out of the way. New Haren ter. de IM.is 1 Reminiscences of 8 New York Fireman, The pride and = company,” says wire to be { the most effic vim bition of each fire Mr. Zophar Mi farsi to reach a fire, ent in pulling it out bad a8 much love for 1 i 3€ We ial i biy could have for anything else, We WOLD [eave out our anything, and The night I was was a fire. I could Lo go immedintely ng business, rashi lor the engine, etling married there 1 80a 11 But the next morn i TRY, : another five, and 1 went to that, So you may judge how we liked it, BR parade, paid ihe expenses curse.ves We always paid for the painting, repair- ing and decorating of cur engines. Ean gine No. 13, to whieh 1 belonged, was sliver piated-—the first that wa so—at a cost of perbaps $2 000, We didn't ask the corporation to foot the bill. 1 kept ah atcoun ol my expenses in connec tion with the fire department, found that in seven yeurs I had paid in | charity, in clothing and in incidentals £3 000 Mr. W. L. Jenkins, president the Bank of America, was a member of engine company No. 13. Many of its members were Quakers. lew ‘ roughs’ Nor were Ww tt! LE Ol then, as in modern times. there any salaries, except in f the chief engineer, and tem- orarily of the asiistant engineers. Fire- nen pow are liberally compensated; hey get #1200 a year each, and sre re i hail-pay, if infira, after ten rvioe Many and many a time worked my breath out while oid Thirteen, and lain in the and jumped up again and seized rakes, because there was no one to LE INY piace. Atl a fire in Haydook's drug store, Pearl street, near Faiton, on the first } i834, I had DAITOW €8Cape. he building was high, and all of it rove the second story was consumed, ieaving only the gable walls standing, Severs! firemen, after the flames ha {ie case oO ¥ ‘ i i ¥ i t 1 a Vibe 1 a! OD n of July, 8 @ “ Diy iy 4 i nhac in order lo prevent fire from hose up to the second story, upon the debris, ks from flying sbout, and i As | wi there, at six he morning, with two or n, I suddeniv saw ont gable walls spread out like a f ¥ 44 i BLO @ Of hance was to turn my back and there was no time toran. Iwas flat, of course, by the falling prick, and was foreed thro story floor, and also through flix into the eeliar, i mysell on myelbows, ap and walking through two of me. Why i me? don'tknow. It was je) a miracie. Eagene Under d Frederick A. Ward, who stood w feet from me, were instantly killed Hall and William Phillips, two other fireman on the same floor, jumped out ol a window, and one of tham landed was badly injured. 1 rumpet SWUng soross my back, my flesh in MBEQENOS Was biasck and blue for six months. My oa was not dog the celisr until evening. The former foreman of Thir. Who was on second story, ad. vising us, was buried standing up to his in hot bricks— so hot as to burs toes, and ng ralion ¢ Orst t . wal 1g \ A Mona first-silory i thie remem bet ng g out, floors wal LOD 10g sos smest iV, AG in i and n © i out of : ! the 1 i oy Neck ¥ % £5 it off some of his 8 bricks | « § * i { h { £8 i 0 1h fq Lis misfortund b ri r thirty vears aft 2 LLATLY years ati K dispiny 4} th is ie av sper of tl ia Chief En- presence His first a gineer (xuiioe mind in er was 10 engine 7. which was working near the fire, to take off the tail. screw, jet the water out of the box, and n pump air in the ruins. The men were digging all day for their buried comrades, and for the bodies of poor Und ii and Ward, who stood not fifteen feet away from me when the wall fe hout warning. We were pinying ‘washing down "as we called it, the op- et oroughiy to put oul the that lingered in Lhe straw, cotton, and 80 CR considered that the fire was preity much out, and were only giving a few finishing touches. Thirteen after. ward erected a marble monum nt to Underhill and Ward in the cemetery i in Carmine tf. Opposite Varick.— Harper's Mogazine Of nd £ or v List Lil { i ' i being 11 fire @ slred The Irish Land League. i iat The Dublin correspondent of the New York Herald says: Whatever may be the general opinion of the world regard. ing the methods of the land .eague, it be recognized that the organiza. tion is now a remarkably strong one When Mr. Parnell was in America last winter there were only thirty branches of the league in Ireland, and they were very weak. There are now fally five Tid y nust enrolled, making % paying mbers are nitogetber one hundred thousand payin recruits uncer its flag. Of course there are as many more who can not pay. | These, with capital on hand and the | money which still comes in from America, enanle the organisers to “spread the light” in every direction, and to keep it bright and well trimmed. The organizers who form the branches, enroll members and instruct the farmers in the methods of the league are paid by the central organization, as are a un jority of the speakers who go into country to the meetings. It would i to suppose that attendance at | these meelings 18 at all pleasant work. Ratiway traveling i8 more disagreeable in Ireland than in almost anv part of Europe, and the inns are generally of the | vilest character. A lew weeks of travel and of life at these so-called hotels and experience upon the country platf haranguing a crowd in an Irish mist or downpour of rain would soon wring dry of every drop of enthusi. the heart of the most ambitious | young champion of the ‘‘peopie.” Therefore, so long a8 the money in | Americas 18 plenty the league orators | should not be grudged the price of their | eloquence. Upon the {sce of their mem. | bership cards are the mottoes: ** Ireland for the Irish," “ Down with landlord ism,” “Keep a firm grip on your home- | | steads,” and ** The land for the people.” On the back are the objects of the league, briefly set forth; and for those | who desire to know the exact aims of the organization, 1 transcribe them. | The Irish National Land League was | | formed for the following objects: First, | | To put an end to rack-renting, eviction {and landlord oppression; second, To effect such a radical change in the land | gystem of Ireland as will put it in the | power of every Irish farmer to become | the owner, on fair terms, of the land he i tills. The means proposed to effect these | objects are: 1. Organization among the | people and tenant farmers for purposes | of self-defense, and inenleating ti | lute necessity of their refusing to take any farm from which another may be | evicted, or from purchasing any eattie | {or goods which may seized on for | non-payment of impossible rent, 2. The cultivation of public opinion by persist. | ent exposure, in the press and by public | meetings, of the monstrous injustice of | the present system and of its ruinous re- | gults. 3. A resolute demand for the re. | duction of the excessive rents which | have brought the Irish people to a'state | of starvation. 4. Temperate but firm jesistance to oppression and injustice, sat —— A Lily. She was a big, buxom lass, and when her small beau called one evening, she anid. ** Good evening, Lily.” “I'm no lily,” said he. surpr’sed at the idea. *“ You're the lily; men are never lilies.” “ “Yoa, especially, are wu iiy *How's tha! I" “ Liliuputian.” He then looked ns if he wished he were ap elophant.~ Kentucky Slate Journ! a a i the WH 5 mistake { ve i } G4 i nt ASL 10 abso- | he Qa ial somet imesa they are; and you, ! | FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Fares and Garden Notes. moiting than susflower seeds, Apples boiled with milk are good fo | PIES, It pays to feed cows giviag milk liber. ally. Botter is high snd now is the | time to feed profitably. Always give the it is we ii t Ine ’ soil the first meal fed with manure it piants, animals and men, Rapid drying of paint Is insired by { the addition of a small proportion of | iitharge, sugar of lead or [ If that thin sowing of wheat in drills is more productive than thick sowing. | By special culture on small plots a sin- { gle grain to the hill has given a yield of A dormant bulb of the calla should be planted so that the point shall be just this plant in a pot or tub is not a matter of much importance, as it readily adapts slant supply of water. ~ None but earth colors should be used in painting floors, and the rapid wearing off of a coating of oil paint on a floor is a sure sign that white mixed with the paint. that th dry beiore the second is laid on. It is important In selecting cows for milking, the free ensy step, the pleasant and comiortable expression of countenance and the round, capacious form of important than the family bistory. Hllie unless it good milker. n all attempts at breeding domestic line of descent or cattle no immature stock should Mature sires and dams are essen- tial if strong Leslthy stock are desired. * Like produces like.” If the parents are immature the stock from them ean. not snd healthy, and if this mischievous practice is continued for a few generations it must end in produc- ing a feeble race of stock. A indy says that to kill insects she uses one teaspoonful of kerosene to a adlon of water, and sprinkles it on the piants with a hand.-broom. Ii destroys green flies and oth ry wg bs a sirong 2 E, Rt sis 4 1 ni Horses nd numbers, four pounds of for each pound of dry substance in their 1 rou ou Oud $ pounds, sil A Missi RE IUCa. sgippi farmer dashes cold i i i i and the mucsular action dis- : obstruction, violently, pages Li BEL Save lameness and conghs by an im. mediate covering of the horses after a drive, if only stopping for a few min. utes, D t cover the horse with biankels pn he is in exercise: not in arm; but rab thoroughly, cover safier horse has found 3 A 8 } y the } 83 r ei fhe following recipe for a durable whitewash is farmnisiud b Tliinots Fami'y Mogasine: Take d ww $i ¥y ie barrel # @ “ i $i $8 | Walt : ith boliing water. i, add cold water ring it to the consistency of whitewash, then dissolve in water i one pound of white vitriol (su:- ate of zine) and one quart of fine salt ering Alle nough a ie Ww is slacke % 4 ¢ i 3 $ LO and add Ti Bs Wii chiefly to the vitriol, which hardens and fixes the wash. PPamestic MHecipes LOING UP Suinrs — A shirt-board for #8 paint Wo regulated iamily. This should be cov. ered with at least two thicknesses of bisnkets, snd have the ironing sheet. that it cannot siip. arag to the iron. collars, ete., done up al rub The polish of and by dint of much rubbing. It may be done by any good laundress, bul it takes much time, and is fearfully hard on the linen. Spermacetti added small quantities to the starch gives ita pretty gloss. ounce white wax and (wo ounces sper- macetti; prepare in the usual way a sulh ty of starch for a dozen bosoms; put into it enamel the size of a haszeinut. gives a beaudiul polish. To Bake A Turxey —Afler gent quanti it is marioram. Whole oysters, well sea- soned, may be added to the staffiog. When stuffed, tie it in shape, lard the gait, penper and flour, Have the oven pot very hot till the turkey gets heated hrougli, then increase the heat, While the fowl is cooking, boil the giblets, the neck, liver, gizzard and sweet-bread; abioo them fine, and when the gravy is made, add them to it. To make gravy, after the turkey is removed from the baking-pan, put the pan over the fire, stir in bolling water or stock; skim off every bit of iat, add the giblets, season with s&'t and pepper. A TT WTR SO Dense Population of Africa. Although we have not, nor are we like to bave for years, sny accurate statistics of the population of the interior of Africa, there is very little doubt that we have greatly underrated it. Much gathered on the subject, especially con- cerning the distribution and density of that far-off land. In the great inke dis- trict, for instance, there are territories States, relatively millions of peopie. The negro regions are by far the most populous, while the i geographical society gives the estimated continent as follows the population is 50,000,000, or about fifty-three persons to the square mile. The town of Bida, on the Niger, for ex- ample, contains ful East Africa i+ rated at 30,000,000, and equatorial Africa at some 40,000,000 gets the negroes as numerically 130,000, 000; the Hamites, 30,000,000; the Ban. tas, 13,000000; the Fooial, 8000000; the Nubians, 1,500,000; the Hottentots, 50,000, making a total of 172 550,000. These figures—only approximate, of course—are considered too low by both German and British geographers, the former estimating the population as high as 209,000,070, Words of Wisdom The difficulty of the world is not that it does not know enough, but it can’t find time to practice what it does know. The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, be- comes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong On the stage of the world, frankness is the only part a man knows without having to learn it, or fearing to forget it. There would not be half the difficulty currences of cases where the lesser vir- tues are on the side of wrong. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our vir- tues. A Kansas railroad train ran at full speed into a herd of cattle, tossing them right apd Jeft and killing thirteen, NUMBER 50. Ce —————e MEMORIES OF LIBBY PRISON, fMTamorous Nisuiniamemans of the © Prison—Story of a Confederate G card The Hats that vols the Polstoes. A correspondent from Richmond, | writing of the recent sale of Libby | prison, says Mr. Joseph Wingfield, an | ex- guard, told his experience on a mem- | orable night while standing sentinel | over Lhe prisoners there. ** 80 the old prison is sold, is it? he (maid, * Well, gentlemen, I never go b | that place without Jsurhing now. I can | help thinkine of the eute trick played | ay & lot of Yankees there. The fact is | it was s0 good that, aithough I had bein | ordered to shoot in among them, I dis. obeyed orders. It was about "63, and the Libby building was so crowded that it wouldn't hold any more prisousrs, so | they put a large lot of them in the second | story of the building across the street, | Soon after these prisoners came the | prison officials got a large Sunply of | Aweel polsioss (regular yams) from North Carolina, and stored them on the first floor of the building in which those prisoners were confined, Big sweet po | tatoes were Juxuries in those days, | Turner and those fellows kept » strict { watch over the bailding, I can tell you. i The third day after they had | stowed away iL was noticed that they were disapperring al the rate of sbout | a bushel & day. At first it was thought | that the rats took them, but a | thought showed that the idea was ab. { surd. Bentinels were posted ail sround i the building with orders to shoot any | man they caught stealing those yams, but they didn't see any y to shoot | and although posted there day and night, and no one was allowed to enter the | they continued to disappear at the rate | of a bushel a day. The Confederates saw | their vams disappearing in this wav.anc | were furious. : i i were put om the iwax, #0 that if any of them were opened ii would be krown. {The next morning the officers went into the room. The wax was all | right, but another bushel of potatoes i ind vanished. | maddest crowd you ever saw. They | came siter me, and ordered me to take | my stand in the room. They locked { me in, and a lighted candie was put st | private marks see. | was ordered to shoot on sight anybody | saw stealing those yams, { Just as fast as I could light one candle | and go to the other end of the room to | ight the other, the rats would cut the ‘first one down. They were regular | Confederate rats, and a candle was & | godsend to them. After a lot of worry got the rats out of the way, sna sat | down near the door waiting for devel- opments. There I stayed till twelve | o'clock; but though I kept my eyes on | the potatoes ali the time, I couldn't see | any of them going. Shortly after twelve I heard a creaking, ng sound, which | seemed to be all over the room at once. I cocked my gun and held my breath, { but still I counidn’t see anv sign of life | except the rats creeping about the four, ‘By George 1 thought, ‘this darnea place is haunted, if there is any {such thing as a place being haunted. The sound stopped, but | about ten minutes after it began B. | 1 Jooked at tae pile of potatoes, and pres. ently saw something shoot from the ceiling and islion them. Isawit was a brick and could distinguish a rope tied to it. I crept a littie nearer to get |4 good look atthe thing, but before I | sould examine it, it was drawn slowly | up, nnd there was about a peek of yams | sticking to it. It went up through at a | hole which bad been cut in the floor | above, and presently came down again | with a thump right among the potatoes. It was the most artful srrargement you ever gaw. The brick had about fifty joles drilled in it, and through each hole a sharpened ten-penny been run, so that when the brick fell among the yams these nails stuck into | every one they fell on. I couldn't help iaughing at the smart dodge those Yan- | gees had taken to get at the yams, I gently put my hand forward and caught bold of the rope. Pretly soon thoy - gan to draw on it, and when it did not move 1 heard one fellow say: ‘Steady, | boys, the brick’s hung on something | Pall her steadily without jerking.’ { They aid pull her steadily and fairly lifted me, from the floor. * No jerk; easy, hoys, easy,’ the director said, and | they tugged away. 1 got preity red in {the face holding to the rope. of those spiked nails might strike me passing. | ting all their weight on the other end ».f {the rope. I cutitintwo, acd the end | | shot back through the hole in tle ceiling, i i on the floor above, showing thst the | | sudden giving way of the rope had had {a disastrous effect. 1 heard another | | voice say: ‘There now. [told you so. You've broken the rope. We've lost | our brick, and to-morrow we'll be found out.’ i *Can’t you see it? itup.! Next I saw a long neck protrad- | ing through the hole. and a felio# peer. | {ing down. Then I called out: * liyon | | trouble any more of those potatoes Ul] { shoot,! That fellow's head shot bak | through that hoe just like a (errapin, | and it was as still as death up there, 1 | hated to tell on them, because it was | | such a sharp scheme of foraging on the | enemy, but [ had to. When the officers | went up the next morning to examine | the room it took a long time to find the | hole. Those Yankees fac out a holea | foot square through the floor, and it was | done so neatly that ittook good eyes to ternver it. That was where the offi- | cers yams went to.” There are two characters connected | with Libby prison whose whereabouts many an ex-prisoner would doubtless ike to know~—' Old Ben” and “the General.” The Yormer was an old Hl establishment, and who generally came | made it his business tc get some one | patches from the seat of war, and these he turned over in his mind until he had | managed to work them into a graphic | aging to give the victory to the Union forces. The keen old fellow had learned that reports of Union victories elated the prisoners to such an extent that they became liberal, and rewarded him for his cheering intelligence. He would come in the room, and sing out at the top of his voice: * Look sharp, dar! Here I is wid de latest talogrifick ‘spatches from de seat er war.” This signal was enough, and the prisoners would crowd around the wily old man while he related *‘de latest 'spatches,” which often ended with the intelligence, “@Ginrel Lee's men dey took 'n run Old Ben, although he claimed to be a Northern sympathizer, was deeply grieved when the war ended, as it closed the Libby and deprived him of his occupation. The old fellow lived about ten years after the war, and died in want. “The General” was a younger negro, who was almost as taciturn ss “old Bin" was loquacious. He was a prison official, his principal occupation being the fumigation of the prison. Every morning he went through each room with a pan of burning tar, to give the place what he termed ** a good Union smoke.” He left Richmond soon after the war and went North. With hin: disappeared the last of the Libby offi- cials in Richmond. The cultivation of tea in India has greatly increased during the last fifteen years. In 1864 the tot: | production wa not above 3,000,000 pounds, while this Pangleap girl. wll right N id her Jusaer, bee Pn eicne, Mins Crenhosor spams ing up the sirect. Now, I'll wager new walking suit you wint fo much that you can't say ‘roast turkey snd cranberry sauce’ in response to the first half dogm remarks that sho makes without her poticifig the fact” “1 never shsura,” replied Miss I To . might as well have that sult—it's jo too lovely for you must the sentegce in your : usual voioe and manner—that Is osar. in # single breath~sll yun together as or Shen Mise Glusherson wus shows 2 ola P. could hear the usual open ~ alor peck exchanged, Miss pe a without even the smalies! comma in the whole remark: Aly the words with that pnd concluding gurgie with which sll women, for some oconlt reason, invaris. versation when de- dead bury her next Sunday did you get that edging at Gimps'?” “ Roast tarkey and cran—" | white kid boots ean't you come round for dinner to-morrow and stsy all—" “Roast and" “Night, and show Milly basque? Tha! msn with a oost stared at me again O'Neill { i : i | those ferns are just too lovely | these cuffs a $iils morniag aie {erimps coming yours | Skippen says you met Charlie Boggs | other night and be said ¢ ‘ about me tell me quick!” hm nd i *% ¥ jy i | Linda,” interrupted the visitor ou “You don't listen to & word I say | was asking about Charles Boggs not you're Le say the soli thinks | awfu: nice now teil me did i gracious! are you i * And Tilda™ | Miss Pangieups after the matier | been expiad that he had lost by a serateh, | lieve in my heart hat if you hadn't | thought about Charlie just then, | | shouldn't have bad any new suit this | winter.” | All of which goes to show that there (is at jenst one subject upon which one | may ype to secure the temporary st- | tention of the i | ~ San Francisco Pot. i $ i Hinis to Writers for the Press, The following are opinions. Opinions | are not always facts. | The great sim in writing isto tell as much 8 poasible IB as few Boi us i ible. te nea when ! [sibs love of the soued of words peo- | There is a tendency in word te-erecp in when they are not needed. Every | rank of fifteen or twenty is apt to con- ; yr one peg Be good plan to many un. necessa'y words can be kicked out of a sentence is to telegraph messages at ten | sents » word. with sn ease and originated Some use quotations confidence as if they had ‘them. It is well to remember that que- | tations are not your i Omit the remark property. comman al the oom- -mencement of many lelters: “ Thinking ‘that some facts reistive to the raoent boer-barrel explosion in Masivilie might interest your readers, I take the | liberty of sending, eto.” All unneces. | sary, and a waste of time, isbor, paper, ; pen, ink. type and space. If the matter | vou write 1s to interest anybody, it will ' do so without your preface, Avoid prefaces one-third or one-half ‘as long ss your articie. Nobody builds ‘a haliway hall a mile long to get ino a | small house. | - In long articles the same thing is gen- | eraily said two or three times. It is much more difficult to writea short article than a long one. Anold time to It is harder A steady practice of wri immedi- ately after A to will reiting resuit in confirmed dyspepsia. The stomach must have its time to manufacture and store up brain tforee, The best efforts in composition are lly realized when the body isin fis best pirysieal conditidn Y write well when you are tired, and writing on stimulants involves a hea discount on the morrow’s streagth. When you im “ jost bbled something.” if that something is really clever, please re. member mi of your past life, experience, study and observation it has taken to proauce it. The ripe fruit which in autumn fa l'sfrom the tree has taken many months to store up all its richness, Trees don't just ‘scribble s ap ples. Dm'’t let your bravery in print Xo ahead of your bravery in a personal terview with the subject of your abuse, Honor the foreman and the prool- reader. They can slaughter you, and hardly know how they do it themselves. —New York Graphic. that youn have Good Advice. Don't leave to memory what should be writien; it makes lawsuits. Don't become security for him wle waits for the sheriff. Decent, substantial clothing for your children makes them think better otf themselves, snd keeps the doctor away. Teach your boys to look up and for- ward, but never backward. Cuitivate the habit of giving, but never give up. Bay a farm wagon before a fine car- age. Don't buy a piano for your daughters while your sons need a plow. Don't let your horses be seen standing much at the beer saloon—it does not look right. Til give the you a Sey © 3 makes independent men. Tr Crow vs, Ratilesnaks. A man living in Wood Gulch was climbing a fence, and while in the ac- noticed a crow a short distance from him jumping back and forth in an ex- cited manner. He kept quiet with a view of ascertaining the cause, which soon made itselt apparent. The crow was having an encounter with a large rattlesnake. The snake would strike repeatedly, but the crow would evade him every time, and finally flew away, when the gentleman, on a: vestigation, found that the snake’s head was picked to shreds and quite dead.— Klickitat (Wyo. Ter ) Sentinel. I —————. Didn’t Like the Pantaloons. A Galveston dandy didn’t like the rew pants he had received from his tailor, so he told the artist who the pants: . * Look here, I can’t use those pants. I wanted them for a di=ner , and they are so tight I can’t walk in 2 * Well,” growled the tailor, “if yon ear a crop of 40,000,000 to 45,000 Joands is a oe don't get to be any tighter : on't get ti ts you won't Dn. Stein
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