ws ~
“Behind Her Fan,”
Behind her fan of downy flaft,
Sewed on soft saffron satin stuff,
With peacock feathers, purple-ayed,
Onught daintily on either side,
The gay coquette displays a puff.
Two blue eyes peep above the bof;
Two pinky, pouting lips, * * * enough!
That congh means surely come and hid o
Behind her fan,
The bark of hope is trim and tough,
So out I venture on the rough,
Uncertain sea of girlish pride.
A breeze | 1 tack against the tide
Capture a kiss and catch a cuff
Behind hor fan.
rank D. Sherman, in the Century,
sc
Whe is Yeur Doetor?
* Who is your doctor ?
A pertinent question,
And one that troubles
Two-thinds of the world,
Who after life's fyolies
Have spasms and colies,
And pains through the veins
And the arteries hurled,
Who is your doctor ?
{Of silo ~and home
OF guack and botanie.
Who hss your employ ?
Who is your doctor ?
The wise ones will answer,
Good air and good diet,
Good conscience, good hours,
Contempt! for bad passions,
Baad tastes and bad fashions,
That rosy health's pathway
Bo strewn with bright flowers.
HIS WORD OF HONOR.
ae
The “Green Dragon,” at Orpington,
assumed to b» sn jon, was really little
more than a wayside public house. Mr, |
Hantor, ¢ and proprietor, was
therefore not a little surprised apd flar-
LC bb
Faw al
Saad
HOOD, A Young nan having a great coat |
over his arm, a light bug in one hand, |
and a stick in the other, presented him. |
self at the bar of the * Green Dragon,” |
and asked lsuguidly if he oconld be ane |
commodated with a bad and a sitting.
LOR.
“ A bed, sir? replied Mr. Hunter, s
big man with red face and gray hair;
“ves, I think we can manage to give
you a bed.”
“and a sitlingrcom
“ A sitting-room?’ echoed the land-
lord, in the tone of ore who is consider |
ing “soma great vndertaking; “one
minute, if you please, sir”
And My, Hunter disappeared into the |
little room diately adjoining the |
bar, there to boll counsel with some
second person; the npshot being that, |
ina fey minutes, Mrs. Hunter, Miss |
Hun'er, and a few Hanters just ont of the |
caning state, issued forth, bearing |
respectively workie yg materials, socks in
process of being wended, {in whistles,
apd decapitated de
“ You can have th
rell, sir)" maid
umpbantly.
“ You really must not let me disturb
you," replied the traveler
“Pout you mention it,” replied the
landlord, m a {one which was at once
genial and confidential; “we would
pot turn a ecustower away from our
doors. Yon see, we do not have much
parior company.”
“And this is the only room youl
have that iz disengaged ?”
“Weil, res, sir; this is the only room
at present. Busan! coals for the gen-
tleman's fire.”
The traveler having, as he thought,
thown a dune smoant of consideration
for the comfort of Mrs. Hunter and the
young Henters, was glad enough to
entor the apartment slinded to, and to |
draw close tu the fire the one dilapids- |
ted arm-chair.
Arthur Beaton, barrister by profes.
¢itn, snd literary by choice, was not
recily more than thirty, though he
looked considerably older; for the dark
hair and besrd were streaked with gray,
and the faee, with its regular, hand.
some features, wore a look of such in- |
tense mental weariness as would have
saddened the most hopeful man bad he
iooked on it for Jong.
For some time he leaned indolently
baek, his hands elasped behind his head;
at length he rose and took from hisbaga |
Jocked-up diary, which he opened, and |
availing Limself of pen and ink which
stood upon tie table, made the follow-
ing enfry:
“Ociober 1781874. —Got up late,
Called on the Brilinstones; George was
out. Had a pleasant chat with Annie;
went, like a fool, to Richmond, and,
like a fool, haunted the Well house. It
looked just the same as in the old, dear
days, but I heard children playing in
the garden. The hcuse is let, I be-
lieve, to city people Cams back to
London; dined at the Pall Mall; went
to the club. Got back to chambers
late. Wrote a column—‘Review.! A
weary, weary day. Stall I never,
never know a moment's foraetfulness |
He drew then from the leaves of the
diary a letter written in a delicate fom-
inine hand and addressed, * Arthnr|
Beton, Esq, 12 Gray's Inn.” This let- |
ter he regarded with a long, sad, loving
look; then, resting his head oa his!
band, he read it through very slowly. |
It ran as follows:
“My Drag Artavm: If you will be |
#80 suspicious, so jealous and exacting, |
eannot sea how wo are ever to be |
happy. Faith without works is dead, |
and love without faith is no blessing,
but a weary burden. I am tired of |
eross words and looks. Some women, I
believe, like the feverish excitement of |
quarrels, but I only wish for peace.
This misersble, petty jealousy is quite |
naworthy of yon. Do try and put it)
from yon; and remember that love, once |
wounded, is sometimes hurt past hope |
of recovery. I received your article
quite safely, but I cannot speak about
it row. Yon have made me too sad, too
weary, and even a little indignant,
“ Yours affectionately,
“Auice Cranermep.”
He replaced the leiter, closed the |
diary, took up his pips and began
smoking. The early port of this day |
had been fine and mild, bat toward the |
afternoon the sky grew all at once
leaden, and the wind shifted io the
northeast. Now the wind was rising!
and the rain was falling+~a cold, pene-
trating, impetuous, determined rain, |
For want of something better to do!
Seton began to write a letter; but he
made tlow work with it. For minute;
together he eat holding the pen listless.
ly in his hand, lcaning his srm wearily
upcn the table, listlening, as we all
listen when slone, to what sounds may
be going on near us, from a feeling
which is not curiosity, but more over-
powering.
Saddenly what must have been a very
light vehicle dashed swiitly down the
road and drew up with great precision
at the door of the “Green Dragon,”
while the voice of a new-comer became
audible, Seton, however, could
only cateh a few disconnected words,
such as ‘‘eaught in the rain—
delicate— shelter--Chiselhurst— closed
ge.
Then the door opened, the landlord
presented himself upon he threshhold,
and said, in a very pointed manner :
“If you please, sir, a young lady,
driving over to Sevenoaks in a light,
open trap has been caught in the rain,
and her servant wants to know if I can
give her asitting-room while he drives
back to Chislehurst for a closed car-
#And this is tho only one you have ¥*
rejdined Seton. “Oh, ask her in by all
means. However, I am sorry the room
smells so of smoke,” he added, as he
knocked the ashes from his pipe.
“Don’t mention it, sir, and thank
you very much,” replied the landlord,
In another moment the deor opened
gin, end the unexpected intruder en-
»
mann
is room all to your- |
Me. Hunter, tri- |
i
i
i
i
VOLUME XV. CENTR
| round a small, classio head. { he would keep back all his love, elineh
Seton's face had grown white to the | fast his heart till she was gone, and
very lips,and his voice guivered pereopti- | then die swiftly of the pain.
bly as, extending his hand, * said : | “Arthur, 1 am waiting, dear. Won't
| “This is a very unexpected meeting.” | yon coma? Are you net going to for
* Very unexpected,” echoed the lady, | give me?”
removing her wet mantle, and sitting | Now he rose and groped Lis way to.
down on the leather sofa. The recog. ; ward her likes blind man, Bhe stretohed
| nition had been mutual, but women, as | out her hand and drew him to |
a general thing, have more self posses. | Then he bent down; she raised her
sion than tha sterner sex. iface, and tho hearts and lips
“ Yet mo recommend this chair,” said | so long disnnited came together in a
Seton, laying his hand upon the one | long, passionate kiss. He knelt down
from which he had justrisen. “No, |by her, her head sank upon his
thank you; I prefer sitting away from | shoulder, and for several minutes they
the fire.” | remained thus, lost in love's profound
4 stery, An sorks eon.
“1 am sorry the room should smell so | Peace and mystery. And the corks con
of tobacoo,” observed Seton, after a | tinuad to pop, aud the wagoners on
panse, “hut you see I did not expect | their way to London tramped in and
Gudngmind, oi. : : . .
the pleasure of a visitor " out of the bar, and good-nights ware
er,
She smiled a rather forced smile by
way of answer, and Seton folded elab-
orately and put into an envelope a blank
sheet of paper.
“The country is very beautiful around
here,”
Continent six weeks,” she
after 8 pause. ** Mamma has taken a
house near Chiselhurst, IY was driving
over to Sevenoaks Bani
fa py ar is morn »
in the rain, and induced to
ask for shelter here”
* And how is Mrs, Clarefield ?"
“Mamma is quite well, thank youn”
Then alter a panse, in a fall, sweet, low
contralto voice, which had a ring of in-
finite pathos, * Are you stopping hero ?*
“ Hardly,” said Seton, with an &s-
I'l tell you all abont i:
I wanted fresh airand exercisa—so they
bcund me over on my word of honor
to walk from London to Hastings in a
week. I acquiesce in everything now,
so, of course, acquiesced in this, and
this is my first day of hard labor and
imprisonment.”
*‘ But yon used—" began the lady;
used to be so fond of walking.”
“ But a man changes a good deal in
three years,” he replied, wearily.
the dreary eommonplaces with which
these two tried to begnile the time for
over an hour.
the arduous effort of trying to entertain
while the wind roared, and
lashed the window, and the dosk eame
on prematurely, and Seton, looking on
on the cheerless prospect, shivered as
the sofa.
“No, you shouldn't, really,” said
Seton, not turning round, however,
though with a look of great painon h
face. It is wonderful what snffering
some small, commonplace word or action
may cause us. What vistas of possible
jors may they not open up to us!
** I suppose the carriage will soon be
back,” said Alice, presently, and speak-
ing with effort, ‘and our coachman
drives so fast too.”
“Yes, and your term of imprison-
ment will soon be up,” rejoined Seton,
resting his arm: npon the mantelpiece,
and examining with critical interest a
photograph before him.
“How the time passes!” said Alice,
in a low voice, as if speaking to herself.
Then, with endden energy, ‘I cannot
tell when wo shall meet sgain. Before
wo part, answer me one question. You
happy ?”
Now he stood before her, and through
the dnsk and the firslight his eves
flashed on Ler, as he said, ina low,
harsh voice:
“ From your lips that
insult.”
“Of which you need not fear the
repetition,” she rejoined, promptly,
with cutting formality.
“ No, it can’t end like this,” he went
“Do you know, ever since you
have been here, I have bitten my lips
through and through to keep thom from
speaking of the past? This meeting
was not of your seeking, and it scems
to me unmanly fc take advantage of
this opportunity.”
“We are somelimes so mistaken,”
she said, hurriedly, but her words were
question is an
om.
exhanged between customers and land
| lord, and as Arthur folded Alice's man
{ tle around her, she said, shyly :
| “You are coring back with
| 500 mamma, are you not #
“May I#' he answered,
{ evident in his face and voice.
Bo the bedroom which Mrs. Hunter
had been preparing all the afternoon,
{ and of which sho was not a little proud,
remained unoccupied; bat the payment
aa lavish and the day's labor was not
me to
great joy
| regretted,
I Oh! that neverto-be-forgotten ride
{ to Chiselhurst through the wild, windy
fevening! And the rain ceased, and
| strange voices wero abroad in the wind,
| singing jubilantly over love rerisen
{ and redeeming. Ard the clouds drifted
away, and the pure, sweet moonlight
{ quiverad over wet fields and trees, and
| seamed love's benediction,
{ I leave you to imagine the arrival
{ home. Arthur had always been a
| favorite with Mrs. Clarefield, and in the
{ old days of quarrels she used always to
{ take his part. When dinner had at last
i been disposed Mrs. Clarefield
| pleaded household duties and went to
{ her bedroom. There she sat down be-
ad wept profusely, dear
i
sil
Vf
of,
| fore the fire a
| And down-stairs these two were very
niet. To them love was a very solemn
hing, and they were solemn lovers.
| And the wonderful, priceless moments
{ went silently and swiitly by.
{ Presently Alice said, as she looked
{ up in Arthur's face:
{ ‘Yon are not going to continue your
walk to Hastings this week ¥
And he answered, with a smile:
( ‘‘Duf, my dear, I bave pledged my
i word of honor to do so.”
“ And I command you to break it.”
Yes, and he did break it; but none
i his friends brought it as an seen
i against him that for once in his life he
| had broken his word of honor,
of
ation
The Future of the Mormon System,
{ In the Century the “Legal Aspects ot
{ the Mormon Problem” sre discussed
{ by Arthur G. Sedgwick, who concludes
| as follows:
The failure of the atterupt to
{up the Mormon system by congres
| sional legisiation ‘does not by any
{ meaus show that the Mormon EvEtem
j will ultimately prevail in Utah. The
{ operation of natural canses is certain
in the long run to sap the foundations
of polygamy. The railioads have al.
i ready brought the Teritory into com-
| munication with the rest of the country,
i and the development of the mines rust
| nltimately bring in a large Gentile op
i nlation—almost altogether A
i strong tendency in the direction of
| marriages between Gentile men and
i the daughters of Mormon parents mu st
{ spring up. Indeed, this is said to show
| itself already. There is no surplus of
{ women in the West from which to re-
jeruit polygamous bouseholds; the
{ births of the two sexes .re always very
| pearly equal, and the Mormon popula-
{tion 18 no longer being repidly in-
| creased from abroad, as it was in the
{times of the early persecntion of the
{ church. It is now stationary, or nearly
| 80, and being rapidly hemmed in by a
i community having a social system
| which all experience shows is the only
one permanently adapted to modern
{ industrial life,
| As the Territory fills up and the Mo~-
| mons are brought more and more into
| relations with the rest of the world,
break
I
male.
se of shame operating upon the
In the
householders
i daughters of Mormon
) | must marry Gentiles, and others, who
“Alice, you have treated me very ill. | do not marry out:ide the church will
Ou that day, now three years ago, when | ba made keenly aware that they are
I gave you my love, and believed in | snrrounded by a community which re-
yours, 1 was frunk with you. I told | gards their position as a degraded one
you how wild and irregular my life had .
hardly audible, and he continued:
been, and how full of faults I was,
You reclaimed me—yon transformed my
davs—youn made life, all at oree, pure
and fair; and then, becanse some thorn
away and left me to perish miserably.”
Hhe wonld have interrupted him, but
he silenced her with a gesture, and
three years, you ask me if I am happy.
1 I loved you once, I shall love you
forever. Do I look happy ?”
I think there were fanlts on both
sides,” she said, quietly.
“Yes, perhaps there were,’
3
he r
Oh, how ter
to that letter?” she said, passionately,
heaving.
he returned, quickly; ‘I know it wag
written on the impulse of the moment.’
“But I have it by heart.” Then, very
ing, mine was cold and tideless; in
fact, no love, only a cold, singgish af-
fection. You almost thought I was
right, and that we could not be happy.
I am naturally proud,” she went on;
“but a woman with less pride than 1
could not bave acted differently. Only
one course was left to me—to be
silent.”
“Well—it is all over now; we shall
probably never meet again.”
“Yon won't take my friendship,
then ?”
“No, thank you; you are very gene-
ous, but I do not want that gift.”
He drew himself wearily into a chair,
and for a time there was a complete
silence. Hope is so subtle, so intangi-
ble, that we are only aware of its exist-
ence when it has ceased to be. Arthur
Seton looked upon himself as a man
quite without hope. If seemed to him
that his life could hardly be more deeo-
late than it was, yet who shall say what
feeling, of which he was not directly
conscious, may have eustained him
during the last three years. Now every-
thing seemed gone—there was nothing
left for him but death.
Presently carriage wheels came down
the road; carriage lamps flashed
through the dusk, and grew stationary
opposite the window. Mr. Hunter
bustled in and announced, in a tone of
triumph, that the carriage had come
for the young lady, and had done the
distance wonderfully quick. Then the
door shut, and they were alone together
tered—a lady, tall and very graceful,
‘having a pe'e, Madonna-like face, and
hier say his name, “Arthur!” but
of
the world
c : it did not affect them
|in their daily life; it was something re
mote from them which they did not
Tuis cannot
must begin if it has not begun already,
{ a8 soon as the surrounding monogamic
| Gentile system of marriage has a fair
| opportunity to enter into competition
| with its rival,
i stances there is nothing to be done
{ with the Mormons but to
i alone.
1 crease them.
{ not been enforced. From the cireum-
| stances of the case it cannot be.
The Teeth of the Ancient Greeks,
bans who fell at Chmeranca is that, ac-
sound and complete,
gallant patriots were
Gireece
that of
days,
was enviably different from
The Romans were well sae
counteracting these evils, If we reo
rule of not burying. precious objects
with departed Romans was made in
favor of gold that had been used for
stopping teeth. We moderns may
compare favorably with the skill of
rival the defenders of Thebes in their
superiority to the necessity for these
gentlemen. Rareirdeed are the happy
mortals of to day who can truly boast
that their teeth are in the perfect con-
dition that nature intended, and that
the craft of the dentist has never been
emplcyed over them. It would be ex-
ceedingly difficult to select from our
army, or any modern army, three hun-
dred men with teeth as sound as those
of the Theban warriors are reported
to be.—London Times,
te ———
In Kansas lignor is now given out
upon physicians’ certificates. A cor-
respondent says one patient, whose sole
complaint was a boil on the arm, had
prescribed for him in eleven days ten
Dini o Fpititue frumenti” and thirty
a Ss poss
There are 50,000 children in Chicago
ed from attending school for lack
E
ITALY'S NATIONAL DISH,
The Modus Operandi of Macarenl Makivg
and Eating--Uncouthk Ways of Living
Among (he Homans,
A Rome (Italy) letter says: Yester
day, after a good dish of macaroni,
cooked as only my landlady knows how
to cook it, I suddenly bethonght me to
write a letter on Italy's national dish,
meat for it—aa this may be eaten by
itself even if no macaroni be added to
it. This way of cooking meat is called
{ umido in Rome, which means moist, In
the English language it would perhaps
be called stow, 1 will give the direc
{ tions for one pound of meat, which can
noreased in quantity sccording to
nocessity. The meat taken must
sqnare off the ramp of beef without a
morsel of fat. The
therefore: One pound of ramp of beef,
he
meat in general; one ounce of butter ;
one ounce of tomato paste; a bunch of
mixed herbe (a leaf of each anflicient);
one large onion: add a
grain of garlie, but it is quite as good
if not better without it); a wine-glass of
wine {dregs of port wine end of botlle,
ated,
{some persons
Eg
Having prooured the necessam
it into a paste (in 8 mortar) together
into a sancepan, and over this the bnt-
ter and over that the meat, and over
this the onion ent into shreds, and
over all a sprinkling of salt and pep-
per. Then put the ssncepan on the
fire and leave it there to boil in its own
fat, without a drop of any other liquid,
un. the meat is well browned and the
onl. is reduced toa paste like the
bacon fat and butter. Then add a
rineglass of wine and again leave to
boil, until the wine is well amalga-
mated with the rest. Then melt the
tomato paste in a little water or stock,
and pour this over the meat, and then
| leave all to simmer for a couple of
hours,
That is sll. It does not scem vory
diffienit, nor is it, if you follow the di.
rections to the letter. Of course, during
he early part of the process, until the
simmering begins, for instance, you
must watch that the meat or bacon fat,
ete., does not burn. After the tomato
paste is put in all may be left to
mer, there fear, and you may
take a walk, if yon will, and nothing
will spoil during your absence.
When yon eat this dish without mae-
aroni you may add a few small or ent
potatoes the gravy. When the Po
tatoes are boiled or partly boiled, they
ave put in the sancepan and allowed to
simmer with the whole until served.
‘
v
Bille
I no
0
its gravy and nothing else, and this is,
I think, the best way,
Italians always precede this dish
with a dish of macaroni, which is here
eaten, you know, in )
Half a pound of
for vach person, as is half a pound
of meat. Bought macaroni requires
half an hour to beil, and the water must
be kep! on the boil, like for pinm pnd.
dings. Mind that the saucepan is very
large in which you boil the macaroni,
as 1% Is like rice in boilg, and
have boiling water ready to fill in,
the macaroni absorbs the water
not forget to add salt to the water.
After the macaroni is boiled strain it
off from the water; then place a soup
dish over the boiling water to keep it
warm, and put in the macaroni by lay-
ers. Over each layer yon place a slice
of butter, a spoonful of the gravy of
the meat, and a spoonful of grated Par
mesan cheese, When wou have thus
seasoned the whole macaroni, mix up
ull quickly and lightly (not to erush the
macaroni) and serve very hot. Do not
attempt to brown it before the fire or
in the oven, as English and American
cooks generally do—thst is not maca-
roni, The macaroni must not be seas
oned, therefore, until it has to be served:
you had better wait than have the maca-
roni spoiled; that is why Italians al-
ways begir dinner by an ante pasta,
that is, a “*before-meal” course, of sar-
dines, anchovies, dried ham, or sausa-
gts ete, towhile away the time re-
quired to season the macaroni, Grated
cheese (like salt and pepper) should
always bo on the table for those who
may wish to add sny seasoning to the
macaroni, Muecaroni is eaten with the
fork only; with a little practice it be-
comes quite easy to twist the macaroni
round and round the fork; if not, it is
broken by the fork, helped by a crust
of bread in the left hand, like fish used
BisO
swWaol
as
Da
3
were invented,
To eat macaroni perfectly, however,
it should be mada at home, and this is
as easy to do as to make pastry,
It is made with flour, water, butter,
and the yolk of an egg. When the
paste is made—rolled out as thin as no
wafer—it is left hanging u short time,
say half an hour or even an hour, to
it is thus rolled tightly together the
roll is cut into strips, as narrow as mere
bon. The size of these strips is guite
ad libitum. When ont in this way you
ghake up the whole, when a heap of
macaroni will fill the table. According
to the size of these strips a different
| which is the same, whether the strips
wide.
Homemade macaroni takes very much
less time to boil than bought macaroni.
Ten minutes will generally boil home.
| made macaroni,
Italians generally make their own
eat it, or they order it to be mado on
| purpose for them, stale macaroni being
1t does not spoil by keep-
Aftc~ the macaroni the umido is eaten
as a separate dish, of course; and this,
| with ordinary families, completes the
usual dinner,
| diately after the macaroni comes a dish
of fritto, for which Italians are cele-
then a dish of roast veal or fowl and a
salad.
occasions—family festivals, name days,
church holidays, ete.
But, however great the festival may
ba, or however numerous the guestgfor
dishes may be, knives and fork® are
never changed, excepting for fish ox
sweets, and then they are not changed
but merely wiped.
There is no table luxury in Italian
families, even in those in easy cireumn-
stances. The table linen is coarse and
unironed. The plates are of the coarsest
kitchen ware. I need only tell you that
the old “Willow” pattern is here con-
sidered a luxury. One glass is nsed for
all the dinner, even if several different
wines are drunk, and no one seems to
think or suppose that a change of
knives, forks and glasses would be an
improvement.
iscomfort in every way characterizes
an Italian dinner table, as it character
izes Italian houses in general, Of
‘course I do not allude to princely
1
J
00,
{as in other countries. Bat the houses
of such men as Depretis, Cairoli and
high government officiuls are all or
nearly all, what we should call shabby,
{ Our smallest sl opkeepor at home ‘8
j surrounded with more comforts, little
lnxuaries, than is
3
i
longing to the upper middle olass, as
| advocates, lawyers, government officials,
doctors, ete,
The fact is that instead of spending
their money in making their homes
comfortable, they spend it at coffes
| houses and other places of amusements
not shared by the women; and the
worsen, left 80 much alone, feel no en
teouragement to ombellish their honses
{in which their husbands so rarely 8 ay.
Instead of embellishing their houses
| they embellish themselves in order to
attract admiration when they appear in
{ publio,
A home is yet unknown in Italy, both
nevertheless
y, aud if yon are
not sophisticated about table linen,
knives, forks, glass and crockery, you
may bea daily gnest among your | I
or acquaintances hero. You will always
be welcome, for no pe ople share more
have with a friend
id
fir nN #
3
riends
do Italians, wm macaroni and
amido are th
3
than
unost favorite dishes,
French
sure
pant re for nicer than
TOL . g gloat 1
bmula la mode, 1 ramen
my lady readers wiil thank me for a
genuine honsehold receipt not found
| perhaps in any international cookery
book vet writtea.
I
Prison Life in Sing Sing,
“We have a great deal of trouble
with prisoners in cousequenos of their
stealing,” said Warden Brush, Si
Sing, toa re porter recently, as he sat
in his office in the prison at Bing Sing.
“They take to it patumlly and
petually, snd itis not for fun, b
the simpl ) isfaction of getting pos
session of some other pers:
ty, It may be that they aid
they'll lose the knack if thay don't
practice here, They i
other's shirts and towels and shoes, if
they got a chance, They will make mor
of an opportunity than you can possibly
When th given
clean shirts they have to be watchad
with eagle eye or the keeper will flud
himself ‘out’ dozen or more gar.
ments,
“Yes,” remarked Keeper Fary, “1
have to put my foot on the dirty one
as fast as they deal
ont the
caroly
3
od
ir
=
per
1d it for
+R
m's i ro r
f
are at
: N :
it sles: each
Imaging 8 en sro
“
@
aro anda
ime ve
ei ngad,
clean ones, one ata tl ry
Lf i 1 am Hable to
i080 a shirt or ¢
allowed a man 1
right to go into niddle mess.room
to change his shir He laid (he clean
shirt down at his feet
pulling the soiled one over his head,
when, quick as a flash, one of the con-
vita whipped np the clean garn
and it was gone when the fellow’
came out from the shirt, Th
was found afterward ‘pla
cut of Way piace,
‘plant’ or hide
until a more convenien
ing perhaps that they
with it when their time is »
“Mr. Fary had an inte
ence somo time sine
the warden went on, 3
are allowed a good supply
daily. Oa this occasion several o
saved the shells carefully and
them with potato. They
them back and complained that the
eggs were rotten, They managed to
get aboot twenty "
“That bappene
R8-room Keoj
lid not
PH
toe 1
+
nN
3 FATTY OF
garmel
ia
¥ $1
( via
&OY
Livaey
sling
CX PH ri
} DE ira ie,
em
ile
4
then sent
extra eggs that time
d on
mi r
“1hey « cateh
again.”
it is really remarkab!
what an almost insane proj
men have for stealing,” Mr. Brush said
farther, “I took a fancy to a colored
boy who was sent up here for a « uple
| of years, and made lnm my waiter. On
the very firet day what did the fellow
do but steal the soup! He might have
had all he wanted ; but no, he must
steal it or he wouldn't be happy. We
hed a fellow here who was in for five
years, who ought to have been in an
ad lum for He would walk
along by the tables and steal eversihive
and anything he conld lay hands on,
cups, knives or anything elise.
sentenced in New York because he went
up to a baker's window, thrust his band
through the glass, took out a pie and
went on eating it in the open street. A
policeman came slong and arrested him,
and he was sont np here. He had been
a! Blackwell's Island before, and he
supposed Le was there all the while he
was here. Some of the keepers liked
him and taught him a good deal for a
fool—the prisoner, 1 mean
idiots,
———
The Boy’s Heart,
Get hold of the boy's heart, Yonder
locomotive comes like a whirlwind
down the track, and a regiment of armed
men might seek to arrest it in vain, It
would crush them and plunge unheed-
ing on,
man's hand, will slacken its speed, and
in & moment or two hiing 1t panting
and still, like a whipped spaniel, at your
feet. By the samo little lever the vast
steamship is guided hither and yon,
upon the sea, in spite of adverse wind or
current. That sensitive and responsive
spot by which a boy's life is controlled, is
{ his heart. With your grasp gently ead
firmly on that helm, you way pilot him
whither you will, Never doubt that he
{has a heart, Bad and willfal
very often have the
“)
- iy
1882,
i
i
threat to kill him. The officer then |
| took my brother und me and placed ue |
Homo New facts About the Desthof Wilkes | a short distance from the barn, and set
Hooth, (a light directly in front of us, Two |
The following is from the letter of a | men were placed to guard us, with in- |
correspondent who has visited the | structions that the first time Booth |
Garrett farm, where John Wilkes Booth | fired upon any of the pariy they should
was shot: William Garrett is, I shonld | immediately shoot ns. Booth, who |
judge, approaching thirty-five years of | had been watching the operation |
age. He is a rather tall, slender man, | through a crack in the barn, and heard
He | the order of the officer for our execu
is a farmer, end was dressed as became | tion, shouted at the top of his voice:
his vocation. {| *“*That is unfair; these men are in-
“I have been over to visit your old | nocent. These people do not know |
home and gather some points about the | Who I am.’ i
death of Booth, and I have come to visit | ** The officer then revoked the order
you for the same purpose.” se had given, and Colonel Conger, one
“Those were serious times indeed,” | of the detectives, ordered me to pile
he replied, “and it has always been a dry brush sgainst the corner of the
wonder to me that the real facts about | barn so that it could be tired, I had |
his fojourn at our house have naver yet i piled but little when Booth called to
USELESS! USELESS! |
——
been truthfully told, |
constant companion nearly all the time |
*‘Young man, you had better stop |
18th of April, Captain Jett
brought |
looth to our place.
home in
nanded that he take the oath of alle-
an
1
i
{
¥
¥
Johnston
1's army in North Carolina,
“Colonel Conger then ordered me
informed Lieutenant Baker,
Harold, however, wanted to give him. |
of the barn into the hands of the offi.
ha aid fa
it
What
him
Ls
. * ‘
[ came home suortly Rebar
stantly until he was shot.”
conversation?
“ Whatever he had to say was about |
the war, He never alluded to the as-
sassination of the President. He raiter-
told my father, and he also said that he
had been engaged in the riots in Balti-
more when the Massachusetts troops
were fired upon, Although he talked
#0 much of the war I conld not ascer- |
what regiment he belonged to. 1
had been a Confederate and had a Con-
faderate uniform, which he wanted, sad
I agreed to exchange with him
“1 am going back into the army and
need your uniform, and yoa are going
to be a citizen and need my oitizens'
clothes,’ he argued
“My I" said Mr, Garrett, with a shod.
der, “what a narrow escape I had. Sap-
pose Booth had been captured with my
uniform on, and I had beea found in
Rin
“ Was he well dressed 7
“Not particularly, Ho had on a very
good suit of elothes for those times,
and 1 thought I was naking a good
bargain by trading my old Confederate
nuiform for them."
“Was there nothing in his manner
which led you to suspect that he was
not what be represented himself to be 7
“Nothing whatever. The last night
room with my brother and me, but he
had very litte tosuy. The next day!
ho and I were around all day together,
uspected nothing, I had a
pistol, and we went out to shoot ata
© “Was ho a good thot?
“He claimed to be, and said he would
shoot five balls in succession through a
le pate some two inches
He took position about
two rods off and fired all the five shots,
and then sent me to see the result, 1
mld t find where any of the balls had
ck, and Booth said he had put all
o five balls through the knothole.
When we camo to examine the pistol,
however, to relosd it, we found all five
balls I in the pistol, the powder
having exploded withoat driving out
the bullet He laughed as heartily as
I did at the fizzle, and we triad no more
ranrkmanship.”
“Were you the one who brought the
paper announcing Lincoln's sssassina.
tion?"
“No, sir; that was my brother Jack. |
We wera all ut dinner when that oe
curred, Brother Jack said that the |
President was shot and that 8100,000 re-
ward had been offer 1 for the appre. i
bension of his m derer. 1 said:
‘Gracious! don't 1 wisn he would come
this way and I could capture him,’
Booth tarned upon me and said with
great earnestness :
* ‘Would you betray him for $100,000
if you could ¥
“f would, indead,’ I replied: $100,-
000 is a great lot of mone: .’
“ Booth turned away and became |
thoughtful, avd had very little to say |
after that. Bome time after Harold |
came from Bowling Green, and they |
went away to the woods together, Be. |
fore they returned father had deter |
NY
ANB0LN
in diameter,
in the
stra
ihn
3
sill
=.
house over night, He had become con- |
vinced that they were some kind of |
suspicions characters. i
“+ Be fair, captain,’ said Booth, * and |
give mo a show. I could have killed |
ut 1 took
you to be a brave man. Now give me
a chance for my tife.’
“*You must surrender,’ replied
Lieutenant Baker, * we came to take you
prisoner, not to kill you.'
“*1 will never be taken alive,’ re.
torted Booth; “yon may make up your
mind I will fight to the death.’
* Hardly had the last words died upon |
the dry fodder. Colonel Conger bad
daring the talk slipped around to the
back of the barn, and, lighting a hand.
a erack in the boards and fired the
The combustible materials
inside the barn burned like tinder, and
in a moment the whole inside of the
building was 8 hiaze of light, and in
the middle Booth eould be seen leaning
upon his erntehes, with his carbive iu
his hands, trying to get a sight and a
shot at his enemies. He could not see
beyond the light which surrounded |
him, while those ontside conld see him |
plainly. At last, when the fire was fast
approaching him he started for the
door, as if about to take his last des- |
He had only
advanced a step or two when the crack
of a earbize was heard and Booth fell,
moxdally wounded, shot through the
neck by one of the soldiers who had
been sent to captare him.
* Lieutenant Baker and myself were
the first to reach him after he fell, and
to carry him from the burning build- |
ing. Doth of us then thonght that he
had shot himself, and I am not yet con
vineed that he did not. He attempted
several times to speak, bat his words
were incoherent, and as soon as possi-
ble we bore him te the Louse and laid
him upon the porch, and did every-
thing possible to ease lus dring mo- |
The story of the death scene is
the same as that of thousands of other
men who died in the war from gunshot |
wounds.”
“Did yon hear anything he said as |
ke lay on the porch?”
“He attempted to speak several
times, but could not utter many words,
I remember he held up his hands and
looked at them, saying ashe didso: |
“Useless, useless,’ These were the
last words Booth ever spoke.”
rn ————
Yinegar's Volaries,
“Do you know or have you ever
drink vinegar?” asked a gentleman of a |
Times reporier one day last week. i
The scribe professed the profoundest
ignorance in regard to the matier, |
but he immediately set to work to find
women ii they ever drank vinegar.
“ Yes,” said one, “1 drirk it all the
NUMBER 2.
HEALTH HINTS,
A solution of common salt given im-
mediately is said to be a successful
remedy for stryehnia poisoning.
Calery boiled in milk and eaten with
the milk served as a beverage, is said
to be a care for rheumatism, gout,
and a specific in eases of smallpox,
Nervous people find comfort in ¢ lery,
Dr. M. 8. Leslie, of Lexington, Ky.,
y in ordinary
of common table ssit placed in the
mouth and swallowed with a sip of
water,
The worst 2 oushe; or re
coming from the teeth, may be speedil
ended by the application of a smal bit
of clean cotton, satursted in a strong
solution of ammonia, to the defective
tooth, Bometimes the sufferer is
jromptia to momentary, nervous
sughter by the application, but; the
pain has disappeared.
When hoarse speak as little as pos-
~Dr, Foote’s Health Monthly,
A Hardy Chinese Piraie,
In the village of Wang Ye in the
distriot Ning Id, which is near Nin
and the Chusan isles, so renowned for
piratical exploits, stands the castle of a
pirate chief named Kwang-king-man,
He is head of a strong nest of pirates,
mas, WhichNgiSes the
Kwang king man
of the Nioghi district,
ally powerful man, and ean lift with
ease weights more fitted for a Mile
than an ordinary man. He is proficient
in the use of all warlike weapons and
ean use the rifle as well as the bow
and arrow with equal and remarkable
effect.
It happened while Kwang-king-man
was acting asa “brave” that his father
was arrested Ly the government for
some offense and shortly afterward be-
headed. Kwang-king-man, who de-
clared his father innocent of the erime
imputed to him, wasso snraged &t his
execntion that he swore to devole his
life to avenge his death and take re-
venge on the imperialists. Ho shortly
put the design inio execution. He es-
tablished a rendezvous snd stronghold
and gathered around hima large number
of followers. His arsenal was male com-
plete and a factory for gunpowder was es.
tablished. On the third day of ihe Sixth
moon of this year he suddenly entered
be city of Ningpo with his followers.
His plan of actien had been determined
by the reports of his spies. In the
night time of the date already given
his band marched toward the prison,
forced open the doors thereof and
freed the prisoners, all of whom joined
the pirate’s gang. The next day the
pirate chief perpetrated a more daring
sot. With a few hundred men he de-
soended upon the Whoopin lekin tax
board, killed the officials and carried
off the money. He spared, however, the
bead official, whose nose he ent off so
that he might retarn to his superiors
and inform them of what the pirate
chief had done and what the natme of
future enterprises would be,
His exploits on the water are truly
marvelous. It is said that he can stop
for twenty hours at a time in the water
when either in pursuit of or when fly-
King of
ive of Ningpo
fleecing urchin. “Yee, sir,”
you meas, then, by
mauner wh "Please sir, 1
if I didn’t run quick 1 wight |
The Nihilists are now
stuck out at an angle of
grees. There was ing for it,
ever, but to lose the cloth, for,
ing from his foes. Recently when 8
captain with 300 men attacked the rob- |
bers the pirate king dived from his |
“sen tzen,” a kind of asleeve catapanlt, |
4 weapon in the use of which the pirate
was most skilifel. He then beheaded
him, and the ssssilants, losing
their leader, desisted from further
fighting, after having acquitted th-m-
selves with creditable valor and baving
lost considerably. The pirate chief is
not only an expert in the uss of this
weapon, - but he employs with equal
effect a crosshow farnished with abul-
let instead of a bolt. Siuee this last
engagement no one has been hardy
enongh to disturb this ruthless free-
booter.—Shanghai { China) Courier,
The Secret of Longevity,
The means known so far of promot
time, especially when I am ironing, ete; just as if the whole science of
and the women in our yard drink it, | human life could be summed up and
too,” | brought out in a few words, while its
“Does itdo yon any good?" | greatest principles were kept out of
“Yes; it is chesper than whisky, and | sight. One of the best of these sayings
the tailor admi it could
altered to a “perfect it.” The
when
WES ex the defo
is highly estcemed, and may
all the cafes and :
Frond aehos, £% or
delicions. I have tssted mon
a rich sauce, com
—much too
don't know why I began it—because
the others did, I reckon. It hurt me!
It's |
der the house
would uot do,
#0 un
3
Bas
the dogs would get |
: |
“ ‘Let us go out into one of the outs |
“ How muoh of it do you take at a |
’
“About two tablespoontuls. The first
II
| erustations of sin or behind barricades
| of pride.
get at that heart, get hold of that heart,
| keep hold of it by sympathy, confiding
in him, manifestly working only for
his good by little indirect kindness to
his mother or sister, or even his pet
| dog. Bos him at his home, or invite
{him into yours, Provide him somo
little pleasure, sot him at some little
servies of trust for you ; love him prac.
(tically, Anywayimnd everyway rule
{ him through the heart.
Ap ——— -
fes to the Eleetrie Light,
The materials nsed by the ancients
| for prodncing light were wax and tal-
low, oil of various kinds being also need
[at a later day, Their candles and
| lamps were exceedingly rough and un-
| couth, and the light yielded was of the
| feeblest description, and gave out the
| most disgusting odors, Even up to the
| present century little or no progress
1d been made, gas being unknown,
| and the perfect-burning oil lamps with
| which we are so familisr having no ex-
|istence until many years luter. Gas
| was first introduced in 1802, but as late
| as 1842 the Haymarket theater, in Lon-
{ don, continued to be lighted by can-
| dles. Mark the contrast. Less than
| forty years ago London witnessed the
| drama by the dim, flickering light of
| foul-smelling candles, while within the
, past few days Paris has had the privi-
| lege of listening to the opera beneath
| the brilliant, noon-day glare of the
| electric are |
| From Cand
i Although a hen may take her nightly
roost on a roost, she is not a rooster,
with farming utensils and a lot of far |
niture belonging to refugees from Port |
Royal. After they got to the barn I |
went and locked the doer with a pad.
not get out without making a noise. |
When I returned t> the house I was |
not exactly satisfied with that precan- |
n the corn-cribk near the barn, that we |
might more readily prevent any attempt
on their part to steal the horses. About |
2 o'clock in the morning wo were
awakened by a commotion at the house, |
and Jack and I both ran up as fast as |
possible, and found father in his night |
clothes in the custody of the soldiers, !
who were threatening to kill him if he
did not reveal the whereabouts of the
two men, When brother Juck came up, |
hie said to the soldiers :
“‘I will show you where the men |
are,’ and the officers released father
and took Jack and me into custody,
“The men are in the barn,’ said |
Jack, and the officers ordered him to |
lead the way there. A moment later
the soldiers bad surrounded it, and |
Jack and I were put under arrest. One |
of the detectives demanded of Booth |
that he surrender, and then unlocked
the door and pushed brother Jack in,
with the command that he go and tell |
up. My brother approached the point |
blades, and said:
‘“ ‘The soldiers are here after you,
and they want you to surrender, If
you don't come out they threaten to
burn the barn and destroy all our prop-
erty.’
“Get out of here, young man,’
whispered Bocth, desperately, ‘or I
will take your life, Yon have betrayed
me,’
“ Brother Jack tried to argue with
him as to the uselessness of resistance,
and appealed to Booth to prevent the
destruction of our property. Booth
became very violent, and my brother
came out and repeated to the officers
that Booth's only reply had 0
“ How did the habit first begin ¥”
“Some of the ladies used to take it,
when feeling badly, and it did them so
much good that others foilowed the
The men folks can't drink
vinegar, and don't like the women folks
to take it, but they do it though.”
The reporter subsequently saw an
uptown lady who is at the Lead of a
large boarding'house, In answer to
questions propounded to her, she said:
“Oh, yes, I have had a number of col-
ored women in my employ who were |
great vinegar drinkers, The way I
found it all out was in this way; I had
a washer and ironer who ate very little. |
I always kept a bottle of vinegar in my |
kitchen where I could get it easily. |
and found that the bottle was nearly |
empty. I wasnot annoyed at this, al
though a little bit surprised, but con-
cluded to keep the vinegar under lock |
and key. The next day the servant |
I asked her what she wanted it for and |
she answered, “todrink.” She then told |
me that she always drank it, and that |
it did her a power of good. I have no-|
ticed that those women who are the
, reatest whisky drinkers, are also the |
isam———————
'I'would Make No Difference.
A bright youth, undergoing exam-
nation a few days since for admission
o one of the departments at Washing.
on, found himself confronted with the
question :
“What is the distance
earth to the sun ?”
Nt having the exact number of miles
with him, he wrote in reply :
“I am unable to state accurately, but
don't believe the sun is near enough tc
interfere with a proper performunce of
my duties if I get this cierkship.”
He got it. ‘
Cr — IC
The widest part of New York city is
Twenty-third street, where from the
East 10 the North rivers the distance ic
two miles and a half,
from tha
.
dred and sixteenth year, who, being
asked the means of his living so long,
improvisation for
When hungry, of the best I eat,
And dry and warm 1 keep my foot;
1 screen my head from san and rain,
And let few cares perplex my brain.
The foliowing is about the best theory
of the matter, Every man is bom
with a certain stock of vitality, which
stock cannot be increased but may be
husbanded. With this stock he may
live fast or slow, may live extensively or
intensively, may draw his little amount
of life over a large space, or narrow it
into a concentiated one ; but when his
stock is exhansted he has no more. He
who lives extensively—who drinks
pure water, avoidd all inflammatory
diseases, exercises sufficienty, but
pot too laboriously, indulges
no exhausting passions, feeds on no ex-
citing material, pursues no debilitating
pleasures, avoids all laborious and pro-
tracted study, preserves an easy mind
and thus husbands his guantum of
than he otherwise would do, because ha
lives slow; while he, on the other hand,
who lives intensively—who beverages
himself on Jignors and wines, exposes
himself to inflammatory diseases, or
causes that produce them, labors be-
yond his strength, visits oxeiting scenes
and indulges exhausting passions, lives
food—is always debilitated by his
pleasures, :
a ARTI 0.
Electricity and Swarming Bees,
Among the many unexpected devel-
opments of electrical science is an ap-
plication to the hiving of bees when
they swarm, successfully tried by Ger-
man experimenters. 1t was thought
that by utilizing the electric force the
bees might be stupefied for the neces
gary period of time without being in-
jured, and the result proved the cor-
rectness of the idea. The first attempt
was made upon bees that had gathered
upon trees, the insects falling upon the
ground in a kind of trance, which ad-
The next stage in the experiment was
to capture the bees when they were
about to swarm. By introducing the
fully-occupied honeycomb, and turning
on the current, the bees were rendered
inactive for about thirty minutes, while
no bad
awakening. — London Times,
The practice of cremation has
extraordinary advances in Italy,
fewer than eighteen societies to
its promotion having Yen S
is
Australia, where it shares the
the table with the kangaroo, —
bers’ Jowrnal, Lae
look like pear trees, and are g
not over twenty feet high. The
are very much like Auy
They are pale and
large as a peach. When ripe
sion and shows a little nut
The trees grow on the islands of
and tropical Amerioa :
for seventy or eighty years, 5,
fruit npon them all the
fine tree in_Jamaien bas
nutmegs on it e year.
used to have ail thas 5
they owned the Bauda isl
conquered all the other trad
stroyed the trees. To keep
up t once burned three
natmegs each of which was as |
church. Nature did
grew again the
benefit. :