EXILED. EUGENE FIELD. It comes to mo ten in silenes, When th fi: elight sputt 18 low Wien th black, nee:t in shadows Seem wraiths f1he long go; Always with a th ob of Lea t-ache Tht thrill each puls ve vein Comes the old, unqguiet longing For th peace { nome again. I'm sie of the roar of cities, And of faces cold and strange; 1 know where t' ere’s warmth of welcome, And my yearning fancies range Back to the ear old honatead, With an aching sense of in, But there'll be joy in the com. ng, When I go hone again. When [ vo home agiin! There's musie shat may ne er die away. And it seem~ the hand of angels, On a mystie harp, at play, Hae touchs | wit a yearning sadness On a beutiful, broken stram, To which I< my foud heart wording — Whe I go home again. Outside of my 'arkening wintlow Is the great wor d's erash and Jin, And slowly the an umn shadows Come dri ting. drift ng n. Sobbing, tie night wind murnu 8 To the plash of the autunn rain But I dream of the g orious grecting When I go home ag in, ————— AA CACTUS CULTURE. We bave received from A. Blane, of Philad. Iphia, a most interesting lit le book, “Hiuts on Cacti,” which will be found both am sing and instructive to all w ho love plants, The great Wes'ern and Mexican, latesus are the home of the cactus amily, and it is in this land of lost races, rock-dwe lings, ancient pueblos and rmnless plains that they are found 1 their periection. Imagine the ever- las!ing mountains standing sombre and alone lit by the gorgeous co ors of a Western suns t; at their feet long stretch 8 of white snd yellow sunds are lost in the maguificent distance, while iy ! The same treatment is aso necessary | | with the pansy bed. snd thesweet peas, | If yon wonld have them in loxuriance | n: ver let them go to seed, but cut con- | tinn lly. i Give blossoming plants an o-casional | fortil:zing with liquid mauure or a Little top dressing about the roots and water generously Nearly al the house plants should now be plunged in the opea bor er. | This is considerable work, bat the | stronger growth of the plants will am- ply repay ior tne trouble. ihe Syringa bushes will flower more freely and make strouger growth if dish water and roap sud slops are occa si nally poured about their roots, duc- ing the Summer. A PILLAR OF HOUSE-LEEKS, Who ¢ innot remember seeing a little keg of house-leck ouvercd with its green growth in the back yard of some old-fashioned farm-house, and having our interest excited by it+o d name f ‘hen aud-chickens,” and the queer growth of big snd little clusters or green leaves? “Beth Day” in the Housekeeper sug ests a new and pie- sombre majesty relieved by t e er'm- son and gold luxariauce of these flow- ers of the desert, loth these varieties have a. edible fruit, which is made into a sweet conserve by tbe Indians forming the principal sustenance of certan tribes The echino-cactus rises in cushion-iike masses covered with clas- ters of strong spines, those o: E, W.slizenie, being bent like a fish-hook catch fish, a lot of genial cowboys wish to enforce ““tender-foot.” The writer of the little book in qnes- dozen varietiss of cacti on a window- shelf, being interested in their curious ers, of it, aud the “hobby” suddenly de- veloped into an extensive business, But comparatively few species are known to the general public. One variety of Epiphyllum under the name some trum pet-like flowers of pink and Oue such, not long since, was seen profusion of bloom as could scarcely be believed without seeing A few of the mamillarias, “bird's nest” or ‘“‘pinetshion” cuctns, are seen, now and then and the delicate little “rice’ cuctus with bright pink b.os- soms, “Turk's Cap,’ ’ “Bishop's Hood” or but the owers of some of these sorts are rather disappo nting, its long, silken, hair-like filaments, is occasioual'y enltivated and som times a ‘“pricily pear” (opuutis: or ome rarer variety of cactus, bat besules thes, few know of the valne of these curious freaks of n tare, of the ease with which tuey are cultivated and the many uses to which they may be put, A shelf of them makes a neat parl r ornament, even if they never bloom, with less than a quar.er the care re- qurel by ordinary howe pla ts. uniq e eflect may be produced ina garden by planting the bardier sorts in a esrpet bed aud an in door rockery base which will develop into a “thing of beauty.” : An alm st infinite variety of cnrions experiments may be made with them in the way of cutting, grafting and producing monstrosities of and fan astic form, confine their efforts to a few varisties well selected, will derive much pleas ure from them. ] and many colored spines with large and brilusot lowers 18 one of the most sati-factory sorts for a beginner, Phyllo cactus superbus albus is one of the very finest sp cimens for bloom, and is also a desirable sort for sn am- ateur, We shall in futures articles give farther descriptions of thes: enrious with directions for their culiure. ur illnstiations are kiadly furnished us by Mr, Blane, and we wonid advise all interested in cactus culture to send 10 cents for his vainable little book, We can assure our readers that the small sum will be will invested. WORK FOR JUNE, By this time the seed is mostly sown, the plants and bulbs are out, early flowers from seed sown in the house and the bulbs ylented in fal, have been rewarding us for their eare for reversal weeks, Bot the weeds are the piacipul garden work, for the beds most be kept elesn and briche if we would | ave the flowers in their full This 1s the mont of rs 8, and must never be allowed to wither; pick them continually for bonquets, for rose jars and for less-favored with garden flowers. Those who follow this plan will find themselves | ke the per- sonage of whom Bonyan tells us: . “There was a man (thongh some did econot him mal.) The more he cast sway, the more he had.” turesq e use for this little plant: The f e green house-leek, or old hen- and-ch csens, as it is variously called, is not us ally econ-idered 8 very orna- mental plunt, yet, ander certain condi- tions, it may become a very desirable addition to any lawn or garden. Its low-growing habit makes it available for a vanety of purposes, —edging for flower beds, rock work. ete. It thrives luxuriantly in the thatch of the English cottages, though it is probable th t the moist atmosplere enables it to su-tain life there, where in a drier climate it would fail; how- ever, 1t seems to bear heat, dro ght and neglect almost with indifference, though it well repays care and aiten- tion, New Ideas in Electricity, Electricity promises to supplant both chemistry and mechanical methods in freeing metallic ores from dross. A method has lately been discovered (by which, by the use of electricity, fron ore can be so softened as to be easily worked. An electrical drilling machine has been square or baving as many sides as are wanted. Sugar making by electricity is success frily carried on in Havana, The auto. matic switch block has been adapted to the regulation of house furnaces. By nace are thrown open and the house is rise. Electrical fireworks will shortly take the place of all other kinds and give us displays as brilliant as nature's own au- pulp is bleached by the same mighty magician. Chlorate of potash is elec. trically made. It has been found that several small than one large one, and the small ones can be adapted to almost any purpose. A low speed motor has lately been in- as low as 350 a minute. This small, low p)wer. The small electric motor has already been adapted to many uses. By it a man can have a plant in his own house and grounds powerful enough to give him electric illumination. As the s.me time the plant can be so managed aa to furnish power to run a sewing ma chine, fans, washing machines, eto. Electricity will prove to be man's most useful servant. It will give him light and at the same time turn fans to cool him this hot weather. If a lighting ap- jaratus is put into his grounds it can be maintained by the same machinery and sccta that feed upon his garden. While doing all. the other things named it will give him yet another serv- ice. When he is weary and would doze off to the sound of sweet music he has box, and the tireless wizard will pour Ixeked in sleep soft airs that fill the sou! with peace and rest. oI Superstitions Power in Russia. The most absurd superstitions are rife m Russia. At Serpookhov, near Mos. cow, an oficial anuouncement was re. "reutly placarded at the street corners. The common people are unable to read. They requested a mao, who looked like 2 priest, to decipher for them the con- tents Gf the bill. He ushesitatingly and prsitively declared that it cootaingd the warning that the city of Serpookhov would be swallowed in the ground. In less than an hour the news spread throughout the place, aud the people abandoned their work aud began stream. ng out into the fields in large crowds” All the factories wore desarted hy the Iahorers. It was some Lime before the frightened crowds were restored to rea. gon and to ther regular pursuits, but the originator of the trouble could oct be found. «London Figure Waterproof Hammooks. Hammooks that are allowed to ha ont mo-t of the time are soon rotte the action of the weather, It is said that they may be male “water. proof” by immersi .g in boiling linseed oil, and leaving them in it for a 4 or two. Then with a cloth rab off all the oil possible, and when the netting is dried it will list muoh longer than is otherwise would. flow the Kussians Eat. “The Chaumicre” in Moscow 1s cor- tainly the most luxurious and elegant. ly appointed restaurant in Europe. The large dining hall is a huge Win. ter garden with feathery and blooming mimoso as a background for ths ex- quisitely served tables. [In the middle of this unique restaurant-garden is a great marble fountain wherein trout and other delicately-flavored menibers of the finny tribe swim in deep clear water, When a guest orders a fish for his dinner, he is forthwith cone ducted by the head butler to this novel aquarium and is requested to select the fish most likely to tempt his fancy. A long-handled silk netis then given to him and he oun, it he pleases, catch his fish with sportsmanlike zest and dexterity, a feat which materially adds to his enjoyment and general apprecia- tion of the dinner ho is about to eat. lussiang, who are very fond of flowers, do not relish a repaet when the table is not one mass of fragrant blossoms, and nowhere else in Europe does one sce such gorgeous table dec” orations as in St. Petersburg or Mos® cow. Thousands of rubles are often spent for orchids to adorn the board of some wealthy Doyard, and at the dip- ner given some timo ago by Prince Narishkine to the Diplomatic Corps at St. Petersburg the flowers in the din. ing hall cost over 20,000 rubles. (Kanes City Tidies DRESS COMBINATIONS Coutrast in Colors the Thing to be Des sired Black and white is at al] times a fashionable combination, end a striks ing one. When the dress fabric is black Lyons velvet with white ostrich feath- ors for garniture, thisis particularly the case. The skirt, which merely sweeps the floor, is plaited full at the back in single plaits; is slightly draped in front by tiny plaits, laid at the walst line. An elaborate panel of cut jet. embroid. ery done On white satin decorates one side. The front breadth is trimmed with a deep jetted fringe, falling over a band of white satin An additional skirt trimming is a band of feathers which extend from side to side. The decollets bodice is cut pointed back and front, and trimmed with set pleces V shaped, made of the feathers. Loops of black velvet ribbon and feather tips ornament the shoulders. An aigrette of tips and jot coronet make a suitable decoration for the hair. Long, white gloves and feather fan complete the toilet Chicago Mail rhe Seal Skin Industry, ———— The killing and skioning of the seals Bb altogether performed by native Aleuts, who are paid 40 cents & skin for their work. From the fat of the scal an oil is sbtained which affords & most brilliant nd besutiful light, The sesl skins are ken to London in their salted state, and wre there delivered at an establishment which is one of the two grest fur mar kets of the world, the other loing = Leipsic, To these two emporiams all the furs of the world are brought by the pro ducers and sorted out by experts accord- ing to quality and colors. Once a year sach of the two great establishments has an suction sale to which fur buyers come from everywhere, All the furs are cata. logued, so that a merchant can procure any number of any sort of skins, perfectly matched, without seeing them st all be- fore he makes tho purchase. . All the seal skins of the world go to the London emporium, because nowhere else than in England is the art of Preparing thet understood. In the British metropolis there are many big factories, employing thousands of workmen, devoted to this industry. -~{ Washington Stac. Kea Sickness. A new tlcory of sen sickness has pean recently offered by M, Rochet. Accepting the view that the symptoms are those of cerebral aunmmi, he ac counts for (his anmzmia by the dis. order brought into muscular contrac- tions through not being used fo such sudden movements as those of vessels. M. Rochet’'s advico is nof to look to anmsthetics, soothing drugs, &ec., for relief, but rather to museclar excitants, and, above all, to seek in involuntary movements a compensation for the re. flex movements which are not pro- duced. Ie recommends strychnine, veratrine, ergot of rye, and drinks charged with carbonic acid. —[Phila delphis Press. . A Curlesity in Accidents, The possible danger in the wearing of cheap combs and bracelets made of celluloid was most curiously illustrated in Paris. A young girl sat down be- fore the fire to study her lessons. She had on what is calied a “crop comb.” As she leaned forward, the comb be. came heaed, and burst into flame. The girl's hair was parily burned off, snd for a long time afterward no hair would grow, as the skin of the head was much injured. Celluloid must be at 180 degrees Fahrenheit before U will burn, consequently the danger not very great, as few poople would be foolish enough to hoat their heads 1 within thirty-two degroes of th GRIEFS OF MOTHERS. The Hard Lot Which Natures Has Amiga: ed to Women, | In Dress-Parade from ths uradls to the Grave, Bhe Has a Trying Time No Mat How You Look At It ——— i cay | keep an appointment he can jump into there on time and never turn a hair. | tons won't button, she loses one glove, | her halr came out of crimp and she can’t even swear at the conductor, says | the St Louls Star-Sayings, who wouldn't pull the bell-rope till after she | ly dislocated her arm that brandished her umbrella. late, and the men all speak malediclions | under their breath at the woman who “never can be on time,” while the fel- | low who took a fancy to her on a former occasion discovers that she’s a guy with her face flushed and her coliar awry, wnd never looks at her again. When things go wrong with a man | he can neglect his barber for a day or | two and forget the brilliantine for his mustache, and grow black and hollow | around the optics, and ten to one he will simply scem in female eyes ‘‘so Byronie and interesting, you know.” But a woman may have a thousand gnawing devils at her heart strings, and she's obliged to put on just so much poudre de riz, and to pull out the gray bairs on her temple, snd pinch the wrinkles out between her eyes all the same, or she's handed over to the world by her hundred most intimate friends as ‘such a wreck, my dear,” and the jury on the case, and even her lawyer, begin to find excuses for the husband. If a man has weary nerves and a shumping headache, nothing prevents his coming home and tying a towel about his brows like 8 Turk, andibeing as grumpy as one the rest of tho eve- ning. But a woman in the same case can only look longingly at her old wrapper, and then go snd palafully build up her Psyche knot and an agreeable smile at exactly the right | angle, else she will hear that “Hang | it! It's enough todrive a fellow to] his club to have an untidy wile about on a sofa!™ and that **the deuce | knows why a woman always manages | to look pretty before marriage, and never after.” i itis generally supposed that i a] woman can only sit down and have good cry that her woes. But when she finds oul that the her nose red : aloag with | sy ee lyi a is panacea for all indulgence makes she gives up that satisfaction the others. A man may exhibit lessly, upon oceoasions, a carmine pro- boscis produced by causes fur confessable. but u wife is pronounced not halfa wife and womaa if she shrinks from him on that account In fact, being & woman at all spare and a delusion. It sounds very, very nice, awful. A woman isn't even to grow old in peace course of all nature is just the worst crime she can commit If she isn't married, her brothers don't forgive her for it, and if she Is married her husband won't So there it is; a bore any way you look at it f sear lease is a 8 » i but it's | allowed (s0in the ¥ ~ a —————— Woleoit's Story on Tabor. It is sald there was much money gpent in the Colorado senatorial cam- paign. One day a principal of a high school met Tabor in the hall of the legislature. He had in his hand a oopy of “Robert Eismere.” He sym- pathized with Tabor in his critical fight and expressed the hope th:t he would pull through. He next casually asked the senator what he thought of “Robert Elsmere.” i “No good, no good,” Tabor replied. “Wolcott bought him up three months ago.” | al bi onimom Just Taikiag The other night a policeman on Fourth avenue heard a whistle blown as a signal, and runniog down the next block he saw a man with his head out of a chamber window and asked what was the matter. i “Robbers around,” was the reply. | “How do you know?" i “One of ‘em kicked on the door and threatened my life if 1 did not let him in" “That's curious,” mused the officer, | “I should say it was. There were two of them, and one seemed to be a woman. She suid she'd break every bone in my body if I dida't open the door.” “Come hore, please!” called a voice from the house next door, and as the officer reached the steps a woman, | standing with her head out of the door, continued: “Itis all right, Mer. Officer. My husband came home ton minutes ago | and I was just talking to him. There are robbers around.—Detroit Free Press i There is not a chapter in the history of bu + an natnre more instructive, both to the heart and understanding, than that which records our errors. and defeats its own ends, We want in conversation thut the heart shounl flow out. We cannot every moment epigram. FOOD FOR 1 HOUGHT. The end of our life is God. The rule of our life is duty. Noble deeds are held In honor, Thrift ia the fuei of magnificence, The best time to think is before you The obstacles of our Jife are bad pas- Punctuality is oue great element of There is nothivg little to the really The trucst joy we have in life is In Diligence 1s a fair fortune and ine Great powers sie useful only as they The better you live the truer will be The debt of nature is one that a man Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself, No man can have joy to-day who Is worrying about Lw- morrow. It 1s easier to be virtuous than to appear 80, and it pays beiter, A watch that don’t keep correct time is worse than no watch at all, A close mouth calis for few assess- ments and pays big dividends, Truth inthe mind son'y knowl edge, but in the life it is power, True economy is th child of wisdom and the mother of independeice, In prosperity the prudent man pro- vides resources against adversity. B tter unborn than untaugh: ; for ig- norance is the root of misfortune, Too much brainsis rather a hindrance than a help to a simply business man. Prople are more apt to make a shield of their relig.on than a pruning- hook. The map who has a character that mud will stick 10 always feels uneasy. Adversity isa jewel that shines bright. (r in our neighbor's crown than in our own, If we had no troubles but our real troubles, neariy everybody would be Lappy. Nine men cover up tha trade, The more ori mna'lly you have In yourselves Lhe more you see in othe peop 6, Religion is too often cut as the clothes are—according to the prevaliing furhion, The value of a horse depends upon hs being wel broke, and this: pl esto wen a we L A man never expresses 50 much it is cut of ten will try to blind eyes In a horse in nuconsCious, Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fighi for it, die for it, snytlbiog The chances are that the man who hates himself has studied himself prety the the Ladies seldom hit the natl on head, They are wore apt to hit tail on the fQuger, A mother dreads no memories; shadows have all melted away in dawn of baby’s smiles, The measure of a man’s real charac- ter is what he would do if he knew it would never be found out. He who sitoply repents of a sin pays only 50 cents on a dollar, while he who forsakes it pays 100, A good worl is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires ouly our si ence, which costs us nothing. Let us be of good cheer, remem ers ing that the me