WHEN TO MAKE HASTE. HM anything unkind you hear About som= one you know, my dear, Do not, 1 pray you, 1t repeat it When you that some one chance to meet For such news has a leaden WAY Of clouding o'er a sunny day. But if you somethi leasant hear About some one yo HOW y dear, Make haste—1o make great haste "twere well, To her or him the same to (ell Far such news has a golden Of lighting up a cloudy day - Selected. FOOD FO RTHOUGHT. Borrow never dies In life's duties seck relief. Be not ashamed of thy virtues. Never sit down to nurse a grief. Charity 1s the dividend of religion. We built the ladder by which rise, Be quick to love, make haste kind. Men are wealth, A wise son knoweth his own father’s youth, Heaven bound. All that is solemn in death is its mys- tara Wary, we to be esteemed for virtue, not 8 not reached ata single Dutterflies are bits of animated sun- shine, Where ly to be wise, How you on a winter + f al friend'y a glowing coal looks Bight, The man who desyi Ww siows BO judg d judgm 1 you do so, Thou must h place thee. Life's a reckoning twice over. Ifam 8 worth kn It 18 of } buman char All vulgar love Ho aL's Neah the greatest love auth t the most TH 3 peop € nor ial po g 3 $ . ¥ good orooch to wes all times, 18 a + Xi al was the first man who rose to $ 43 r LHe Ot 5100. re of his youth is God is tof right. begin I a continual feast, and a peaceful ming the antepast of Heaven. is How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had seed-time of eharacler? In a chastened more precious than Patience and love heart are pearls happiness, It is easy to gain a great reputation for truthfulness by always speaking ill of yourself. By the tine a man realizes that he Is a fool it is usually too late to realize on hs relization. Of every mean man it iS usually said, an apology to humanity, that he has wife. Ihre 1s no enlture out of work. The world I'as ut great places enough for 1 its great people, as a © ai Charity, in whatever guise she ap- pears, is the best natured and the best eomplexioned the world, The man who thinks the boy who Hyves next to him Is a good boy has not been found. We pity others because we are better off ourselves; the unfortunate don’t pity the unfortunate, There are two sides to every question, but some questions do pot seem to have any end to thew. It is not a good time to read the Bible while your wife is out in the rain cuiting stove-wood. You may doubt a man’s Christianity who is always complaining of his din- ner on week-days, When four women sit down for a quiet game of whist you can’t hear the glience in the next room. If you wish to be entertaining, just res Yor # i somebody about himself, Dible way will use mean cigars and blow the smoke in his face, Poor men can afford to dle when all the benevolent associations agree to re. duce funeral expenses, bave a high opinion of hisown ab vat no woman likes him, A man gets too old for a things, but the ability to m himself is outgrown, A man cannot alway right thing to do, telling every t/me thing. Why the Cows Came Late Crimson sunset burning O'er the tree-fringed hills; Golden are the meadows, Euby flash the rills, Quivt in the farm house, Home the farmer bies, But his wife i# watching, Shading snxious eyes barnyard gate, Wondering why her Jenny and the cows onme home so late, Jenny, vrown-eyed maiden, Wandered down the lane That was ere the daylight =~ Had begun to wane. Decper grow the shadows, Circling swallows cheep, Katydids are calling, Mists o'er meadows creep, Still the mother shades her eves beside the barnyard gote, And wonders where her Jenny ana the cows can be so late, —— Loving sounds are falling Homeward now at last, Speckle, Bess and Brindle Through the gate have passed; Jenny sweetly vlushing Jamie, grave and shy, Takes the palis from motner, Who stands silently by. 1 i Not one wor the gate, | But mow she kne Cows home so late maha Worid-Hersld, . — iI'H FR camé¢ ACTIONS ie in frac her eves Os aL animal neon 0 that hai * cat is av { 1 anedd, ¢ unele, rom hi ger and extending hi “7 use tions malh had no racult indulgentty across his wy ; feet'f quite handy with fr In fact, 1 excelled Your poor’ father, no v for them. to we ny Xi w aow diversified talents are in the samy Tamily, singular. imdeed.™ Henry was mathematic mother, w “In pure thathematies, oniy,” “bat the applied lamentabiy we i, ¥ the bes “said Alan £ considered ian in his clas $y ith a little flush, » Mary, in pure responded uncle he wus mathematics in article | What Alan's mother mi bt have Pili t was Alan's experiment Bud enly «¢ By i by scratches himself t only re th } RAIS $ iL can Case gent © nie an two-t Qi joents the blade with a cents, and for the handle How much Wwoney Jdid = 1 i 1 i f¢ : blade, 5 cent nick in it twice n they h “Twice as much as what?" “Twice as much as—why twice as much as for the i! we, of course, hat what ] Now, how munch dig! they have defo” ‘Nobody ever bought a nile tas why.” ‘Probably not, | mathematics | everyday enya wr inuch we lefyom little is said but that is applied applying principles to tramsactions such as yau will in when you get older. Still. that is a hte too farwlong § pt rian | for you?" | “Ohl eando it easy enough,” sald | Alan, and he went to work. Inna few 8. he asked! “What do you want to { know?” “How much they had left” | The puzzled look grew as the figures | multiplied | ly. “they wonldu't have any thing loft. | They would owe, or James would owe, | 15-6 cents on the knife, or John would have to give up some of the apples.” "Eh" said uncle, with a starg that?” | Alan went carefnlly oyor the Probeom Step by’ step, and, as he proceeded, uncle's confidence in himself disap. | peared; and in its wake ran embarrass ment and humiliation. Dut unicle has my boy, entirely out® | “Hut | don’t understand how there can “There isn't,” said uncle, . “I didn't intend thers shoul! be. You may remember that § told youthis was | of the great principles of business life. It is well for you to mingle theory with practice, an excellent idea, indeed,” The paper behind which the face of Alan's mother was hiddén was shaldng, ond there was a look on her face of merriment struggling with mild indigy nation. Uncle settled back in his chair, laced his fingers again, and realized that he had crawled through a very small hole and saved all the buttons op his waistcoat. “Let me give yoh an example, uncle,” said Alan, thouglitfully. “Not a made- up one, but ene from the book. I'l} come to them petty quick and I would like to know haw to do them.” ‘Er—perhaps you had better wait gill you get to them,” said uncle. “It is just as well mot to cross a bridge—* Just then thik eyes of Alan's mother ap peared over the top of the paper and looked straught into uncle's: That gen- tleman cléared his throat and said, hastily: “All right, my boy, all right; let's haved it.” metic and then read: *51 son four } wvontls of romasindon, ¢ yobngesd said ghler tl that over rin," Ala ¢ g to do.” said ut what is the vglae Lon, ™ dem t thing in the id 1d nal nad t eld 1 *artn t RTL WW godin ane me Some tt Sev. "ey frovte I'm re d in Wy rou thE Ways work "4 | imoking. ! a habs 1 amc hal 5 to brighten BW thy said the beli the as right as lady 3 og Pa ake essed. “3 aculties should Mid ' oye rel LP Ae” Unele did uot n fact, it wa | lered a word. + sheet of | ighares vy any thing In reply ue tho bef he ute 1 he looked up from crowded with tropatiently: in idi- Te pe WIT pa} raid wes an tate in such an tie fashion. man who avonld mech a will would ] Be Gey mueatrth, and the will and mn 1% een eg 4 LCE ve world “ he tlivided A male dared insane in wou ld tls pure mathem " iind the 3 point <n ¥ atics, Paber, HOMES sharp. the Alan len in tucked nuder him, ¥ ; When said: 324 9-77, 411 estate that is to put ©h { paper. pal he 1 wer; 81 n't sea or gos n head. cop YO Dis t Ww ae n be s of paper were taken anaes pre nderuntie’'s hand. " of her paper Alan's ents in proportion, melical progression, there a dash of algelea. of mathematies was ran center to circumference, at last “That ¥ uu ¥ XT» $e art! Th here 1 and main 7 i $ acked 1 nd came state,” said um impressively, ‘‘was vorth eactly $2,111 13-32.” and he said tin the tone of a man ready to fight if s word was J i “} re stare 1} “Any way. th book it our teac he read: “I 2 men in 21 days, by working 10 hours & ay, can dig a trench 30 fees long, 15 foot wide | and ig feet deep. when the grousd is calicd J legrecs of hardecss how many men in 2 days by working & hours a day, can dig another tronich 45 foot long. 10 feet wide, snd 18 feet deep, when the ground is esiimated 810 degrees of hasdnegs?™ As step by step the features of this »blem were presented to unele, thas genUeman slipped further down into his chair. When the voloe of the reader stoppeyl, he looked like nothing in the world so much as Grandfather Small | weed, if that amiable old person - could | be imagined as deprived of even the | presence of the ‘Brimstone Cat) The | eyes of Alan's mother appeared owar | the phper and the abject appeal they aw in uncle's ayes could not bere sisted. “it ls your bedtime, “Alan,” abe sald, Unele is tired.” Alan gathered up his books, kissed his mother, bade the figure in the chair gootknight, and said cheerfully: “Well Gy pure mathematios nexttime, angle.” ~N. ¥. Sun. i —— Lazy men are always the most posi- tive. They are too lazy to inform thems selves, and too lazy to change their minds There is room for everyboby in this big world, Friction comes from the fact that too many want the front room. When a man begins to make a tem- h by calling whiskey “ar. " look out for a dry time perance dent » » nothing f hich ng for w A man a oy SW Sothing for does for the in victory le, 1 sou ted. Al is right ™ said “Alen is answer in tle hore is an oo One n Her says it is Cusy,” and ! the Now - AYO &y el $ i i i : privilege of being stingy. $ i | ! i i PULLED DOWN TO DEATH: fad Fate of un Incredulous Forelgner in 6 Bouthern Swamp, You have perhaps journeyed between New Orleans andl Mobile, and remem- \ ber the vast expanse of marsh with waterways cutting through it. In the midst of this desolation is a elub house and railway station called English Lookout. tis still good fishing and shooting ground, but the alligator has pecome 80 scarce that the sight of one is 8 novelty. Ten or twelve years apo they crawled across the railroad tracks, and passengers had but to look out of the windows to see them swimming. One day, during my week's stay at the elub, poveral boats were going out, and onc of them was occupied by a French army officer, who was #lso a guest. He had on a frock cont, and when seated in the stern of the skiff | the €ails almost touched the water. “Better take off that coat or pin the tails up,” said one of the punters as “his attention was directed “Why? | “Because an.alligator may pull you overboard. The Frenchman laughed and shragged | his shoulders and led the way down ! channel. Four bouts of us anchored about one hundred feet apart, and the craft I was in was next to the officer's. The fish were biting hot and heavy, and for an hour noone paid any attention to any body else. I tangled my pulling in a fish, and while working the kno h AP pene ad to g the Frencl 11. the still aters line in nt 1 ard 4 lance tow Just 1did sol saw br of a black i #1 my, wt i behind hi 4 aught sight bjeet thn have surface, and i nt, ut. } 3 Ff ering a seream wh i a mil the boat and We hurrie HwWay whateve Even his We rowed banks “1 © AVEC uy m't seem to know We 1 + ana g Lors. here month, mat hay # his egs do the water, and he was pulled off the. boat with me only four feet away.” ~ Detroit Free Press, lectricity and Milk : | A——— 1 The eftect of thunderstorms fn torn. ing milk sour is a matter of constant ob. servation in every household. It is not certainly koown to what clement in (he air this souring action on milk Is to be directly attributed, and most people sre content to ascribe it fo “ electricity in the air.” An Italien savant, Prof, G. Tolomed, has lately m-de some experi. ments with the view of elucidating this question. He found that the passage of a0 electric current directly through 1} milk not only did not hasten, but actual delayed acidulation, milk so treated not becoming sour until from the sixth to the ninth day, whereas milk not so trified became markedly acid on the third day. When, however, the surface quantity of milk was br ht close ms the two balls of a Hi mach milk soon became sour, and this of attributes to the ozone gener: when the discharge wag silent soured with greater rapidity the discharge was explosive ; former case more oz being than in the latter. The souri & generally attributed to 1 ferment (bacterium) ik sugar into lactic acid le, then, that pres a the air overlying the growth and multiplic rium. The first the retardation of so of a current through the m pomt of practical importance traders, Any method of preserving from its first retrogressive changes, whicl does not involve the addition of extra. Beous substances (antiseptios) to the milk, and which is at the same time cheap, effective, and not likely to prove injur. ous to the consumer, fs sure to be wel eomed at a time when milk is sent long distances to market, and is oftén stored for a considerable time before it reaches the consumer. — [British Medical Jour ual, ts iy Ie i te i th Vi8e which ¢ the Lior Opera by "Phone. A novel method of hearin oper, Betlumy's i i which the readersof Edward “Looking Backward” will recollect se tho one in vogue in the year of gos 2000, bas just been instituted et the Castle of Rhonstock, The Royal Operas House at Berlin was connected by telephone with the music toom fo the castle st Bhoostock. In the evening the Emperors of Germany sud Aostria, the Kiog of Saxony and the rest of the royal party assembled in that room and beard the operas of “Les | Huguenots,” which was performed fn Berlia. — New Fork Journal, A cantilever is to be bulls across the Ohio between Newport, Ky., and Dincisagl, Ghia. It will be 8000 feet , with the mala epan 520 ¢ os with She mala wis 330 ten, Miss Axe Toumame, the 20-year. ceived the George W. Childs medal for | illustration given by the Philadelphia | Behool of Design for Women, is to en. ter the New York Art Stodents' League. Among the Americans who have won | honors at the German Universities this last year, says the New York Zribune, | is Dr. Frank lH, of this city, who | has just obtained the degree of Ph. D. at wiprig, with the highest distine- tion. + Angell, who is a nephew of President Angell, of the University of Michigan, sud of Dr. Peter Collier, Director of the New York State Agri. » oultaral Experi A aneib. Univers , 0d bas airoady contributed wit resal ocomparati oy banc i soience of aly Fo FoUin bia # student. Dr, duties at Oernell in HUMOROUS A chilly gituation-—Shake! The telephone girl Las a good many When aerial ships come in we shall have fly time sll the year round. The wills of strong minded men cannot be broken until they die The tailor is a good fellow (0 have around—ho can always make some fitting remarks. It is all right for a girl wo look into the fature, but it is not becomivg for her to look forward Mary O'Flanvigan- Bedad! and air ye blind? Mra. De Flat— What is smell? Mr. De Flat—I the odor it is ouc of those odorless oi stoves, that horrid judge from You sometimes see people too old to read and too old to write, Lut did any- One ever sco a old w count money? man too Hearts with Thought = When a girl is is thinks the he sgrees wi a “ingle love ashe 3! Vays young man 1s perfect, and i th he In tevityer erin Customer (er Have you Tho { Lier (absenti-n {lie 140 W for fande, tan the ten com Father—+Is tliat to 6ce you 8 man Daughter——«y 10s rives every night It takes correct guess, 8 bright “] guess vo of snd she was right. u sre going to kiss me,” said one them to a 3 bashiful beau, went al but Sarah Bernhardt has the of being very thin, bo ation 1 A 10 ed, even with the excuses ticy y gue onunot com flay out 3 You geen i t ckens, don Know who ii last four days “This gs that. sfore, Isn't it? resented hime 1 the teller so. ssked RB self. «N rely, “Well, what's EYeroean find time" of him may rail (hal ladylike! a love r with a will” if the in ber ¢ iit iia is He (fearful does & yout A rival)—“Bobby, here nights to Bobby = «Me. but not to sees her, I guess, "cos they ain't no light in the parlor when they're there.” i call S00 ur step » rier, Wilking calls on ot AT A Poisonous Liquia. The New York Telegram says: “Professor Brown-Sequard, whose ence that by condensing the watery vapor coming from the human lungs lic obtained a poisonous liquid capable “The poieon is an alkaloid (organic), and not a microbe or series of mi crobes. Ho injected this liquid under the skin of a rabbit, and the effect was speedily mortal without convulsions. If thie alarming discovery does not discourage the practice of Kissing, it ought at least to emphasize the neces. sity for ventilating the apartments in which folks live and sleep, as well as the public halls, theatres dnd churches they frequent. Poor Little Tommy. “What's the matter with yon todar, Tommy? You stem to be uneasy.” “1 am,” said the bad little boy. “Yesterday ®as pa’s and ma’s wooden wedding, and all the neighbors sent ‘em shiogiea,” One of the rarest pleasures In the good about you when he does not know You are listening, After you have fallen into a pit you begin to bear from your friends of the paths you might have taken that pons have Ted you safely around nme i, rn 's now by » steam engine, HOURBE NOTES, ~53ims was promised £7000 if he won th Dagonet, Diablo and Montague broke down st Sheepshead B.y re ently, ~Corrigan’s Hawthorne track has closed, the losses of the meeting having been about $0,000, ~Colonel H.,, by Wood's Hardee, made two unsuccessful attempts at Belmont, Course recently, to beat 2.9, ~H, 8. Henry i8 out $2500 on stal- lion representatives stake of $10,000 trotted at the Point Breeze track recent ly. —1.08 Angeles fell while at exercine receniiv, and appears to have seriously strained herself about the loins, writes Robes gain all right, seem beyond her —JLeland Stanford Bonner that Sunol is a and that 2.06 doesn’t POWers, » {34 — Roy Wilkes, 2 now holds the half-mile track record 2,144 ; Which he secured at Decatur, Ill, re- cently, t pacing Will'am 1. Scott, proprietor ud, who has for some ously ill, 1s sald to be Algeria St time been convalescing ng. {ose Ch 5 Tou Prince Wilkes to that It is a chestnut filly sister AT RE~ yok of Bal- by colli. { H: 1 A HO WaS 80 severely rad meeting at Cag recov. Lex HRs ne in v : for harness mal miles Ormer years most ef Bs } Hambi McAda the Murfreesi recen ly atest mile every dover al : ns, Thisi a 3-vear-o walf- nile ¢ WI -The same day that Allerton trotted 1m 2.10 and Direct paced in 2.06 st In- dependence the b. 8. Pat Downing, by Abe Downing, trotted a mile in 2.18} the br. 8. Incas, by Inca, trotted mn 2.144, and the ch. m. Nightingale, by Alcantara, paced a mile In 2.134. {| ~—Mr. Tuttle, who has been manag- | ing the Montana string of trotters and | pacers, says that Yolo Afaid and Hal Pointer both acted very queer in the race at Philadelphia. he intimated that they were tampered with Mr, Marcus Daly ordered the stable home from Philadelphia, ~ Captain Grifith, the San Francisco gentleman who owns a pair of pacers that recently went half a mile 1s 1 03, 18 looking around for a rurn'ng mate for the best pacer of his team, and thinks that if he gets a good one he will have no difficulty in beating West. mont’s mile of 2.01§ with a running mate. ~Don Leather of Grand Rapids, halt owner of Monbars, 2.20, the holder of the 2-ysar-old stallion record, says he has refused an offer of $101,000 for the colt, which cost $7570, last fall Budd | Doll» is after Sunol’s 3-year-old reo rd of 2.18 with Moubars, and if he does | not beat it at Terre Haute or Lexing. { ton, Monbars will go to California this | falland tackle Sunol’s figures on Sunol’s own ground, {| ==An International Congress ef | breeders and trotting sportsmen will be Leld at Baden, Germany, on September | 19 to 26, to disouss the best measures to adopt to facilitate the holding of inter | national contests, to promoie unity of | action among the associations, toobtaln the views of leading breeders and trainers, and to increase the friendly relationships existing between the leaders of the sport - Direct, the new pacing cham 18 a black stallion, 6 years old, by Die rector, 2.17 {son of Dictator and A by Mambiino Chief), out of 2.334, ty Echo, and she out of Young Mare, daughter of Jaek Hawkins thoroughbred son of Boston. Dintatey ou is by Rysdyk's Ham Ea Di Star, iy Ra a" Star, out of Jeany | miotmcnd. {
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