Taking the Children Home. At the Union depot yesterday fore noon was an old, gray-headed man-in charge of three children—two boys nnd a gild. The oldest was about ten and the little girl about live. The whole party were dressed very plainly, and as f to who they were the old man ex p nined to the people around him: " Waal, you see, I live down nigh Norwalk, in Ohio. About a dozen years ago uiy darter married a poor, worth less eoot of a feller up here and they never got along worth shueks. A few days ago he threw her down stairs and pounded her hiaek and blue, and she come down tliar to me for a refuge. These are the young 'uns. She left 'em behind when she Hew. and I eomo on g after 'em. I'urty likely set o' children, ain't they?" " Yes, real smart lot. I lave any trouble getting them?" " Waal, not much. When I got into the 1> -use and told John what I'd come for he kinder balked a little, but I took him right by the windpipe and told him what was what. Tell you. I don't a-low any of the boys to climb me, if I lie up ward of sixty. I'm going to take 'ent down liotue and bring 'em up, and it their father < ver comes within a mile ol us I'm going to pick him right up and break his hack across a stone wall!" About ten minutes before the train left the old man called the eldest boy to his knee and said "Now, young man. see here! I'm your grandfather and I'm taking you young 'uns home to Norwalg. We'll get there with about seven cents to spare, if no accident happens. Now, then, when the !>y on the train comes around with chestnuts or apples or candy, I want you to look straight out ol the window "Why can't you buy some for me?" asked the boy. "Come over my knee!" exclaimed the grandfather, as'he hauled the hoy nearer. " Now, sir, do you want chest nuts?" " I —I—I want some, hut I'll wait till next year!" gasped the hoy, as he felt the spanking-machine making ready for business. "Very well. You look straight out of the window at corn and pumpkins every time you hear the train-boy yell 'chestnuts ' Here, Alonzo —you conic up here." Alonzo was the second boy. When he was within reaching distance the grandfather grabbed htm and said: "When tlie train-boy comes along with apples and candy and hickory-nut meats, what are you going to do?" "I'm going to ask you to buy mo a whole lot!" " You are, eh? Come over my knee, sir!" "Oh! no 1 won't —I won't—l won't!' shouted the bov as he danced up and down and hung hack. " Very well—you -co that you don't! Now, my little girl, I want to say— "Oh! grandpa, you needn't say a sing e ward ntf 1 she interrupted. 0 ' I itul hat< .h sigbtof chestnuts and < ami v, and just as -oon as w • get on the cars I'm going right to sleep, and never wake up once!" If the train-boy tackled that family lie didn't make a cent.—Ce/roit /We /'r< .. W lint Bays Iln in Japan. We have just had a foreign guest of our house in.wbom we were all much in terested—a young Japanese, the son of a gentleman In northern Japan. He lias tevn in California more than a year, and came Mast witli the embassy, pass ing some days witli them at Salt Lake City, of whieli nlace and its people he says many very tunny tilings. But what we are going to tell you now is how flic hoys sometimes amuse themselves in Japan. He say that on his father's place which is on a large plateau surrounded by high hills—is an artificial fish pond. In it are a great many fish of species he has not seep, here, that are about a foot long, and very beeutilu! in Color and form. They are as playful and as tame as the kittens tin our hearths. One of his favorite amusements was going to this pond and knocking on the edge of the tank with some hard substance to make a noise, whenever)- ln-ad would he turned in the direction of the sound, and every fin employed in making for him. the fish expecting some treat from Ids hand. If. to tease them, he threw noth ing in at first, but put his empty hand into the water with his fingers all spread out. they would all gather round it and seize his thumb and lingers in their mouths, til! he had as many fish as lie had thumbs and fingers, playfully snap ping and biting at them, as we have all seen pupnies do. But this paradise n f the Japanese boy was often rudely broken in upon, for it was not kept expressly as a plaything for boys, but was the source which sup plied the fish for the table. Whenever fish is wanted for the dinner, the cook goes to the tank and knocks, and when the poor unsuspecting things swim up to her, she catches such of them as please her. and before- they know where they sre going, he ha them in the pot or pan >n the fire. This young Japanese expressed niu- h surprise at seeing craniicrries eaten nt table, and said that in the mountains of Japan they grow very large and beauti ful, hut are never cooked. Home old tunn oceasionly goes up to the mountain and picks :i l;rge baskc! of them, which lie brings on hi shoulders down to tiie town. Here the boys gather about him. and lor a mal! coin purchase the right to crowd their pockits with them. And what use do you think they make cf this otherwise useless fruit? The boys blow the glowing berries through rattan tubi-s. as our hoys blow white henns through tin ones. That's what eranber rire are used for in Japan, where they grow in great perfection. Alaska's Big Hirer. Alaska explorers report one of the largest rivers in the world, the Yukon. ■g :s navigable for steamers, and at .iOO 9 miles from its mouth it receives a very large navigable tributary- The basin formed by the confluence is twenty-four miies wide. The Yukon is nearly as large as our Mississippi. Indians are everywhere, and war between the trllnw is a fixed institution. There is snow for six months, and without roads dog sledges find good traveling, fiame abounds. and Indians have an easy life. From seven to nine dogs make a team, the odd one being the leader. The driver lias to watch this dog. If it gets on the scent of game It is off. and the whole 7 team is demoralized. Off they scamper through woods and thickets, upsetting the load, smashing the sled, tearing the ' harness, and giving the bos* days ot hunting to restore the statu quo. So vast a country traversed by navigable waters will soon tempt restless ana speculative adventurers to explore it. Looking for a Job. Brother Toggles isaphilantropist, hut is also a practical man. He is nlways ready to assist the deserving, but detest* tramps. Consequently he was not favor ably impressed by the appearance of a seedy-looking man who called upon him tlie other day, whose hands had evi dently not been soiled by lalnir, but who earnestly protested that he wanted to find work by which he might support himself and his interesting family of two wives and several children, "Are you sure," asked Brother Tog gles, as lie looked suspiciously at tlie ap plicant. "that if you should find the work you are looking for, you would neither run away front it nor goto sleep by the side of it ?" " 1 tell you, sir, that am a worker: and I never neglect my business when I can find any thingjo do. The last job I had I worked at so hard, sir, that I was actually taken down, r, and had to lie confined, sis. —" "Toyota- bed—hey? i'oor fellow!" ejaculnvil Toggles. :is I said, for a long time; and it is only two wicks since i gat out. Turing that time I have con- Jlantly sought employment; but every avenue seems to be closed against me. I have tramped the streets of this city • lay and night looking a oh, but have found nothing that I could turn my hand to, while my wives and children are hungry for sealskin saeques and velocipedes: but I can do do nothing for them, because I have not even enough to drink!" The poor fel.ow bowed his intellectual head upon his delicate hands and sobbed. "This is a sad case," mused Brother Toggles." "They tell me that prosper ity has returned; but this don't look like it. Here is a highly- cresting individual, doubtless capable of con tributing largely, by his industry and skill, to the world's wealth, hut wiio has not even a two-spot dealt to hint in tue great game of human progress. In all this large city he can find no employ ment suited to his capacity. Alas! for the rarity of Christian charity, and all that sort of tiling. I'erliaps I can recommend you to somebody, my good man, who will give you employment." " I am afraid you can't," replied the applicant. " I'eople don't sei-ni to want to have anything to do with a man in my lim of iiusiness." "What is your line—profession or trade?" " Tartly a profession and partly a trade. lam a burglar, sir : and if you I can put nic in the way of a good crib to crack f will be everlastingly grateful, and you shall haven share of the swag." How (lie Captain's Talent Worked. Having piped all hands to splice the 1 main-brnce, the eap'n had the first mate j of the farm tow out the horse and wagon, and, ascending tlie quarterdeck * of the craft, he took possession of the tiller-ropes (as he styled the reins), and said: "Now. hoys, my invention is very; simple—l might make a million dollars i out of it tuebbe, but I ain't going to patent it ; you ran nil Use it if you want ! to. I've simply fastened a twenty- I fathom line onto the mizzen axle of the craft, and put on a stout grapnel. I shall bring this In re boss along the road j under double-reefed topsails, and then i one of you cusses scare him—open an 1 umbrella at him, or something; then. 1 when he goes tearing along about twenty-five knots an hour and won't answer to his helm, I'll just dron the anehorand ride on the gale. Hit up!" The horse eaine jogging gently down the road, when, according to the pro- I gramme, the first mate pushed out and hit him a licit over the nose with a blanket. The terrified animal stood tin j his hind legs for a moment and then ' struck a course northwest by north witli great celerity. Tlie interested spceta- : tors beheld the fearless eap'n sitting un moved, though the buggy bent and ; careened before the breeze-; then, witli a ] triumphant smile, they saw him hinve! out the anchor with a tncrry "Yr, ' heave, ho!" The grapnel dragged for a few moments in the treacherous sands of the rend, then caught in a reek. Cap'n < "ornwell rose into the air like a mrn on the wing and sailed majestically for ward. alighting on his ear; the horse stood on his head for a second, and then J resumed hi* onward eeiurse at the rate \ of at least seventy miles an hour, anil [ amid a frightful crashing, ripping, tear ing hnd smashing, nil the wagon van- j isiied into thin aii except a piece of the i mizzen axle, to which the anchor had j been fastened. Cap'n <'ornwell can't precisely under-' stand why, when the tackle lie],|. fie wa-n't able to ride out the gale, hut is not discouraged, nnd will repeat the ex periment as soon as he has had a new ! buggy built upon lines of his own de signing. Life insurdh' •• canvassers are is-aring down upon him from nil quar ters. and tlie liveliest interest is mani j fested In the neighborhood. We wish 1 the gallant captain all success.— (Jhioaun ' Tribune. Mop Scowling. Don't scowl, it spoils faces. Before ! you know it your forehead will rearm, I file a small railroad map. There is a i grand trunk line now from your cowlick 1 to the edge of your nose, intersected by parallel lines running east and west, with curves areliing your eyebrows, and ' oil, how much older you look for it. Scowling is a habit that steals upon W unawares. We frown when the light is 1 too fstrong. and when it is too weak, I We tie our eyebrows into a knot when we are tli ink ing, and knit them more tightly when we eannot think. There is no denying there are plenty of tilings to scowl about. The bahy in tlie cradle frowns when something fails to suit " Constitutional scowl," we say. The little toddler who has sugar on Ins bread and butter telis his trouble in the same way when you leave the sugar off. " Cross." we say about tlie children, and " worried to death " about the old folks. 1 and as for ourselves, we can't help it. But we must. It* rcflext influence makes others unhappy; for faee hnswer etli unto face in life as well n* In watvr. It belies our religion. We should pos sess our souls in such peace thai it will reflect itself in placid countenances. If your forehead is ridged with wrinkles before forty, what will it be at seventy? There is one consoling thought about three marks of time and trouble —tlie deatli nngel nlways erases them. Even the extremely aged. In death often wear a smooth and peaceful brow, thus leaving our last memories of them calm and tranquil. Hut our business is witli life. Scowling is a kind of silent scold ing. For pity's sake, let us take a sari iron, or glad iron, or smoothing tool of some sort and straighten these creases out of our faces before they become In-] ; deiibiy engraven upon our visage. j A Mad WolPn lUTage*. About 7 A. u., the nctuuuil* from the adjoining villages hao collected at a fair which wax held at the settlement of Barvcnkofl', district of Iz.unte, and the male portion of the assembly had dis persed to the drinking shops to make bargains and drink each other's healths, leaving the women and children in clinrge of (lie carts. Suddenly there re sounded through the square a heart rending shriek for assistance, and then all was quiet. The peasants rushed out of the drinking booths into the street, and before they had time to collect their thoughts there appeared from behind a buihtlngsituated on the edge of the square an enormous wolf. Everybody rushed in great confusion to their carts, shouting, "Mad wolf!" Meantime the gigantic wolf frothing at the mouth and witli ids tongue hanging out, made for the carts. A dreadful tumult occurred. The horses and oxen dashed in all directions, hut the majority, getting entangled, fell, overturning the carts, while the noise made by the pigs, sheep, geese, fowls, etc., added to toe uproar and confusion. The wolf when within a short distance of the first group of carts turned round, sprang on to a woman who was running pest, and in a moment she was prostrate on the ground, having lost her nose, scalp and lower part of her face. The wolf than ran further and attacked a small lad of nlxiut seven years of age, but just at that time a pig rushed at the wolf and bit its tail. The wolf turned on ids assailant, but not before it had bitten the Isiy's face and hand. Leaving the pig. the wolf ran down the main street.and attacked awtmian with a baby, then two boys about four years of age, and having bitten their heads through to the brain, rushed up the street, mid after biting several other persons, turned off on to the railroad. Bv this time a large crowd, headed by the village elder, and armed with whips, scythes, etc., gave chase to the terrible animal. Tb< y catue up with th< wolf about one mile from the village, and a peasant, allowing it to approach him within about fifteen paces, shut the animal straight in itsonen maw. Notwithstanding the wound tie had received, the wolf sprang Up and at tacked the peasant. Flic latter did not lose his presence of mind, and struck the animal witli the butt end of Ids gun, which shattered at the blow, and the wolf seized tlic peasant by the side, hut owing to the man wearing three coats Ids skin was only scratched. Tin* cour ageous man then firmly gripped the ani mal witli both hands. During this struggle twtween a man and a mail wolf the crowd which had conic up hesitated through fear to attempt the rescue of their comrade. Fortunately a local policeman galloped up at this juncture, and drawing his revolver shot the wolf through the head. The wolf had bitten no less than twenty-two persons, ten of whom are in a dangerous stale. The sufferers were isolated from the rest of the inhabitants and medical aid was at once administered to them. It isr-qxirt ed.thal the wolf came from t he settlement of Dovgenikoff (situate about eighteen mil' s from HarvenkofF), where a mad ox had died and had been buried, but so carelessly that on the following morn ing his txxly was found scattered about. —.St. f'cUrmtirg Oolo*. A Sad Mistake. The Kcv. (Jeorge Trask.ol Massachu setts, was noted throughout the State as an able and eloquent lecturer against to bacco atid all intoxicating drinks. At one time lie had addressed a la?g' and attentive audience, and. among other things, said in his lecture that no man habitually using totnrrco and whisky could expect to live more than five or six years after beginning to use them. And so earnest and positive was he in ids address, and so attentive his audi ence, that at its close he confidently chal lenged any reply, and invited any ques tions on the supject. After a moment's silence a man rose and said: " I like what you have said. Mr. Trask, but I would like to ask one question : One of my neighisirs is an old man. some sev enty-five year* old, and tie has used to hacco and whiskey—all lie could get-- ever since he was thirty-five yean old that is. for some forty-five year*. How do you reconcile that with what you said, that a man using I Kith tobacco and whiskey couldn't iive more tlian five or six years?" Mr. Trask was somewhat startled, and to gain time for collecting his thought*, began asking some questions. How old did you say this man wa<®" " Some seventy-five years." " And he ha* been using both tobacco and whiskey ever since he was thirty five?" "Ye*, using them constantly and freely." "Well, what kind of a man is lie? Die s lie seem to take much interest in business, or in anything that is going on ?'* " Wa'al no. I don't think he does." " Doe* lie seem to love anybody?" " Wa'al. no." " Does lie seem to hate anyIHKIJ ?" " No. I drdft think lie does ; lie seems sort of indifferent to everything." " Well," said Mr. Trask, who by this time had gathered up his wit*, "your old man has evidently lieen dead for some forty voars, and the only mistake you've made is that you did not bury liim." Amid the shout of laughter that rose U|Hin the answer, the audience broke up, and Mr. Trak was relieved. The llemaining Public Lands. The iand area of the United State* is 3,580,t!3H square nilies, or 2,291,352,230 acre*. If you add the water surface of the gr> at lakes and rivers the total area of the United State* is over 4,000,000 square mile*. The public lands in the different States and Territories, leaving out —been tine thev never had any—the thirteen original States and the ad mitted States of Vermont. Kentucky. Tennessee, Maine. Texas and West Vir ginia and the District of Columbia, amounted originally to 1,814,780,910 acres, or considerably more than two thirds of the entire landed terrltorv of the United States, Of tiiis there had hern. up to IK7H, surveyed 714,572.737 acre*, leaving unurveyed 1,101,197, 1H3 acre*. None of the unsurreyed iand hnd been sold, and a great deal of the surveyed had not been. It is estimated that the unsold public lands of the United State* amount to about 1.300.- 000,000 acres, 'xw# than half ol the lands disposed of were sold for cash or donated in small lota to actual settlers under lb* homestead or pre-emption acts. The remainder, aggregating up ward of SAO,0(10,000 acre*, were donated to railroads, other improvements.* to States for agrietiltuiai colleges, etc. The surface of unsold public lands exceed in area by over 1,100.000 miles all Europe outside of Russia. Alaska lee Beauties. A writer in the San Francisco llulictin is enthusiastic over the great glaciers near Fort Wrange), Alaska. Standing at the mouth of the fiord, he says, the water foreground is of n pale, milky blue color, from the suspended rock-mud issuing from beneath the grinding gla cier—one smooth sheet sweeping bock five or six miles, Wke one of the lower reaches of a great river. At the head the water is hounded by a barrier wall of bluish-white ice, from five to six hun dred feet high, a few mountain tops crowned witli snow appearing beyond it. On either hand stretched a series of majestic granite rocks from three to four thousand feet high, in some places hare, in others fores ten, and all well patched witli yellow-green eiiaparrel ami flowery gardens, especially alsiut half way up from top to bottom, and the whole built together! in a general, varied way into walls, like those of Yoseinite valley,ex tending beyond the other, while their basis are buried in the glacier. This is ill fuel a Yoseinite valley in process of formation, the modelling and sculpture of the walls nearly completed and well planted, but no groves as yet, or gardens, or meadows on the raw and unfinished bottom. The whole front and brow of this majestic glacier are gashed and sculptured into • maw of yawning chasms and crevasses,and a bewildering variety of strange architectural forms, appalling to the strongest nerves, hut novel and beautiful beyond measure— clusters of glittering lance-tipped spires, gables and obelisks, bold outstanding bastions and plain mural cliffs, adorned along the top- with fretted cornice and battlements, while every gorge and cre vasse, chasm and hollow was filled with • iglit. Along the sides we could see the mighty Hood grinding against the gran ite with tremendous pressure, rounding the outswelling Ijossen, decerning and smoothing the retreating hollows, and shaping every portion of the mountain walls into the forms they were meant to have, when in the fullness of appointed time the iw-tool should be lifted ami *i-t aside by the sun. Hack two or three miles from the front the current is now probably about 1,300 feet deep; hut when we examine the walls, the grooved and rounded features, M> surely glacial, show that in the earlier days of the ice age they were all overswent, this glacier laving flowed at ah' igiit of from three U four thousand feet above its present .evei. John Smjbert. The first painter in America of anX decided ability whose name lias come down to us was John Watson, who exe cuted (Mirtraits in Philadelphia in 1715. lie was a Scotchman. It is to another Scotchman, who married anil identified himself with the rising fortums of the colonics, that w- are, perhaps, able * assign the first distinct and decided art impulse in tlie United State*. We ow< to Bishop Berkeley the most notahc im pulse which the dawning art* received in this country, when lie induced John Kmybert t leave t/imlon, in 1725. and settle in Boston, wlc-re ho had the good fortune to marry a rich widow, and lived prosperous and contented untii hisdeath in 1751. Kmybert win rot a great painter. If lie had remained in Eu rope, his position never would have IMK'H more than respectable, even at an age wle n the art* were at iow ebb. Hut he is entitled to our gratitude for per petuating for us the lineament* of many worthies of the period, and for the un doubted impetus his example gave to the artist* who were alxiut to come on the scene, and assert the right of the new world to exercise it* enctgies-in the cn rourageraeut of the tine arts. It is by a comparatively unimportant incident that the influence of Kmvbert >n our earlv art is most vividly illustrated. lie brought with him to America an excel lent copy of a Vaadyck executed bv him self, and several of our artist*, included. Allston, acknowledged that a sight of this 'opy affected them like an inspira tion. The most important work of Symlxrl in this country i* a group rep resenting the family of Bishop Berkeley, now in the Art Gallery at New Haven. Harper' M>ign.z\ nr OldFahioned Garments. My first recollection of fashion is that oid men, especially those of the fwttcr classes, wore short " breeches." a* they were called, with knee buckle* and long stocking*, closely fitting the leg*. Young men and old men not governed by fash ion wore 'pantaloons or brceehas. witli legs den-ending to the ankle*. In a short while pantaioon* supplanted breeches, except in rare case* of old or eccentric men. I'antaloons, made at first to fit the limbs, soon began to lie cut accord ing to the arbitrary dictates of fashion. At one time the legs were of enormous size- large '-nougli for mail bag* and at another they were made of elastic stuff and fitted to the limbs a* closely as the skin. Boot* underwent change* quite a* striking as did pantaloons When 1 was a Iniy old 808 WOT* fair-top Itoot*. They were long enough to reach th< knee, with a broad lielt of smcKith leather, of it* natural color, around the top. and the remainder polished with blacking. They were pressed down and rumpled alxiut the legs, so a* to expose to view a considerable portion of the *tK'king Is-lwwn the upper edge of the Ixwil and the knee-hucklc. The dandies wore hoot* of a different style. Their legs were stiff, reaching rather more than half-way to the knee, cut ul the top anil in front in the form of a heart, with a Mark silk tassel suspended from the lowest point of tlie indentation. They wen* •*! led " Surrow Ixxit*why. I know not, nor am I sure that my spell ing of them ia correct.— llecoUcfiiom of Hen. Or. Jrlrr. Paper Barrel*. It is claimed that the new paper fiour barrels are not only cheaper hut more tight and durable, a* weft a* lighter, than those of ordinary construction. By an improved metliixl of manufacture, these tmrrcl* are composed of straw, pa per pulp, which is run into a mold madf into the shape ol one-half of a barrel cut vertically. The pulp is *uh|cctcd to a powerful hydraulic pressure, and. when reduced to the required thickness, the ends of the lialvcH are cut off; the piece* are then placed In a steam drier, the side* are trimmed evenly and the sulstanee thoroughly dried. It comes from the drier ready for making up into barrels. There are three heavy wixxlen hoops and two hoops fa!cned together, and, into groove* cut in the staves, the paper halve*, which have an average thickness of throe-sixteenth* of an in-m, are *lid. The ends of the barrel are made of paper 300.1*10 men of the line, the re serve and the Lnndwehr. The grand total of the German army is 2,200,000 men. exclusive of uoO.ooo not reckoned on the field strength, but deducted a* garrison*. Tlie strength of the second Ixuidwchr nnd Landsturm is generally exaggerated ; but they ar thoroughly • ffiep nt soldiers, the lx*t in the army. Frnnoi ha* a nominal *tr> ngtli of 3,500,- 000 men, hut practically it must Ix- re duced to 2,000,000. ami even of this total a very large proportion is still in pro gress of organization. It is not be lieved that France could place in the first line more than I*oo,ooo men. Italian newspaper* contain report* fo audacious outrag'-s by bandit* on the highway* and railroad# of that pictur esque lountry. In one OSM a dOBSO fellows brought a train to a stop by hoisting a danger signal. They intended U i rob the passengers, hut a large force of soldier* happened to be on tlie train, and when the bandits saw them they started for covr. The military sent a volley after them, and some started in pursuit, but it was already growing dark, and no captures were effected. On the road from K- nafro to hernia twenty-seven unarmed traveler* were robbed by thirteen brigand*, and a law yer who proved troublesome wa badly wounded. Attempts were made to throw train* off tlie track, successful robberies are frequent, and the police are utterly inefficient and untrust worthy. The wliol<-*ale and wanton destruc tion of walrus by the whaling-ship crews in the Arctic ocean, which ha* been foing on for some time and i* in creasing every year, i* likely to result in their practical extermination, unless it is spec-lily checked. The captain of a Nejt'Bdfo*d whaler estimate* that *n .staii 30.000 walrus hare been kU*rt/ this season, only about a third of which were secured. Oneof the results of this needless and useless slaughter is tlie death through starvation of many of tic natives of the Arctic region*, who depend upon the walrus for fixxl. In one village of 200 people all hut one man died last winter, and in other vil lages from a third to a half of tlie popu lation perished. Some of the whaling vessel captains have been humane enough tins year to refrain from killing any walrus. A correspondent of tlie Kan Francisco f\nd. writing of the varied climate and temperature* of < 'alifornia, says That in the interior valleys he ha* Found the thermometer as high as 114 degrees in the shade, and at least I2Bdce,n to think that its import is of but little consequent* to any one besides the advertiser. This, however, is a great mistake, for the community at large is ix-m-fittcd, ac cording to our way of Uiinking, by every business card of a town ston ap pearing in the local papers. It needs no very skillful reasoning to elucidate the proposition, for their can If no better method adopted to improve a village, town or city, than that which keeps the bulk of trace at borne. By so doing the results of industry are widely diflTuwd in the expenditures made, society becomes CO-OJM rative to a considerable extent, material improvements are encouraged, and pride of place is fostered. Our live store-keepers are beginning to under stand the value of advertising, and our residents fail not to r< ward them for their enterprise. A eotcmporary puts the matter in this wise: "When the business men of a town fail to advertise extensively they diminish the import ance and trade of the place, and per mit more enterprising localities to take the latter from them.' 1 Although done for their individual interest, advertisers should be looked on by citizens of the town where they reside, as in some sense public benefactors, and they should be encouraged accordingly. One merchant who advertises extensively is worth to his own town and its people more than forty who never show them selves in print, and should be for this reason alone preferred, assuming that he is, of course, a fair business man.— Pr'Ury (N. Y.) Ncwi. Cremation. The idea of cremation seems to le making reasonable advance both in this country and in Kurope. <>ur conserva tive neighbor, the Trtf'uur, speaks a true word in its favor, in regard especially to such places a*. New Orleans and Memphis. Tiie Municipal Council of Berlin has recommended the universal adoption of tlie practice of cremhtion. going back to the custom which, ac cording to Tacitus, was in use among tiie Germans a thousand years ago. There are indications that the English may also return, in no very distant future, to the ancient usages of their Saxon forefathers in this respeet. At a ra