The Bate or Hone.
Oh grave, how still then art 1
No nigh is beard In thee;
No gross. No hvlplrar heart
Acltes there with misery.
Tears fall not all tbe night,
Oh grave, ia thee.
Ob grave, how safe thou art t
By this low, peaceful shore.
Whose music soothes the heart
Like mother-byrans of yo e.
Fears, troubles, sleep in thoo,
Oh grave, no more.
Oh grave, stretch forth thine arms;
Opon ihy faithful breast.
And gather tenderly
Tbe desolate to rest.
Hope to sleep in tbee.
Oh grave, were reet.
Oh grave, thon art the gate,
Theflowor-sreathed gate of Home;
By iheo the faithful wait,
Until their chosen come.
Shut mo no longer out,
Oh giaw, from home.
—AnipuUii Alixire, is Sorihntr.
A DINNER OF PEAS.
" As many as we have a mind to pick,"
Jetty Westart said, impressively; "just
think of that."
"I never really bad as many green
peas as I wanted in my whole life,"
added her sister Kate.
"We never bad enough of anything
to eat," growled Jack, shying his cap at
the cat. "Or of anything else for that
matter."
" We have plenty of you, at any rate,''
retorted Clare, the third sister, rushing
to the rescue of puss.
"We'll all go over after supper,"
Jetty continue I, too absorbed in think
ing of tho peas to notice the threatened
squabble between Jack and Clare, " and
pick them. Mr. Gardner said to take
just as ma ay as wo cculd eat, for the
family will be gone a week and the peas
will only spoil on the vines."
" I could rat a bushel, I know," re
marked Jack.
"You won't piek half a pint," put in
Clare, who felt the annbbing of Jack to
be ber especial duty; " though there's
no doubt you'll eat plenty when wo get
them."
" There, children," interposed Jetty,
with the motherly air which aLe
assumed as tbe head of the family,
"don't be alaays sparring. Jack, go
and get me a pail of water, and yon,
Glare, set the table. Jim, you toast the
bread."
It was one of tho peculiarities of the
family that tbe two older girls called
each other "Jim."
When Mrs. Westart, the pale, high
bred little widow, who had kept poverty
from the door by diat of killing herself
with toil at her pen, at last succumbed
and left her four children alone in tho
world, tbe neighbors immediately fll
to speculating whether their Uncle
John, who had cast off bis sister when
she dared to marry against hi wishes,
would come to their aid, or whether tbe
poor thiDgs would be forced to go to the
poorhonse. Neither of these things
happened. When Farmer Gardner,
with kindliest intent, offered Jack a
place in his family to grow np as his
own son, he was, perhaps, as tsnch sur
prised as he was disappointed when
Jetty answered him. very simply, but in
away that left no doubt that her deci
sion was final:
It" Of course wo thank yon, Mr. Gard
ner, and I know how good an offer it
ia for Jack ; bnt I promised mamma I'd
keep the family together, and of course
we malJn't let him go."
Keep the family together! The good
townspeople were shocked and sur
prised, and expressed their astonish
moot and disapproval frankly enough
to each other. To voice them to Miss
Jetty Weatait was, however, a very
different thing, for tbe pale little girl
woman had dignity enongh to silence
the moat impudent of the goesipe; and
however the talk buzzed behind her
bock, it come seldom to her ears. She
tought tbe village school and kept the
family together, and it was not long be
fore public opinion came to lake aides
with her to condemn rich John Frenant,
that he stood aloft, and continued tbe
ukmdnea*, which bad gone f.rio brek
hie abater's heart, to ber unoffending
children.
f Life in tbe little Westart c aa
amy be easily understood, was not very
luxurious, and Jack's statement, that
they never had enough of anything,
M not so inexact On the present
namnion when Mr. Gardner bad offered
the spoil of hta pea vinea to Jetty, the
determination expressed by all the
family, not even exoepting the "little
mother" herself, ae some of the neigh
hem colled Jetty, woe to have all the
pm. Ihey could possibly eat. After
supper the whole family, even to the
eat who tagged along at the heels of
Okie, proceeded in a body to Mr. Gard
ner's garden, and such a stripping as
they rem ived that night the vines oer-
Irinly never had before or afterward.
"How, Jim," Kale told the ne%'
morning, as they all* at eh* 1 ling the
prat, "for once we'll be txtrs vacant,
and pat just as nmoh butter on these
aa we want. It we don't have thorn
good, there's no fan baring thorn at
all."
" That'* BO," aa seated Jaok, ompbati
rally, as ho dexterously dropped a pea
down Olaro'a back.
"Oh, yon horrid boy," Clare cried.
" Jetly, I do wish you'd mako Jack be
have; I can't shell if he keeps shooting
peas down my neck."
"Jack," the head of the family said,
with groat dignity, "if you don't be
have you shall not havo a aingle pea for
dinner, and as we shan't havo anything
else you'll l>e likely to go hungry."
" Pooh I who could stop me?" he re
torted, contemptuously, but ceasing his
tricks.
It happened to be Jetty's holiday, and
the wholo forenoon was devoted to pre
paration for tho wonderful dinner of
peas. Bread and butter and peas were
to be tho bill of fare; nothing else.
The table WHS spread with tho best
damn.sk and china,relics of better dnya,
and at last came the important moment,
when Jetty, having gone through as
tumultuous uncertainties as did Mrs.
Bob Oratchit over her Christmas pud
ding, was ready to take to tho table the
big bowl of steaming peas, buttered
and seasoned to a turn, and sending
forth an odor delicious enough to tempt
tho king of Hybaris.
"Oh, golly!" < joculated Jack, nour
ishing his long arms, which so persist
ently grew beyond his jacket sleeves.
"How good they smell 1'
"Don't they?'' said Kate; "Jim did
; ou ever smell anything that mode yon
so hnngry ?"
" Hungry," retorted Clare. " I should
think anybody might be hungry; it is
an hour past dinner timo."
"Mr month fairly waters," went on
Jack. " I wish, Jetty, you'd get along
a littlo faster."
"I would, if you'd keep yenr long
arms—"
Ala*! for the vanity of hnman hopes
and the emp'ines* of hnman xpo ;t
tions! Nobody ever know exactly how
it happened, ha. by tho alipptog of her
foot or the unsteadiness of her band, or
by some dreadful combination of both,
Jetty let tho big china bowl fall, and
the dinner of pea* was deposited, a
green heap, in the middle of the kitchen
floor, with dish turned npaido down in
the middle of them.
" Oh, thaudor!"
"Oh, Jetty!"
" Oh, Jiml"
Exclaimed in concert Jack, Clare
and Kate. Than there wa* an inatant
of terrible silence, and then a low, pro
longed howl came from Dick. Clare
began to aob tastily and Kate to cry
aoftly, while Jetty aat staring at the
heap of peas in atony silence, a* if
ahe wero transformed into marble with
horror.
"Ob, Jetty," sobbed Clare. "How
could yon ? Oh, it ia too cruel I"
"Jim," n&id Kite, trying to'keep
back her tears, "don't look fbat#ay.
It isn't really any matter, of mr(rtu^'
" Really any matter I" cried Jack, in
a rage. " I'd like to know what joa
call any matter I"
" Oh, I'm starring to death,' moaned
Clare. "Oh, those beautiful, beautiful
peas I"
By this time tho tears were streaming
down Jotty'a face, and tho outirefamily
were gathered around the jieas, seated
on tho floor and lam nting in companr.
"I'crhajm wo conld rcoop tip the
top," suggested Kite, hopefully.
They'll be clean ami nice."
80 spoooa were brought and quite 1
respectable portion of the heap was
restored to the dish, a state of things
which quieted Jack and Clare, and re
stored something like serenity to the
entire party.
But fate never does a thing by halves,
and this time it was Kate who dropped
tho dish ahe held while Jetty carefully
apooned into it anch peas as she conld
save from the general ruin.
"Oli, Jim I"
"Oh, Jim I"
"Oh, Kate I"
"Darn it! Thnnder! Cm* it I
Blast it 1 There!" shouted Jack, de
fiantly ,
The awful profanity of this speech
startled end shocked (he girls bsyond
measure.
" John Franant Westart!" Jetty mid,
rising to bcr feet with a white feoe, and
speaking in voice that carried terror
to the heart of the culprit. "What
would mother my if she could hear you
swear f Go upstairs this minute, and
don't show your face again until you
can talk like a gentloman."
Without a word, Jack left the room,
secretly frightened and shocked at his
behavior, but holding his head high
and iijfieiible.
" Fo* my part," said a cool, deep
voice, M I don't blame ths bo/ very
much."
The three girls turned like a flash,
and there, leaning over the low window
sill and looking in at them WM their
uncle, John Frenant, of whom they
were one and all thoroughly afraid.
" What in the world is all tbb fas*
aboutT punned Mr. Freeset, scowl
mg his thick eyebrow*, but not without
a gleam of amusement in his eyes.
•'Kate," said Jetty, with her most
dignified air, ■' will pl;ose clear up
those poaa. If you will go round to
the door, sir"—turning toward the win
dow again—" I will let yon in,"
"Thank yon," the intruder said,
coolly stopping over tho window iedge
into the rocm. "You are your mother
over again. I'd liko to talk with you a
little on business."
Jetty's heart quailed a little at that
awful word, yet she didn't show a
quiver, but led the way to the parlor
with as regal an air as though she had
been a queen granting an interview ex
traordinary, or whatever it would be
called, to an ambassidor equally extra
ordinary. It is not necessary to relate
all that was said-between these two, or
how at last Jetty proke down and cried
on lirr uncle's shoulder, while ho di
vided his attention between comforting
her and clearing tho mist from his own
eyes. It scents that in his heart of
hearts John Fro mint hud long itad a de
sire to bo reconciled with his sister's
family, and only tho night before lmd
been looking over soma souvenirs of
childhood, which opened the long
nealod fountains of his love. It was
from this cause, I suppose, it came
about that he wont out o( his usual way
homo to walk by the Woalart cottage;
and the sound of weeping and wailing
had brought him to tho window.
I cannot protend that their nncle
proved always the pleasant est and moat
ilexiblo of men to get on with, hut at
least there was no more worry about
poverty in tho little cottage, and when
matters between Jock an 1 his uncle got
tumuli reus, as they occasionally did,
Jetty always contrived somehow to
bring things out smooth again.
80 that, altogether, a worse misfor
tune might have overtaken the four
orphans than even the lo<s of their no
much anticipated dinner of peas.
Oceau's Depth*.
The first of fifteen volumes on the re
searches of the Challenger expedi
tion ha* appeared, and the Tim it in
reviewing it giresthe following wonder
ful facts : Throughout the- whole ocean,
on the surface and at every successive
depth below, there i* life ; and a* the
creatures come and dio their remains
fall in a perpetual shower, containing
not only hard exuviae, but the eb-ments
of food, to the bottom, where they are
the appointed aliment of many creature*,
large and small, in the atill and dark
world. From a depth of several miles
the Challenger brought up a creature,
of a proper scientific class and name,
seven feet high. It is curious to note
how life accommodates itself. In these
regions of darkness tho eye either ex
pands to a large size to catch any strag
gling ray, or is atrophied for want of
use, or scorns to change into another
organ, with functions yet unknown.
Many of tho creature* at these depths
are moro or less phophoie<ceiit; and
they who feel for all life will be com
forted to know that even many miles
below the light of tho snn in the watery
heart of the world there can atill be
light, whatever purpose it may answer.
But water still is the chief ingredient
of life even there boiow. It is the food,
tho bbiod, and the strength of these
poor creature*—far more than the com
paratively weak constituents of our own
physical frames. It is water alone in
side that can withstand the pressure of
two and a half tons to the square inch.
That amount of pressure is found to
crush beams of pine wood as if they
were passed through rollers ; hut it
bus no effect upon sponge*, molluscs,
and even lighter creature* that almost
disappear in the air and sunshine. Such
arc some of tho creatures and such the
laws of iifo to which we are introduced
in this voinmr a new world to most of
us, and calculated to set men thinking.
A Nihilist Escape.
The Russian socialist, Prince Kraput
kin, who has just been expelled from
Switzerland, was aided to escape from
St. Petersburg in a very ingenious way,
One day he rooeived, in his ration of
bread, the following message from an
unknown band: " When you hear Beet
hoven's 'Third Waltz' played npou a
piano in the house opposite, ask per
mission to go out into tho court," Al*
though the prioce did not quite under
stand, he nevertheless kept strict watch
fcr the sound of the waltz. Three days
afterward, in tho afterno >n, some one
began to play it. HH immediately asked
to be taken into the court. Scarcely hod
he reached the yard io company with hi*
two sentinels than he saw the largo gate
to the prison yard open to alio * a loaded
wood-wagon to enter. The wagon had
not entirely passed the gate when, ap
parently by aooident, it discharged iu
load of logs at the entrance. The
prinoe, seeing his opportunity, gave a
bound before the wood was entirely oat
of the cart, and cleared not only the
gate but two bullets which were fired at
him by his guards. The fallen logs
prevented M immediate pursuit. At
the gate wae a Ooasaok horse, saddled,
awaiting the ptiooa. He mounted it
and galloped sway. Since then the
Russian polio* have never been able to
Sad out who it was that played so well
the "waits of evasion,"
LADIKS' DEI'ARTJVK.VF.
A 1111 DPI f*rtncr.
Tho Princess of Wurtemburg, who
married a Itrcsluii doctor whoso ac
quaintance aho made during his attend
ance upon her invalid father, Ins never
regretted hr alliance. Tho pair live in
one of tho snburtmof tho Hilesian capi
tal, where the princess spends most of
her time in nursing anil caring for her
husband's poorer patients.
Ilow Worth Kilo Ituri-a laubolln.
One day, whilo passing through ono
of Worth's fitting rooms in company
with a friend, I came across the odd
spectacle of ono of the young girls of
the establishment standing with two
pillows pinned about her u aist, one be
fore aud tho other behind, while over
iter figure, thus immensely amplified,
one of the leading workwomen of the
establishment was engaged in drspiug
a gorgeous skirt of white satin. "Only
a ball drew for the Queen of Spain,
Mail at:; e,' remarked the hu'iy function
ary, as I stopped in amazement to view
the group,— for it Letter.
A I oilier ol l>rrmnUln.
There is a college of dresrmsking in
Cincinnati, the bright idea of a Mrs. D.
C. Hamilton. Mrs. Hamilton is now
training thirty eight pupils in the art of
dressmaking, and a cos > of paper work
she exhibits thow the progress made
by scholars in two or three weeks. Bbo
has over fiOO applications for admission
to the college during the coming win -
ter. The collego was founded with a
view of teaching young women how to
make a living. Millinery, drostnekicg,
hair work, embroidery and stamping in
clude the branches of " study." Each
pup.j is allowed to remain until she
thoroughly understands the business,
urri tho time usually required is from
six to eight weeks.
A (•rnrrful Woman.
What is more charming than an agree
able, graceful woman? lb-re and there
wo moot one who possesses the fairy-like
'power of enchanting all about bir;
sometimes she is ignorant her;elf of the
magical influence, which i*, however,
for that reason only tho more perfect.
Her presence lights op tho home; her
approach is like the cheering warmth;
►be pauses by, and we are content; she
stays awhile, and wo aro happy. To
behold her is to live; she is the aurora
with a human face. She has no need
to do more than simply to l>e; she
makes an Eden o! the house; paradise
breathes from bcr and she communi
catee this delight to all, without Inking
any greater trouble than of existing be
side them. Is not here an inestimable
gift?
faablan Faiclri.
Grebe Dimming* aro popular for
trimming costumes.
Clutters of shaded plush are recom
mended as trimming for plush turbans.
A nice light trimming for a bonnet is
three doubled fnlls of uncut velvet set
around the biim.
Chenille dotted net is mnch used for
veils. Bronze green and garnet are
the favorite colors.
A new silk material used by Worth
to make cloak* ha* a ml or black
ground upon which appear jialm leave*
set close together.
Outside garments show increased
length, many of tbc new cloak* being
so long as to almost completely bide
the dress skirls beneath them.
Not only sealskin. but chinchilla and
coney b< nnets will be worn in the win
ter. Tbey are trimmed with breasts and
have plush or watered string*.
As if it were not enough to have
sumptuous cloak-lining*, liUle girls now
havo their cloth princess dresses mode
up with linings of quilted satin.
"Slndioa in yellow" are among tho
moat fashionable hue* of the present
time, and " sunaet" is a brilliant *bad e
which merges from yellow into a deep
red.
Dress skirts, while made narrow and
clinging, appear more volaminons than
formerly becauso of the drapery that is
arranged in the way of pannier and
tournnre.
Light ailk and wool stuff* in bright
contrasting stripos, or in gay tniliefleur
designs, aro exhibited, which are to
make very handsome yet durable dresses
for schoolgirls.
Handsome new qualities of fur plush,
showing a long heavy pile, to be used
for cloak trimmings, pelerines and
muffs, are at costly and elegant as for
itself, hat much less durable.
Pink toilets are very fashionable, and
are stylishly set off with black silk
stocking* devoid of embroidery, black
asM.n sandals wo iked with jet beads,
and long black gloves of undressed kid.
Silk kerchiefs which can be worn on
the neck or made into charming pock
eis oome in fin# chocks, with border* in
solid oolor. Satin kerchiefs are white
or of bright c ilor, with ahaded stiff as.
A popular drees for little girls is quite
loose, with a collar around the neck,
plain in front, plaited or gathered all
the way down at the back, while a sash
crosses over the plaits below the waist
lino to tie in a largo bow At the left
aide.
Flannel anita in bronze, navy Line
and green, silk or velvet col lorn ami
calf. to mVch being their only trimming,
will l>o much worn tld winter on occa
sions requiring neatness rather than ele
gance of costume.
Cretonne i< frequently ure<l for wall
hangings. This i a favorite materia!
for bedrooms. Kaoh room la dedicated
to aotno particular color, and tbo cre
tonne which covcra the walla alao covers
the fnrnlture, dressing-table anl win
dows and other hangings.
Tho moat atyliah evening hats and
bonneta are ornamented to cxcetts
with nodding jilntuea and wreatha of
elegant French flowers, moat of the
bulling mode la being in the immense
poke or in the broad Gainsborough or
Hir Jos .ua Itcynolda style.
A material bound to become popular
on account of it* comparatively email
oo t is a superior make of velveteen, in
nil odors, and introduced to the trade
under the name of " Nonpareil." It
priscnts a more attractive appearance
than the nanul n.akei of velveteen, and
is cheaper than an ordinary grade of
velvet.
Alligator* a* Pels.
" I have some peculiar customers," the
keeper of a bird ami pat animal store in
Nuw York ai<J. "There are some ladies
that purchase nothing bat white rats.
1 once asked one wht she did with
them. Hbe blashod a little and said
she let them sleep on her pillow with
her. H'ie fondled them and taught
them little tricks. I hare had quite a
demand for young alligators recently.
Most of tho purchasers, curiously
enough, are ladies. You wouldn't
think there WAS anything particularly
likeable in an nlligator with a mouth
running nearly half the length of his
body, but some ladies think so. I hare
seen them throw hiia of meat into nn
aquarium containing a six-inch alliga
tor and as his month flapped open and
closed on thedelieasY, they would raise
their h .nds and exclaim, 'How perfectly
lovely I* Tbey use the alligators to
look at and feed.
"An all gator looks very comical whin
about to swallow a fly. He rushes at
it with open jaws, and brings them so
violently together that the waterspouts
out at each side of hi* mouth. He gets
himself in the most grotesque attitude*,
and is always making unexpected moves.
A woman camo here from Hobokcn re
cently, and bought a tec inch reptile.
She also bought two dollars' worth of
fithea. Bbo went away apparently
pleased with her purchases. Several
daja afterward she came again and said
that all iter fl-dirs had mysteriously dis
appeared tho night she took tbem
borne, but that the alligator still re
mained. She said she hail put them
all together in an aquarium. Of course
I told her the alligator bail swallowed
the fl he*. She said, '<>h, my, the
nasty thing!' and vowed she would sell
it.
"An alligator over four inches long is
dangerous in an aquarium. Most of
those I seil are from Florida. It takes
a long time—more than two year*,
sometimes—for an aquarium lircd alli
gator to grow two inches. If tbey were
left to burrow in a muddy pond or a
swamp, they would grow nearly twice
their length in a year. Freh water
seem* to stunt horn."
A Romantic Jfarratgc.
A lady of my acquaintance, a sister
in-law of Dr. Bliss, quite recently mode,
or rather acknowledged, a romantic
marriage with n gentlcmau employed as
a *nb-dmrioeper at the capitol, who
had lost both feet in the Union army.
Hbe tra a stenographer in the patent
office, drawing a salary of $1,200 a year.
Hhe lived frugally, and held her place
for years, to all appearance growing
into the gentle, shadowy,self-respecting
spisstcrhood that so many ldy clerks
here prefer to a commonplace or ill—
s'sorted marriage. A few months since
the gentleman referred to fell ill, and,
to the snrpriso of her friends, she went
to his lodgings and took her place at
his bedside aa his nurse, acknowledging
then that they had been married more
than a year, but that she had concealed
it rather than forfeit her government
position. She has been gradually lay
ing money by to parobase the modest
semi rural home of her maternal grand
parents in East Cleveland, which the
remaining heirs had offered her on
terma within the aoope of her ability to
comply with by rigid economy, and the
denouement did not occur, fortunately,
till the place was practically paid for.
Bho then resigned her position, contin
ued her duties as none, and then took
her matrimonial prize home to the lit
tle ancestral place she had secured,
and we learn that alia is very happy in
her retirement. Her husband walks
with a cane, a little slowly and pain
fully, to be sure, but is by no moans a
wreck of a man.— Wmkimgte* L*U*r.
There Is no type email enough in
which to appropriately set Up the name
of a person who nan find infinite enjoy
ment in a typographical error in a news
paper,— Cincinnati .Saturday /fight.
TIIK FAMILY IMM.TOIL
It in recommended to fr tat carbuncles
bod boil* with pure carbolic acid, in
jected bypodermieally fu sufficient
quantity to thoroughly Hatnr.ito the
* welling.
Itaw eg in a restorative to strength.
Creak a froah egg in a tumbler, mix
with a little mi gar, beat to a utrong
froth, and ad 1 a very little ice water if
liked, or it may bo taken without thi*
addition.
In a paper recently read before the
Allegheny County Medical ooeiety, the
author, a l>r. Thomas, atated that one
polluted spring had given bim ten
typhoid fever patients in a single Ben
son, one of whom diod.
Jn a ease where the heart's action
bad been suspended by the administra
tion of chloroform, the application of a
Isr.je riotli wet with 1 toiling water re
stored ith action. Hot water would
probably be similarly useful in esses of
irregular heart action from other
causes.
A German bee journal has an article
recommending bee atings as a care for
rheumatism. Tho writer's wife was
aillictcd with severe rheumatic pains in
the arm. The hualsaud held bees to
her aim, allowing them to completely
empty their poison into tho muscles.
Tho succec-tling night t c lady for tho
first timo in six months enjoyed good
sleep. The arm was r woUen pretty
badly the next day, bnt this rapidly
decreased. No rheumatic pains have
since been felt by the lady. Ofber
oaves cf similar cures are mentioned by
this writer. As tho average honey bee
is always ready to perform bis part of
the experiment, those inclined to try
this remedy may do so with neatness
and dispatch.
The Secret of Ontorie*.
That (load secret of the centuries—
the mare of Asiatic cholera—has been
finally discovered, thanks to the subtle
assiduity of a British consul. The
story is, as it should be, foil of th" |>lc
tnresqne. It seems that the Moslem*,
who arc bidden to make a
once a year to Meooa, hold it the most
aaercd of the rites while there to drink
the water* of the mysterious well,
which, under virion* names, figures in
the writings of Mohammed and bis fol
lowers. The waters of it arc dark and
deep, and when drawn hare a brackish
appearance, tepid temperature and nan
seating task-. What the well is fed by
the Moslems refuse to tell, bat the tra
dition I*. that like the mjstcrious
river of Kabls Khan, its aonre-r-s spring
under a sacred city in Tunis and course
around under the .Melitorraacin, cross
ing the Nile, and run moaturelets to
men down to a sunless sea under the
city of Mooca. The consul at Jeddah
gut some of the water, bottled it and
scut it to an English chemist for anal
y&ia. This operation reveal-'d a maas of
putridity and death in the liquid which
alone arc sufficient to explain the mor
tality among the millions of pilgrims
that reek the shrine from jour to year.
The perplexing part of the matter is
that if Bach a thing as cleaning ont the
well were suggested to the Muham
mcdana there would bo a revolt from
Senegal to Batavia, for this precious
spring is regarded as s means of divine
purification. To bo touched with a
drop of it ia aura cure; to bathe in it
makca the most afllictod a hole. Should
the Christian na* ions hint even that
they object to the presence of the pil
grims from Mecca passing through the
porta there would be no end of diplo
matic wrangling and difficulties, which,
to spare, we must run the constant risk
of cholera epidemios.
Tim**
Seldom in the history of journalism
has a newspaper been i-sned under
greater difficulties and amid |r-M con
genial snrronndmg* than the AVr rf
tA which was pa Mi he 1 during
the 100 day V siege of Pretoria. The
editor thus describes the ooniitioua un
der which the foat was accomplished:
"A bungalow for a printing office, with
can ran thrown orer iU uuSniahol roof,
through which the rain freely penetra
ted, a gentle water spout running down
the oompo-itor* back as be eiood with
a bandolier of Hartiai-Henry cartridges
orer his shoulder, his white apron for
a uniform, composing stick in hand and
his rifle lying suggestively near his
pr ating frame; the editor's quarters an
army bell tent and a transport wagon,
the space tietween Ingeniously roofed in
with a tattered sail stretched on tele
graph poles; their work, editing a pa
per by day and on guard np to the knee
in mud at night, or sleeping in a pair of
leather breeches, long boots and jack
spurs," The forty numbers, of four
pages each, foolscap alas, have recently
appeared In bonnd form embellished
with fourteen photographic illustrations
of the siege. ff
Three burglars fsfooioualy and with
wicked intent entered a newspaper
office in Illinois one day last week.
Strange as it may seem, there WM
enough to go around and they eeeh got
something. One got sixty-three cents,
one got aw*j ; end the other got sixty
day-. BsrUngtm /fawteya.