4 a a AUTUMN DAYS, {On autumn days, in woodland ways, ' 1 lio beneath the trees And watoh the clouds in snowy shrouds Float through the upper seas; The leaves of brown coma floating down, The boughs are blown apart; Above my head are blots of red From summer's broken heart, Around about the streamlets shout; A chipmunk whisks his tail, And up the pines makes striped lines, Or darts along a rail; While soft and clear I sometimes hear A wild bee's dreamy hum, The rippling notes from trembling throats Aud yellow hammer's drum, The maple old is crowned with gold; A torch burns just behind; Like finger tips upon my lips The touch of balmy wind That wanders free o'er gem-set sea And sweetest perfume brings; I catch below a flash of snow — A seagull's gleaming wings. From out the deep the salmon leap, All clad in silver mail; And far away across the bay I soe a coming sail; And, oh! how bright the wings of white Which walt my love to me! Ah, dearest one, through miles of sun I throw a kiss to thea! = Herbert Bashford, in Boston Transcript. “BABY. If there hadn't been Reggy and Payche and Pat, I wouldn't have minded. I always loved boys from the time I was tied into my first pinafore till the day I married Rex Thayer, Then, of course, when Rex declared he wouldn't have it ~-that he wanted to be the composite whole of masculine existence for me—I devoted myself to his way of thinking. That is, till Reggy came. 1 did love Reggy. And Rex said I might—that wus really only natural; but that, if I would name him Reginald, | must, at any rate, find asocther diminu- tive than Rex for him. lord, would not consent to lose an iota of his identity with me, even if it were his own son who was the brigand. But I settled it beautifully, as you | see. If [ adored Reggy, I worshiped Rex; and so everything was obliged to go swoothly, It was when my next baby came into the household that I felt sorry I had obeyed Rex so loyally, and ceased to have that ardent affection for boys which was so promineut a characteristic of my earlier years. 1 felt a distinct thrill of disappointment when they told me that this mite was a boy, and was amazed to find how completely a love for femininity had taken possession of ay heart. But I named him Cyrus, for my father, and called him Psyche—in a spirit of revenge. And then Pat came! Rex wiped away my tears, and said it was a shame; but what a sturdy little rascal he was, to be sure, and what a very beautiful pink his toes were—had I noticed! And we would call him Patrick for Uncle Pat, and 1 should call hira Patricia, aad do him up in blue ribbons—indeed I should ! And [ thought, if Rex could bear it, why, [ could, too. So I rallied to the situation, We had a happy little home —just a | bit of a house in the midst of a big patch of garden, where honeysuckles climbed up the lattices, and tulips bloomed all the way from the gate to the door when the spring came. Rex was a lawyer, with a fair amount of income, and my happiness was to make the nicest of homes possible on tae generous household allowance he sot aside each month for me. So life was sunny, and we were two happy people oud of our three robust boys, and we quite forgotten our sorrow that Psyche and Patricia were not more ap propriate names for the dear little lads, when aa incident occurred. The *‘incident” was—baby. I had somehow always thought of Baby as a girl! It had hever entered my mind at all about any other possibility, With all my experience, too! I don't wender you think | was stupid. But I crotched “her” diminutive sacques in palest of blues, and “her” crib-blanket blue with daisies starred over it. In short, the daintiest cf azure appointment awaited ‘*her” coning. Reggy was fourteen then, and wont daily to the Boston Latin school, and | and Sammy said: “Ood it like to fake my | sortment of goods and novelties, It is | Payche was twelve and Pat over seven; 80, you see, my sorrow at having to array them fn boyish attire and my ponderous sighs as one by one they steppel into knickerbockers, were not too vivid in my memory. But it all came back to me ~=when I became acquainted with Baby, “Rex,” 1 asked cagerly, *‘is she prety” It was the only time I ever knew him to be quite heartiess, but he a breadth that alarmed me for bis beauty, and said in a voloe overladen with mirth: “Dearest, sae's a boy!" 1 gasped forth that I did not by lleve him; and the nurse said: “For + ame, Mr. Thayer.” But, by the way my heart was gliding down toward thy, foot. board, 1 knew that Rex had beer. candid remonstrated, aod Mother Thayer sid it was oatrageous; but Hegre, rpg baby-blue ribbons tied ina bow at his chin, made him quite as sweet and pretty as any girl in the land. When he got to be five, though, it was ling. Clearly, he ought to be donning kilts soon. But I parted his bair in the middle of his head, and tied back his curls with pale blue rib- bons, and bought him new sashes galore. Rex looked on with unconcealed amusement. He thought it a very en tertaining farce, and was clearly inter- ested to see how long I could keep it up. The boys all throught it a huge joke on “poor little Baby,” as they designated him, and, through a hesrty sense of humor, co-operated in assistiog me to deceive myself. Baby had not been sent to school, He, my wedded | grinned to i but now began to have daily lessons | with me, and on sunshiny afternoons | played with the rector's little girls next door. Somehcw, Baby never played | with the boys at all. He had shy, sweet manners, which endeared him to mothers’ hearts, and he was quite in demand at | their little girls’ candy-pulls and soap- | bubble parties. { It was when he was five that I attired him one afternoon in a pale blue cash- mer frock, with full gathered skirt and a bit of a yoke, and secured his curls at the nape of his aeck with a big satin bow of the same hue. He kissed me goodby, and started so daintily down the walk for a soap-bub- ble tiff at a neighbor's house, that I stood in the window watching him out of sight, Psyche came in and joined me, “Now, isn't it funny,” I mused aloud, | ‘that we can make such a perfect girl of { him! You'd think he would romp and | tear about, and want pockets in both | sides of his skirt to stuff his flsts in, and, {at any rate, be a boisterous creature. But he is just as gentle as any little maid, | and he never torments the poor beasts as you young reprobates did. Don't you remember when Pat put the three. days old kittens into a tub of soft soap {to see how they would swim! And evry dog in the village knew Reggy's tin cans,” in my arms, and fled through apother door with him. The boys started in gleeful pursuit, but I heard Rex stop them. | J “No, boys,” he said very positively, fleave him to mamma. Get ready at ouce, all of you, for dinner.” “Baby,” [ groaned, when I had put him down in my room and locked the door, “0, Baby, why did you do this to mammat" And I put out my arms to take him on my knee, But he motioned me sternly away, and stood before me with his head thrown back §p a queer little way Rex has when I sometimes displease him, and said: “Mamma, you did itto me! You named me Baby, and that is a girl"—oh the un- utterable disdain in that word !—+*‘and [ am 8 boy; and I won't be named Baby any more! I will have a name of my own, like my papa!” I did not speak for a moment. I contemplated his bare little head. ‘We will call you Archibald,” I said, then, as I led him away to the nursery, wa Kate Field's Washington, — EE —— ce a—— I — Feeding Horses on Cocoanut Shells, Information has been lodged with the Board of Health about a pitiable fraud that 1s practiced on the hard-worked towns, in the adulteration of their feed, The so-called oil cakes are much used by { owners of horses and cattle as an article | of food for their stock that is at once cheap and nutritious. Meal is the chief ingredient of this kind of feed. wastes at the bunghole what it saves at {the spigot has now found a way of swindling the poor beast as well as its shell for the meal. The stufl is ground tp as fine as cedar sawdust, which it closely resembles when ready for the press, and there is abcut as much nourish- ment in it as there is in the sawdust, | the stuff might as well be expected to cow to give rich milk, from chewing the boards in its stall, murmured Pysche, stroking the funny bit of fuzz on his upper lip coantempls- | tively, *‘My Baby an idiot!” I indignantly ex- lsimed. *‘He's much the cleverest of all of you, Mr. Cyrus Thayer. he'll wake up to the trick wo're playing on him, and teach us that the path of the practical joker can narrow to a sadly ua. comfortable limit!" And I left Psyche to his grimaces and his budding mous tache, sad proceeded to my own room | and my work-basket, where a little gipsy | straw hat was to be trimmed with rib. bons and rosebuds for Baby. But into my stitches | put many very serious thoughts that afternoon, for surely the problem grew ponderous; and while I hated to give in, it was quite evident that petticoats and Baby would soon be : ludicrously incongruous. So 1 stitched | an 1 planned, aod built impossible castles, { and always came back to the starting point and helpless Indecision. It was quite late whea my millinery {and mending were completed, and I hastened to dress for seven o'clock din. ner before Rex should arrive. 1 was just clasping a little mosastone heart at my throat, when [ heard roars of lsughter from the library, and cries of “Mammes, | mammee, do come down!” I recollect accurately just how near the pin was to the clasp, and exactly which { hairpin was put in tos loosely; for [ felt & premonition that something remarkable was about to occur, sad [ stood hesitat. | ing a moment before I responded. { Rex had jost come in from the rain, | snd when I reached the stairs was stand. {ing in the library doorway laughing so | heartily that the tears rolled down his cheeks. Within, I could hear Psyche, | Reggy and Pat squealing like a regiment of young demons, But above all, shrill, excited, and de. fant, came Baby's tones, declimiag | against some “mean old boobies!” “Poor little Baby!" I thought, as 1 hastened down, ‘They are teasing him | about something. I will stop them at { once.” | “Yes,” screamed Baby, the | coming in such a fury as [ never heard | from him before, *‘you're all mean oid | | boobies! And Tommy Taylor ssid ev'ry boy ev'rywhere laughed at me-e," here a | | known a4 the Tacon market, in early | (quavor crept into his voice—* ‘laughed all { the time at me-e, becuz my mother made me a silly gir-r-l—aad [ hada’t even any name. Aud Tommy called me *Babesy;' | finger and go ac'oss the ‘oom!’ So I went | up in Dolly's room, and we got her scis- { sors and cut them all off!" | 1 had reached the door hefors Baby | finished his harsngue. I did not inter. | rupt or reprove the boys for their con. | taued mirth, Rox pat his arm around me, for l looked a little faint, but he | never stopped laughing for a m ment, | My beautiful Baby! Could auy of you have seon him! Such a faotastio sight | a8 met my bewildered gaze! The boys were huddled together on the sofa, bending forward to listen, sud Baby had the floor, He stood in the centre of the room, one foot thrust forward aad used in ve. hement emphasis at frequent intervals, His clear, white skin was flushed a vivid crimson, and he gesticulated wildly with two very muddy—paws. Oa the floor iF 1 g i i i i 2 ‘‘He's a sort of a little idiot, isn't he?” | Some day | words | 3 How extensively the fraud is practiced | is yet to be a matter of inquiry, The | mills that carry it on are said to be across the river, in Brooklyn, where they can- | not be reached by the New York autbor- ities. Adulteration with ground cocoanut { shell is said by the health officers to be | | not uncommon in the manufacture of spices, aud in other branches of ia- dustry where the swindle does little di- | rect harm. But in its new role as a sub- | stitute for an important article of food it will receive more attention than it has heretofore been entitled to. New York Sun, A — John O'Groat's House. Io the reign of James IV, of Scotland | Dugisby, on the beach at the mouth of Twig Firth, the sortheastern tremity of the mainland of Scotland. In | time their families increased uattl there | | ] | castings, the method in question consist. | wern eight households of the same name. { They lived as neighbors in the greatest | | peace and amity, holding an sanual fes- tival 1a the same house. At last the | question of precedence arose among the | younger members, and they disputed as to who should sit near the head of the table or entor the room fist. Old | Johnny O'Groat was made arbitrator of {the dispute. He promised that before the vex: meeting he would settle the { question to the satisfaction of all con- | corned. | sided house in which he held the sanual | dinner. This octagonal house was fitted with a door and « window on each side, | sad a round table in the center of the | room, so that the bead of each family of | the ('Groats might eater by his own door | {and sit at a table which was pmotically | Cwithout a head.” This famous house was situated about a mile and a hall west of the point of land called Duglshy Head, Toe site of the hous is now marked by some grass-covered mounds. Fruits In a Havana Market, | The Havana markets are very attrac only fish, vegetables and tropical fruits. We visited the plaza del Vapor, formerly | morning. It occupies an entire square, | opened all around; it is surrounded by | all kinds of stores, with the greatest as | 8 three story building in which more | than a thousand people reside, a world within itself, The fruit department attracted most of our attention. Pineapples, like poets, appear to the best advantage nt home. The Cabian pineapple fs soother eres. thing which we get ia the States, It is unquestionably the klong among tropical fruits. , The famous y known hero as the alligator pear, is really no fruit, but a vegetable, eatable only sm a sa ad *‘guscamole,” and of the daintiest, The zapote, a potato-face peach, the anon {and the mamey are rich sod sweet, but lack savor, «New Orleans Pioayune, Thunder for Everybody. horses of this town and perhaps of other | The kind of greed that | owner by substituting ground cocoanut | Chemist Martia thinks the horse fed on | derive strengtn to pull its load, or the | | heavier than the molten, | placed in the latter it sinks by virtue of John O'Groat and his two brothers | Malcolm sod Gavis-—arrived at Caith- | | ness and bought the lands of Warse sod | ex- | { founders are introducing a new and sim- | Accordiagly he bulit an eight | tive for the variety aad sbuadasce of | ture from that stringy, sour, indigestible | SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A Troy (N. Y.) electric ear cost $10,000, Water power runs the Dover (N. i.) | vo electne plant, Harvard College is having constructed the largest and finest photographic tele- scope in the world, The electric light plant at the palace of Vienna is make a total of 4000 incandescent lamps, A resident | A ———— I NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Chip is again popular this year, Burah silk has quite gone out of fa- r, Shoulder capes have about had their run. White gloves grow daily more fashion - ' al able, to be extended s0 as to | of Evart, Mich., has in- | vented a device whereby brakes applied | toa locomotive will operate every brake on the train. A new Bwedish glass is claimed to | have important advantages for microco and other flue lenses, giving greatly in. creased power. A chair propelled by electricity froma | storage battery placed beneath the seat is the latest luxury for the invalid. charging will last for fifty miles of travel, The telephone between Paris and Lon- | don having been so successful it is pro- to connect Brussels and London. or that purpose a cable will be laid | | sidered matronly, between Ostend and Dover. A Frenchman bas invented an minute on a single wire, when delivered from the machine is type- | written, Artificial grindstones, which outwear | | by years any natural stone known, are made of a mixture of pulverized quartz, | | powdered flint, powdered emery or co- | | rundum and rubber dissolved by a suit. | able solvent. Owing to the rapid destruction of the pinions, the running of armatures at 1000 or more revolutions per minute is being done away with, Slow speed motors, with a normal speed of 400, are now considered the best practice. The longest shaft in the world In one piece, or in any number of pieces, is in the Washington Navy Yard, Washing. ton, District of Columbia. It is 3% inches square, 460 fest long, and trans. mits power to traveling cranes, It runs at 160 revolutions per minute, It has been estimated that one ton of coal gives enough about thirty the present value of which 1s about £12 per ton, and there being 10,000 000 tons of coal annually distilled for gas, no les than 133 920 { tons of suiphate, of money value of $1,607,148, » duced. smmonia to furnish pounds of crude sulphate, the pro- me The question why a piece of solid iron floats on molten iron has been sstisfacto. | rily answered by Dr. Anderson and Mr, Wrightson. The cold metal is really and when first its weight: but growing warmer it ex. pands, and thereby becoming specifically lighter it rises to the surface. After a time, however, it again shrinks and melts into the fluid mass around it. Some of the most prominent fron ple practice in order 10 secure stronger ing in placing thin sheets of wrought iron in the center of the mold previous to the operation of casting. This method was fist resorted to, it appeamns, in the casting of thin plates for the ovens of cooking stoves, it belag found that a sheet of thin iron in the center of a» quarter-inch oven plate rendered it prac. tically unbreakable by fire History of Lighthonses. The history of the lighthouse goes back to the time when your neighbors dida't fling things into your back yard, It is claimed that Virgil had knowledge ol a lighthouse, and that he stated that one was placed on a tower of the temple of Apollo, on Mount Leucas, the light of which, visible far out at sea, warned and guided mariners. It 1s even said that the colossus of Rhodes, erected 300 years before the birth of Christ, showed from his uplifted hand a sigual light. But the | famous Pharos of Alexandria, built 285 B. C., is the first light of undoubted rec- cord. Other lights were shown from towers at Ostia, Ravenna, Apamea, but the lighthouse at Corunna, Spain, is be- lieved to be the oldest sea town. This was built in the reign of Trojan, and in 1634 was reconstructed. Eagland and France have towers built by their Roman eonquerors, which were used as light. houses, and they are to-day marvels in | the art of masonry. Chicago Herald. — Preserving Iron From Rust. The beautifel ironwork so much in vogue nowadays, is generally finished, on scoount of its susceptibility to rust, with a costing of black lacquer, or some other preparation, which is not oaly in- im« | : ved method of telegraphing so that it | is practicable to transmit 150 words per | The meseage | | sented at court the same season, and Long uisters are most used for sea voy- ages, The chiffon, prettiest parasols are unlined A novelty is a parasol composed of ribbons, Rough straw hats are now all called bench hats, Bonnets no longer necessarily match the gowns, Flaring jet collars are inappropriate { for summer, One | New York City. blue serge coats, Plain velvet dresses are no longer con- An Ohio girl bas married the tooed man in a neighboring dime scum. tat. The women of Mexico are taking great interest in the woman's work of the ex. position. White lace gowns are pretty this sea- | son, and make exquisite toilets for all occasions, Bhurts made with several rows of shirring below the waist line are not un- becoming, Camel’s-hair suitings in very beautiful summer tints are among the handsomest fabrics m's parasols the with prettily are either very 4 y carved rustic vy oroate, intter m In early times the Greek ladies, when ealled by some oath, would swear god whose na upon to take mal me was fre quentiy taken vain liege lords, by their The fashions are simple now that any clever woman with the maid can vary simost in profus aid of her originate tol Ww els i, even ciuner Garesses, The new American prima donna now in London, Miss SBayder, is described ss above the middie height, slender, grace. ful, with a pale, oval face, gray eyes and dark hair The abnormally high sleeve is passe, and a few very new French tailor gowns show a close cost sleeve lightly trimmed on the top of the arm, with a corre- sponding trimming at the wrists, Miss Sophias G. Hayden is the gifted young woman whose design for the Woman's Building at the World's Fair Grounds was awarded the premiam of $1000, She is still a very young woman. While Oriental silk is much worn, made up with green or blue velvet | sleeves and deep belts, or sometimes trimmed wif fine silk floral embroidery applique ou the fabric. White is always eflective, ‘Mother Stewart,” of Ohio, the origi- nator of the famous woman's temperance crusade of fifteen years ago, bas returned from a trip to Europe. Her temperance addresses in Paris are said to have been the first delivered by a woman in that city It is rumored that the present style of dressing the hair low and long is the precursor of that monstrosity of eoif. fare, the chignon. It to believe it will with all its horrors. cle, common enough at woman's head disfigured by a mat, meas. uring ten inches down, usually palpably false, was one 10 make the gods weep. Its heralded reture even is alarming. A wonder{ul mantle hay been evolved by the genius of Worth, the immortal, fora mew Elsa in “Lohengrin.” It is made entirely of cloth of gold with white embroidered flour de lis at inter. vals. The border, also whate, is thickly studded with pearls rabies and emeralds, while the lower part is composed of nine large hand-painted medalions, represent. ever mg sainth So heavy is this gorgeous | garment that two stalwart quired to bear its weight, pages are re | Miss Green, of Detroit, a grand daugh- : | ter of Robert McClelland, who satin Pierce's cabinet, 4s the latest American beauty to eateh the favor of London | society. Miss Green §8 a wll blonde I, and her glory is her luxuriant gol | hair, was of Her eyes are brown. She ted to the Prince and Prioces ales at Ascot a year ago, was pre- “caught the eve” of the Emperor Wik liam in his recent visit 10 London, The ploneer woman lawyer of America, Arabella A. Mansfield, was admitted to the bar in 1868, Ten years later women were permitied by statute to practice be- fore the United States Supreme Court, and there are seven women who have been admitted in Washington, Mrs. Myra Bradoell edits the Legal Waite the Law News and Ostherine V. oF Sradats Dimes, Dessie Helmer unaided, ten volumes “ Reporte ® Ia a single er a —— Summ is d'ffcalt | return | The specta- | one time, of » | The World's Postage. There was recently published by the French Ministry of Finance an interest. ing pamphlet in relation to the cost of the worid's postage, which gives some very significant figures. The total cost of the postal servic: the world over is a little less than £500,000,000. Of all nations the United States is the most { liberal patron of the postoflice, with an | annual expenditure of $66,000,000, | Germany ranks second, spending $50, | 000,000 ; but | telegraph includes the not belog also seocounts this BETVICe, | available for the separation of the two | services, Great Britain spends $49, { 000,000 for postal service, and France | about $28,000,000, | lead, Thus it can be seen that the United States is far in she Another feature of our service | that renders it better than that of any | other country is that the department / { does not wait for a demand to spring There are about 20,000 cash girls in | up, but that in all of the less settled | sections of the country, the postoffice Yellow revers and cuffs are put on to | has preceded the population, and immi- grants are never without postal facilities, | In this we differ widely from Europe, | whete only considerable villages have | regular mu. | postotfices, St. Louis Globe- Democrat, Curious Case of Color Blindness. The London Lancet publishes a curi- ous case of color biindess. The patient was an cngine-driver in Russia, about forty years of age, whose vision was per- fect until 1889. Then he began to suffer from violent headaches, over- exertion and insufficient sleep, which were followed by a loss of all power to distinguish colors. Everything appeared to him to be red, and be ws obliged to throw up his pasition. Dr. M. Reich, who examined | lisense, but fo due to him, could and his sight, sensation of light norms ) the man again submitted hia amination, declaring that his sens color had been restored. This to be the fact. The Laneet th *‘this case seems to proved nKs that show that perfectly in i hy siological function.” Mnsation of color is iependent of Eton, which constitute known as Eton, has 1000 scholars. J. C. Blimpsor Marquess, W, “Hall's Catarr Cure cured me of case of entarrdh.” Din Va. sars a very bad inaists sell dt, 7 e. 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