China ic furnishing a chain of forts along her seacoast with Krupp guns, TF. C. Selous, the celebrated African hunter, says the flesh of the lion is capital eating, lion pie being almost as good as veal pasty and quite as white, England is to have no poet laureate, not, at least, until one arises of suffi. cient distinction to be worthy to sue. Wordsworth Gladstone thinks that there is no such ceed and Tennyson, man in England at the present time, The British squadron, which consists of four training cruis- training ers, and in which about 1200 young officers and seamen have annually been trained in the management of vessels under sail, is to be abolished. The Admiralty evidently assumes that it is unnecessary to teach an art whieh, in these days of steam war ships, might never be practiced. Mrs. Eliza Archard Connor's sermon to young women, which won the prize among more than 1000 submitted, was elaborated under the following heads: “Do some useful work, and do it with enthusiasm, Lay up some money. Be sincere. Be helpful to others. Be neat. Stand by your own sex. hold forevermore the purity, dig Ail and worth of womankind.” M. Martin Conway, who is lecturing at the Royal Institution in London on his recent exploration in the Hima- layas, has traversed more ground 3 han ons than those perilous regi Although covered explorer. there he says tha his jonrnavs journ have over JUOO0 the section of ¢ which he explored compared mountainous region that been touched is as the size age stamp to that of a large page. quarto Authorship and book publishing are in a bad way in France, according to a number of experts who have been figuring on the situation. It is said by M. Albert Cim, and corroborated by other scarcely six novelists in France who who experts, that there are ean count on receiving equal to or above 10,000 francs a year for their literary work. An examination of the books of a prominent publisher of Paris showed that two-thirds of the accounts | opened for works of fiction, verse, travel, domestic economy and military science showed considerable losses. A volume of reasons are offered in ex- | planation of the facts are admitted. but the situation, beds in Western Texas promises, according t« the St. Louis Republic, to add very materially to the wealth of that por tion of the State. at present in the surrounding cour Development of the coal Fuel i158 Very scarce try, but that is because of the lack of Ihe WAS roadways from the coal fields best road ther: until recently a burro path. finished last year and a railroad is now being built. It is to connect with the Texas and Pacific at Van Horn an Bonthern Pacific at Haskell state Geologist of Texas has his report County : A wagon road was the The just made Presidio **On acoount of its quality and extent as well as from its loeation in a region otherwise practically desti- tate of fuel, this depo=it of coal must prove,” he says, ‘‘to be a prominent factor in the development of the west Western congratulated on the ern portion of the State.” Texas is to be prospects, as are also the gentlemen of Bt. Joseph, Mo,, who recently in- vested in some 136,000 acres of land in Presidio Cc munty. In the effort to prevent the supply: ing of firearms to natives of the Pacific | islands made regulations have just sioner for the Western Pacific pro- hibiting British vessels from carrying more than one rifle and one pistol for | each member of the crew and bona fide passenger not a nstive. It has also been made an offense, punish. able by fine and imprisonment, for any person to supply firearms, ammuni- tion, explosives or intoxieating liguors to the natives of any of the Pacific islands under British control or protection. Unserupulous traders have recently supplied the natives of several of these islands with Win. chester rifles and ammunition, with the result that the natives so armed have made raids on neighboring islands avd sisughtered the inlabitants. A British war vessel on a recent tour of the islands found that a party of these armed marsuders, notorious cannibals, had visited a near-by island and butchered the inhabitants of a large village, leaving every evidence of sub- sequent horrible eannibalistic prac- tices, been | by the British High Commis- | each | A judge in Cincinnati has decided that a man who blows out ths gas must stand the Unless a physician is hard by he generally does, adds the Chicago Herald, consequences, Ge Tstone is ons of the greatest ope in the English- He believes that marriage is a contract for life, which ponents to divorce speaking world, only expires when life itself expires, To the returns of the loss of savings nnd New deposits that State Massachusetts New York are added those Jersey, which show that the of banks deposits in from banks in the savings have fallen off 82,000,000 during the | past year, The Chicago Record facetiously ob- serves that stock -raising and farming will be permitted only in the remoter corners of the Greater New York, The metropolitan garden-truck and clam- industries will fishing not, however, be interfered with. The Pr . X i > rison says that eighty per cent, the 1 4] physician of Clinton deaths in that by consumption. Clin situated in the Adirondack New York Mail MANY persons re- institution caused Prison is region, to which, the and Express notes, sort to cure consumption. and Express, » West in s Stat VIAL not g when the and offer premiums for the pre datory animals.” It appears that the total mumbes books published in Englan i was 6382, This, however, is 150 1 the number of the previous year. we distinguish between new books an new editions the numbers are of new books 5129 as compared with 4915 in 1892. The new works fallen 1147 to probably due to some differences in of fiction U3: hay e from but classification, and many works prob- ably classed before as fiction now go | to swell the list of ‘‘juvenile works and tales,” wise astonishing rise from 2%. In lishers' to 659. ’ an advance sheet of “The Pub- Circular,” from which we gather these facts, this is the explana tion In falling given, political econom there is a seventy-one, Voyages and travels nearly the same as the previous about 2560. while works of his and biography are slightly fewer There is a small increase in volumes of poetry, as also in year books and serial volumes, Medical and surgical works are not so numerous. This re. mark applies also to belles lettres, Science is supreme in American production, and the Americans have outrun us sll in its application, con- the They were the first to utilize electricity, not Edinburgh Review, {fogsos merely in the development of tele- graphy and the kindred arts, but as a powerful ally in manufacture of now plays an important part. n the welding metals, for instance, it It has reduced the price of aluminium from £10.50 a pound, and the metal has now in consequence passed into com- into the fabrie of the bicyele; it is made into shoes for mon use ; it enters the horses of Russian cavalry ; it is em- bodied in the enigmatical figure which In of highly- erowns the Shaftesbury Memorial. iron and steel, the nse developed machinery, which is no more than the application of science, The new drop-hammer has bronght down has revolutionized production. the price of American plows to less than 85, and in the making of all sorts of agrienitural implements it is ealen- lated that 600 men can now produce as much as 2146 a fow years ago. Where a single workman conld make threes dozen pairs of sleeve links ina day, n boy can now make 9000, The manufacture of pine still holds its own as an ‘“‘objoct lesson” but whereas Adam Smith notes with astonishment and admiration ten men turning ont 48,000 pins a day, the modern Ameri- can manufacturer finds no difionlty in supplying 7,600,000 in the same time, na the result of the labor of five pairs of hands, Jompare this with the state of things as the time of the War of Independence, when imported ping sosd for $2.85 a dozen, and when, to encourage home industry, the Govern ment offered 8200 for the best twenty. five dozen of pins made in Ameriea equal to those imported from England. | tossed her head fretiully. which have made an other | THE FLOWER OF SORROW, Bummer comes and summer goes, But all months of all years There if falling of tears ; Bummer comes and summer goes, All hours are grief's, and the sower sows . To-day and to-morrow The Flower of Sorrow Buda and blows, «John Vance Cheney, in Century Magazine, I —— | AUNT TABBY'S UMBRELLA. Fosdick girls nas- pired to wealth and social position. They claimed a few rich relatives, who visited them occasionally raved over “lovely fields” and ‘darling cows,’ but nevertheless would have fered the pangs of hunger before they | would have made an effort to till these { same fields or soil their dainty hands by milking a cow. Among the country Aunt Tabitha Simonds, relatives was She began life with a little amount of property, | and had been known to have been very economical for many years. She was a very peculiar woman, but received due ceurtesy at the hands of some mem bers of the family on sccount of ““‘what Aunt Tabby might possibly do for them." The shrewd old lady intuitively gauged these courtesies and knew just where to line, where true } p i manifest itaslf, araw Ie } wedi Were father, mother, so: tors | the a family of six, and three dangh lara and Marie were it were unlike in char i Appearance, Ce wledged beauty of nsidered herself we in literary «+ the youngest, =» wl little Miy happy danghter, were busily discussing ved It was Celinds That Aunt Tabby should thrust herself upon us thissum- mer! And we mig had some guest from the city who wonld have returned the hospitality for me next winter. whether we of her.” “Celinda, I'm ashamed of yon. Why need you be so mercenary 7" ¥ her father, reprovingly. owled, Aud no knowing shall make excisimed Celinda ‘I'm sure Aunt Tabby is mersen- ary,” she said, in a complaining tone. “If she would sver do anything for us | or make us presents it wonld be differ. ent, but she just scrimps all the time and allows us to serimp, too.” {linda “And I'm sure she has no regard for the poetry of life,” simpered Clara, “Maybe Aunt Tabby doesn’t care for the poetry in books, but she cares for another word that begins with p and that is ‘practical ;° she takes right hold to help with the housekeeping,” maid the tired, overworked Mrs. Fosdick. “Yeu, indeed! 1 don't know what would have done that hard summer without her,” said Marie, with a grate- ful remembrance of Aunt Tabby's will- ing and ready hands. “We ought to have sonls above such drudgery,” exclaimed Clara, her eyes towards the ceiling. “Well, Clara, 1 can tell you one thing,” interposed Mr Fosdick. “Books are all right enough in their places. Folks ought to have plenty of ‘em and know what is in ‘em, we rolling too which is more than half of "em can say | All the same, | who have a big library, I guess if it wasn't for this same dradg ery as it, wouldn't be quite as comfortable as you are.” There was a little silence while Mr Fosdick drank his tea and then tinued ' “You like pie and cake well enough, but you don’t want to go into the kitchen to help make ‘em. Seems to me you might help mother and Marie a little more.” “Ma says I bother her,” Clara, in an apologetic tone, “That's because you ain't teachable, like Marie. She had to learn.” “It's no use of fussing, girls," seid Mre. Fosdick. ‘‘Even if Aunt Tabby is old and sometimes queer and cross, I think we can manage.” “She needn't be so yueer,” said Ce- linda, “She is just as she was made, if she is my sister, and we've got to make the best of it,” said Mra Fosdick, rising wearily from the table. Abner Mason, sitting in the kitchen, had heard all this conversation. He compared the fretful, complaining voice of Celinda to Clara's drawling tones, and again with the cheerful, you call you oon | practieal words of the pleasant Marie. Abner was something more than a farmer's hand. He possessed a fine physique and fair education, broadened by a course of good reading. He wanted to know how to run a farm. He had views of a time when he might own a farm of his own and he wanted to learn how to utilize every acre, He had also had his day dreams of the time when his home might be pre- sided over by a fair, good woman, and somewhere in the depths of his soul had been registered a purpose to make Marie his wife, But of this Marie waa blissfully ig- norant. She worked about house all day and served Abner at table as grace: fully as if he were a titled guest. Marie had no nonsense abont her and respected tho young man who so faith- fully lightened her father's toil. On this particular afternoon she watched her father as he stood in the back porch, pausing for a few mo- and | the ! y | the truth 1 suf- | ht just as well have | soything out 1 anid Abuas, { place her few garments in | an’ ma air sick | help, an’ I will, too, if you | agree on a few things.” replied ments’ rest before setting out for the | hayfield for the afternoon's work. She noticed he passed his hands wearily | over his pale, tired-looking face, and | turning suddenly to him, said : | “Pa, ean’t you sit down and rest a little while? Yon tired than usual.” “No, child, "There's that lot to be raked up this nfts rnoon, and a goed | job it is. I must be going.” Abner eam look more i near and said : “I'm willing to work extra hard on {it if you rest for u little while. I think | | myself you don't look quite well, If | you will trust me I will Jook after | that this afternoon.” Mr. Fosdick had learned to re ly on Abuer—much more than on his own | son, Henry, who, if truth must be | told, was inclined to shirk. Henry | disliked the farm. In fact, he dis liked labor or application of any sort. | “Then 1 guess you may go on, Ab ner, and I will rest a spell. To tell don't feel very serump { tious,” he seated himself in the | i old-fashioned rocker out in the shady i and | side of the porch. He soon fell asleep, Two hours passed, and Marie began to feel anxious, as her father seemed still | sleeping. She passed her hand anxi- | ously over his brow. He awoke, but seemed dazed He failed to recognize her, as he failed to recognize all the other members of the family. Dr | Rome who was hastily summoned, said he was suffering from sunstroke, and gently intimated that his working days were over, Abner came home { much Iater than usual, having stave to finish the lot. He found the fan | in distress over Mr. F tion. Somehow the blow Mrs. Fosdick apathy, f family osdick’s condi mn« | to crushed She wat state of could not have ina fr fell this Henry, ins Ip meet the r than ever, be dictated to “Ther: up exactiy as Hi can i pians ner You hs wi 1 fs 3 to shall Oppose DL shall know just dep ud upon i The next day Henry started for the city, leaving his share of the to fall upon Marie and Abner “T'll do the best I can, Miss Marie,’ burden “1 want you to feel free to call upon me early and late andl will serve you faithfully.’ “I don’t doubt you will, Abner, but oh! if only mother had not fallen i such a strange condition! She doesn't seem to oare about anything, and I don’t know much. I shall have to d« pend upon yon entirely about the farm, snd if 1 fail to show judgment you'll know it is because I don't know, | not beoanse | don’t oare, and then we | { will talk things over and get as straight | | as we can.” Marie was not a erying girl neaally, but just now such large tears stood in ber pretty eves, and she looked up into Abuer's face with such an appealing, dependent look that he felt his heart jump straight into Marie's hands “It's not much that I know, but you may trust me, Miss Marie Somehow Marie felt extremely com- forted from that moment, although she could not sing about the house in her old-time way, yet she worked and directed with a feeling of greater se curity than before And in the midst of it all Aunt Tab by came. Even Marie, hospitable as she waa, felt a bit more weary after she had welcomed her and helped her the neat “spare chamber.” “Now, look a’ here Marie up my mind to come, I made even if your pa I ean doa little to sn’ I ean **But you are getting old, and you are not strong, auntie. Youn must not do much; you'll get sick.” “If I ain't eapsble there's folks in | the world as is an’ we can get ‘em. ” “No, we can't. for we've no money | to do it with,” said Marie, decidedly. “Well, 1 have, an’ I'll do it, pro vided a good smart gal can come here an’ help you, but if you say you'll | allow her to wait on them lazy girls | | an’ work over their lounces an’ furbe- lows instead of helpin’ you, why "tiant | of much use.” | Marie caught eagerly at this hope of | help. i “Well, auntie, T promise you faith- { fully that Celinda and Clara shall wait | upon themselves and iron their own | lounces,. We will have good work done in an orderly manner, and I am | tired, Aunt Tabby." | | “Well, there's one a-comin’ by next | stage. I counted on how it would be | an’ took the liberty to have her prom: | ise to come. She's a stout, likely gal.” | Marie knew her aunt's compliments would not be undeservedly given. She rau down with a lighter heart. Abner came in with his pails of milk and won- dered at the unusual brightness of Marie's tired face, “You can't always tell what folks will do,” he said, after Marie had ex- plained. “I felt ne if she had a streak of good inher which emergencies would bring out.” i And so the summer waned, and the | aged father and mother were still in. valida, It was with a sad heart and sometimes tear-dimmed eyes that Marie saw Abner's favorite books gathering a suspicion of dust upon their covers, He had no time for study or reading. i then Aunt Tabby suddenly fell i “It's of no use doctorin'.” she said, “My time has come, I feel it, an’ to- morrow I want thinge fixed pretty much as 1 want ‘em, an’ I'll u a te rie an Sind 30 > Bo a time was set apart for the duty to Marie a sad duty, for she really loved the old lady, who had been se kind to her. With the renewed strength and clear voice which is sometimes given a dying person, she gave a few explicit direc- tions, ““Jest hand me that tin box out ¢’ the upper drawer o’ my burean, Marie,” She did as she was bidden, ‘An’ now I want that umberel o’ mine out o' the closet,” A faint tonched smile Marie's lips as she brought an old brown umbrellas ! that had been the derision of her sis ters, Aunt Tabby took it in her trem bling hands and deposited it carefully on the bed beside her. the box, “Now, here is a hundred will Then she opened in this old black w { dollars, pay my funeral in this brown wallet aiid I enlkerlate it An’ 18 8200 more. CX OLR herd which I give into your charge, Marie, to he Ip PRY BOING of the hous An’ here is my will, that, Marie, an’ see expense, You take care o' that goes straight as I have got it. Lawyer Sibley drew it up an’ you can get him to read it when I'm gone. An’, Abner, I give to you this umberel o' mine. Take good care on't, an’ maybe it will help be a purtection to your old age. hat's all--only, Marie--you may give my old clothes to Mammy (riddons dress. (hive it to her; do! And with he turned her head on the pillow ¢ Xj! 2 for wld I guess Don't bury me in my best second best will these irapge woras and urs later Marie, sts the porch, with the sunset rays {alli about her, said to Abner I hope you won't feel ‘Not unt Marie, decide And so, after perf ; to read the will It bequeathed $1000 to Mr. and Mrs. Fosdick, $100 to Ce- linda snd Clara and 82000 to Marie id not a rmed, lawyer “How strange that she tion her Verm not spoken of disposi haps she has done is the price Still, wuld have mer to Abner. next morning it steppe d farm no ME « she wi Marie The Marie porch. “There's a chance for your new wmbrells, Abner,” said Marie, smiling a little. Hé answered with a which showed no signs of offense. “Now, Abner, must make ar- rangements for you to have more help We CAD do it now You too hard. 1 shall never forget faithfulness and you shall be far mi ney is ox young men would have gone left us straits “I don't know who o« Marie,” he said, with which made her then Celinda called WARE I'ain the DE AA darkened so look we have worked your paid as Most 3 anda an neerned BYWAY y such uid | An CRY GArnestin room “1 want to go out, Marie. My um- brella is broken, sud so is pa's, Can't I take yours?” “Yes, the reply, watched Celinda and Clara as they waded persistently through the little paddies between the door and gate, “I think I'll take my said Abner, and he soon reappeared with it came AN they new one,’ Ag he opened it a large the floor from the folded note also fell out, the “To Abner Mason all summer for nothin I've made 1 mind that what is yours will be pretty to be Marie's. too. 80 1 hershy deed of my farm in Vermont will make good use of i berel in remembrance of “Tar paper fell to inner folds and a Abner read note first: I bain't watched you an p my tkely Rive you the 1 know you Keep the old nm- »e. TRA Six xn,” It was several moments before the young people could speak, and then Abner said: “Is it true, Marie? Will you let what is mine be yours?” Marie's answer was happily given. “But we will not leave mother at present.” “Surely not—but by and by we can make our plans.” When the winter snows came they fell apon the graves of the aged conple to whom sickness could come no more, and in the early spring Abner and Marie went to their new home. The tearfully but father and | old brown umbrella was carefully pre- served as a most precious relic—Chi- cago News. c——— - A Marvelous Tale. Mr. Coonrod SBtiwinter, our esteemed fellow-townsman, caught a saspping turtle, carried it home, eut off its head and threw the head over into the back yard and ate the turtle. the jaws of the head and the head held its grip until it thundered. --Cave Spring (Ga.) Herald. EE cm————— The Silk Hat Still on Top, The silk hat continues to hold its ground in London, but in the prove inecos it has lately been almost entirely displaced by the hard felt Derby. There is a brisk and increasing demana for rescusitated chimney pots in Soutk Afrien and Australia, whether by thd natives or the whites is not apparent «Chicago He mld, everything | | him | They oan always raise someths | talking with the elevator | apt to take you up very quickly.— | Boston Bulletin | egostionl about | been thinking | year." | owing his tailor, ol A day ortwo afterward some chickens came near the | turtie's head, and one was caught by | RUNNING AWAY FROM MAMMAL Running away from Barcheadod up the Kicking the dust into yellow smok With little rogulsh f MAMMA, sro, Tossing it over hi Into his stocking be Checking the Httie That trandies Drean NE nwisy Ati) Be (rod Wor t Ki That drops What is the iting why ve his in the qui fhe 186 O iiling away so hig Into isot Wher Wandering ¢ Littles hos 1imt L Hmuin SW 5 HUMOR OF THE £0 ft Know changes after in wo + When a friend turns ont not to bea trump, then is the time fo discard Boston Transcript, There are some friends who can't be oem good EF unless you will own von von ssol, sl 8 weaker vi hand H Aida 5 Dealer » liA8 i e boy wi y skates, by his industry in break land Plain Dealer. ag Cleve Bakers ought to make good friends. ti for Hartford You in knead Journal “With ble glared at her were ame otherwis ! Transcript. “The great trouble with Duff he doesn’t know anything . the contrary, that doesn’t tr at all Puck. Be careful of when he 18 langruage boy Your “How did you discover she was a woman masquerading ass man?’ ““She sent me a letter with two postscripts,” Yankee Blade. Hicks bug.” “Snider save he hates a hum- Wicks —**Well, there's nothing Snider, is there?” Boston Transcript. Sho--“This is so sudden.” He-- “That's where you are mistaken. I've about it for a whole New York Pross who 1s probably still ims that all the diseases of humanity are due to wear. ing clothes. - <Hartford Journal, Wife “What would we do without a doctor? Huasband--*Well, we might get along, but what would the drnggists do?" Texas Siftings That Nicetown man who named his hen “Macduff” has a neighbor who called his rooster “Robinson,” because he crew so, ~-Philadeiphia Record, “Have yon gained her father's con- sent to yonr marriage?’ “I oan't tell.” ‘He's away, eh?” ‘No; her mother in." «Chicago Inter-Ocean. Mrs. Hioks--* ‘That girl broke only one dish today.” Hicks-~"‘How did that happen?” Mra, Hicks--“It was the only one left.” New York Herald. “You cannot judge a man by the nmbrella he carries” “Why not” “Because the chances are it belongs to somebody else," -~New York Journal, Uncle-- “Well, Robbie, how did yon stand at school last term?’ Robbie “Sometimes with my face iv the core ner and sometimes up at the teacher's desk." -~Chicago Inter Ocean. A scientist,
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