KWuTI"?. PITTSBTniG DISPATOEL SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1889: 15 - ??rrMrJM ? t s'ufr'i rms, Y'trix. ? s-rtii-ar yit.;. . .,- Rl FAIRY BY ERNEST H. IffBITTIJ rOK THE DISPATCH." TITLE Mar guerite was a shepherdess. Her father and mother had been dead several years and to save the child from starvation her nnclehad taken her into his home. As the girl grew older the old man pnt her in charge of a flock of sheep and told her to take them on the hill. Here the lambs jumped around and found their food. But little Marguerite had to keep a watchful eye over them and see that none or them got lost, uui one ukj a big wolf got among the flock and when the sheep saw the bloodthirsty animal they ran away and not one of them could ever be found again. "When Marguerite saw the wolf and what he had done, she began to cry most pitifully. Trembling from head to foot with fear she slowly returned to her uncle's cottage. Heruncle was a harsh and stern man and Marguerite knew that he would be angry with her, because the sheep were lost. "Where is your flock?" he asked the child as soon as'she approached the house. She told him in a very few words what had happened. But there never was a more angry man in the world than that little girl's uncle. First he scolded her and accused her of laziness ana carelessness. The more he raged and stormed the more his passion ate temper grew. Then he took hold of Marguerite by her hair, which hung down her back in a long, beautiful black plait The cruel man pulled her to the ground and hurt her most awfully. But he was not sat isfied yet He went into his yard and got a stick and when he came back gave her a severe beating. All this time the poor, in nocent child cried in the most pitiiul man- TTn.ia mc uncle." she said, "please let me alone;' it was not my fault that the wolf I came amuug uic uct'. But the heartless brute of a man had no feelinc of mercy. .-,.,. "Ge'toutof my house! he cried at last when his arms were tired with beating tne ' child and he nearly lost his breath in his outburst of passion. "Getaway from here and never let me see your face again unless you bring my sheep back." Marguerite then turned away and hur ried from the place as tast as she could. Although she did not know where to go, she was nevertheless glad to get away, be cause nobodv would be fond or a place where such a" cruel and inhuman man lived. The child ran straight into the forest, but it was so far away, that she was nearly dead with fatigue when she got there. Here she sat down under a big tree and began to think what to do next. "Oh, you cruel, cruel uncle!" she began to crv. "to beat and strike me as hard as you did, and so wrongfully, too. "What would my darling mother say if she knew the hard life I have had since she has been dead! But what am I to do now? No hom no friends, no place to live, no bread to eat Surely I shall die of hunger very soon, because in this lonly forest there is no food nor shelter for me." Thus the Door little Marguerite broke out into lamentations. The tall big trees shook their crowns of heavy foliage backward and forward and gave vent to their sym pathy in a deep, rustling sound. Even the glades of-grass at her feet began to wilt and Vrither when they heard the pititul utter ances of sorrow and woe troni the little girl's lips. Suddenly the sound of a light footstep fell on Marguerite's ear and looking up she observed the form of a beautiful woman coming along through the trees. For a moment the child was afraid and she got up to run away. But just then the vision called out: "Do not be atraid, my child, no harm will befall you from me!" The soft, sweet voice of thi li y at once reassured Marguerite and s tat down again awaiting the stranger- approach. Noticing the dishevelled appearance ot the girl's hair, her red eyes filled with tears and the marks of violence from the uncle's beat ing on her bare arms the lady said: "What has been done to vou, my child?" Marguerite then related the story of her life in her own artless, childless manner, and when she told the stranger of the ill treatment she had received lrom her uncle, the lady was touched to tears. Large pearls of liquid crystal rolled down her soft, pinlcy W?-. .-. - It "' rm&&tJ?m: Si 7ri - tr Meeting the Flower Fairy. cheeks when she heard of the brutality of the bad uncle. 'My poor child," she cried, "how hard a life you have led, but now it shall all be changed. You come with me nnd I will take care of vou. I am Flora, the fairy of flowers, and in the house where I live there is never any sorrow, pain nor distress. I am very glad I have found you. What is your name?" "Marguerite," replied the little girl. "Well, in commemoration of the hour I have found you, I will give this flower your name." "Which flower?" asked Marguerite in astonishment, who could not see anything but crass around her. "This one here." said the fairy; "it is just viuuiK uu oi me grouna irom me tears X dropped a moment ago. Do you see it now? Well, oer here is another." And so it was. Wherever the tears of the fairy had fallen on the ground a beauti ful flower with white petals and a yellow center sprouted out of the ground, and from that moment Marguerites have grown in this world. "But your tears were white and these flowers are yellow in the middle," said Marguerite, who could not believe what the fairy had told her. "The yellow center was produced by the sun," replied the fairy. "Did you not notice the sun's reflection in the tear drop as it fell to the ground? That reflection was yellow, and hence the center of the flower is vellow." Marguerite was much pleased with the flower, and she picked one and put it into her hair. Then the fairy and the little girl went away. They walked alonir through the forest ior miles and miles, but the child 'j uiu uul icei ia bae least urea. At last the fairv led her little friend into a valley. A tiny stream was seen rushing along through a beautiful meadow, and. when they arrived there, Marguerite noticed the most exquisite R 0gNgJ! w tin 'tw5jyBilii -wl 111 I jPtJ OF FLOWERS. HEINRICHS. garden of flowers she had ever seen in all her life. The little house the fairy led her into was composed of all .kinds of fragrant winding plants. The walls of the house were made of sunflowers, and the roof was covered with myriads of morning glories, whose blossoms shone through the verdant leaves like stars of purple, pink and milky hue. Marguerite's eyes wandered in wondering amazement from flower to flower, and the fairy seemed to eujoy her bewilderment From the very moment Marguerite entered the little house where Flora lived, she forgot all about the past and the pain her cruel uncle had inflicted upon her. The next day the fairy took her all through the groves and gardens surrounding the little house, and at almost every step the little girl ob served new and more wondrous beauties of the floral world. But one thing must be mentioned here, there were no roses in that garden, for the simple reason that roses did not then exist However, when the fairy arrived at the end of the grove of flowers she said to Mar guerite: "Do you see all those thorny bushes grow ing there? "Well, they were planted by my great-grandmother thousands of years ago, and while she lived they were covered with the most beautiful red flo.vers. On the day The Cruel Uncle Sages. of her death, however, all the flowers died, and none of them have ever come into bloom again, and I do not think they ever will." Flora, the fairy, and her little friend, lived very happily together. The little girl made herself very useful to the fairy by helping her to attend to the flowers and pull out the weeds that would sometimes creep up from the ground. One day Marguerite had nothing to do, and she went out among the thorn bushes. Suddenly she heard a voice, and when she stopped to listen she distinguished the fol lowing words: Prick your finger with a thorn And a flower will bloom red as the morn. Three times Marguerite heard these words, then she understood them and approaching the bushes she pushed her finger against a thorn. The blood flowed out of the wound and ran along the stem of the bushes, but wherever it touched a beautiful red rose sprang into blossom. The litUe girl was overjoyed at the result, and she immedi ately called Flora and snowed her what she had done. The fairy was amazed when she saw the beautiful flowers. "These are the flowers my great-grand-mpther used to have, too; now you must go with me to our Queen and she will give you a reward, because she has always said that whoever would bring back the rose should be her friend." Thus Marguerite came to the palace of the Queen of Fairies, and when Flora, the flower fairy, told the Queen what Marguerite had done, she got un from her throne, em braced and kissed her. She also asked the little girl to remain with her at her palace, and Marguerite remained in fairyland for ever afterward. TELLING A SNAKE STORY. An Editor Who Does Not Bellere In Spoiling a Yarn With Facts. Fanxsutawney Splrlt.1 It is not without a certain degree of chag rin and humiliation that we proceed to whack several feet off the tail of that ser pent we spoke of last week, but careful in vestigation has led us to believe that it was not as large as at first reported. As a rule we do not believe in economy in giving the dimensions of a snake. When telling a snake story, a large, yellow serpent, with a spring calf in its stomach, comes just as cheap as a common garter snake with a toad in its mouth. By buying in large quanti ties and paying cash, we are enabled to give our readers the benefit of the discount and furnish them larger and better authen ticated snake stories for the money than any of our cotemporaries. But this boa-constrictor we spoke of last week was several sizes too large for even those of our custom ers who have the most voracious appetites for the marvelous. They could not, some how, swallow it Some of them made heroic attempts to do so, and were willing to make still further efforts. But we do not wish to he too exacting, and will therefore take our little hatchet and cut it down somewhat The main outlines of the story were correct, but a more conserva tive estimate of the size of the serpent places its length at between eight and ten feet And then it was not yellow, either. It was, it appears, a common black snake. We are constrained to add this foot note to last week's snake story alter protracted inter views with Messrs. Pantail and Dilts, who, it seems, are not willing to stand over a 16 foot snake, and have no desire to detract anything from the fame of the author of the "Inferno" or the "Arabian Nights." A PROFESSIONAL KAT CATCHER. Aided by Ferret Br Mnlte Constant Wnr on the Rodent. Philadelphia North American.) Followed by an eager crowd, late yester day afternoon, a brown-fsced, well-dressed and well-built young man carrying a box of three active ierrets under his arm walked into Green's restaurant Behind him was a brown-faced man leading two dogs, one an English terrier and the other a Scotch ter rier, by a single leash. In less than ten min ntes the carrier of the ferrets was sur rounded by an eager crowd of people. A short-bearded man was bold enough to put two of his fingers between the bars of the cage, and as a result was badly bitten. "Bat-Catcher lion," the owner of the fer rets and the dogs, hastened to assure the wounded man that the bite was not poison ous. "Suck the wound," said Lou. The man did. But the man wag half frightened to death. Just then the English terrier slipped his collar. The crowd scattered, but the dog did no harm; he was as tame as a lamb. "Kat-Catcher Lou," or Louis Bossie, is one of the best-known rat catchers in Phila delphia, and he owns about 30 ferrets. He breeds his own ferrets. For a time Bossie was a protege of "English Jack," the famous rat catcher. "Bat-Catcher Lou" was formerly a tar in the English navy. While at Liverpool one day he met an old Britisher, one of the old kind, who imparted to him the secret of catching rats, and Lou has been catching them ever since. THE DKINKING HABIT. - v Some Eminent Medical Authorities ' ' Talk Upon the Subject. ALL ARE OPPOSED TO ALCOHOL. Those Who Lire on Stimulants Eventually Break Down. Will SOME LIGHT WINES NOT UNHEALTHY tWTUTTXN FOR THE DISPATCH. J Americans live too much on stimulants. They are under a constant mental strain. They are too eager to get ahead. They want to make their fortunes quickly, and they want to make for themselves a good social position. To do this they work almost night and day, and during the few hours they are not working -they are thinking, and planning about their business. To keep in this constant state of excitement they are obliged to take stimulants. The result of this is that after awhile they break down entirely. This is why we hear of so many cases of paresis, mental prostra tion, and hear of so many prominent busi ness men being ordered to take several months rest At least this is the verdict of several prominent physicians of this city. Dr. Louis A. Sayre, a prominent New York physician, was seen recently, and chatted about the drinking habits of people. of this country. He said: "As far as I have been able to see, the drinking habit of this country is now at about a standstill. It doesn't seem to grow any more, and the temperance people don't seem to be able to decrease it The habit is considerably changing, though. Men are beginning to drink MOKE HEAVILY OF LiQTJOBS, and I am sorry to say that a great many women, too, are partaking ot these highly injurious decoctions. The most injurious ot these drinks, in my estimation, is absin the. This, if drunkhabitually, will com pletely upset the nervous system. Other drinks that are very injurious are vermouth, and drinks of that class; gin, bad whisky, brandy, etc. Drinking alcoholic drinks is a habit that nearly everybody can dispense with. The number of men who have to drink, or who have to take a stimulant, is very small. And many who say that they couldn't live without drink if they were to try would find out that they could set on a great deal better without it than they can with it "If a man must drink, the best thing he can take with his meals is a little claret or light Bhine wine, and if he wants some thing a little strong, pure Scotch whisky is the best thing he can have. The habit of taking a drink early in the morning I mean by drink a cocktail or stimnlant of that kind, commonly called an eye-opener is one ot the worst things that can possibly be done. The effect of alcohol is to inflame the stomach, and it will do this even when diluted with food or anything else, and will do so a great deal more when taken on an empty stomach early in the morning. Men should not maintain their strength through out the day by taking stimulants. To keep up by means "of alcohol is very bad, and by and by the system will break down entirely under it "In some cases it is absolutely necessary to a man to take a certain amount of stimu lant, but it should be avoided just as much as possible. The best drink that a man can possibly take is milk. Milk, though, is hardly a drink. One can live longer on milk than on any other one thing. Milk is more nearly a perfect food than anything; it contains more elements that go to build up the system than any other article. If a man can take milk he can't take too much of it, until he finds he is getting too stout, then perhaps he should stop. There can be no deleterious resultsiromdrinkingmilk. Earlv in the morning the best drink to take is water. That is, if one must drink; bnt if he can get along without drinking so much the better. Some drink hot water, some cold, and some hot and cold milk. All of these are good in their way. Tea and coffee drunk in moderation will not hurt anybody, al though they are both stimulants." NEBVOUS PEOSTBATION. The views of Dr. Oakman S. Paine in the main agrees with Dr. Sayre; but in some de tails he differs. This "is what the doctor said about the drinking question: "I think the drinking habit in this country is verv largely on the increase. Men are takipg stronger drinks than tney used to some years ago and are depending more on these strong drinks to maintain them throughout their day s work. A great many men start in the day with a drink before they take their breakfast This is had, very had, and can't be condemned in too strong terms. These same men, later in the day, when worried and troubled over their business affairs will seek to maintain their strength and spirits by taking more alcoholic drinks. This again is bad. "For some time it may appear to them that they are not hurting themselves in any way, but by and by, very suddenly, they will break down, and we doctors will have an other case of nervous prostration to look after. I consider the most injnrious drink that is taken to-day to be absinthe, and the habit of taking this drink, which is copied from the French, is growing more and more all the time. Early in the morning a man should drink from half to a goblet full of water, cold water if he can stand it, if not, it snouid ne not. a great many persons who suffer from dyspepsia find it a great re lief in drinking a glass of hot water, just as hot as it can be taken, every morning. Some people drink milk both hot and cold. "At breakfast time, coffee, chocolate or tea should be taken and water; always drink water with your meals, and drink plenty of it With his dinner a manshould drink'light wines, if he wants something alcoholic, if not let him keep to water or milk. Milk is the best thing he can drink at any time. There is more nourishment in a glass of milk than there is in three glasses of beer. People are mistaken about the idea that beer contains nourishment. Many claim that it makes them stout and that they gain flesh while drinking beer. They would be a great deal better off if they remained thin without drinking it. It is a wonder to me how a great many men who habitually drink large quantities of strong alcoholic drinks every day MAUAQE TO MAINTAIN their strength and to all appearances be in perfect health. It is a very common thing to hear of men who take from IS. 20 or even more glasses of whisky, and yet to all ap pearances be in perfect health. They flatter themselves that it doesn't hnrt them", that it does them good. They drink a glass of whisky every morning or Borne other intoxi cating beverage, and before the effects of that beverage has worked off, they take an other one. And so they go on right through the day, living upon stimulants. The re sult ol this is seen very clearly when they rise next morning. He ieels wretchedly, and the first thing he does is to get a drink of whisky in order to make him feel good. The man is just shortening his life. Every drink he takes is so much more wear and tear upon his system. Some day he may break down altogether under it " Or if any disease such as pneumonia seize him, he will not have sufficient strength to fight against it He is just undermining his con stitution." Dr. Alexander Lambert, house surgeon at Bcllevue Hospital, has had more chance to study the effects ot the drinking habit of persons of this city than a great manv other doctors. When asked if the drinking habit in this country was on the increase he re plied: "Last year about 2,800 cases of alco holism were treated in this hospital. Of this number fully 20 per cent were "fatal. And in nearly every case the favorite beverage which they had been drinking Was whisky. July and December are the wferst months lor anyone guttering from alcoholism Julr because of the great heat, and December be cae of the cold, when tEey stand every chance of catching pneumonia and then haven't strength to fight against it. "The habit of taking a drink, a stimulant, before breakfast cannot be condemned too strongly. It will in time ruin the stomach and the digestive organs. A man who ha bitually dyinks whisky before his breakfast does not care for his breakfast when it is placed before him, and frequently goes away to his business leaving it untouched and re sorting to ,more stimulant to maintain his strength throughout the day. This habit is another bad one. It tends to SHOKTEN LIFE and ultimately a man will break down. I think the most injurious drinks that are taken nowadays are whisky, rum, brandy and gin. Beer as now manufactured very seriously injures the kidneys. It contains from 3 to 6 per cent alcohol. The. Ger mans, as a nation, are great beer drinkers, hut their beer only contains from 1 to 2 per cent" alcohol. Light wines, such as claret and Bhine wine, drunk with a meal and moderately, will not harm anybody. Of non-alcoholic drinks, of course milk is the best One can live on milk altogether. It is a food, and is more valuable than people generally give it credit The first thing in the morning one should drink water, cold or hot is immaterial. Persons suffering from dyspepsia usually take hot water.and claim that they find a great deal of relief from it. Some drink hot milk and some drink cold milk. Liqueuers are very bad. Whisky contains 48 per cent of alcohol, and liquerers contain almost twice as much. A man who maintains his strength entirely by means of stimulants will ultimately break down. I never yet met a man who conld not live without drink. There are s great many who claim that they must have stimulants in order to do the work they have to do, and to go through the mental strain they have to. This is all fallacy. If they were to live carefully and regularly, tn fcp Tirnnprnnil timirifiliinrr fttA take nroner and nourishing drinks, they would find that after giving it a fair trial, they would feel a great deal better than when they were living entirely supported by stimulants." 2IIXK AND -WATER BEST. Dr. Sara B. Chase, of No. 226 West Thirty-ninth street, is one of themost promi nent women physicians in the country. She is a woman of extreme ideas, calls herself a Socialist, a reformer, a free-trader and a Democrat She is proud though, of, saying that 30 years ago she was au Abolitionist. Dr. Chase has extreme ideas on the drink ing question. She says there is only, one thing she is opposed to more than she is to alcoholic drink, and that is tobacco in any form. Talking recently on the drinking custom, she said that she thought it was on the increase in this country, and will be on the increase until the class of drinks that are offered for sale-are not injurious. If it were possible thai the Legislature could pass a law insisting that saloon keepers should sell pure wines, pure beer and pure spirits, there would be far less intemper ance than there is at present "I think such a law would do more for the temperance cause," said Dr.Chasc,"than any prohibition or other law that could be passed. The wines, spirits and beers that are sold now are sold chiefly to make men drink more. In Europe, in France in par ticular, where a great deal of wine is drunk, there is less intemperance than there is in this country. In Germany, where they drink more beer than in any other country, less number of persons get drunk on it than are to be found, according to the statistics published, in this country. In Scotland and Ireland, where they drink pure Scotch and Irish whisky, the evil effects are not so great as the effects of whisky drinking in this country. "The best kind of non-alcoholic drink that can be taken is chocolate. Chocolate is a kind of heavy food; it is nourishing and has no action whatever upon the heart and nerves. Coffee is a stimulant Tea acts upon the heart, and anyone suffering from heart trouble ought not to drink it Milk is a food, and too much cannot bo taken. About wines, spirits and liquors I know nothing except that they are bad." "WHY BOGAN LEFT TOLEDO. He Was Shaken br Chill and Insulted by nianmee Hirer Frogs. Chicago Tribune. John Bogan; is -nowa prosperous vessel owner on the great lakes, but he never goes to Toledo. When bewent there last he was master of the steamer Ogontz. Fever and ague came from the sluggish Maumee river in large chunks, and a good portion was caught in Bogan's system. On this trip, as he stood at the pilot nouse shaking with a chill, the frogs gave him a warm salute. "I wonder what those enrsed frogs are saying?" he remarked to the mate. ''Can't you understand?" the mate re plied; "why, it's easy. Jnst hear them say: "John Bogan, you're my man! John Bogan, you're my man!" Bogan listened intently for a minute, and then7 "I'll be switched if lam!" came from his lips. He resigned as soon as he reached port, and ever since has given Toledo a wide berth. TENXISON'S WISE W0EDS. He Ppoko Briefly. Bnt Not Exactly as He Wns Expected to Do. Dr. J. M. Buckley in Christian Advocate. At the risk of provoking a smile at our simplicity we will relate that long years ago, when we thought that great men, if they speak at all, always spebk words of wisdom, we followed Tennyson, who was ac companied by a lady and two children, about the South Kensington Museum for two hours and a half, hoping that he would speak. At last he made signs as if be were about to do so. Hoping to hear some criticism of a painting we listened intently, and these memorable words fell from the lips of England's poet laureate: "You take care of the children while I go and get some beer." At Two End of the Alley. Pin-boy Two to one th ball don't git half way down here, with that fairy a-roll-in' it. Miss Budgers (a graduate of the woman's athletic class) Hold my cloak, please. Mr Gordon; that last one slipped a little. Judge. RULER OF AN EMPIRE. The Personal Characteristics of the Marquis of Salisbury. HIS BODY GUARD OP DETECTIVES. An Indifference to the Unthusiasm of Public Assemblies, lUHCIIING ALONE AT THE ATHENEUM IWBITTEX FOS THB DISPATCH. 1 One might easily imagine that the Prime Minister would be the busiest man in En gland, but I do not think I ever saw a man who is so exactly typical of the Englishman of leisure as the Marquis of Salisbury. It is a favorite subject of conversation with him, and he gives alLjthe credit for his ex traordinary ease of manner to his abject de votion to method. He has reduced his duties and those of his subordinates, to a condition of machine-like regularity. The first time I ever saw the Prime Min ister was one morning in St James' Park, when he was taking a constitutional. He is a tall, thick-set, heavy man, 69 years of age, with a short neck and a bushy beard. He was twisting and snapping his fingers with some nervousness as he walked along, and I have learned since that this is his invariable habit. It is th? only outward sign of what is said"to be an exceedingly nervous temper ment a temperment kept in control by an iron will. Two detectives followed the Marquis as he walked along. He detests their pres ence, and has protested against them many times, but the Home Secretary is responsi ble for the safety of the Prime Minister, and has insisted that he shall be constantly accompanied by two of the mutton-headed members of the most dense and hopeless police force in the world when he goes abroad. The Irish agitators are the cause of it AS AMIABLE HOST. The political side of the Marquis' charac ter is well enough known. Socially he is an amiable host, and entertains lavishly, both at Hatfield and in London. He is, above all, a serious man, and his quiet, re served and almost sullen demeanor im presses one as being more or less affected at times. For instance, a short time ago, there i.mo ucwcuuuua nccpuoa given oy me Constitutional Club in London. About 2,000 guests were present. They were of every conceivable rank, from ambassadors to commercial travelers, and the crush was so great that women's jewels and the orders of men wire torn from them during their straggles to get to the doors and windows for air. It was a night of suffocating heat. At 9:30, exactly on scheduled time, a team of bay horses drew a big state coach up to the main entrance of the club. A beefy and highly impressive coachman sat on the box, and two slfm and well-shaped lackeys stood on the rumble behind. The police yelled: "Make way for the Prime Min ister!" with intense emotion, the lackeys jumped to the ground, took off their hats, threw open the door, and stood with their bared heads, and the Marquis lumbered heavily out, and cumbersomely assisted a middle-aged and old-fashioned lady to alieht Then the Prime Minister and his wife entered the club amid terrific cheers. Salis bury wore court dress and the order ot the garter. He looked neither distinguished nor important, but his reception was such a one as the Prince of Wales has not re ceived for many years. What struck me most forcibly about him was the very evi dent manner in which he showed that he was prodigiously bored by the attention he attracted. EXCEPTION TO THE BUI.E. As a rule, when an eminent personage is being cheered wildly by a thousand or two people in Europe, a society smile and a series of affable bows are forthcoming. It is part of the etiquette of greatness. But Salisbury neither smiled nor bowed. He stumped methodically into the building with Lady Salisbury on his arm, passed up the aisle, fought through the crowd of am bassadors, ministers and others to the sup per room, made a 20 minutes' SDeech. hnwprl profoundly, took Lady Salisbury on his arm and strode out ot the building, taking me siate coacn precisely on tne minute, as it had been ordered, and drove rapidly away, I never saw but one other man receive the fdaudits of the crowd with such an apparent ack of interest That was General Grant in Washington, during a big review. The Emperor William of Germany never shows the slightest emotion when the crowds are cheering him, but he looks over the people with an air of some curiosity and interest Salisbury being a nobleman and a man of vast wealth, has all of the high caste preju dices and mannerisms of the English swells. The same manner of utter and somewhat wearied unconcern which distinguishes the Duke of Portland or the Duke of Beaufort when a horse lands winner of the Derby and 'doubles or divides the duke's fortune, per vaded the Marquis of Salisbury. From the highest to the lowest, it is al ways the same among the nobility of En gland. It is not only that they wish to ap pear uninterested in what is going on around them, but they try to go a bit further than this, and show that they are bored by anv emotion whatever. It is the characteristic of thecaste. I know no higher development in this particular form of self-repression than that which Salisbury has attained. A PUNCTUAL PBEMIEB. At a cabinet meeting he is invariably the first to arrive and the first to depart He listens to his advisers with studied quiet and entire courtesy, and then makes a little speech, puts the responsibility where it be longs, delegates what action is to be pursued, closes his brand new blotter, pushes his fresh stick of sealing wax and newly-sharpened pencils aside and rises and departs. Apparently he is never hurried, and when tne newspapers say witn a tnrillsomc morn ing, "The Premier yesterday had along and exceedingly important consultation with the German Ambassador," the information is by no means as important as it seems to be. A long and important conversation with the German Ambassador is something that the Marquis of Salisbury never has, because none of his conversations are long. The Premier rises at 8 o'clock and inva riably takes a walk before breakfast. When at his magnificent country estate he goes out in his park, and verv often reels off three or four miles before taking his coffee. TjVhen in London it is his custom to haye a sharp spin around Green Park, or even in Hyde Park, before the day fairly begins. It is heie that he feels the presence of the Scot land Yard detectives most severely, foMhe Marquis is a rapid walker and the spectacle of two beefy and red-faced bobbies plowing excitedly after him disturbs his equanimity and his quiet habit of thought Like many other prominent political lights, from Bis marck and Gladstone down, the Marquis is a very light eater. He breakfasts at !, and at least 300 days in the year the meal con sists only of a rasherot bacon and n poached egg. At luncheon and dinner he is apt to take a glass of light red wine, but as often as not he goes entirely without drink of any sort AN AVEBSION TO SMOKING. He has one hobby, and that is an intense aversion to smoking. Even his own sons never approached him when puffing a cig arette or a cigar. Unlike most public men, the Marquis is invisible even to his secreta ries or stenographers in thekmorning. From breakfast until 1 or 2 o'clock he is absolute ly alone, and it is at these hours that he indulges in whatever meditation character izes his life. Nothing but a matter of the utmost stress can reach him before 1 o'clock. It is to be remembered, of course, that the system which he has introduced into the Prime Minister's office, for-the first time, does away with a large share of the personal labor which men like Disraeli assumed. He has three personal secretaries, and their work is so thoroughly graded that only a very small proportion of the communica tions addressed to the Prime Minister are actually laid before him for consideration. Lady Salisbury attends to all the social de tails of his life, and all the work that he does in the way of seeing people and attend ing to the actual business of his office is transacted in the course of two or three hours in the afternoon. As a rule, in Lon don, he lunches out, and his favorite place is the Atheneum Club. It is one of the most conservative ana the least conspicuous places in London, and the house rules are so thoroughly enforced that it is impossible foranoutsider.even of the utmost distinction, to get within the club portals. A foreigner who.is well introduced may get as far as the reception room, but that is all. The Prime Minister almost invariably lunches alone. WITT HE EATS ALONE. This I was told once by one of the gover nors of the Atheneum, is part of the etiquette of the club, since the mere fact of a nian eating luncheon with the Prime Minister during exciting times may lead to unpleasant consequences. In the club, as well as in Downing street and at home, the Marquis invariably addresses the serv ants with the utmost courtesy. It is always: "Please hand me this" "I'll thank you for that" It may strike an American that such a characteristic as this is not worth noting. He may, indeed, think it is a mat ter of course among Englishmen of title, but it is not, by a very large majority. . The aversion of the Marquis to being gazed at or noticed in the streets is so.ex treme that he very often emulates "the Prince of Wales and takes a public han som instead of the showy private carriage in which he is expected to drive. He di vides his patronage in the most careful and exact manner. For instance, if four or five tradesmen compete for his custom, he will purchase from each one of them for a week at a time. He insists upon paying his bills upon the first of the month, exacts the usualdiscount for cash, and it is said that the fact that an account has run over for a month or so before being presented will go farther toward npsetting hira tban the im minent probability of an outbreak upon the Bussian frontier or a fresh twist in the Eastern snarl. The Prime Minister's valet is not kept very busy as a rule, for Salisbury is one of the most methodically dressed men in England. He invariably wears a silk hat, a black frock suit, and, even in summer, he carries what is known as a Chesterfield overcoat About 1 o'clock half an hour or so before luncheon the Minister's private secretary calls at Arlington street and starts the business of the day. AN ELECTBICAL STUDENT. After an hour with him, Lord- Salisbury goes off to his luncheon, driving to Down ing street immediately afterward. He is a Keen and enthusiastic student of elec tricity and does a great deal of reading at night His family is a happy and united one and whenever Lady Salisbury goes to the theater without the premier he is sure to go and fetch her personally after the play is over. He is a regular church-goer and a great crony of the bishops at his club, but the Salisbury of the church and of the home is a very different person from the Salisbury, of the cabinet It is said that that which his confreres dread most is the moment when the Prime Minister makes up his mind; for having once reached a conviction on any one subject, it is almost impossible to move him, no matter how plausible the arguments or how much h evidence they may be able to lay before nim. . blakelt Hall. TWO VANISHING SNAKES. They Had a Lively Fight, Then Each Swal lowed the Other. Altoona Times. 1 Yesterday afternoon ex-Mayor Howard, Editor Lamade, Insurance Agent McCar thy and two or three city professionals took a walk out to the foot of the Allegheny Mountains, where for a time they enjoyed the cool shade1 of the mountain oaks. Fi nally the boys became thirsty, and wended their way to a clear, cool mountain spring. After enjoying a refreshing drink the par ties started out on the hillside to gather huckleberries. A few minutes later one of the men called to his comrades that he was in a deu of snakes. The party immediately rushed to his rescue, but the vast cordon ot reptiles had disappeared in the mountain rocks, ex cept two a rattler and a blacksnake. These two reptiles fought each other for a while and at length commenced running aruuuu in a circle. j.ne DiacxsnaKe was ahead and soon overtook its antagonist and commenced swallowing the rattler, begin ning at tne tan. jrreuy soon, nowever, the rattlesnake came up in the rear and com menced swallowing his agile neighbor. Both snakes kept up the game until each had swallowed the other. This was a freak that had never been per formed before. Two snakes in their cir cumambient evolutions had each swallowed its snake and both ware- gone to the new hunting grounds. They were classed among the missing. Our friends were stricken with horror and appealed to Coroner Glenn, who was one of the party, to hold an inves tigation. The final verdict was: "Died from mutual strangulation and no one to blame." This is a marvelous snake story, but the parties are willing to furnish diagrams and -sign the usual depositions. HE KEEPS HIS M0DTH SHUT. The Barkeeper Hear DInny Secret,' bnt 'Twonldn't Pay to Tell Them. St Louis Globe-Democrat I It's queer how men will come into a bar room, and, leaning against the counter, ex change confidences within hearing of the barkeeper that they wouldn't have repeated for worlds, just as if the man behind the counter had no ears. Why, I've heard secrets from men who were drinking the mixtures 1 had just made for them, and were talking away freely to each other, that would have created a tremendous sensation if they had been published. The fact is that men get in the habit of considering everything sub rosa that is said and done in a bar-room. One rarelv hears the gossip of a saloon quoted on the street witn names, and certainly you never hear a bartender babbling about something that is said in his place. It's money in his pocket to keep his mouth shut HI Happiest Hour. H?, v -3 II Captain Gadd (of the Flyaway) That was a stiffish blow wrfcad last night off the Head; how did you make out? Captain Sadd (of the Sea Dog) Like a mermaid on a dolphin, me boy. That was just the sort of weather I like. My happiest hour Js rr when the foun is flying! Puck. HOT r.v v-a v tmsjF SUNDAY THOUGHTS MORALSMAIERS BY A CLEKGYMAN. IWBITTSir TOR Till' DISPATCH. The tendency everywhere to-day is toward unitT. Thinkers are busily occu pied in seeking a single force or cause out of which multiplicity has been developed. Take ethnology. We find numerous and diversified races. Yet students have dis covered that many of these have sprung from a common stock, and that the differ ences are owing to climate, habit, etc. Hence the conviction Is forced on us that man kind bad a common oriel n. Take chemistry. It used to be imagined that the chemical elements were innumerable. Re cently, science has reduced these to two or three, while all the probabilities indicate one primal element drawn out into infinite varieties. Stranee to say, the combination ot the same elements often produces the most opposite results. A nugget of coal and a dia mond are exactly alike chemically yet bow unlike I Starch and sugar are the same thing yet who would confnse them in household use, putting starch In coffee and sugar In shirts T We know there Is a difference, but we do not know where it lies. Is it In the arrangement of the'partlcles f Philosophy now holds that the whole net verse is the outcome of asingle substance. The great question Is as to the nature of this one substance. Scientific materialism claims that it is matter. .Thus fror. Tyndall asserts that matter contains witiin itself "the promise and potency of every form of life." Christianity, on the other hand, teaches that "in the begin ning Qod created the heaven and the earth." There are three unanswerable objections to the philosophy of materialism. First It cannot explain the fact of life. An able scholar assures us that "no scientific man has ever yet been able to trace the ortan of the lowest form of life to anything except some pre-existing form of life life the parent of life always and everywhere. Indeed, the wisest scientists admit this. They say that while thought corresponds to and, so tar as we know, is inseparable from certain molecular move ments in the brain, nevertheless the thought is no part of these molecular movements, does not seem to be the product of them, and Is utterly Inexplicable in the light of these move ments." Second The moral sense In man is unac counted for by this theory. We have within us a consciousness of right and wrong. Toe sense of justice Is universal. If man is a clod of the valley how comes it that be goes about utter ing and dominated by this tremendous word oughtt The trees do not criticise each other's actions. Cattle have no courts. Mountains never appeal for justice. The dust in the road never cries out for improvement nor asmres to nobler uses. Third Scientific materialism cannot explain the universal longing for immortality. You cannot get out of a thing what was never put Into it Matter cherishes no high Ideals. The sod does not point Godward, soalward, heaven ward. Man does. Hence we inevitably con clude that man differs from matter that some Intelligent and adeqnate power breathed into him these hopes and expectations which find such constant and world-wide expression. Christianity explains all this by saying: "God created man in his own Image." Tula explana tion accounts for the facts. What more do we want? A Common Mistake. One of the most common yet absurd mistakes is this, that we understand matter. "People." remarks Mlnot J. Savage, deluds themselves with this Idea. They know what a brick is. They know what a bowlder is. They have seen a brick. They have handled it, and know bow solid, how hard, how real it is. Bnt they say: Nobody ever saw a soul, nobody ever saw thought nobody ever handled a feeling. These they regard as elusive, flitting, and so, unreal. The fact is precisely the reverse. The only things that any man knows, ever did know, ever can know, are the facts of consciousness. I know I think, I know I feel, I know I hope. I know I fear, I know I love. But -what do I know about this desk' on which I writer Its existence is merely a matter of inference. I reach out my hand and touch what I call a desk, and I feel something that seems to me hard. I feel a force that resists my pressure but what is It? This feeling of resistance Is only a fact of my consciousness. Snopose I attempt to lift it I say it is heavy. What do I mean by heavyT I mean and can mean only another fact of consciousness. The source, then, and the root of this wondrous show of things these are only Inferences from facts of consciousness; so that what we really know in spirit Is mind, is thought. Is consciousness. Suppose you take the bowlder that you think you know so much about Apply a sufficient amount of heat to it and you can make it molten; more beat still, and it evaporates as steam; more still, and it has disappeared in the air, is absolutely lost to the cognizance of everyone of the senses. Pursue an atom. Scientific men confess they do not know what an atom is; they have never seen one. They are too small to be seen or touched by the most delicate instrument What is an atom? Nobody knows. Pursne one, and all you can find is whit Faraday, one of the most famous of chemists, called a point of force. What a point or lorce is jraraday did not know. So this matter that seems so solid, so real, fades off into infinite mystery, and all you know again are the facts of consciousness. A World of Dnn-rer. A writer m Good Housekeeping pens the fol lowing paragraphs, which are worth transcrib ing: "Danger is made to surround everything nowadays. The germ theory has peopled spaced air, water and food with micrd-organisms that threaten death or disease on every hand. If a person were weighed down with a senso of mese dangers, us uo imgnt well oe II he gavo full heed to the warnings of physicians, he might well exclaim. Online miserable! whither shall I fly? And he could hardly fly to a place where the microscopic germs of death would not be present with some warning physician "We go to bed and behold! there is death" in the pillow. A medical journal bids us take note of the fact that disease and death lurk in the very pillows and bolsters on which we lay our heads. Whether this is so or not, the moral that is drawn from It is good, and that is 'bed ding ought to be opened periodically, so that its contents may do beaten with sticks." In France bed-cleaning is followed as a regular trade. . "Then again, the hiring of clothes is danger ous. In cities it has become an every-day mat ter to hire wearine apparel, particularly dress suits, and ttrese suits are worn, by men of all sorts, of all associations, and possibly by men who have some infectious disease. If the wearer has not such a disease the clothing may be worn In a place or among people where dis ease germs will be taken away In the meshes of the cloth. Costumes for masquerades and theatricals are worse yet, for they are more especially worn by tha lowest as well as by the highest by the vicious and depraved, as well as by the decent and respectable; and these cos tumes are rarely or never washed and are used until they are worn out "Books, too. are dangerous. Bub the finger over a clean sheet says the American Analyst, and a thin streak of dirt perspiration and skin cells is the result. Onco reading a volume through leaves a minute deposit on every page touched, from title-pago to finish. Sick people leave gorms of their diseases. By degrees tho hollows fill up. the oil of the skin tinges the pages and tho book becomes dirty. Under the microscope this detritus is nitrogenous, loose, moist and decaying. One germ Introduced into it will breed and produce millions of bacteria, and these will live for unlimited time In the rich soil that has been gathered from a hun dred hand". It Is a soil forhegerms of scarlet fever, small-pox and various blood diseases. Cleanliness is not onlv next to Godliness, but It is next to life and health, and though the germ scare may be overdone, yet it will produce good results in the hands of tnteuigent people." Tboncfat for iho Sabbnth. A good life is a great argument As the sun streams Into a dark cloud and washes out its gloom, clothing it with splendor, so does the Sun of Righteousness shine into a human life and make it glorious with the Divine luster W. X. Davit. The greatest foe to Drogress is the laziness which self-conceit begets. Spinoza. A lost opportunity can never be recovered. As soon bring back the dead out of the ceme tery. Believe me, it is a noblo thine to give. Ovid. To be honest to be kind: to earn a little, and to spend less; to make a family happier by his presence; to renounce, when that shall be necessary, and not to be embittered: to keep a few friends, but theso without capitulation; above all. on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself hern i a tak for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. Robert Louis Stevenson. Chastisement The family badge the family pledge the family privilege. "To you It Is given to suffer." "Troubles," says a good man. "are In God's catalogue of mercies." "Afflictions," says another, "are God's hired laborers to break the clods and plow the land." Vr.J.M. MaeDuff. THE FIRESIDE SPHHJX A Collection of Miatical Hats for Hona Crac&iM, . Address communications for this department to E. K. Chadboubn. Lewiston, Maine. 699 A PEOTEEB ILLXTSTEATED. 70O MIDNIGHT ASSAILANTS. The house Is strongly built and tight, Its casement burglar-proof: And wired screens give air and light From basement to the roof. ' Its owner thought to sleep secure. Safe from all rude alarm; But danger often Is most sura When least we think of harm. Some watchful foes have entrance found. And lurking out of sight -. w. WHW.1 UWW.4 V. U.U.. Then, at a signal forth they spring; All eager for their nrey; And lances to tbn fight they bring That sharply pierce their way. Their helpless victim fain wot Id'. fight, And aims some deadly blows; But more on his own pate alight Than he can well oppose. Viewed by the welcome morning light Is mar a'iifeless foe, And one poor victor in tho flight Who makes a sorry show. SEA, 701 CHAEADE. Are you fond of total fruit? Only drunkards it should suit Puddings, sauces, flavorings In which lurk such deadly stings. Are not fit to feed the bogs Should not be flung e'en to dogs. Men have last who grew fb prize Total dishes preserves, pies Have last drunkards, whose fierce tasta To such dishes might be traced. Better for a meal ot first Than rich food, complete accursed. BlTTEE. SWEXS. 702 CAED PUZZLE. A pack of 27 cards was distributed, ona card at a time, into three packs of nine cards each. These three packs were taken up and dis tributed again in three new packs, the first of tne former packs being distributed first, tha second next and the third last This process was then again repeated. The ace of spades happened to be in the first pack the first time, in the second Back the second time, and in tha third pack the last time. What position did. this card occupy in the original pack? J. H. FzzAirsiE. 703 ANAGRAM. Tax of a penny on each home Was paid by Englishmen Because the greedy Church of Rome Could force such payment then. Though Protestants might well Insist That 'twas a wrong Impost Yet well they knew should theyresist 'Twould only make "MORE COST." NEuSOXLUT. 704 NTJMEEICAL. Have you heard of the "Cabin Creek alt Which straight from the heavens did fall, With a his and a crash. And a general smash. That the stoutest might justly appall? Its color is 1.5, 6, 2 Brighter than a nickel that's new; Its weight Is not slight And with terrible might Red-hot through the ether It flew. Much 10, 7, 9, 8 and pain It took, to restore It again From tne earth, I've heard say. Where it burrowed its way. So its wonders to man might be plain. Ah! the heavens 3, 4, U, 1 With wonders we have not begun To measure or find With our poor, finite mind Whose limits are so quickly run. Bitteb, Sweet. 705 DIAMOND. 1. In The Dispatch. 2. An Inclosed seat in a church. 3. The solid secretions of zoophytes. 4. Dysentery, fi. Derived from different sources, ft. A kind of pie. 7. A plant of the zenus Anacharis. S. Handsome trees, a. Oozes. 10. A Spanish champion. 11. In tbs news. R. o. Chesteb. 705 "WOBD INCLOSX7EES. Between an ocean and a river A noisy brawl goes on forever. n. Between an insect and a drink, Tha way is very hard, I think. m. Between a harsh-voiced bird and measure j. lie inreo-tveu nm sianas at ms leisure. Abbt A. Mudoett, JULY SOLVEES. Prize winners: 1. Oliver Twist Plttsburc Z A. B. Oy, Allegheny. . "Roll of Honor?' J. Bosch, Alexander tha Small, S. M. X., S. R. Froideveaux, Slmonldea. F. D. L., Reader, Me Too. ANSWEES. aJ- 691 Boyuna; boy, una. 693 NoWce-able. 693 W A B RAM ABE e b ' E Tap pal Eel leo , Rat t a N 694 Dragon tree, abel (able, cherry, plna and weeping willow, cork and smoke, straw berry, fir; toothache, sugar, milk, gingerbread, gum, poplar (popular), snowball; snowdrop, caper, man-go! o-live! and o-range! medlar (meddler), crab, yew (vou): date, birch, spruce, oak. lime, varnish and turpentine: palm, fount, ain, beech (beach), fringe, plane, bay; plum (plumb, slippery elm, roan, tulip, thcrn. poi son; broom, dog, coral, button: staff, tallow and oil. cedar (ceder), trap. 695 Weather-prophets. 696 ESCAPE S TT A S IV C A B I N E D E T A 8 I N I N E V 1 JX I T E S K V J5 JM E 8 DETEST T S 697 Treason, reason. 698 Nothing. A CHBEEI LOYEBVS SCHEME. He Procured a Blnrriage I.lcenao ai Popped the Question Afterward. Chicago Mall.2 "I was going with a girl who. mada my heart standstill tha first time I met her. Dear, dear, how I loved that girl! Do you' know, I had it so bad I couldn't eat, and the worst of it all wa3 1 never had a chance to tell her about it Every time I met her something happened and I got the go by.' After a while I got tired and thought I'd try a bluff game, so I went and got a mar riage license, got shaved, dressed myself way up. and after supper I took a stroll up to the house. She was glad to .see me, and, as luck would have it no one came to dis turb us. Pretty soon I thought it about time to play my trump card, so I asked if she'd marry me. She said she couldn't ' think ofit It hadn't occurred to her. "'Well, all right,' I said, and took tho. license out ot my pocket What is that?' she asked suspiciously -.uai u juiuriaKO 1ICCUIC, and U yoa ' won't marry ma I'm going to tear Itup'X' said as I made a break to tear it ' 'Ob, well,' she said, 'don't go and ter "That settled it I didn't tear it rad didn't have to." ) S Ktaa
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