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Rl FAIRY
BY
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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