!",f V 3 . THE PEDTSBTJEG-" DISPATCH, ' SD2TOAT'rOOT6BERr207:pr 1889? 19 ' w- v Che Stolen Treasure. ERNEST H. "WRITTEN FOB THE DISPATCH. 1 LNOBAS, tne dwarf King had two ser vants. They were both ' young Jellows ana their master had taken thenijoto his castle when they were still quite little boys. One day. the two had been living with him now for many years, Mino bas called them before his throne. "My dear lads," he said to them, "you have both been very faithful and diligent while vou have been in my employ. Now that you are big and strong and old enough to fight the battles of this li.'e by yourself, I think it is but right that you should go out and become inde pendent. But before you leave me I would like to make you each a present by which you might remember me during the rest of your days. Speak up and do not be afraid, whatever you ask of me I will give you." The two young men stood before the dwarfs throne for some time without saying anything at all. They wanted so many things and tbey did not know what they wanted most. At last one of them boldly said: "Well, Master, I have often heard that cold is about as good a thing as a man can have in this world, and if vou will give me a bag of gold that will last me for the rest of mv dajs, I guess I shall be satisfied." For a moment the brow of the dwarf was darkened with displeasure, but after awhile he said: "All right, young man, you shill have whatever vou want, so here you arel" Then he put his hand under his throne and from beneath the seat he pnlled forth a large bag filled with shining, glittering golden ducats which ne handed to the money-IoVing youth with these words: "Take it and use it .freely; it will never get empty!" The young man was delighted. He shoul dered his treasure, bowed to the King, thanked him and walked away. "2sow, my young friend," the dwarf then addressed the other servant, "what can I give you? Do vou also want a bag of gold?" "Ko, sit," replied he. "I do not care much for money, although I do not despise it. If vou can give me something, that will be of benefit to the whole world, as well as to mvself, I should be very grateful in deed." " "Hm," answered the dwarf, "but money would be a benefit to you and to the whole world besides, if you gave everybody some of your wealth." " " "I do not think so," said the youag man, "I believe that money sometimes does people more harm than good!" The King of the dwarfs nodded his head approvingly and smiled at this answer. "Money, my dear fellow," he replied, "is The Dwarf Confers Wisdom Upon Bis Sm.ant without harm, but the people who do not know how to use it, they are the ones com ing to harm through it." ., , "Well, that is the same thffigin my opin ion," quickly responded the youth, ""the money is the cau'e of much trouble. If you will give me anything, give me wisdom and intelligence; that is all I want." "I am glad to hear you say so," the dwarf King now remarked. "Come along and I will give you wcat you asked for." He then took him away into a remote part of the castle. At last they entered a small dark room. The dwarf closed the door when they both got inside, and suddenly the young fellow became aware that there was a wonderful light around him. Everything that formerly looked dark and black to him teemed now" to be surrounded by a halo ot brilliancy and illumination. In the center of the room he noticed a hole shaped like a hath, and this hole was filled with some wonderful liquid substance. "Plunge into this bath!" commanded the dwan, and the young man obediently performed what he was asked to do. The waves quickly closed over his head. The next moment, however, he felt himself SiBray MM s X lilted up aeain above the bath and the dwarf pnlled him out of the liquid. "Xow, my boy," said the dwarf, "go hence, for vou have wisdom from the well and intelligence from its fountain." Then the young man departed, and as he got outside the dwarl's castle he found his wealthy young friend awaiting him. When the latter heard what the other had asked for he laughed. But the wise young man did not heed his friend's jeers. So thev continued their way together and there was Tery little said, except by the rich yonng man, who could not help boasting ot his good luck. At last the sun set and the shadows of the trees by the wayside grexr larger. Then it became dark and the two concluded to rest for the night under a tree. Suddenly the young feHow with the bag of gold cried out: "Oh, but I am awfully hungry. I won der where we might get something to eat?" P" ''Well, but my dear fellow did vou not think, of bringing something along?" asked the wise youne man. "If people go travel ing tbey hhould think of providing them selves with food. Look here I have a couple of delicious sandwiches. I bought them at the last tavern, because I was afraid we would not get anything in the wilderness. Now what is the good of your gold, if you have to starve?" The wealthy youth looked at his bag with the glittering ducats and he wished he had a piece of bread instead. He got so mad, that he would have thrown his monev bag away, but his friend said: "Do not do that, (here take a piece of my bread." iiPresently both laid down to sleep. Then "jthfrich young man had no blanket, but fhisTriend, who with the wisdom of,fore- Ihonght had provided himself with one, was now able to cover himself up as snugly and comfortably as a Kiug under his canopv. Had he not been kindly disposed, the rich young man would have frozen to death. The next morning both continued their journey, and at last they arrived in a large c't.v- "How, then, my wise friend," said he with the bag of ducats, "let me show von the power of money and the wonderful ben efits of its possession. You shall be my guest now, and I will entertain you in the most sumptuous fashion imaginable. He then immediately plnnged into the most ridiculous extravagance. He bought a pair of fine horses and a carriage. He dined -at the finest hotel in the city, bought himself the most elegant clothes; in short, be lived H a prince. But the wise young man did HEINRICHS. not take any part in these escapades of his friend. Immediately upon his arrival in the town he looked around lor the wise men, that he might learn from them and be taught in science and art He soon found a very old, gray haired wizard, whose reputa tion for learning extended all over the world. This man knew all the secrets under and above the sum. He knew the number of hairs that would cover a bald man's head j he knew how lone it would take a man with out wings to fly to the moon, and he knew how long it would take a man without legs to walk to the north pole. To this wizard the wise young man went and asked him whether he wanted an apprentice. "I do," replied the old man, but he mut be able to answer me one question." "Will you ask me and see whether I will do?" "Who do vou think is the wisest person in this world?" "Ton are," quickly replied the youth. "Why?" "Because most people think thcmselvesso wise, that to inquire for other people's wis dom they believe to be unnecessary!" "You are certainly the wisest youth I have ever seen," said the wizard, "and be lieve mc I am proud to call you my ap prentice." From that day the two lived together and the voung man soon became known all over the land as the wisest vouth that had ever Arrested for Robbing the King's Treasury. been heard of. Kings, lords, dukes, princes and nobles came to him and asked for his advice on all matters, and he became famous the world over. In the meantime, however, his rich young friend with the bag of everlasting gold, con tinued to squander his ducats in the most reckless manner.and,as just about this time, the King's treasury bad been robbed, every body said that the strange young man, with all the gold had stolen his wealth from the King's safe. So one beautiful morning when the young man stepped from his mag nificent palace to go out and enjoy himself as usual, the King's officers were waiting for him at the door. "We arrest you in the name of the King," they said, "as the thief who robbed our royal treasury " His protestations of innocence were with out the least effect, and instead of going to enjoy himself the young man was taken to prison. Heavy chains were cut around his wrists and ankles. He was given water and dry bread for his only food, and he had to sleep on the floor. The next day the officers came into his cell and they hauled him forth into the court room, where the King himself sat on the throne to pronounce judgment. When the young man was asked whether he was guiltv of the charge preferred against him he replied "No," but as he could not bring any further proof the King said that he would have to sentence him. The pen alty for such a serious crime as robbing the royal treasury was death, and it looked very much as if the young man with the money bag would have to die. Fortunately for him, however, the wise young man had heard of the affair, and when he saw the danger his friend was in he went into the court and spoke as fol lows: "Your Royal Highness, this young man is innocent of the charge of robbing your treasury, and I can prove it" Then he re lated abont the rift from the King of dwarfs, and when the King heard about the bag with the everlasting gold, he said: "Can you produce that bag?" This, of course, the wealthy young man could do, and, as he showed the King how it worked, that monarch stated: "The young man is honorably discharged if be will make me a present of that wonderful money bagl" "No, sir," replied the wise young man, "that he will not do if be listens to mv counsel. The bag is his whole fortune, but I have no doubt that he will take enough money from it to fill all the coffers you have in your treasury!" "Well, that will do," answered the King, and the yonng man at once began to count 15,000,000 ducats down on the table before the astonished monarch and his amazed courtiers. "Everybody was nleased for a moment, but after awhile the King said: "Gentlemen. I am much grieved to know that we have not been able to detect the real robber of the Treasury, and for the safety of our land I think it is necessary that he should be caught. For that reason I will hereby promise that whosoever finds the real thiet shall marry my only daughter, and I wiil make him first lord of this realm." This announcement created the greatest excitement among the yonng courtiers in the place, and everybody made up his mind to go out and hunt for the thieT. But the wise young apprentice of the famous wizard quietly went up to the King and said : "Will you take me to the treasury where the money was stolen from ?" The King at once complied with the young man's request. "When he went into the vault the wise youth looked around for a moment, and then he turned around to the King and remarked : "Your Majesty, there are too many mice here. Look at these holes in the ground, and look at the ducats lying on the floor 1 I think it you teir up the boards you will find your treasure." And so it was. All the money was re covered under the floor, but the King, who recognized the wisdom of the young man, kept his promise nevertheless, and the wise young man married the Princess. Foe rheumatism and neuralgia use Sal- .iftfl til til. rwmAn.nt m.k.. .... j.l- pain. Price 25 cents. (4iifjrff A H I (ft I 'II Winning the King't Daughter. LITTLE MIAMI PEARLS. The Most Famons Fresh-Water Pearl Fishery of Modern Times. A PECULIAR OHIO INDUSTRY. Evidence That the Aborigines Fished for Pearls in Ohio Kivers. SIBGLE JEWELS FOUND WOETH $500 rWTtlTTEX FOB TDK DISPATCH.! The pearl, more than any other jewel, is suggestive of the Orient; of its languorous luxury and magnificence; of the olive skins and tawny tresses of its women, against which its irridescent hues gleam out as they never can against the paler beauties of the North. Old Bichard Alison wrote of Orient pearl, a doable row and Wilson told how Morn advancing, 8 trews the earth with orient pearl; as if it were so entirely a product of the East that it was hardly to be thought of except as an adjunct of oriental and barbaric splendor. Again, in the general mind, pearls are as sociated with salt water, with deep seas and hazardous adventuring down where ocean monsters, terrible and grim, make their habitat. In the old geographies, in use when we who are now men were school boys, and perhaps still used somewhere, was a picture of a pearl-diver, attired in a coffee-colored cuticle, plunging down, down, down toward the floor of old ocean, while various lepl dopus, petromyzon, histiophorus, chon dropterygians and other monsters of the deep follow in hot pursuit. How vividly our boyish imagination pic tured the horror and agony of the unlucky diver when on the return trip he would drift within reach of their awful jaws. Such object lessons of the dangers that were braved in the pursuit of pearls helped to give an exaggerated idea of their rarity and value. Now that our latest knowledge of the methods by which pearls are acquired has in a measure done away with this feeling of awe and strangeness, it might he to the pe cuniary advantage of the pearl merchant to resurrect that ancient woodcut and give it it wider circulation. .While no mere fact can dim the exquisite luster of the pearl, or detract one iota from its place as the peerless qneen of jewels, it is no less true that in this as in all else, "Italy lieth over the Alps." THE PEAEL'S INCEPTION. The grain of sand (if it is a grain of sand) covered oyer and added to by successive layers of the nacre of the oyster, appeals more to the romantic sense if it comes from some far and unknown coast than if formed and found in the shallow waters of some native stream. Nothing could be less strange to an American than the place and methods of the most famous of fresh-water pearl fisheries of modern times. The Little Miami river is a small tribu tary of the Ohio, .which traverses three or four of the southwestern counties of the State of Ohio, emptying into the larger river at Cincinnati. Through Warren county it is confined within a narrow valley that is rich in in terest to the geologist and the antiquarian. The river is small and shallow. Thecountry about is rather brokeu and undulating, sometimes hilly, but not rugged nor pre cipitous. Upon this stream, in the north ern part of the county, stands the pleasant little village ot Waynesville, for 20 years past the center of a pearl industry of no insignificant proportions. Tradition says that its advent was pre ceded by the appearance of a mysterious Hebrew, who went knocking around the rocks with hisgeological hammer, and found evidences of snch a wonderful conchological formation that he suggested pearls to the natives as being more than a possibility in their river. It is more probable, however, that they were first met "by chance, the usual way," although the footprints of time left upon the limestone formation of the lit tle valley are suggestive of almost every thing in the heavens, upon the earth and in the seas. But however the first pearl happened to be found and recognized as a thing of value, ever sinee that time the industry has been pursued in a more or less desultory way, and thousands of dollars' worth of "the little gems have found their way from that quiet hamlet to the markets of the world. SEABCHING FOB JEWELS. Those who engage principally in the search for pearls comprise that flotsam and jetsam of the population that all towns have. Disciples of Isaac Walton, who are endowed with the infinite gift of patience; men who are constitutionally opp6sed to steady labor; callow youths who fondly hope to meet a fortune from the river's bosom; and the traditional small boy, whose active hands and sharp eyes often enable him to outstrip all competitors. In the spring, as soon as the water is warm enough to permit, the searchers may be seen wandering barefooted and bare legged in the river, tsollecting the mussels or fresh water mollusks, in which the pearls are contained! They drag little boats or floats after them, and when they feel a shell under foot it is brought to the surface and deposited on the float. When a number are collected they go ashore with their cargo and open the shells in any convenient place on the bank. . , The pearls are usually found upon the lip of the shell at the point farthest from the hinge, and covered by the fine film of the mantle. It is usually loose or attached to the shell so slightly as to be easily removed. Sometimes, however, it has become so incor porated with the latter as to require the services ot an expert lapidary for its re moval. It is not, on the whole, an industry that is even fairly remunerative to its followers. Upon an average more than 150 shells are opened for each pearl found; and sometimes the labor of successive days and weeks brings no reward at all. When the search is successful the "finds" run in value from the merest trifle to (occasionally) some hun dreds of dollars. The largest sum ever re ceived by the finder for a single pearl was $425. But there is authentic record of one of greater value, found manjr years since, and first sold for- $100, which has subse quently changed hands at the augmented prices of ?500, 1,000, $1,500 and finally $2,800. The next in value to these, for which the finder received $350, was a fine gem found bv a lad in a pile of emptied shells, where it had been overlooked as they were opened. After these the scale declines rapidly, and an ordinary "lucky find" is perhaps a pearl worth $25 at first hands, while those worth $50, ?75 or $100 are extremely rare. ' A VALUABLE INDUSTBY. The industry reached its highest some ten years ago. at which time it was so eagerly pursued that the river was nearly depopulated of mussels, not enough being left for breeding purposes to keep up the supply. A lesa thorough warfare has re cently been made in consequence, and it is hoped that the supply may rapidly increase again. Not more than a couple of -dozen pearls of any consequence have been taken as yet this season, but among those have been some handsomeones, one of a delicate rose tint being especially noteworthy. A sinele sale of about $2,500 00 worth of fine specimens was made by a local dealer J Lift vear, the purchasers being the Messrs. Tiffanyi of New York. The collection is now in their exhibit at the Paris Exposi tion. It is easier to ask questions, than to an swer them. A drive of 12 miles due west from Waynesville brings us to the banks of the sister stream, the Great Miami, where, tjvv Tipaln havp hppn fnnnrl fnr mnnvvsm but never in like quantity or value. Why should the one stream be more favored than the other? INine nfiles below Waynesville, upon the same river, is the famous landmark known as Fort Ancient, the most remarkable and extensive of the known works of the mound building races. In some of the tombs that have been opened there have been found, among other articles for use and ornament, a number ot pearls, similar to those now being taken from the river. A curious evi dence, this, of the antiquity of these beds. Curious, that perhaps at about the time that Cffisar was being tempted to invade Britain by the wonderful stories ot the pearls to be obtained from its rivers, this ancient race in our land was testifying its appreciation of the same gems by placing them among the greatest treasures in their tombs. Curiosity has also been excited by the great heaps of mussel shells still to be found at certain points to the south, upon the Ohio. Scientific investigators have thought it impossible that the vast lmlk which was comprised within these shells should have been nsed as food, even were the former dwellers there a bivalve-eating people. Is it not at least open to conjecture that the pearl was souhighly valued by them that the search was regularly continued for ages and ages, and that these shell heaps are the landmarks ot their industry? Fresh water pearl fishing is not peculiar to America. Tacitus wrote off "Pearls not very orient, but pale and wan," as being among the indigenous products of conquered Britain; and half a thousand years ago Scottish pearls were referred to in the trade charter of the Paris Goldsmiths. Since then there have been various spasmodic re vivals of the search in northern rivers, the last of which to assume any proportions oc curred in 1855, when it is" said upward of 12,000 worth of gems were found. ARTIFICIAL PEAELS. The rivers of Bohemia, Sweden and Sax ony also contain pearls, and the search is carried on methodically under Government inspection. The people are not allowed to carry the fishing to such nn excess as would interfere with the cermancnt sunnlv or mnssels. The mel, margaritafera, the" proper "pearl oyster," is found in a great many places where the pearls have not been discovered. This is probably due to variations in tha constituent of the soil and water of their habitat The pearl is formed by the deposit of suc cessive layers of nacre or mother-of-pearl, the irridescent, pearl-like inner layer of the shell, forming about a nucleus of foreign matter (presumably a minute particle of sand) which has been accidentally taken into the shell. This formation maybe read ily seen by cutting a pearl open, the lavers resembling the wrappings of an onion. This process appearing so simple, it has often been suggested that the production of pearls might be carried on without limit by artificially introducing the nucleus. Linnaus, the famous naturalist, even went so far as to announce this as an important discovery, and it was for this thatbe received the order of nobility from his Government, and not because of his genuine scientific attain ments, as is generally supposed. It is not believed, however, that a perfect pearl can be produced in this manner. The Chinese, for a couple of thousand vears. have been familiar with this "secret," and availed themselves of it to as full an extent as has been Jbund practicable. They insert small matrixes.sometimes little images of Buddha, within the lips of the mollusk and leave them for two or three years, by which time they are sufficiently coated witfi nacre to re semble mother-of-pearl ornaments. But while the artificial production of pearlsjis probably beyond our reach, it cer tainly would seem to be within the province of our Government to protect and further developsuch fisheries as we have. Occasional pearls of some value have been found in various streams throughout the country, and the recent discoveries in the Duchein river, in Wisconsin, have awakened new in terest in the subject. As the number of pearls to be obtained is dependent in the first place upon the num ber of mussels, pearl fishing should be wholly prohibited daring the spawning sea son; and as some years are evidently re quired for the formation of a pearl of any size, certain portions of the fishing gronnds should be alternately protected for a term of years. The policy of annihilation is a poor one to pursue "in an industry which, under proper fostering, could bejmi'de so ex tremely valuable. James K. Eeeve. THE GIRL WAS F0EG1YEX. How a LndjS Aneer Was Sofienod br a Little Joillclom Flattery. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.l I received a letter yesterday which demon strated that reform homes do some very effectual work. Last spring I employed a nnrse girl of 17, and she was somewhat of a daisy in her wajr until she grew weary, which happened just when it was most un pleasant to happen. She left and took a very elaborate, costly basket. Small things will irritate even great men, and this ex asperated me. I tried every method to find mat gin and hasset, even to a private de tective. In vain, though, but this letter came, and said: "Dear Sir lam at St 's Home, and the Sisters have been so good. I am so sorry that I tookyour basket; won't vou please drop me vour address on a card so I can bring Jt back? And won't you let me come and see the baby, too, for I know it's pretty." I relented at once, bnt my esteemed wife only read the first part of the letter, and sorrowfully declared she could not. Then she turned' the letter over and finished it. "I don't know but what you might write her that she may come and see the baby anyway, and never mind the basket, hub'oy." What mamma doesn't know the worth of flattery. A CHEAP PARIS TRIP. A French Country Boy's Inexpensive Visit to the Paris Exposition. A story is going the rounds of a boy em ployed at a theater in Lyons, France, who took it into his head to see the Paris Exhibi tion. He had plenty of energy, but very little money. He set out on foot from Lyons on the 10th of July, at 10 o'clock in the morning, and took the route of Arnay-le Due, Saulieu, etc. Nine days afterward at 2.30 P. m., he arrived at Pans. He had 11 shillings in his pocket on leaving home, but he had to economize his funds,and by sleeping in barns and living on bread, milk and lard, he managed to reduce his expenses to about three shillings. He spent a month and ten days at, Paris; three days in the week he gave np to work, and the fourth to seeing the exhibition and the town. On the 26th of August, at 5 in the morning, he set ont on his return journev. He got over 55 kilometres a day, and arrived home on the 4th of September. He spent on his return journey about 3s. 6d., and had left 53. 9d. Between Two fires. Mr. Lonnsom Can you will you be me' own? Father of Five of Them (in a side whis per) For heaven's, sake, don't hesitate, lionise! He mar take it back; Judge. LOYE'S YOUNG DEEAI Rudely Shattered by the Trials and Vexations of Housekeeping. SOME MISTAKES MADE BY BRIDES. Bad Policy of Furnishing a House Accord ' ing to a Manual. THE BABY KING'S BEIGN OP TEEB0B tWMTTKT rOB THK DISPATCH. J One of the happiest times in the lives of most married people is the going to house keeping for the first time, and so to speak on "their own hook." This charming ex perience of the holy estate of matrimony never comes but once, and that is when in the heyday of youth and young love's dream, a young couple with minds crowded by blissful anticipations enter upon life as husband and wife in a home of their own. The greatest charm of going to house keeping is not given to those who wear off the first freshness ot mutual love in a board ing house, or in a sojourn with friends or relatives, though even with these the change from strch life to their own house has much of pleasure, even it only due to novelty and the sense of freedom and independence. It is a luxury to get away from the prying eyes of the other boarders to get away from the necessity of being agreeable to bores, to escape from the tireless tongues of the idle women who "chronicle small beer" and retail scandals with the prefacing remark, "Now don't you ever let on I told you" to be released from the stale jokes and long stories of the conceited man, who will tell them over a dozen times and expect his hearers to be amused and enter tained. So, after a certain amount of board ing, the picture of a home of one's own, with all its roominess and freedom and privacy, fills the imagination of most people with fairest bopes of joy and happiness Bnt the first beauty and richest pleasure of founding aJiome is at the outset, when bride and bridegroom go to housekeeping at once, when they are so thoroughly in love witn each other that all mistakes are con sidered jokes, only to be laughed at, and all mishaps are regarded as matters to be borne with love's philosophy. At this time "John" spends his happiest hours hanging pictures, arranging books and otherwise making himself generally useful after his day's work in business, while the happy wife flits about intent upon helping, and making beautiful their little home. They work cheerily togetner, and not a cloud is to be seen, not a jar to be heard, not a shadow to be perceived. They never dream that the days will come when the loving husband will no longer be will ing to smash bis fingers in doing work for which he has no capacity for love, or too lazy to do a stroke after his daily toil is over. Going to housekeeping just at first develops in many men powers hitherto unknown. They show an ability for house hold work before undreamed of. They bring their great minds down to its small details with marvelous adaptability. SOME GOOD HUSBANDS. Some of the most prominent citizens of Pittsburg began to do the family marketing when they went to housekeeping, and are splendid hands at it yet. They can go about the market places and dicker as to chickens, and eggs, and butter, an 1 sundries, with as eager an interest for get ting the best article for the least money as though they were engaged in a big wheat deal, or a contract for a million dollars' worth of steel rails. Famous lawyers get up early on market days, so as to secure a bucket of the best "smear case," or to get a couple of pounds of the sort of sausage that goes off before the snn has fairly got above the rim of the horizon. Noted business men may always be se;n in the market early, getting the cream of its contents and the pick of the country man's products. Though it is to be hoped there are few of the millionaires who econo mize on their families by simnlv eettin? a soup bone and materials for a cheap boiled dinner, when tbey themselves are to dine elsewhere. Then there are some men so much in favor of home rule that they give the orders to the cook, and insist upon buy ing their wives' clothes. They are so de termined to know how the money goes that the wives they have solemnly vowed before high heaven to endow with all their worldly goods have hardly a quarter a week for pocket money and car fare. But all this closeness and grind and down right stinginess does not develop in the first stages of marriage and housekeeping. Then all is rosiness and bliss. xne oriae, wno is ricn,wno has had a fortune of greenbacks and wedding presents, who has money enough to order all she wants, and go to honsekeeping in "perfectly elegant style," has none of the pleasure of the average woman who goes into her own little house, and proposes to do her own work. The former, with servants to do all that has to be done, who has the option of idleness with novels, or fanoy wont, or so ciety calls, missex the happiness of the wife who has just work enough to maintain her in high health, and whose pleasure it is to keep her house in tidy and beautiful trim for the enjoyment of the man she love?. Any number of books, and manuals and household magazines tell how to goto house Keeping with the greatest economy, and yet have all that is really necessary to good living, but very much of the sage advice is balde'rdash and stuff. A writer on domestic economy laid great stress on the point of furnishing the kitchen first and letting the parlor go, If money was not plenty. MISTAKES OF BEIDES. Have everything that is needed in the kitchen was the chief commandment, and a bride, we are told of, accepted it as good gospel and proceeded to live up to it. So, with a housekeeping list in hand, she laid in so many utensils tor the kitchen that sure enough there was nothing left for the parlor. Bnt very many of the things were articles that wonld only comejnto clay perhaps once in a year, that cluttered up the pantry and shelves, and were more of a nuisance than anything else, and served for nothing so much as reminders of her folly, while the pretty parlor she had so often contemplated in building her castle in Spain did not materialize for many a day." Another housekeeper relates, as her mistake, that she furnished the whole house at once, when they went to housekeeping, and thus, with their limited means, they got inferior furniture, and articles that came within their pile. As a consequence, she relates, We have got a lot of old stuff that will stayby us forever, because we cannot afford to give it away or send it to auction, which amounts to about the same thing, or to make a bonfire of it on election night when our party goes in with a fat majority. The best way, as we take it, for the aver age man and wife to go to honsekeeping is to buy at first only the essentials, and get them as good and substantial, and as much to their taste as possible. Then as experi ence shows they are needed and the money is at hand other things can be added. New things once in a while renew the first pleas ure and will be more appreciated when they come in answer to strong desire and a real necessity supported by the requisite cash. . A young wife enjoys the keenest pleasure in her first housekeeping, especially when she has her pretty home to herself, and does her own work and has no meddhng,careless, shiftless domestic to handle her precious things, or make her unhappy with the exas perating ways of kitchen maids generally With just enough work to keep her pleas antly busy, the happy hours go by. She will decorate her parlor with per chance a dozen tidies or fancy scarfs with what seems careless abandon, but is really a study of aesthetic style, she will arrange her little pieces of decorated china and ric-a-brac in the most effective and taking manner, the curtains will be draped with artistic grace, and everything will be made, as she views it, cozy and comfortable and sweet. Then, the tabisJaili fc a$tiih.; common china it may be and linen not of the utmost sneness or satiny texture, perhaps, but yet spotless nad polished. The cooking will be beyond reproach, and the happy wife will find her reward for her work in her hus band's admiration and appieciatioa of her efforts. THE P1BST CLOUDS usually coma with the baby the new home ruler who lords it over the whole house. A baby always "bosses" the situation. A yell from "that baby" will set the entire rrunSi? an UP104' and commotion. That baby has powers to spoil everything, and vet they would not part with him for a million dollars. He more than doubles his mother's work, and harasses her by day and night If any man doubts this let him imagine himself at work with a baby to take care of. Xet him contemplate himself with that baby on one arm while he en deavors to do his accustomed work with one hand. We have seen women cooking din ners with a sick and fretful baby in arms while they only had one band to use. Men have their work for" eight or ten hours a day, but a woman, with children to take care, is never done is never sure of a holiday can never count upon a good night's rest. An excursion may be planned, but if that baby chooses to raise a. rumpus its mother cannot go. A picnic is proposed, but if that baby is cutting an eye tooth, or takes a notion to be cross and cantankerous the whole thing must be given up. Perhaps invitations come to a card party, and that night, of all others, will be seized upon by that baby to show symptoms of measles, or the whooping cough, or something that will keep his mother at home. Then his father will go alone to the party, and will come home in splendid spirits and detail to his tired wife how very handsome Jlrs.Smith looked, and bow well Mrs. Brown played and how elegantly Mrs. Jones was arrayed, and such other interesting facts as are likely to make his1 wife, who has spent the dullest of dull evenings, cheerful and happy. It is fortunate for these babies and house hold darlings that mother-love is so deep and strong and true, that the mothers are such loyal and devoted subjects of his majesty the reigning baby. Bat alas! with all the wealth of love for them, they serve to break np, In large measure, the charm of housekeeping. The nursery far outweighs the parlor, and the tidies go bang, and the scarfs no longer look Esthetic, and the bric-a-brac is not dusted, and' a general air of neglect begins to pervade the premises. The baby out ranks everybody and everything. The husband finds that his comfort is not so carefully attended to that his wife is ab sorbed in nursery cares, and that overwork, weariness, loss of sleep, and all the small troubles involved in the care of young chil dren have made her irritable and cross, and then come sharp words and domestic infelic ity, amid the cares and WOEBIES OP LITE. It is a hard thing for,a man to put him self in his wife's place, but if be would take time and thought to try it occasionally and to endeavor to realize that human na ture is the same in both men and women, he could form some conception of the worries and troubles that beset her path in the care of a family, and the demands of housekeep ing. Consideration aud appreciation of what she has to contend with would do much toward making the happiness of the whole family. "Oh, if I had known what it was to be married, said the young mother of thre little children, I would not have married the best man that ever lived, if he had a mint of money. I am so wearied, and worried and worn ont, that if it were not for leaving my little darlings to a step mother, I would gladly lie down and die. When the baby cries, as babies will, Harry puts on his hat and goes to the club, or the Y. M. C. A. rooms. I wonder what he would -think if I should put on my hat, and do likewise." This poor woman conld not afford to hire help id her honsekeeping. Poverty com pelled her to drag along as best she could in caring for her children, and doing the household work. No pleasures for her, nothing but endless incessant toil without she sympathy of the husband she loved,. uoes any one wonaer that sne was discour aged and disheartened and that her house keeping was what the energetic, brisk, hefty old girls call "slack and shiftless." Housekeeping is a noble art. and in its best state is essential to happiness, but in the present stage of civilization it is becom ing bo complicated and onerons in its re quirements that the average woman cannot live up to its demands and take proper care of a family of children at the same time. To keep up with the present pace of the procession requires a woman of iron nerves, of tireless energy, of unflagging zeal, and strength far beyond the capacity and powers of the ordinary woman. It may be that the presentJge for physical culture may develop both body and mind to such extent that women will take hold of the domestic problem, and solve it by co-operation or organization, or some method that will overcome the wasteful ness and extravagance of the common mode of housekeeping. Men pool their is-iues, and form trusts to economize time and money in their business enterprises, so why should not women? It is stated Mrs. John A. Logan, Mrs. Ellen Foster, Miss ivate sanoorn and Miss Frances Wiliarn have formed a stock company with a capital stock of 50.000 to establish a training school for domestic service, and also an intelligence office.- This is a praiseworthy idea, but as long as domestic service is considered a menial occupation and ranks as the lowest of indnstiial oconpations, their success will be something of a miracle. A scheme to do away with the most onerous burdens and trials of house keeping would be more to the point and the acceptance of the age. Bessie bramble. ,THE CAR ST0TE IS G0IKG. Leading; Unlfroad Companies Inaugurate a. Mucti-Needed Keform. Philadelphia Timet. The Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Beading aud Baltimore and Ohio Bail ways, of our own State, are discarding the stoves as fast as steam apparatus can be in troduced into their cars. The New York Central used steam last winter under the compulsion of the law of that State and every other road in the State is expected to be rid of the stoves by November 1. The Boston and Albany Company, of Massa chusetts, beats by steam all the cars over which it has control. The trains of the Old Colony road, the "Western division of the Boston and Maine road, the Fitchburg and the New England roads will be heated by steam during the coming winter. The New York, Nefr Haven and Hartford is the only New England road of any importance that has refused to discard the stove, and snit has been brought against the company by the Attorney General of New York to compel it to obey the State law on this sub ject. The traveling public io be congratulated on the rapid progress of this much-needed fcform in the heating of railway cars. The dangers of railway travel will certainly be very much lessened by the exit of the store. THEI'fiE T1EED OP P0LXGAMT, Tet the Mormon Saints Fear to Go Back on the Doctrine. The truth is, says a Salt Lake City cor respondent ot the New York Commercial Advertiser, that the Mormons are as anxious to be rid of polygamy as we are to destroy it. They acknowledge that it is not ill con sonance with the spirit of the times, pre cisely as the Presbyterians admitted at their late convention that the doctrines of "elect infants" and "eternal damnation" were repugnant to it. But the reason they assigned or retiinng them in their'irou-clad creed was that one stone knocked out of their building would weaken the whole structure. So the obnoxious dogmas remain in print and are no longer advocaied 'from the pulpit. That is precisely the case with polygamy in the Mormon church. The leaders dare not "go back" on the "revela tion," latt.. all iBTeUtinju should be donjtadf SUNDAY THOUGHTS -OK- morals: AND BY A OLEBGYMAN. 1WH1TTXS VOn TBI DMFATCB.1 "What is called the "Lord's Prayer" is the most wonderful of petitions in nothing more wonderfnl than in its reach. Study it for a moment, clause by clause. "Our Father." These are the most revolutionary wordt ever uttered. They affected a moral change of front in human thoughts. The gods many of heathendom, and the gods scientific of Christendom, they transformed into a personal and into a paternal bene factor. The "power not ourselves, which makes for righteousness," they disclose as the only living and true Supreme; an in finite intelligence, but also an infinite per son; omnipotence, but even more love all theology in two words. "Hallowed be Thy name." Here is reverence. This phrase would banish the profanation of the name of God. It neces sitates a high and holy regard or all things sacred the divine word, the house of prayer, the Lord's Day, the dealings ot Providence. Nay, it leads us to revere man himself, made in the image of (Jod a miniature deity. As God is the supreme mystery of eternity, so man is the supreme mystery of time. By the eiercle of knowledge, reason and will, we can outseethe eagle and outrun the reindeer and ontlift the ox and outfight the lion and outride the sea. We put the planets in onr scales and welch them. We place natnra in ourcracible and make her answer our questions with explo sive sparks. Shall we not bow down before and adore onr Maker, our Father, who "shrouds Ilimsolt In the mystery ot bis pavilion and answers from the secret place of thnnder?" "Thy kingdom come." This clause contains the whole missionary enterprise. We are di rected to pray that the earth may he like heaves. Ana if to pray, then to work, and if to work then to pay for it. Hardest of all, we are to give ourselves, as well as our money and our labor and our prayers. What kind of benevolence is that which extends only just arnnnd the corner? "Giro us this day our daily bread." Hera is dependence. Who can provide his own bread? We can prepare the ground and sow the grain we cannot command a harvest. To punctnre a cloud and make it distil rain, to attemper the air and oblige it to minister vitality, to tap the snn and force it to ponr forth light and beat, to mix the soli with chemical elements and per suade it to transmute the death of the seed into the life of a crop dearly, this is as much beyond human power as creation itself. Hence we are driven to our knee?, after all our Indus tries, to pray for our daily bread. "Lead us not into temptation." This Is a cry for deliverance. Man is the movable center ot a circumference ot peril. We are vital from bead to foot and most vital of all in the soul. And onr enemies are named legion, for they are many. With two worlds full of tempters and the soul for a stake, who would not pray for deliverance! So praying, we need not despond. Least of all are we to borrow trouble. Is God deadT Oh, exclaims one, the heavens are abont to fall! Well, let 'em fall. That is not onr concern. Our business is not to stay up the heavens, but only to see to it that if they fall they shall come down on honest men and true women. For the rest, remember those opening words of the prayer "Our Father." That hand which bears creation up Shall guard his children welt Interesting- Yonns Church Members. Oliver Wendell Holmes lays he "would rather be 70 years young than 40 years old.' Being a physician, he suggests the ways and means. Some of these, are hygienic, others aresoeial; all are within common and every d ly reach. Ministers especially need not grow aged and musty. That fatal "dead line" of 60, by attention to Br. Holmes' prescription of plenty of fresh air and a lively interest in the outlying youth and health may rerede as we advance like any other will o' the wisp. Here, too, is the secret of a pastor's hold on the more youthful members of his flock. Let him be their friend their companion. Let him get at their thoughts, ways, purposes. Let film fill his lungs witn their ozone. Let him pre pare ma sermons who. one eye on tne Doys ana girls. In this way, being one of them, ha will interest and hold them.., Tfaey'wiU hear him as they do one another and with added interest, because ot his larger knowledge and wider ex perience. Brother ministers read these llnts:. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not In figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest; acts the best; And he whose heartbeats quickest lives the longest Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as It slips along the veins. Pastors Should be Indnstrloas. One of our exchanges Insists that no minister In good health need ever spend a day out of his regular work, and argues the matter in the fol lowing fashion: "It Is true that he may not bs installed as pastor, but while be waits for regu lar settlement he can make a field. Hundreds of school houses in the rural sections are open to him. Let him preach in them. If be lives in the city let him preach the gospel at the street corners. There is no more. blessed work and none which is more Chrlstlike in spirit. Let him give himself no concern about his sup port, if be cannot at once enter upon perma nent work where it is guaranteed. He will be taken care of. The most careless and indiffer ent Christian would like to help a man who showed such earnestness. If questions of sup port muss enter into consiaeration, let mm remember that he is much more likely to be called lrom such blessed activities than from inglorious ease. A Need for Magnetic Preachers. All over the country, churches without pastors (significantly called vacant churches), kfaave their drag-nets out with the purpose and with the hope of drawing in a preacher, who. In his own turn shall draw. The power of drawing is certainly a valuable gift. Those who possess it do not march in regiments. The men, who, having drawn, can hold are yet more rare. Accordingly, since there are not enough of these magnetic parsons to go round, we commend another plan, which might be adopted by every church, and which might answer even better than a double-action clerical crowd-drawer in tilling the news and keeping them full. This plan is outlined in the. following worus oy one ot our most prominent pastors: . "The best way to keep a church fall is for overy member to attend regnlarly every service. That will help; then let every member bring as many people as possible withJilm. Draw them In. There is a great deal of. nonsensical talk nowadays about getting ministers that will draw. A man came ud to mv study the other day from one of the churches tbat is vacant, and he said: 'fwisb. you could recommend us a minister for onr church.' 1 said: 'I can recom mend a dozen!" He seemed rather bluffed at tbat; thought that, was a large nnmber, and said: 'Won't you suggest a name?' And I went on suggesting one name after another! I sug gested one man and he said: 'I understand tbat man has not a very strong voicef I sng- Eested another. 'Well, 1 understand tbat man not a very good reader? And another man. Well, I understand that man has a very stiff and formal delivery.' Finally he said: 'Well, what we want in our church is a minister tbat will draw.' "Oh, no, my Christian friend, what you want Is a church that will hold. Yon haven't got it. Twenty congregations have passed through your church in the last 20 years, And they have passed through because you have not had a chnrch that will hold taa people after they got into it. The minister cannot hold. Success depends not half so much upon the minister as upon yon. the church.' " We have said something llfco this before In these columns. True, when the congregation has learned the text we will change the wrmos. A. Wbiteehspel Mission. Toynbee Hall has now been a center of light and leading in Whitecbapel and East London generally for tire yean. Daring that period, the just issued annual report tells w.trere have been M residents from the universities who have sought to make up by personal con tact with the people r jr "tho desertion by the educated classes of their potts as leaders ot public opinion." Fifteen were In residence at the beginning of last winter. Thev joined clubs in the district, became managers of school?, almoners of relief, tnembors of even ing class committees, children's holiday funds, co-operative societies, and a host of other In stitutions. The facilities thus given for per sonal Intercourse with the poor attracted many workers from the West nu. By their interest agencies for the relief of distress aud other purposes were consolidated and supplemented where necessary; movements for the cultiva tion of tastes during hours of leisure, and for the promotion of thrift, sanitation and temper ance were originated. A comprehensive edu cational work has been carried on. Last win ter there were 676 and 602 in attendance at tho University extension classes during the two terms, as compared with 4G1 and 5K1 the prer vions winter. Four nights a week tho streets were patrolled, with the result tht nocturnal disturbances have Oecn greatly lessened. Great attention has Been given to developing a healthy esprit de corps by means of, soeta) gatherings and ecteruInaieBW, where bappr parties hT lKOBg fat Into t pleasMtett oee- tact with the workers. The workers. ierwerttJ are few, and the f asds are limited. wMte tsw neicL,oiacuTiiy a B&aimiew. atx.o. a. ok nett. the enthusiastic Warden, and hi eqnsHy enthusiastic wife, look forward to Ts-nfce Hall working. In the course of Maw, a rsal change in the monotonous asd depreKMg oesvi ditlons of East 2nd Hfe. Sermonettea for ttsadar Keadts. , Titers i a wide difference betweea daHaf and sense- Girls, nowadays, are being schooled Is bmsjt ologies even theology. All right. Bat here' are two sciences which every woman sfeosM learn, and early: Cook-ology and ttltch-ology. If I can put a touch ot rosy sunset isto tka life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. George MaedonaU. The elect are whosoever wHL and tfce sea elect are whosoever won't Beeeher. Save ns from those who know exactly wkai thelrconstitntions will bear and sis np to k. jsioi ana istemun.es. There are many Christiana who like, afceM once in 12 months, to have a good revival 11 their hearts. Tbey think that, Hk-e the year. they can make np for freezing and ssowisa; all winter by a period of Intense beat la the sa- mm The remedy for such is not to c-HH the' revivals, battorhorten the intervals Betweea" them, and tn endeavor to make their Hfe eqaa ttirlal or tropical all the year reaad. Lift Thoughts. The differences between men are ferasaL. rather than real. With varioas outwwd ttons they pass through the same ononMal periences, and the scales wales seeaa t9afj uneTen at- ine sanace ana to oe ttppea an way and tbat bv the currents of worWIy Iortaae, are very nearly balanced In the depths of tka nner hCcChapin. Flattest is a false coin which oaly derives its currency from onr vanity. fiaehtfaueaiM. Souk bad people would be less dangerous H they were not so good. Hocheaucmtid, a perfect iHlt81fll M Pun fgEEPg jl nurelT Ve t Compound tbat Sail bad humors frea the I system. Removes Mete- es ana pimple. a4 makes pure, rlekbteoi' MEDICAL. 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